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15 hours ago ago from Kim
The latest information from the labour camp RE. The budget and specifically how it relates to higher education funding really does highlight that they are a bunch of utter prats. Background document: Mandelson's letter to the HEFCE: http://www.bis.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/publications/Mandelson-Letter-to-HEFCE-Dec09.pdf (And the summarised version in the BBC article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8427546.stm ) The big point here ...
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13 hours ago ago from BIGON Sandbank
A university funding cut of 533 million has been announced by the government today. Business secretary Lord Mandelson said the usual 7.81 billion of funding would be reduced to 7.29 billion for 2010 to 2011. The move has been criticised for putting severe pressure on universities. Lord Mandelson wrote to the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), saying that universities should also make higher education more ...
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12 hours ago ago from Just In Just Out
IBM, partners to drive smarter education in Pune India, December 23, 2009: IBM along with its partners Merce Technologies and Focuz today announced a slew of offerings to drive smarter education in Pune. Built for forward looking academic institutions, trusts, and professional colleges, these smarter education solutions, embrace technologies such as cloud computing, open source systems, virtualization, and analytics, and help ...
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11 hours ago ago from occasional links & commentary
In a scenario being played out across the country, students and faculty at the University of Southern Maine turned to an independent accountant to contest the university's claim of a budget crisis. According to Inside Higher Ed , Administrators say we’re broke? That’s not what our accountant tells us. Such is the sentiment at the University of Maine, where a recently completed audit challenges the notion that the university is in ...
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13 hours ago ago from Ninth Level Ireland
Cuts to the higher education budget will leave universities struggling to meet student expectations and on the brink of 'serious decay', the Government has been warned. University mission groups have criticised the £135 million cut to the Higher Education Funding Council for England budget, announced in the annual grant letter yesterday ( more ) [John Morgan, Times Higher Education , 23 December]
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1 hour, 25 minutes ago ago from BBC
Greece is trying to reassure markets about its economy The Greek parliament has voted to adopt big budget cuts designed to lower the country's high levels of debt. Greece aims to shrink public debt to 9.1% of overall economic output next year, down from 12.7% this year. To do this, it has outlined measures to cut public spending and boost revenue by cutting back on red tape. Concerns about Greece's high level of debt have ...
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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 ...
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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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