20,000 graduates overcharged for student loans
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More than 20,000 graduates were overcharged on their student loan repayments last year. They have forfeited hundreds of pounds in overpayments because money is still being deducted from their salaries despite having paid back the full amount they owe on their student loans. Figures given to MPs for the first time show that 20,900 young [...]
Do We Really Need School Boards
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TROUBLE WAS predictable when, three years into their jobs, members of the Strait regional school board were ordered to write their own directive on ethics, responsibilities and how to behave with common courtesy.
Are these the folks we want running the system that teaches our children?
Over the weekend, Education Minister Karen Casey decided the answer to [...]
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, [...]
Its Publishes Course Prospectus And Journal
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The Institute for Tourism Studies yesterday launched its 2008/2009 course prospectus as well as the first issue of its official biannual journal, aptly titled Welcome, Education Law in the presence of Education Minister Dolores Cristina.
The minister said tourism has changed a lot over the years, were competition has become fiercer. Mrs Cristina held that with [...]
Cuban teaching method bears fruit in Grenada
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HAVANA,Cuba (ACN): In the Caribbean island of Grenada, 112 formerly illiterate citizens were the first to learned how to read and write with the Cuban teaching method %26quot;Yo si Puedo%26quot; (Yes, I can). The graduates received their diplomas from the hands of Grenada’s Education Ministry officials and members of the Cuban diplomatic mission to that [...]
Principal under fire in ministers back yard
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The beleaguered principal of Harlow College is facing calls for his resignation following publication of the results of A-level modules that his opponents claim are “far from satisfactory”.The president of the college’s students’ union, Victoria Broad, maintains that large numbers of students either failed or received low grades in exams taken in January. The college [...]
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A campaign drawing in parents, businesses, teachers and pupils to help schools raise their game in use of technology has been launched by the educational technology agency, Becta. Next Generation Learning is the result of a Becta survey back in 2006 that found only 20% of schools were making best use of technology - even [...]
Should elite cease to be a dirty word
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YesThe idea of an academic elite is a fundamental, democratic good and one that we must defend vigorously if British education is to compete seriously on the global stage. The trouble is that the word elite is now heavy with pejorative connotations. Its beginnings were innocuous enough. It came from the Latin eligere, meaning “to [...]
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% [...]
Second degree funding cuts flawed say MPs
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A cross-party committee of MPs today condemned the government’s controversial policy of cutting %26#163;100m for “second-chance” students.MPs on the Commons university committee said last September’s decision to cut the state funding universities get to subsidise the fees of students on courses equivalent to or lower than qualifications they already hold - ELQs - was “insufficiently [...]
