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MIT students are pushing their university to fire a professor who has ties with late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Professor of mechanical engineering Seth Lloyd met with Epstein – a billionaire financier who was jailed in 2008 for soliciting ...
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Olivier Piguet knew something was wrong with his cousin Jacques. During a phone conversation, Olivier’s mother mentioned that Jacques, then a successful and well-liked optometrist in his local Swiss town, was acting peculiar. Suddenly rude to customers and falling out ...
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Students are deciding to study at TAFE rather than university for its merits – not as a "fallback". That was one of the findings to come from Monash University's Vocational Institutions, Undergraduate Degrees, Distinction or Inequality interim report. Among the reasons ...
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