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More pressure on Canadian universities as enrolments increase
20 hours ago ago from Tony Bates
Where will we put them all? Canadian Press (2009) University enrolment up, as grads return to school Macleans Oncampus , October 26 University enrolments in Canada for the 2009-2010 academic year were up 4.5% from the previous year. From the report: The spike in enrolment is occurring as cash-strapped governments make cuts to already underfunded universities, which, they say, degrades the quality of education for ...
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15 hours ago ago from Denzil Coulson
Lord Mandelson crudely chose 3 days before Christmas to bury bad news by announcing slashing cuts to teaching staff at universities . The consequences will be far-reaching and damaging to our UK tertiary sector. The cuts are as much as £135 million and universities were already ordered to find £180 million of cuts over 18 months earlier this year. So - for general election purposes - schools were given immunity from budget cuts in the ...
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11 hours ago ago from FMWF
There are so many targets spewing out of Whitehall now that frequently they are contradictory. Those on the receiving end working in our public services can only shrug and choose which ones to follow or give up altogether and just fudge them. Under Soviet Communism while millions starved the official statistics always showed how well things were going pig iron production showing impressive increases, etc, etc. I am certainly ...
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1 hour, 3 minutes ago ago from Creative Tory
The news coming out of Lord Mandy's super-department that university budget will be cut by £398m for 2010/11 more severely than I had anticipated is an unintended by-product of the arbitrary 50% target. The government encouraging 50% of 18 year olds to attend university was never entirely a good idea. Admirable, as we certainly need to ensure we have a competitive highly skilled economy, but it is not necessarily the best way to achieve ...
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6 hours ago ago from EducationGrant.com
After a year of daunting news about student loan debt and broken state financial aid budgets, EducationGrant.com is happy to share this positive assessment of Santa Claus's readiness for his big night, from his personal physician at University of North Carolina School of Medicine: Although a bit conservative (they would like him to lose weight), the rest of Santa's UNC medical team nevertheless appears optimistic about his ...
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Book Review: The Lowering of Higher Education in America
22 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal
When President Barack Obama announced earlier this year that the U.S. should aim to have the world's highest proportion of college graduates by 2020, he was staking out an ambitious but hardly a maverick goal. It is widely recognized, by Republicans and Democrats alike, that the gap between the earnings of high-school graduates and college graduates has become a chasm in recent decades. More college graduates would mean more prosperity for ...
Related contentHawaii univ. president's letter slammed by union
9 hours ago ago from U.S. News
Hawaii univ. president's letter slammed by union HONOLULU (AP) -- A letter from the president of the University of Hawaii declaring that labor negotiations are at an "impasse" prompted the union that represents faculty to declare it is ready to go to court. M.R.C. Greenwood, who took over the 10-campus system in August, said in a letter on the university's Web site that she now must seek a 6.7 percent pay cut for professors over the next 18 ...
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16 hours ago ago from BBC
A boring journey flies by with a history lecture from an expert By Heather Sharp BBC News, Modiin, Israel I'm not nervous, but I hope I won't feel nauseous, joked Professor Isaiah Gafni, as he prepared to deliver his slightly unusual lecture. But once the commuters were settled, he gripped an upholstered seat back with one hand, two weighty tomes in the other, and launched with gusto into his exposition ...
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8 hours ago ago from Switched
Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... It only took seven months, but President Obama has finally appointed a cybersecurity chief. Because "protecting the Internet is critical to our national security," the President has selected former Bush administration cyber-consultant Howard Schmidt to officially serve as the White House Cybersecurity Coordinator . [From: Washington Post ] Space and science enthusiasts often take ...
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