Draud Urges Investment In Ky. Education
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If Kentuckians are going to overcome the challenges of the 21st century and realize the standard of living they desire, the commonwealth’s leaders must realize that investment in the state’s public educational system is the only way to be successful.
That was the message Kentucky Education Commissioner Dr. Jon Draud delivered as he spoke to about [...]
Quick City And Town News From All Editions Of Today’s Providence Journal
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The state Department of Education has determined that prospective Providence schools chief Thomas M. Brady is eligible to receive a superintendent’s certificate, according to a spokesman for the education commissioner.
The Central High School Class of 2008 may have been the hottest class ever as temperatures topped 97 degrees in Providence, breaking records and keeping graduation [...]
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, [...]
Fewer High School Students Smoking Cigarettes And Marijuana
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Fewer high school students were smoking cigarettes and marijuana in 2007 than in 2001, with one in four smoking pot and one in five puffing on cigarettes, a youth survey released Wednesday shows.
Teens’ use of tobacco in their lifetime fell to 46 percent from 62 percent and marijuana use dropped to 41 percent, down from [...]
US STOCKSMarket slips on deeper job losses
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By Jennifer Coogan
NEW YORK, April 4 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks edged lower on
Friday after news of an unexpectedly large decline in payrolls
tempered earlier optimism about the jobs market, but the market
was still poised to end the week on a high note.
Shares of for-profit education companies were trading
higher on expectations that a dimming [...]
Apollo results shares fall on lawsuit charges
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Education company Apollo Group Inc (APOL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) posted sharply lower quarterly net results on Thursday due to one-time charges stemming from a class- action lawsuit, sending its shares down more than seven percent.
The company reported a net loss for the second quarter of $32 million, or 19 cents a [...]
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 [...]
Staff are being patronised and put through hoops
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Ty Goddard is startlingly outspoken for a man who regularly enters the lairs of protocol-driven Whitehall mandarins. Maybe years of pushing through radical change in a series of public and voluntary sector jobs has made him too impatient to bother tiptoeing around fragile civil-service egos. Maybe he’s always called a badly made spade a botched [...]
School beckons to a nation in debt
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All of us earnestly hope that a good education will equip our children with meaningful life skills beyond just a competent grasp of the three Rs. But will it be enough to prepare them for a slowing economy? Will our children leave school with even enough financial nous to understand a mobile phone tariff or [...]
Nicky Harrison
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Nicky Harrison, who has died aged 71, had a life of remarkable contrasts. Born in Lewisham, south-east London, and with a limited education, she had a career that ranged from appearing at the London Palladium as a Tiller girl in the 1950s to becoming chair of the Council for Local Education Authorities (1981-86) and of [...]
