Pearson Isn#39;t Making Web Trade Better Than Newspapers (Update1)
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Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) — Pearson Plc Chief Executive Officer
Marjorie Scardino is selling newspaper assets and moving from
textbooks into online courses. The efforts arent bringing the
164-year-old publisher the valuation of Washington Post Co.,
whose shares cost 50 percent more.
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Lee Seeks Investment to Help Boost Korean Economy (Update4)
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Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) — President Lee Myung Bak, South
Koreas first president with a business background, pledged to
cut taxes and speed up deregulation to encourage investment and
boost economic growth.
“Unnecessary regulations will be [...]
Lou Suffers Blackstone#39;s #39;Fat Rabbits#39; in China Fund (Update1)
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Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) — When Lou Jiwei visited Switzerland
one spring weekend in 1993, the Chinese government economist was
so eager to see the inside of a Swiss bank that Credit Suisse
Group opened its Zurich head office on a Sunday to show him
around. [...]
When modern life just doesnt add up
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Ten years ago, a young Labour government commissioned the Moser report on basic skills. Few educational documents have made such an impact. The calculation that 7 million adults in England lacked the knowhow to cope with life in a modern society because they were functionally illiterate or innumerate, was an enormous embarrassment.The shame was magnified [...]
Oral tests to be dropped from language exams
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Oral tests look set to be dropped from GCSE language exams in favour of longer-term teacher assessment, it emerged yesterday.In a report due to be published on Wednesday, the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority is expected to scrap short external exams in favour of ongoing teacher assessment.The move, which could be introduced as early as September [...]
Diploma deflation
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In 1999, Pennsylvania decided that all high school students must meet certain academic standards in order to graduate. Nearly a decade later, however, tens of thousands of our students are receiving diplomas though they have not shown proficiency in core subjects.
Why are so many of our students graduating despite questionable academic proficiency?
Many Pennsylvanians might be [...]
State Senate approves funds for special education
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Schools in 60 counties would receive amounts ranging from $1.2 million for Wheaton-Warrenville Unit School District 200 in DuPage County to $49 for a school district in Downstate Marion County. The funding quirk is partly a casualty of timing and coordination attributed to [...]
Lights camera pay up
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If you have been following the filming of Brighton Wok - billed by its makers as Britain’s first community-made kung-fu comedy feature film - you will know the basic plot. A ninja (Japanese warrior) takes over the seaside town and sets up home in the Royal Pavilion. If there is to be a sequel, brothers [...]
Get wise
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Journalists unclear about a story often fall back on a stock introduction: “Confusion surrounds …” Yet that is a fair enough summary of the conclusions from a series of reports on university bursary schemes in England.The latest report, from the Sutton Trust last week, argued that fear of debt is deterring students from low-income families [...]
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 [...]
