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 [...]
Many States Leave Behind Education Law
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More than 20 states have procrastinated in meeting the No Child Left Behind law’s requirement that all students reach grade-level proficiency by 2014 and will be hard-pressed to make needed improvements before the deadline, a report released today shows.
The Center on Education Policy (CEP) issued its report at the midway point of the 2002 NCLB [...]
High Risk Sexual Behaviour Under Scrutiny
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Scrutinize is a new series of short, animated commercials called animerts based on the realities of life in South Africa that place young people at risk of HIV infection.
The series, aimed at 18 to 32-year-olds, uses animated township characters to communicate with its target group. These characters are placed in everyday situations to illustrate the [...]
Alternative Education To Get Boost
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Baltimore school administrators unveiled a plan yesterday to reduce violence and the dropout rate by overhauling alternative education, nearly doubling the number of alternative school slots by August and creating morning and evening programs for working students.
The plan calls for the creation of two new alternative schools and the redesign of existing alternative schools, where [...]
One In Three Aussie Meth Users High On The Job
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One in three employed Australians who take methamphetamine admit going to work high on the effects of the dangerous stimulant.
A new report on stimulant use among Australian workers has revealed that four per cent of the workforce has recently taken ice, speed or some other form of methamphetamine.
One in five said they had injected it.
The [...]
Hp Pitches Mini Note At Business Education
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HP says its new Mini-Note ultramobile PC is a chance for resellers to target business executives and the education market.
Next month the vendor will launch two configurations of its answer to Asus’ Eee PC locally, but says the company’s strategy is very different to that of its competitors.
“[The Eee PC is] the obvious competition, Education [...]
FEATUREBritain targets Muslim women to fight extremists
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Britain targets Muslim women to fight extremists
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LONDON (Reuters) - In a school in south London, women in headscarves are learning English, childcare skills and citizenship, to smooth their integration into British life.
The courses are encouraged under a new government policy to “empower” Muslim women, ultimately to combat the threat from Islamist violence, a threat made brutally clear when four homegrown suicide [...]
ATT CEO says hard to find skilled U.S. workers
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“We’re having trouble finding the numbers that we need with the skills that are required to do these jobs,” AT%26amp;T Chief Executive Randall Stephenson told a business group in San Antonio, where the company’s headquarters is located.
So far, only around 1,400 jobs have been returned to the United States of 5,000, a target it set [...]
UPDATE 2ATT CEO says hard to find skilled U.S. workers
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas, March 26 (Reuters) - The head of the
top U.S. phone company AT%26amp;T Inc (T.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Wednesday it was
having trouble finding enough skilled workers to fill all the
5,000 customer service jobs it promised to return to the United
States from India.
“We’re having trouble finding the numbers that we [...]
