Author: Nelson Rosario

Amelie Hansen continues to study law and business while working two full days a week as a disability support worker in her mother’s Collaroy home, which is just a short stroll from the beach. She makes $540 every two weeks, which is respectable by most standards, but she doesn’t really get to choose whether or not to move out. A rental market that has subtly surpassed what a part-time wage can cover has already created it for her. “I don’t have a single friend who is renting,” she states. Parents provide funding for those who are enrolled in college. Like…

At Erina High School on New South Wales’ Central Coast, a two-story building caught fire late on Monday night. By the time firefighters arrived, smoke was rising into the night sky above The Entrance Road. The first to react was Fire and Rescue NSW. The NSW Rural Fire Service was called in as a backup after the situation was swiftly elevated to a second alarm due to the severity of what they discovered. It’s the kind of call that makes an otherwise calm Monday night in Erina much busier for emergency personnel than anyone could have predicted. The fire was…

Nestled in the rural Oxfordshire parklands of Banbury, Tudor Hall School has spent 175 years establishing a reputation that most schools would be jealous of. Established in 1850, it rose to prominence as one of the top all-girls day and boarding schools in Britain. Old Tudorians return decades later to stroll the same gravel streets as their grandmothers. It therefore carried some weight when word leaked out that the school would be joining the Mill Hill Education Group. This was not a small administrative change. According to the school, it was the first arrangement of its kind in the history…

Francesca Peters did not consider earning a master’s degree to be optional. With over £60,000 already hanging over her head, she completed her undergraduate degree in biochemistry in 2020. The only path to her desired career path required an additional year of study and another loan. The amount had increased to £77,000 by the time she left with her postgraduate degree. “It just feels like a life tax,” she remarks. “Because I’m never going to pay it off.” In an increasing number of discussions concerning postgraduate borrowing in England and Wales, that sentence is the silent thread. While undergraduate loans…

Around October, when offer letters arrive but the real work hasn’t even begun, international students experience a certain kind of stress. Yes, according to the university. The course is chosen. Then there’s the paperwork, which isn’t mentioned in the glossy prospectus. Universities in the UK no longer merely accept students. They screen them, sometimes in conjunction with the Home Office and other times through a different government agency that most applicants are unaware of until their course coordinator brings it up casually. The Academic Technology Approval Scheme, or ATAS, is that body for an increasing number of postgraduate students, especially…

Before continuing, it’s important to clarify the nearly confusing aspect of the name St. Joseph’s University. When you search for the term, two very different institutions come up: a Catholic university in Philadelphia with more than a century of history in American higher education, and a campus on Lalbagh Road in Bengaluru, India, which started out as a small mission school in 1882. This article focuses on the latter, but the branding overlap reveals how Jesuit education spread across very different continents in a spirit that was nearly identical. The campus in Bengaluru was never intended to be a university.…

It’s simple to completely miss the building when driving in Hillsborough along Route 206. It doesn’t have an imposing tower or a large parking structure to announce its existence. Just a low brick facility with a modest sign that reads Hillsborough Radiology, tucked between the everyday rhythm of a New Jersey suburb. You wouldn’t notice it if you drove by it a hundred times until you needed it. That contributes to the operation’s intrigue. Hillsborough Radiology is a partnership between Princeton Radiology and University Radiology, two names that carry weight in central New Jersey’s medical community. The partnership isn’t heavily…

Harvard emerged victorious once more. For those who follow these things, that isn’t exactly shocking news. Beyond the obvious headline that Cambridge, Massachusetts, outperformed more than 2,250 universities in more than 100 countries, the most recent U.S. News & World Report rankings for radiology, nuclear medicine, and medical imaging contain some information worth considering. The narrative is conveyed by the scoring alone. Harvard reported a flawless subject score of 100. Johns Hopkins completed the top three at 83.9, while Stanford trailed at 87. It’s not a photo finish; there’s a real gap. It’s the kind of margin that indicates Harvard…

Once an influencer reaches a certain level of fame, there’s a certain kind of online curiosity that follows them. For Bridgette Pheloung, the creator of “Acquired Style,” this curiosity has recently focused on one particular question: where did she attend college? It turns out that the answer is more important than most people thought because that campus served as more than just a setting for her twenties. Her whole love story started there. On June 29, Pheloung, 29, shared a video that had been pieced together from her wedding day to announce that she and her longtime partner Mitch McHale…

Stephen Hawking did indeed have ALS. When the diagnosis was made in 1963 at a hospital in London, he was twenty-one years old. The prognosis was straightforward: two years, possibly less. He would go on to live with the illness for fifty-five years, a period of time so dissimilar from the typical course of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis that experts in the field are still perplexed. The nerve cells that regulate voluntary muscle movement are attacked by ALS, which is sometimes referred to as Lou Gehrig’s disease in the US. Usually, it moves along quickly. Only roughly 10% of patients survive…