New York#39;s Spitzer Proposes Tax Cap Lottery Sale (Update2)
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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 [...]
Notre Dame North Carolina Endowments Post Biggest Annual Gains
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Jan. 24 (Bloomberg) — The University of Notre Dame and the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill had the fastest-
growing endowments among the wealthiest U.S. colleges in the
year ended June 30 as schools posted their best gains since
1998.
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Graduates to guide bright children to university
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Graduate trainee teachers are to help ‘gifted and talented’ pupils get into sought-after universities under new plans announced today by the schools minister, Lord Adonis.Graduates on the two-year Teach First scheme will help mentor bright children in London, the Black Country and Greater Manchester to get into top universities, under the City Challenge scheme.They will [...]
Burger bar Alevel for staff at McDonalds
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Staff at McDonald’s will gain the equivalent of A-levels in running burger restaurants after the fast food giant won government approval to become an exam board.The firm is piloting a “basic shift manager” course, which will train staff in everything they need to run a McDonald’s outlet, from marketing to human resources and customer service [...]
Know your place …
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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 [...]
Gerald Pillay Hope and faith
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There is a cross - minus the figure of a tortured Christ - above the door leading to the comfortable office of the vice-chancellor, set among the well-trimmed gardens of Liverpool’s smallest university. It says a fair bit about the place and the man.”Liverpool Hope is an extraordinary place,” enthuses Professor Gerald Pillay, by training [...]
Ending covert practices
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The schools minister Jim Knight recently reminded schools that certain “covert practices” in admissions may not be just bad practice, but against the law. And he revealed that the Independent Office of the Schools Adjudicator, which regulates the admissions system, is investigating complaints against nearly 80 schools alleged to have broken the rules.Universities may feel [...]
Wanted English speakers with fluency in sarcasm
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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 [...]
Rescuing academic refugees
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Fitsum Habtemariam was a lecturer in Eritrea in December 2004, a time of political upheaval. A government official asked him what he thought about the situation during a meeting at the university.”I thought it was really positive when someone came to ask for my opinion, and I thought it would make a difference. I gave [...]
Logical new plan or a betrayal
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The University and College Union (UCU) is six months old, and the two unions that merged to form it still seem far from becoming one. New proposals for restructuring the union from the general secretary, Sally Hunt, have been met with fierce criticism, and a special meeting of the executive has been called next week [...]
