Public and private donors face uneven playing field Sydney Morning Herald | Tax laws and red tape hinder government schools in the fund-raising stakes, write James Robertson and Caroline Milburn. | Educational philanthropy has become big business, with private schools increasingly tapping parents and former students to fun...
Varsity autonomy The Star | Now that research universities have been given more control over their own affairs, the challenge is for the institutions to rise to the occasion. | WHEN it was first announced in 1995 that Universiti Malaya (UM) would be corporatised, it was said ...
Fill-In | Super Bowl Ads The New York Times | Directions: Fill in the blanks in the paragraphs taken from this Business section article, “Before the Toss, Super Bowl Ads.” | Use your own words and phrases, or scroll to the end of the post to choose from a scrambled list of the word...
On Violence in Hockey: Students Have Their Say The New York Times | Three weeks ago, we offered our latest installment of the Learning Network Reading Club, on the topic of violence in ice hockey. (Previous topics were schools’ approaches to teaching sex ed and character education.) | Would students want to r...
'India needs to nurture innovation' DNA India | Cheers filled the serene atmosphere of the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DAIICT) campus as students received their degrees at its 8th convocation on Saturday. | Chief guest at the function, chairman, Board ...
Apple Announces Helping Education with the Innovative iPad and Apps The Examiner | Apple now has video-textbooks for education. The iPad will have power for the education, iPad technology will help students with interactive learning and will be a great tool for education. The iPad has been a wish list for teens because...
Engineering students innovate with Android Scoop Thursday, 19 January 2012, 1:28 pm | Press Release: Victoria University of Wellington | 19 January 2012 | Engineering students innovate with Android | Android phones donated by Google have given engineering students at Victoria University the chance ...
Co-operation in a world of scarce resources Al Jazeera | From competition among hunter-gatherers for wild game to imperialist wars over precious minerals, resource wars have been fought throughout history; today, however, the competition appears set to enter a new - and perhaps unprecedented - phase. As natural resources deplete, and as the earth's climate becomes less stable, the world's nations will ...
Alcatel-Lucent to Cut 336 Jobs in France The New York Times | BERLIN — Alcatel-Lucent, the French maker of telephone network equipment, said Thursday that it planned to cut 3.4 percent of its workforce in France by the end of the year as part of what it described as a periodic review of its personnel needs. | Simon Poulter, a spokesman for the company, which is based in Paris, said Alcatel-Lucent want...
