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Welcome to "Jingwei Study Abroad Weekly Issue 132"
2021/10/16—2021/10/22
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01 Edinburgh, UCL, Buda, Lunyi collective opened a new college
On September 29, UCL officially announced the establishment of the first "justifiable" business school, UCL Global Business School for Health (Global Business School: Health Field, or GBSH).
Recently, the University of Edinburgh also announced the establishment of the "Edinburgh Futures Institute" - Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI). The new college will officially open in September 2022 and is now ready to accept applications for 22 years.
The University of Bristol has also officially announced the opening of a business school in September 2022! According to an email sent by the University of Bristol, this time the university plans to merge the "School of Accounting and Finance" and the "School of Management" to form a business school (Business School) The establishment of a new business school is to provide more professional and cutting-edge business teaching.
On September 22, the official announced its new academy, the UAL Fashion, Textiles and Technology Institute (FTTI).
02 Uk essay ghostwriting will likely become a violation
On 6 October, the BBC published a news report that the UK's act of charging students for essay services in order to combat "contract fraud" in the thesis factory would potentially become a criminal offence. The government said the move would protect students from "deceptive marketing techniques for essay ghostwriting." In some places, it is already illegal to provide students with pre-written or customized papers for publication as their own papers.
A spokesman for the Universities UK said that British universities take paper plagiarism very seriously, and handing in papers written by others is also a form of plagiarism, which is definitely a paper fraud, affecting the quality of higher education in the UK.
03 Australia launched a "vaccine certificate" to accelerate the opening of the country
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported that as the federal government prepares to further ease international border restrictions, the new international travel vaccine certificate went online on October 19, local time.
The new International Travel Vaccine Certificate is similar to the existing vaccine certificate and can be downloaded through the MyGov website. The difference is that the International Travel Vaccine Certificate has added a QR code, and customs officials can scan the code directly to check your vaccination status.
Employment Minister Stuart Robert said: "If you travel overseas and that country needs to verify the vaccine certificate, then you can apply. ”
04 Russia is on holiday to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic
On October 20, local time, Russian President Vladimir Putin officially announced that in response to the new crown epidemic, Russia will have a national holiday from October 30 to November 7.
Putin said that local governments in Russia can take an early holiday on October 23 or extend the holiday date after November 7 according to the actual situation of the local epidemic.
He also said that the new crown vaccine is an important measure in the epidemic prevention work, and he instructed all parts of the country to further increase the vaccination rate.
Recently, the number of new cases of new coronary pneumonia in Russia has increased rapidly, and as of 11:30 Moscow time on October 20, russia has confirmed 8094825 cases and 226353 cumulative deaths.
05 Germany may cancel the "national epidemic state"
German media reported on the 20th local time that Germany may cancel the "national epidemic state", which has triggered concerns in some federal states. Several federal states, such as Rhineland-Palatinate, Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia and Thuringia, have called on the federal government to continue to implement uniform national epidemic prevention rules.
Rhineland-Palatinate Health Minister Horch said it was "unrealistic" to cancel all measures in November and that the federal government should have an "orderly and unified transitional arrangement". Berlin Mayor Müller also explicitly opposed ending the "national epidemic state" at the end of November, noting that it will take longer to end the "national epidemic state" before the epidemic truly eases.
German Federal Health Minister Spann publicly stated on the 18th that he supported ending the "national epidemic state" at the end of November. The "National Epidemic Status" is the basis for the development and implementation of anti-epidemic regulations and measures by the German federal and state governments, which have been in force since March 2020 and are currently valid until 24 November 2021.
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