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FT’s legal hackathon races to ease pandemic pressures

Projects under way range from more efficient legal aid to facilitating esignatures




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Twitter failing to curb misinformation ‘superspreaders’, report warns

Posts from high-profile accounts found to be promoting questionable virus therapies and cures




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UKFast founders exit as private equity firm takes control

Inflexion has become majority shareholder following sexual assault allegations against former CEO




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UK starts to build second contact tracing app

NHS team is told to build alternative on system being developed by Apple and Google




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Schools scramble to meet demand for online MBAs

Flexibility and lower fees appeal — but not all providers are competing on price




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Will online MBAs boost diversity in business schools?

Ease of access and (sometimes) greater affordability are attracting a broader demographic




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Decision time: should I study online or on campus?

Would-be students need to consider the trade-off between flexibility and networking




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Mini-courses pave the way to a full MBA

Online learning modules boost students’ academic confidence and business knowhow




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Financial Times Online MBA directory 2020

Find out which schools are offering distance-learning post-graduate business degrees




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Coronavirus accelerates switch to online MBAs

Online courses grow while future of campus-based qualifications is questioned




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Grappling with the high turnover of deans

There is a limited pool of candidates to fill what has become a complex leadership role




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Students flock to study quant finance in record numbers

Enrollees from India and China make up a third of intake




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Education leaders look for students with practical potential and ‘Midlands grit’

Teaching geared to developing ‘ability to use wide range of career skills’




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AI in education will help us understand how we think

Robot teachers are the start of an evolving relationship with artificial intelligence




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Remote teaching becomes vital during virus outbreak

Universities and business schools are facing unprecedented challenges across the world




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Coursera offers help to universities hit by coronavirus

Online learning group grants free access to teaching platform for institutions in lockdown




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How remote study is changing business school life

The coronavirus crisis has created new ways to learn and collaborate




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MBA students demand tuition fee refunds over campus closures

Candidates at Wharton among those protesting over diminished educational experience




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Is now the right time to apply for an MBA?

Top schools offer deadline extensions and more flexible entry requirements for flagship courses




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Are you graduating in 2020? We want to hear from you

Tell us how graduating into a pandemic economy is affecting you personally and professionally




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What are good — and less expensive — alternatives to an MBA?

Your question for our expert — and readers’ advice




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Live Q&A: What is the future for the MBA?

Join FT business education correspondent Jonathan Moules for a live discussion on Monday May 4 at 12pm and 5pm UK time




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The executive education courses tackling burnout

Growing understanding of the costs and fading stigma is driving demand 




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The other 5G: leading a five-generation workforce

Executive education courses are teaching how to manage multigenerational teams 




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Jesuits on a mission left legacy of living happily

Hidden paradise blossomed for 150 years until settlements overrun by plunderers




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Ayoreo people struggle to counter Chaco deforestation

Legislation has improved but signs of progress are thin on ground




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Horacio Cartes has eye on smoking out business potential

Controversial cigarette tycoon and ex-president still wields influence




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Investing in Paraguay

In recent years, landlocked Paraguay has developed into South America’s star economy, with growth rates that are the envy of the region. We assess its business, political, diplomatic and social prospects and, not least, its pending and sensitive renegotiation with neighbouring Brazil of the treaty concerning the huge Itaipú dam




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Guaraní: both Paraguay’s secret weapon and its glue

Widely spoken indigenous vernacular has problems around official adoption and online presence




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White men run 98% of finance. Will philanthropy help?

Time wasted is time lost, says the Kresge Foundation as it makes a public pledge




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Vatican may ordain married priests in remote areas

Reform continues under Pope Francis with South American summit tackling shortage of clergy




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Guatemala and US in talks over safe third-country status

Plans for asylum seekers come despite state department advice to ‘reconsider travel’ due to crime




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US shifts strategy in effort to dislodge Maduro

International talks may be only way to break impasse




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Guaidó delegation draws protests at OAS meeting

Divisions in regional group show how Venezuelan crisis is stoking tensions in the Americas




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Guaidó representative recognised at fractious OAS

Organization of American States voted to accept Venezuela’s US-backed alternative regime




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Overseas earnings trigger Trump tussle with Central America

White House threatens to use remittances from US as leverage in migration dispute




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Fears grow of Venezuela malnutrition time-bomb

Aid workers warn that millions face long-term damage to health as food crisis continues




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Colombia heads back towards its violent past

Farc declaration of war raises fears of a fresh outbreak of conflict




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Host countries struggle to cope with Venezuela refugee crisis

Colombia seeks $1bn in funds as UN aid appeal falls well short of target




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Poverty, priests and politics: why Peronism is back in Argentina

As ‘slum priests’ try to fill the gap left by the state, the populist movement is on the rise again




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Latin America faces a second ‘lost decade’

From Chile to Bolivia, revolts against leaders from left and right have root causes in stagnant growth and weak investment




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Colombians take to the streets in countrywide protests

Marches come as discontent grows over labour reform, pensions and corruption




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The death of Chile’s pension promise

Protesters urge overhaul of system once lauded as the ‘Mercedes-Benz’ of retirement provision




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Venezuela: refugee crisis tests Colombia’s stability

With the exodus set to continue, the strains on Bogotá and other governments are set to intensify




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Bolsonaro defies coronavirus to rally against Congress

Brazilian president criticised for rubbing elbows with crowds while awaiting second virus test results




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Bolsonaro and López Obrador draw fire for coronavirus response

Brazil and Mexico leaders ignore medical advice while Latin America begins crackdown




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Drug gangs in Brazil’s favelas enforce coronavirus lockdown

Organised crime steps in as President Bolsonaro dismisses pandemic as ‘sniffles’




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Coronavirus set to push 29m Latin Americans into poverty

Social damage could take 2 decades to repair, warns top UN official




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Ride-sharing jolt prompts Uber to follow Lyft on job cuts

Lay-offs of 3,700 in latest round as lossmaking operators face ‘formidable’ challenges




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The decline of an American institution

How the coronavirus outbreak has accelerated the demise of US department stores