Spencer session targets hogs education
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With the legislative session drawing to a close, just three issues — hog confinement, education, and collective bargaining — dominated Saturday’s discussion with area legislators in Spencer.
Even with a standing-room-only crowd of about 75 area residents packing the Spencer City Council chambers, the area’s three Republican legislators saw a relatively calm session with constituents, as [...]
Continuing education of Canadas doctors a broken system
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The system that keeps working doctors abreast of medical developments is too reliant on drug company funding and organization and needs an overhaul, the Canadian Medical Organization Journal said in an editorial published this week.
The strongly worded editorial, written by the journal’s editor-in-chief, said giving drug companies such control over the continuing medical education of [...]
Arts education described as vital: State work force needs creativity
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Wisconsin needs to cultivate an innovative, entrepreneurial work force, and arts education is the key, Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton said Friday.
A new task force on arts and creativity, co-chaired by Lawton and state schools Superintendent Elizabeth Burmaster, plans to survey arts offerings in Wisconsin schools, hold public hearings around the state, and issue a list [...]
Farmer loan waiver is first step
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For C K Prahalad, Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished Professor of Strategy at University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and one of the world’s best known corporate strategy gurus, the loan waiver for Indian farmers announced in the recent Budget can at best be viewed as a first step.
“The waiver will only allow the [...]
State Board of Education cuts $25 million from budget
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A month after doling out $14 million for pork projects handpicked by lawmakers, the Illinois State Board of Education slashed $25 million from its budget this week, including $5 million for gifted education programs and nearly $700,000 that would have gone directly to targeted Chicago schools.
“The state is looking at a $750 million deficit and, [...]
Bentley inaugurates new president
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Bentley College inaugurated its first female president, Gloria Cordes Larson, during a ceremony at the school’s Waltham campus yesterday.
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Larson, who assumed the presidency in July, left a position as a public policy lawyer for Foley Hoag to become Bentley’s seventh president. At the afternoon ceremony in the Charles A. Dana Center, Larson [...]
Baylor Programs Ranked in U.S. News Grad School Survey
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Baylor University graduate programs in law, health disciplines, business, the sciences and education were among those nationally ranked in the 2009 edition of “America’s Best Graduate Schools,” which was released today (Friday, March 28) by U.S.News & World Report.
Each year, U.S. News ranks professional school programs in business, education, engineering, law and medicine. The rankings [...]
Former business manager’s arrest not related to closure of school
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The decision to close two of the county school district’s alternative schools was not due solely to the arrest of the district’s former business manager for illegal use of the district’s bank account, but it was a contributing factor, said the county’s top school official.
Gila County Superintendent of Public Schools Dr. Linda O’Dell said she [...]
Tipp Technology Park forges links with top Cork business people
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Shannon Development organised a special business function for top Cork based companies and management representatives from banking, accounting, legal and venture capital companies. The event was designed to forge new business contacts for Tipperary Technology Park and Shannon Development?s four other Knowledge Network business locations around the Shannon Region. Kevin Thompsto
Shannon Development organised a special [...]
The village that built a huge business empire
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REMEMBER seeing rubbish strewn in an unkempt and stagnant river behind a villa during a visit to China’s richest village, Huaxi in Jiangsu province, last July.
That’s the first impression I had of the village whose residents have at least a bungalow and a car each as well as savings of more than a million yuan [...]
