Universities urged to back more academies to reduce class bias
Posted by admin
The government will today increase pressure on universities to sponsor an academy as a way of helping to reduce class bias in higher education.There is “no excuse for any university to wash its hands of the problem”, the universities minister, Bill Rammell, will tell a conference in London today.Oxford and Cambridge are singled out for [...]
Wanted attractive Swedish model
Posted by admin
The taxi drops me off in the middle of an industrial estate and I do a quick double-take. There’s a drab sign nailed haphazardly to the outside of the warehouse that tells me I’ve arrived, but I’m not convinced. In the snowy, November half-light, Stockholm tends to come in various shades of grey at the [...]
Senate panel OKs ed signoff bill
Posted by admin
The Senate Education Committee has approved a measure that would require legislative leaders to sign off on agreements made with the federal government that implement programs like No Child Left Behind.
Bill sponsor Sen. Margaret Dayton, R-Orem, said the measure, which is supported by the State [...]
Senators OK 3 bills boosting education
Posted by admin
Lawmakers gave the nod to a number of bills aimed at boosting pay for some educators, lowering class sizes, netting quality teachers for Utah’s classrooms and extending the school year.
The Senate passed three bills Wednesday that would address some of the major woes of Utah’s [...]
State of the State Huntsman urges Utahns to aspire to reach higher
Posted by admin
Utahns “must aspire to reach higher,” Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. told his constituents Tuesday in his fourth annual State of the State address, the first to be delivered in the newly remodeled Capitol.
Huntsman, who is seeking a second term this November, delivered an upbeat assessment [...]
Bhutto Killing Breeds a Failing Nuclear State Frederick Kempe
Posted by admin
Jan. 3 (Bloomberg) — Two months ago I suggested that, amid
the Bush administrations focus on Iraqs present dangers and
Irans future perils, Pakistan was most likely to produce a so-
called black-swan event.
For [...]
New York#39;s Spitzer Proposes Tax Cap Lottery Sale (Update2)
Posted by admin
Jan. 9 (Bloomberg) — New York Governor Eliot Spitzer,
facing a $4.3 billion budget gap and his lowest poll ratings,
started his second year in office with proposals to study
limiting local property taxes and to sell or lease part of the
lottery to fund an endowment for [...]
Know your place …
Posted by admin
The English education system is sliding back into Victorian times with today’s schools almost as segregated by social class as they were in the 19th century, a controversial new book argues. The Education Debate, published tomorrow, draws a parallel between today’s academies, faith and comprehensive schools, and the elementary, grammar and public schools of more [...]
To have and have not
Posted by admin
Withywood Community school takes its name from the large postwar estate it serves in south Bristol. Its headteacher, Bob Thornton, says his pupils and their parents are the “salt of the earth” and on the up. Official Ofsted forms tell a story of a community where “self-esteem, empowerment and literacy are historically very low”. On [...]
Wanted English speakers with fluency in sarcasm
Posted by admin
What is the Russian for “sub-prime mortgage”? Anyone? Most of us will never know, which is just as well because Russian apparently has yet to coin a word or phrase for this risky brand of loan.But the question is being tossed out to a bunch of young people who do need to come up with [...]
