Search Results for 'Education'

Schools Prepare Teachers to Engage in Online Education

According to the 2010 Sloan Survey of Online Learning, in the fall 2009 semester there were approximately 5.6 million students enrolled in at least one web-based class. This marked a 21% increase from the previous year, compared to a 2% g [...]

Posted On : Sep, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

New higher education leaders, new cooperative spirit

The politics of money makes surprising bedfellows in Minnesota’s higher education community. Minnesotans often see the two state-run college and university systems as competitors, but in a time of dwindling state aid and a tough eco [...]

Posted On : Sep, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Market forces are creeping into higher education

From next year, students coming to Scotland from the rest of the UK to study will face university fees up to £9000 a year. Some commentators have said this change is unfair on students from England, Wales and Northern Ireland who wi [...]

Posted On : Sep, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

President Patil calls for higher education reform

Thiruvananthapuram: President Pratibha Devisingh Patil has called for increase in the enrolment ratio of people receiving higher education. Laying the foundation stone for Indira Gandhi National Open University Southern Regional Camp [...]

Posted On : Sep, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

Legislature should review higher education, government pay

Washington's college and university presidents traditionally have been among the highest paid employees in the state, the thought being they raise millions for their schools, so paying them well is worth it. Nobody is arguing they [...]

Posted On : Aug, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Online education for trustees

The Financial Services Board (FSB) has launched a free online education programme, known as the Trustee Toolkit, for the education and development of retirement fund trustees. Jurgen Boyd, the FSB’s deputy executive in charge of [...]

Posted On : Aug, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Panel begins looking at ways to improve higher education

Members of a new Governance Commission got what Shreveport Rep. Thomas Carmody calls "a real education" in how higher education is managed in Louisiana. Carmody, lead author of the resolution that created the commission, was not [...]

Posted On : Aug, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

University education goes online with virtual courses

As British students face the daunting prospect of paying up to £9,000 a year for higher education, there are increasing opportunities to learn online for much less, and in many cases free. Earlier this month, Stanford University ope [...]

Posted On : Aug, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

UC takes first steps into online education

Going online to get a college degree has been championed as a cost-effective way to educate the masses and challenged as a cheapening of academia. Now, the online classroom is coming to the vaunted UC system, making it the nation's fi [...]

Posted On : Aug, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

‘Make higher education student-centric’

Maharashtra governor K Sankaranarayanan on Monday stressed the need to speed up the reform process in higher education in the state and make it student-centric. At a meeting held at Raj Bhavan, the governor directed the chairmen of three [...]

Posted On : Aug, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

Par panel stresses on specialised nature of medical educatio...

Amid reservation raised by Health Ministry on inclusion of medical educational institutes under a proposed bill to accredit them also, a Parliamentary panel has suggested incorporating specific provisions to take care of the specialised n [...]

Posted On : Aug, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

Neb. launches pilot program for online education

The state is launching a pilot program that will allow Nebraska high school students to take online courses. Gov. Dave Heineman signed an agreement Friday with leaders from the University of Nebraska, state Education Department, the Educa [...]

Posted On : Aug, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

Distant edu programme to promote higher education

The Vice Chancellor Islamia University Bahawalpur (IUB) Prof. Dr. Muhammad Mukhtar said on Thursday that the revolutionary step of distance education system introduced by the university will prove to be a successful in the promotion of hi [...]

Posted On : Aug, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Online education rules get hearings

Idaho’s Board of Education has set seven public hearings across the state on a proposal to require high school students to take two online courses to graduate. One of the two must be an “asynchronous” course, defined as [...]