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Higher Education Week

Across the world, higher education institutions (HEIs) have recognized the need to adapt themselves to an increasingly knowledge-based global economy. While HEIs in the past geared themselves to producing a pool of professionals equipped with skills that could be productively employed in specific sections of the economy and society, HEIs today are pushed to produce graduates with new …

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State may pull funding for driver’s education

Currently in North Carolina driver’s education is taught for free in public high schools.

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Special education overspending draws state officials’ scrutiny

The West Des Moines school district has overspent in special education each of the past five years, a situation that has gained the attention of state education leaders.

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Europe’s Education Crisis: College Costs Soar

European countries are renowned for their low-cost higher education systems.

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Reforms in Education (Central Chronicle)

Since the time Kapil Sibal took over the charge of education in the Union Cabinet, a wave of reforms have been initiated in the school and college education.

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Evolution — Education Industry at Its Best (Marketwire)

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA–(Marketwire - March 22, 2010) - www.bellwetherreport.com — The post-secondary education market in the US is a billion dollar industry. In the past decades, as internet access became more and more a vital part of modern society, there has been a major shift from traditional classroom or lecture-room education to online education.

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Officials of KC’s Afrikan Centered Education campus seek to prevent the closings of two buildings (The Kansas City Star)

The creators of African-centered education in Kansas City find themselves on familiar ground today — at the center of a fight. But after spending most of the past 25 years struggling for respect, now they’re being told they’re overprivileged.

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Education Industry (Fairbanks Daily News-Miner)

The expansion of the education industry over the past 50 years has made fools of us all. Just 40 years ago, a public education provided the skills needed to secure a middle class living …

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NY education commissioner: Block some funding cuts (AP via Yahoo! Finance)

New York state Education Commissioner David Steiner told lawmakers Tuesday that if Gov. David Paterson’s proposed cuts in education funding go through, the public schools may never fully recover.

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Education chief apologizes for ‘dumb thing’ on New Orleans (CNN)

Education Secretary Arne Duncan has spent the past couple days backpedaling from comments he made Sunday suggesting that Hurricane Katrina was good for New Orleans’ failing schools.

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