Human development and health issues discussed at CARICOM InterSessional
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BASSETERRE, St Kitts (CUOPM): Several issues of importance to St Kitts and Nevis were discussed at the just concluded 19th Inter-Sessional Heads of Government Meeting in The Bahamas. The Heads of Government, among them, St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas, urged Member States and CARICOM Universities to work assiduously to achieve the [...]
State Farm Business Camp coming this summer
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State Farm and the Business Education Partnership and Destination Rutherford of the Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce announce the seventh year of the State Farm Summer Business Camp for middle school students.
This two-week day camp will be held July 7-18 and will be hosted at local organizations and businesses. During the camp, students learn business [...]
State Farm Business Camp coming this summer
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State Farm and the Business Education Partnership and Destination Rutherford of the Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce announce the seventh year of the State Farm Summer Business Camp for middle school students.
This two-week day camp will be held July 7-18 and will be hosted at local organizations and businesses. During the camp, students learn business [...]
Parents scrambling for bilingual classes
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Here’s how it works: Instead of a set class time a few times a week, 14 native-English speakers and 14 native-Spanish speakers will begin kindergarten in the same class, and another 28 will start 1st grade. Part of the school day, they will use [...]
A fight for what is right
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Alex White, 17, has been in care since he was eight. Although he was in short-term foster care until the age of 12, he feels he is one of the lucky ones. He has been living in a “great” children’s home in Great Dunmow, Essex, for the past five years and is now studying performing [...]
Bush Africa Trip Touts Successes Bypasses Places He Can#39;t Help
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Feb. 15 (Bloomberg) — President George W. Bush departs for
Africa tonight to highlight his commitment to the impoverished
continent and burnish his foreign-policy legacy.
In Benin, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana and Liberia, hell tout
initiatives [...]
Stanford Leads U.S. School Fundraising for Third Year (Update1)
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Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) — Stanford University raised the most
money among academic institutions for the third year in a row,
aided by a $51 million donation from the estate of a 1927
graduate.
Stanford received [...]
Commentary Why Johnny can read in the Caribbean but cant in the United States
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By Jean H Charles The United States might be spending per capita, for the primary and secondary education of its pupils, more than any other country in the world, yet the result is less than satisfactory. The youngsters, who come from Jamaica, Barbados or, as matter of fact, Haiti, will climb very soon to the [...]
St Lucia hosts regional distance education consultation
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CASTRIES, St Lucia: St Lucia is hosting a regional consultation on Collaboration in Distance Education among Caribbean Tertiary Level Institutions.
The three-day meeting is organised by CARICOM in collaboration with the Caribbean Knowledge and Learning Network (CKLN) Foundation and the Caribbean Universities Project for Integrated Distance Education (CUPIDE) along with the European Union (EU). The meeting [...]
Better shape up
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Kate Walters left Nottingham University in the summer of 2006 with a 2.1 in music, including a first in her final piano recital, and a strong inclination to build a career managing artists in her favourite medium: jazz. The good news, from her point of view, was that she soon landed a six-month internship with [...]
