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  2. Seminar - Wikipedia

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    The term seminar is also used to describe a research talk, often given by a visiting researcher and primarily attended by academics, research staff, and postgraduate students. Seminars often occur in regular series, but each seminar is typically given by a different speaker, on a topic of that speaker's choosing.

  3. Colloquium - Wikipedia

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    An academic seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting or similarly to a tutorial led by students as is the case in Norway. A form of testing and assessing students' knowledge in the education system, mainly in universities. The Parliament of Scotland, called a "colloquium" in Latin records

  4. Academic conference - Wikipedia

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    However, there are no commonly shared definitions even within disciplines for each event type. There might be no conceivable difference between a symposium, a congress or a conference. The larger the conference, the more likely it is that academic publishing houses may set up displays. Large conferences also may have a career and job search and ...

  5. AP Capstone - Wikipedia

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    AP Seminar is the foundation course taken in 10th or 11th grade. It provides students the opportunity to develop critical thinking skills and prepare for university. Students explore real-world issues such as innovation, sustainability and technology. The assessment culminates in 2 through-course tasks and a final written exam. [1]

  6. Gifted education - Wikipedia

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    Gifted education (also known as gifted and talented education (GATE), talented and gifted programs (TAG), or G&T education) is a sort of education used for children who have been identified as gifted or talented. The main approaches to gifted education are enrichment and acceleration. An enrichment program teaches additional, deeper material ...

  7. The First-Year Experience Program - Wikipedia

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    Most first-year seminars are a semester long and start at student orientation. From orientation, students enroll in the course, which gives them a variety of college experiences, from tours of the campus to a breakdown of how to study for tests. Many schools even offer students help with purchasing books from the school's bookstore.

  8. College Football Playoff bracket picks, predictions: Who will ...

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    There was endless politicking by coaches, athletic directors and fans, but the College Football Playoff selection committee settled on a 12-team field in the end and now it's time to make some picks.

  9. Humboldtian model of higher education - Wikipedia

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    Humboldt's model was based on two ideas of the Enlightenment: the individual and the world citizen.Humboldt believed that the university (and education in general, as in the Prussian education system) should enable students to become autonomous individuals and world citizens by developing their own powers of reasoning in an environment of academic freedom.