Education

UK Student Fees Hikes Spark Protests

by Neil Jones on November 6, 2010

in Education

UK Student Fees Hike - Protests

This week’s announcements by the UK coalition Government proposing steep rises in student tuition fees from 2012 has sparked protests and heated debate. The issue is who should pay for graduate level education when more than 50% of school leavers are expected to attend university. From 2012, student are being asked to pay their own [...]

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Student Drop-Outs Cost Taxpayers Millions

October 12, 2010
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Twenty percent of students drop out of state four-year universities before their sophomore year, according to a report released on Monday by the American Institutes for Research. They are also a huge burden on the nation’s taxpayers – estimated at $9.1 Billion in state and federal funding to colleges and students over a five-year period. [...]

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Bill Gates Grants $20M For Technology to Repair US Education Standards

October 11, 2010
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Next Generation Learning Challenges is a new grant program from The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation which is inviting grant proposals for technology applications from both educators and entrepreneurs involved in post-secondary education. Grants awards will range from $250,000 to $750,000. Bill Gates is chairman of Microsoft Corp. and co-chair of the foundation: “American education [...]

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Playground Fights Over Mark Zuckerberg’s $100m Gift

October 7, 2010
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Seems like the bureaucrats are having some problems in accepting Mark Zuckerberg’s record $100m gift. As is typical for lawyers, they are arguing over legal processes rather than moving towards how to deliver the improvement in public education  Newark schools so desperately needs. Ronald Rice – Newark Democrat Senator sitting on the Legislature’s Joint Committee [...]

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$38.8M Fed Funds Efforts to Reduce Bullying in Schools

October 6, 2010
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Yesterday (Tuesday) the U.S. Department of Education announced grants of up to $38.8 million to 11 states from the recent Safe and Supportive School program. The strategy is to “measure school safety” and then “help intervene in those schools with the greatest safety needs.” The eleven states due to receive this initial round of grants [...]

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Tommy Linstroth Appointed to GSU Advisory Board

September 20, 2010
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Tommy Linstroth of Trident Sustainability Group has been appointed to the Georgia Southern University College of Science and Technology (COST) Advisory Board. The University has the largest Construction Management Program in the State and Approximately 180 faculty serve over 2200 undergraduate and graduate students throughout all departments. Georgia Southern produces nearly half of the Construction [...]

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New Leadership Comes to Marymount International School Paris

September 16, 2010
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Marymount International School, the oldest international school in Paris, welcomes Ronald Roukema Ed.D as Headmaster. Dr. Roukema’s role ushers in a new chapter for Marymount. Dr. Roukema’s new leadership role at Marymount International School-Paris is not only a new role for him, it is indeed historic for Marymount. Founded in 1923 by the Religious of [...]

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