Crib sheet
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Life at the sharp end of researchWith scientific accuracy Dan Meyer warms up the audience: “First I have to deal with my gag reflex, then flip my epiglottis, put my pharynx and gullet in one line and nudge my heart a little to the left.” Then he slowly lowers a 50cm steel sword down his [...]
Clash of cultures
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When Keele lecturers demonstrate outside their council meeting on Thursday for the second time this year - this time swelled by lecturers from other universities - it will be about much more than saving the jobs of their colleagues.University proposals mean that 38 of the 67 academic staff at the School of Economic and Management [...]
Improved performance in January 2008 CSEC examinations
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: The performance of candidates in the January 2008 sitting of the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations improved when compared with 2007.This year, 57 percent of the entries achieved Grades I to III, compared with 51 percent of entries in 2007.Office Administration and Social Studies were the two subjects with the best performance [...]
Exeter West Greenwich teachers sharpen their stand in dispute
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The Exeter-West Greenwich Education Association, whose members have been working without a contract for six months, recently took out an advertisement in The Providence Journal proclaiming that they are “highly qualified†and “dedicated, committed teachers†working in “high performing schools.â€
The ad was published a week ago in the Journal’s West Bay edition, a few weeks [...]
Premature Babies Have Higher Risk of Death Throughout Childhood
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Infants born prematurely have a higher risk of dying throughout childhood and are less likely to have children themselves, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Study participants who were born pre-term had lower long- term survival and reproduction rates, researchers led by Geeta Swamy from Duke University Medical Center in [...]
Teaching, and Learning, Racial Sensitivity
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A few years back, a faculty colleague, after expressing concern that his puppies would develop racist tendencies for lack of exposure to minorities, asked if he could bring the dogs to my house to play with my two sons, ages 1 and 3. My children — like their parents and unlike most everyone else at [...]
Southern Illinois chancellor put on leave after serious concerns
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Poshard declined to comment further, citing respect for Trevino’s privacy. The leave is not related to any criminal activity or allegations, said David Gross, SIU’s executive director of government and public affairs.
Trevino, who was told of the decision last week, took over as SIU chancellor in July.
He succeeded Walter Wendler, whom Poshard [...]
January job count down by 5,600 jobs in Phoenix
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The Phonix-area job market is taking a combination of punches with short-term losses in the construction sector and long-term declines in manufacturing and semiconductors.
The Phoenix metro area has lost more than 30,000 construction and trades jobs since January 2006, according to the Arizona Department of Commerce. The lagging housing market, which has hit the [...]
Senior island officials are caught up in abuse inquiry
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A number of high-profile names in Jersey society have been caught up in the
child-abuse scandal.
Channel Television suggested yesterday that among those people who should
perhaps have known what was going on at the home was Reg Jeune, once one of
the islands most powerful politicians. Mr Jeune, a retired former senator
and Finance Minister, was president of the [...]
Yang#39;s 2 Blackjack EBay Failure Leave Yahoo Unready (Update2)
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Feb. 11 (Bloomberg) — Fourteen years after publishing his
first guide to the Internet from a Stanford University trailer,
Jerry Yang isnt ready to see his creation absorbed by the
worlds largest software company.
Yahoo! [...]
