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  2. Diligent Work-Frugal Study Movement - Wikipedia

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    The first group of thirty students to go to France repaid the loan within five months, allowing two groups a year to follow. [12] The new students came from a wide background. The Work-Study movement now offered overseas study to those whose education stopped at the middle-school level or below.

  3. Pashmina (material) - Wikipedia

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    to full- sized shawl measuring 40 in x 80 in (100 cm x 200 cm), large shawls measuring 45 in x 90 in (114 cm x 228 cm), and XL shawls measuring 54 in x 108 in (137 cm x 274 cm). [20] A craze for pashmina shawls, known as shahmina in Kashmir, in the mid-1990s resulted in high demand for the raw material, so demand exceeded supply. When these ...

  4. List of Indian inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    Cashmere – The fibre cashmere fibre also known as pashm or pashmina for its use in the handmade shawls of Kashmir, India. [58] The woolen shawls made from wool in Indian administered Kashmir find written mention between the 3rd century BCE and the 11th century CE. [59] Charkha (Spinning wheel): invented in India, between 500 and 1000 CE. [60]

  5. Work abroad - Wikipedia

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    Students gain work experience while being immersed in a foreign work environment, though the position may be paid or unpaid. Dependent upon the programme, a student working abroad may live in a dormitory or apartment with other students or with a "host family", a group of people who live in that country and agree to provide student lodging.

  6. Bloom's 2 sigma problem - Wikipedia

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    Failure for a student to achieve mastery is viewed, differently from conventional educational testing, as due to instruction rather than lack of student ability. Another key element of mastery learning is that it requires attention to individual students as opposed to assessing group performance.

  7. Study abroad organization - Wikipedia

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    Given the tremendous growth in the number of U.S. students studying abroad over the last two decades, the study abroad industry has become more crowded and competitive in recent years. The study abroad business has traditionally been a cottage industry with a hodgepodge of domestic and foreign universities, for-profit and non-profit independent ...

  8. Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed ...

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    The number of Chinese students studying abroad is more than half a million each year, the Academic Committee only considers doctoral students with outstanding academic achievements or great research potential during overseas study, and every year globally selects 650 young talents from different disciplines (500 before 2021), thus making this ...

  9. International migration - Wikipedia

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    Others migrate to be with family members who have migrated or because of political conditions in their countries. Education is another reason for international migration, as students pursue their studies abroad, although this migration is sometimes temporary, with a return to the home country after the studies are completed. [2]