Parliament Passes Education Law
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Slovak Parliament approved an Act on Education and Training that was drafted by the Education Ministry with the aim of revamping the school system. The new Act will substitute 20-year-old legislation that was introduced in the former communist Czechoslovakia.
Innovations at schools will be introduced via new curricula as the key element of the reforms. The [...]
Govt To Ratchet Up Collections On Student Loans
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Due to the persistently high percentage of government student loans in default, Education Minister Carl Bethel said the government is contemplating ‘get-tough’ measures to increase collection.
Due to the persistently high percentage of government student loans in default, Education Minister Carl Bethel said the government is contemplating ‘get-tough’ measures to increase collection.
As of June 30, 2007, [...]
Alternative Education To Get Boost
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Baltimore school administrators unveiled a plan yesterday to reduce violence and the dropout rate by overhauling alternative education, nearly doubling the number of alternative school slots by August and creating morning and evening programs for working students.
The plan calls for the creation of two new alternative schools and the redesign of existing alternative schools, where [...]
British but only in battle
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After a long fight, Gurkhas serving as part of the British army last year won equal rights and status to their British counterparts, allowing them to apply to settle in the UK and gain British citizenship. But their battle for equality is not yet over. A government oversight has meant the children of serving Gurkha [...]
Just the job for learning
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“Employer engagement” - or getting employers to foot more of the bill for higher education - is the policy catchphrase of the moment, and one the government is pushing.Professor David Eastwood, chief executive of the England funding council, Hefce, announced %26pound;105m to back it up in February, telling the Conference of Northern Universities it was [...]
Government HE access target unrealistic say Tories
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The government’s pledge to have half of young adults in university by 2010 is doomed to fail as new figures show participation rates have hardly risen over the last eight years.Preliminary figures for the past academic year, released yesterday showed the proportion of 18- to 30-year-olds in higher education was just 39.8%, up from 39.2% [...]
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 [...]
Labours pledge on university numbers in 2010 is doomed to fail
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A pledge by Labour to have half of young adults in university by 2010 is
destined to fail, with new figures showing that the proportion has scarcely
risen over the past eight years.
Despite the Government throwing hundreds of millions of pounds at widening
university access and expanding degree courses, figures for the past
academic year showed the proportion of [...]
Paul Kennedy Neocons worst nightmare
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Two words changed Paul Kennedy’s life. That they were just two words in a book of some 150,000, and that the whole phrase was three words long, was neither here nor there. No one was that interested in the qualifying adjective “relative” when the other two words were “US” and “decline“.The year was 1988, the [...]
When is a behemoth a white elephant
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Though nobody could be more anxious to discover the fate of the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) than the people who work there, the rest of the further education sector also watches with interest.It was the incoming Labour government 10 years ago that constructed the behemoth, and the same party that has begun, at least, [...]
