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What a Tech Company’s Big Shift Portends for the Future of the Master’s Degree

Higher Ed Connects: News

Lots of higher-education leaders and faculty members should be paying attention to that, even if they don’t care about the future of OPMs, or even know what those initials mean. In the future, Hickman said, “We don’t think graduate education is going to be this point in time” that students pursue a few years after their undergraduate years.

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Reflections of the Career of a University Expatriate

Edu Alliance Journal

Funding opportunities and grant support may be harder to come by or mainly restricted to nationals of the country. Graduate assistants and postdoctoral researchers are scarce in many localities without robust traditions of graduate education of their own. Import of laboratory equipment is costly.