Two thirds of schools in Serbia will continue to strike on Monday by not working at all or cutting classes 15 minutes short. This comes in spite of the prime minister’s warning that the teachers who strike will not receive salaries.
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1,500 schools set to go on strike
January 28th, 2011 |
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Some 1,500 primary and secondary schools in Serbia will go on strike Friday. A number of others are going to cut their classes 15 minutes short and hold 30-minute lessons.
School patron saint day subject of dispute
January 27th, 2011 |
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Schools and Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) are marking St. Sava’s Day today, honoring St. Sava who was the founder of education and church in these parts.
Schools mark the holiday as a feast day and students attend the traditional school celebration.
Delhi schools reopen as cold wave offers respite
January 17th, 2011 |
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Schools in Delhi reopened Monday after the biting cold of earlier weeks abated somewhat, putting an end to the extended winter vacation. The schools run by the Delhi government, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and private managements reopened after the government extended their closure till Jan 13 due to the intense cold wave. The [...]
Overhauling schools: How to get good grades
November 25th, 2010 |
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It is not money nor uninformed reform that makes schools better
EDUCATION is the handmaiden of economic growth: teach future workers well, it is argued, and they will go on to invigorate the economy. No surprise then that the OECD, a club of mostly rich countries, goes to great lengths to discover how the school systems in its member countries are doing. Education ministers are already anxiously awaiting the next issue of its PISA study, which is due to be published on December 7th. As happens every three years, this will detail and rank the reading, mathematics and science skills of 15-year-olds in each country.
But even more important than ranking school systems is knowing how to make them better. That is the aim of another new study, to be released on November 29th by McKinsey. The consultancy selected school systems where it has seen standards rise and identified what they had in common. Countries can make rapid progress, it argues, if they do the right thing—and at the right time. …
America’s law schools and firms: Trouble with the law
November 11th, 2010 |
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Graduates of American law schools are finding that their chosen career is less lucrative than they had hoped
THIS year “The Apprentice”, a television show in which contestants compete for the privilege of working for Donald Trump, features 16 who are down on their luck, having lost previous jobs or otherwise having to start anew. No fewer than five of them are lawyers. The legal-job market in America remains dire. But the numbers applying to law school are still soaring, and students are taking out ever bigger loans as tuition fees grow faster than lawyers’ salaries. Increasingly, they are graduating into a world of overblown expectation and debt.
Between 1996 and 2008 private law schools’ median tuition fees almost doubled, to just under $34,000 a year. At public law schools fees grew even faster, albeit from a lower base: for those going to schools in their home state they almost trebled, taking the median to around $16,000. Starting salaries at the biggest firms—those with more than 500 lawyers—roughly doubled, to $160,000. But such plum jobs are hard to get, especially for graduates of the less prestigious public schools. At smaller firms starting pay has for years failed to keep up with soaring tuition fees, and of late has fallen (see chart). …
Google Apps Subs for Microsoft Office in New York Schools
October 5th, 2010 |
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The state of New York has chosen to substitute Google Apps for Microsoft Office for public K-12 schools. – Google is replacing Microsoft in a bid to
provide collaboration software for more than 3.1 million students in New York state.
The NYIT (New York Institute of Technology) has agreed to
use the Google
Apps for Education for all K-12 schools through the state, Stanley Silverman,
director of Techn…
Facebook CEO Gives $100M to N.J. Schools Before Unflattering Movie Opens
September 24th, 2010 |
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is donating $100 million to help improve public schools in Newark, N.J., just hours before The Social Network premieres in New York City. – What better way to smooth over a Hollywood-cooked public relations disaster
than by feeding $100 million to schools in need?
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg who is being
relentlessly derided by former acquaintances and business partners in the
build-up to a movie about the social network’s creatio…
Schools to Get Broadband Internet Under FCC Policy
September 23rd, 2010 |
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As part of the national broadband strategy, the FCC will allow schools and libraries to use public funding to buy cable to build up their broadband Internet networks. – Schools and libraries will soon be able to use E-Rate funds to purchase
quot;dark fiber quot; lines, or unused fiber-optic connections, the Federal Communication Commission said on Sept.
22. As part of the FCCs national broadband strategy, the funding will help
these institutions move from basic…
Business schools: A pecking order for MBAs
September 17th, 2010 |
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America rules the roost
See the full ranking
BUSINESS schools do not much like being ranked by outsiders. In recent years several have boycotted the lists drawn up by pesky media organisations, such as The Economist. But prospective students love these lists. Before plonking down $100,000 for a two-year MBA, they like to have some idea of what they are getting. Insiders at Bloomberg Businessweek joke that the magazine’s ranking of MBA courses is its “swimsuit edition”: like the issues of Sports Illustrated with scantily-clad women on the cover, it sells well. …
For-profit higher education: Schools of hard knocks
September 9th, 2010 |
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Facing heavy-handed government regulation, America’s for-profit colleges are reforming themselves
“EGREGIOUS, outrageous, violated everything we stand for”: Don Graham’s denunciation of recent activities by some employees of his own firm is stark. On August 4th a report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found evidence of deceptive recruitment tactics by 15 of America’s leading for-profit colleges, including one operated by Kaplan, which accounts for the bulk of the profits of Mr Graham’s Washington Post Company. Some of the colleges, which also included the giant University of Phoenix, insisted that the incidents—which ranged from misleading potential students about tuition costs and likely post-graduation salaries to encouraging them to file fraudulent loan applications—were isolated. But the mood is turning against them.
For-profit colleges, which range from beauty schools to institutions that resemble traditional universities, were already under attack. In June Steve Eisman, a hedge-fund manager who made a lot of money during the financial crisis by shorting bank shares, told Congress that the for-profit education business was as destructive as the subprime mortgage industry. Congress already seems eager to add to regulations that the government plans to introduce in November. …
Disney’s schools in China: Middle Kingdom meets Magic Kingdom
August 26th, 2010 |
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A Western media company offers a product the Chinese can’t resist: education
ON A Tuesday at 6pm, children begin arriving at a bland commercial building just as the office workers are leaving. A small storefront leads to an English-language school run by Disney. It is not much of an entrance, squashed between a dusty drugstore and a fast-food joint. This being China, many passers-by assume it is a fake. But word is spreading through the pushy-parent network: this is the real thing.
Children as young as two toddle in and climb the stairs. At first glance, their classrooms look like dreary boxes, but two of the four walls are interactive video monitors. Each lesson is assisted by virtual mermaids, ducks, mice and other Disney icons. Touch the answer to a question (a fried egg, for example) on one screen, and it plops out of the sky on the other. While teachers instruct, the classroom seems to move. …
Xerox Managed Printing Boosts California Schools
July 21st, 2010 |
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Printer maker Xerox educates school districts on how they can reduce their printing costs through Enterprise Print Services (EPS), part of the company’s managed print services (MPS) portfolio. – The Rialto Unified School District signed on for imaging solutions specialist Xeroxs Enterprise Print Services
in a plan to save hundreds of thousands of dollars in document-related
costs. Using Xeroxs print governance feature, the newest addition to
the companys managed print services (MPS) port…
Erdogan calls for Turkish schools in Germany
March 25th, 2010 |
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German officials have rejected calls by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to introduce Turkish schools in Germany. “In Turkey, we have German high schools – why shouldn’t there be Turkish high schools in Germany?” Erdogan asked in an interview with German weekly Die Zeit.
White Schools Bernanke on Basic Economics
March 5th, 2010 |
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William White – former head BIS economist, currently chair of the OECD’s Economic and Development Review Committee – is again schooling Ben Bernanke on economic fundamentals. In an article published in the December-January OECD Observer, White wrote…
Chinese schools deny link to Google attack
February 21st, 2010 |
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A prestigious Chinese university and a lesser-known vocational school have denied a report they were the source of recent cyber attacks on Internet giant Google and other US corporations, Xinhua news agency said on Saturday. A representative of Shanghai Jiaotong University, considered
E-Rate Schools Cleared for Public Web Access
February 19th, 2010 |
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The Federal Communications Commission approves rules allowing schools receiving E-rate funds to allow the general public to use the Internet access already present in schools for purposes such as job searches and applications, digital literacy programs, and online access to governmental services and resources.
– The Federal Communications Commission approved rules Feb. 18 enabling quot;schools
that receive funding from the E-rate program … to allow members of the
general public to use the schools’ Internet access during non-operating hours. quot;
According to the FCC, quot;This action will leverage U…
Report: Google Attacks Linked to 2 Chinese Schools
February 19th, 2010 |
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The New York Times is reporting that investigators examining the cyber-attacks on Google and dozens of other companies have uncovered evidence linking the attack to two schools in China.
– Investigators have uncovered a link between two schools in China and the notorious
Aurora attacks that victimized Google and dozens of other companies, according to a news report from The New York Times.
Citing sources close to the investigation, The Times reported
the attacks, which wer…
British chill closes airports, schools
January 5th, 2010 |
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Heavy snow and freezing temperatures wreaked havoc on road and rail links in parts of Britain Tuesday, forcing the closure of two airports and hundreds of schools, officials said. In northwest England, heavy snow blocked roads and triggered accidents in the Cumbria region while Manchester