Best Hollywood Movies about Education Ever Made

Hollywood has been going back to school for decades. The classroom is a tried and true location for storytelling, particularly for those heart-moving tales of a struggling kid guided by a sensitive teacher. Besides entertaining, these movies about education can be as spiritually uplifting as they are enlightening. Most movies centering around the characters’ educational growth are based on true stories (one reason why most of them are realistically poignant and, of course, successful at the box office), while others are wholly fictional. In any case, while watching these movies you will find that even as you mull over the current state of the education system, you are led to reminisce about your own school experience, a trip down memory lane that is often beyond words to describe.

The 2011 QS World University Rankings

It was through the most wide-ranging surveys of their kind ever conducted that the 2011 QS World University Rankings were compiled. Numbers alone do not tell the whole story, especially since universities are complex. While other rankings focus primarily on measures of research productivity such as citations, the QS exercise counterbalances this information with the views of global academic and graduate employers drawn from a truly representative global sample. Thus QS has dramatically increased the scope of its surveys in 2011. This year’s rankings draw on the views of over 33,000 academics and 16,000 graduate employers from around the globe.

An Ear for Music and a Career for Life

What makes your expensive phone or your luxury car livelier? What would movies be without music? What do you do when you feel down and out? Music adds life and touches souls like nothing else does.  Music can be experienced in every facet of life around us.

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All eyes on the rising star – India

Today, India is a rising star; a much watched and appreciated nation. There are many university departments and centers across the world that study and teach about India and its importance in the world forum. The world is waiting for this sleeping giant to wake up. Today, the country is brimming with self-belief and confidence. Victories like winning the cricket world cup, the presence of young politicians and corporate leaders reiterate that the cool headed, positive and ambitious young generation is taking over the reins of the country. While the earlier generation was very rooted in tradition and the age old version of India, the India of today is not scared of challenging those traditions and ideas which are resistant to growth. Experts feel that this has come about largely through higher education, and a widening bridge to cultures from Western nations.

Animation: The multimillion dollar industry

Are you looking to enroll in an animation and multimedia course? Then this article may be just the one for you to read.

All over the world businesses are waking up to newfound possibilities to sell their products and services via animation and multimedia. Today, the scope of animation is not limited to just cartoon films for children but is used as a way of engaging adults in a fun, out-of-the-ordinary way.