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New York Learning Hub Professional Studies Par Excellence

New York Learning Hub: Professional Studies Par Excellence

Not many institutions of higher learning today genuinely believe in adding value to the lives of their students. For most of them, it is just another business opportunity. This situation has often placed students at a disadvantage by denying them the essential nitty-gritty needed for academic excellence. Correcting this anomaly is one of the biggest reasons behind the birthing of the New York Learning Hub.

The New York Learning Hub is a disruptive globally acclaimed learning citadel that is fully out to pose a heavy challenge to conventional business processes and to create a new pathway to excellence through …

China Denies Uighur Academic Was Sentenced To Death

China denied on Friday that detained Uighur academic Tashpolat Tiyip was secretly tried and sentenced to death after UN experts demanded answers from Beijing.
The foreign ministry said former Xinjiang University president Tiyip’s case was still ongoing and his rights had been “protected in accordance with the law”.

Tiyip was “suspected of corruption and bribery,” foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said at a regular briefing Friday.

Amnesty International said in September that it feared Tiyip, a prominent geographer, faced imminent execution after being “convicted in a secret and grossly unfair trial”.

Tiyip was believed to have been convicted of “separatism”

Tension Grips EKSU Academic Staff Over Plan To Sack 500

Members of staff of the Ekiti State University (EKSU), Ado Ekiti are panicked by unconfirmed reports that the management of the institution is allegedly making secret moves to sack about 500 of its staff.

The staff to be supposedly culled are those who were employed during the tenure of EKSU’s immediate past Vice Chancellor, Prof Samuel Oye Bandele, according to multiple sources.

Some professors promoted during Bandele’s tenure might be demoted over allegations that academic due process was not strictly adhered to in obtaining their elevations, sources say.

An anonymous source who might be affected in the rumoured sacks

Chairman Uche Secondus As Academic Assessor?

We know that it is obviously more comforting to be confidently adorned in the attire of a role model and exemplar, rather than  one playing to the gallery and pontificating strange precepts that  instantly belie your visibly contrarian  persona. Now just imagine a scenario where an inverterate and unrepentant chain smoker is invited as guest Speaker in a forum on the ravages of lung cancer. He begins by admirably ventilating these hard facts from Google on lung cancer:

“Lung cancer essentially originates from the lungs. Its rising incidence world-wide is associated with smoking and increasing levels of air pollution”

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