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10 Internet Headlines of Interest
- Educating Julia
- Make Admissions More Transparent, Universities Told
- Destroying Public Education in America
- Book on Korea’s Environmental Policy
- Climate Change Debate: Push Emissions Goals or Technology?
- Getting It Right on the Money
- Theory’s Empire: An Anthology of Dissent
- AASHE Releases Annual Review of Sustainability in Higher Education
- Fire Sale! Buy Your American Company Here. Cheap
- Goldman Sachs Invests in Women Through Education
Educating Julia
JULIA GILLARD often looks back on her father's early schooling with burning indignation. John Gillard grew up in a working-class coal-mining village in south Wales, the eldest of seven children. But at age 14, despite being one of the top students in his district, he was forced out of the education system simply because his family couldn't afford it.
Make Admissions More Transparent, Universities Told
Higher education institutes need to be more open about how they admit students, the universities secretary, John Denham, will tell vice-chancellors today. In a keynote speech at the Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce) annual conference, Denham will restate his commitment to move towards a 50% higher-education participation rate for 18- to 30-year-olds.
Destroying Public Education in America
Diogenes called education "the foundation of every state." Education reformer and "father of American education" Horace Mann went even further. He said: "The common school (meaning public ones) is the greatest discovery ever made by man." He called it the "great equalizer" that was "common" to all, and as Massachusetts Secretary of Education founded the first board of education and teacher training college in the state where the first (1635) public school was established. Throughout the country today, privatization schemes target them and threaten to end a 373 year tradition.
Book on Korea’s Environmental Policy
Prof. Choi Yearn-hong's new book, the first publication written in English on South Korea's environmental policy and management, is composed of the author's scholarly papers over the past decade during his teaching career at the University of Seoul. Choi, a graduate from Yonsei University in South Korea and Indiana University in the United States, is the first public policy scholar and poet in the field of environmental policy and administration in the country.
Climate Change Debate: Push Emissions Goals Or Technology?
A long-simmering debate has come to a boil among climate policy specialists over the most effective way to ensure humanity has the necessary hardware it needs to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions to virtually zero over the course of this century. At issue is whether the current tack on climate policy, which emphasizes the establishment of binding emissions goals, should take a back seat to an all-out push to develop the technology needed to accomplish that feat.
Getting it right on the money
For years John Bryant has been telling anyone who will listen about the problems caused by widespread ignorance of finance. In 1992, in the aftermath of the Los Angeles riots, he founded Operation HOPE, a non-profit organisation, to give poor people in the worst-hit parts of the city “a hand-up, not a handout” through a mixture of financial education, advice and basic banking.
Theory’s Empire: An Anthology of Dissent
The love of literature is endangered, and for more than three decades a large faction of professors of literature has contributed to extingu9ishing the flame.
AASHE Releases Annual Review of Sustainability in Higher Education
A new report produced by AASHE - the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education - shows an explosion of activity around sustainability on campuses across the US and Canada.
Fire Sale! Buy Your American Company Here. Cheap
Every day must seem like Christmas to the world's new sovereign wealth funds. A "sovereign wealth fund" is the name we now give to foreign governments with excess money to invest. "Sovereign wealth fund" sounds more professional than Abu Dhabi, Inc., but the name is a distinction without much difference. As major banks and brokerage houses such as Citigroup, UBS, Lehman Brothers and others implode under the weight of their poor management and risky investments, they need to sell assets and raise more capital.
Goldman Sachs Invests in Women Through Education
Goldman Sachs Group, the international investment banking company, has launched a new program to provide ten thousand poor women with business education. The program, called 10,000 Women, will support partnerships between American and European universities and business schools in mostly developing countries. Partners will work together to establish or expand education programs lasting from five weeks to six months.