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• in Lifestyle
  Indian Rope Trick: Where Is Higher Education Headed?
  India could well be falling short in its understanding and shaping of higher education.
  by fredericknoronha / on Oct 26, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “universities”

• Connecticut 6 Classic Joins State’s Sports Scene

  
  CONNECTICUT SPORTS LAW — Authority: 421
  The past two nights have brought two fresh events to the Connecticut sports scene.  On one end of the spectrum, professional football visited Hartford in the form of the United Football League (UFL) .  At the opposite end, six college basketball teams kicked off a showcase of Division I teams not named UConn. ...
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• THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY IN POST-MODERN SOCIETIES

  
  MetroCatholic — Authority: 483
  VATICAN CITY, 13 NOV 2009 ( VIS ) – This morning in the Holy See Press Office, the presentation took place of the twenty-third general assembly of the International Federation of Catholic Universities (FIUC), on the theme: “The Catholic University in post-modern societies”. The event is due to be held at ...
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• GSLV Mk III to enhance India’s launch capacity: ISRO chief

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 706
  Tirupati, Nov 14 (ANI): The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) chief K. Radhakrishnan said here on Saturday that India is developing the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III (GSLV Mk III) to enhance the capability of the country to be a competitive player in the multimillion dollar commercial launch ...
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• Campus Elections in Lebanon Mirror Society’s Politics

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 911
  The results of student council elections in Lebanon are seen as crucial indexes of a party’s overall popularity and routinely make the front pages of national newspapers.
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• Investigation Finds Felons Working in Higher Education

  
  The FOI Advocate — Authority: 131
  Since Utah enacted the Higher Education Criminal Background Checks bill, effective May 1, 2009, Weber State Universitys The Signpost found that eight individuals with felonies or serious misdemeanors were employed by the university. Three of those individuals no longer work for the school.The law requires criminal ...
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• Forcing Athletic Programs to Be Self-Sufficient

  
  Mother Talkers — Authority: 140
  I cant believe this is not the case in this economy. I recently read in the Berkeley Daily Planet that the UC Berkeley Academic Senate is mulling over a proposal to force its athletic program to become self-sufficient. Like many public universities across the country, UC Berkeley is starving for money. From the ...
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• Personal data of Cal Poly Pomona applicants inadvertently put online

  
  L.A. NOW — Authority: 816
  The Social Security numbers, home addresses and phone contacts for at least 300 students who applied for admission to Cal Poly Pomona six years ago were unintentionally disclosed online, the university said today.  The applicants were notified this week and urged to contact credit-reporting agencies, school ...
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• McGill Student Union Revokes Choose Lifes Club Status

  
  BIG BLUE WAVE — Authority: 536
  Reports ProWomanProLife. The motion, which passed by a vote of 16-7, stipulated that the “Student Equity Committee work with Choose Life to draft a document for Choose Life on how to abide by SSMU’s Constitution, By-laws, and Policies, which will be adopted by Choose Life.” Im intrigued to say the least. ...
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• Top public universities snubbing some in-state applicants

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 967
  Raechel Hanson toiled through high school to build an academic transcript strong enough for admission to the College of William & Mary, the storied "public Ivy" in Williamsburg. She maintained a 3.9 grade-point average, played flute in the band, presided over the Spanish club and amassed more...
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• Stahl Eye Center

  
  Quadtechint.com — Authority: 438
  Recently, i saw a site called Yelp.com, where i came across USAEyes.org which is a nonprofit patient advocacy organization which has evaluated and certified Lasik patient results of Stahl Eye Center . This is a very famous center where world class Cataract Surgery is performed. Lasik doctors are certified by ...
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• Ways Of Paying Less Inheritance Tax

  
  IENACE — Authority: 141
    Wills  is fundamentally order to whoever you have chosen to manage your estate as to how you would want your estate to be shared out after you’ve died. By pets we don’t mean you’re giving up your pet parrot – but you could do! Carry on reading Lots of people report that, if you leave a cheap will you ...
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• UK Students Await Loans Approval

  
  Fair Loan Rate! — Authority: 136
  UK universities complain the delay in thousands of student loans and grants approval resulting in raise up in the bill. Student Finance England has conveyed its apologies for the delay and said it was trying to give relief by making interim payments to people and clear the backlog of applicants subsequently. A ...
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• 3 MINUTE SURVEY: Why isnt your school organization making more progress?

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 560
  Why aren’t schools making more progress when it comes to effective implementation and integration of digital technologies? Here’s what K-12 educators usually tell me when asked (list is in no particular order): Lack of adequate funding Unsupportive state / federal legislators Teacher / union resistance Lack ...
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• The Secret to College Regionally Accredited

  
  Becoming Who You Want To Be — Authority: 150
  Discover Regionally Accredited Online Colleges & Bachelors Degree Programs Post Excerpt from: BecomingWhoYouWantToBe . Click "read article" to see complete version. Looking for more information on business, success and careers? Visit our affiliate sites: Health Wealth & Happiness and Finding My Passion in ...
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• College Scholarships005

  
  College Education — Authority: 135
  followed recipe, now submit to screening must own the you’ve be send registered One compare would more the the of which by and used hundreds to things [...]
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• PETA Busts University of Utah Research Lab

  
  Critter News — Authority: 132
  An undercover PETA investigator shot hours of footage of alleged mistreatment of animals. A University representative denied any mistreatment: "None of the things she alleges are substantive," said Tom Parks, the U.s vice president for research. "Its a remarkably banal list of ordinary events in an animal-care ...
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• Personality used for a selection of distinctive software programs aimed at youngsters

  
  Thar She Goes — Authority: 160
  In a democratic nation like ours the well being of the state is dependent on having a modern educated population. Money that’s invested on education regularly ends up saving in the long-term as those kids go up to be well working and productive members of society. Education gives a kid the abilities and ...
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• Thursdays throwdowns

  
  Fundamentals and Falsehoods — Authority: 124
  FREE SPEECH ON THE CAMPUS UPDATE: Its still in danger--in Indiana, some Purdue University students try to take a university employees job away (read: silence him) because he made an argument against homosexuality that they did not like. Whats remarkable is that the employee made his case on a personal blog, on his ...
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• HRC Launches New HBCU Website, Resources

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 156
  This post comes from Joey Gaskins, of HRC’s diversity department. The issues facing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students on Historically Black College and University campuses are many. Discrimination motivated by homophobia and intolerance is rampant, and LGBT students are suffering because of it. ...
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• Land-Grant Universities Consider Restructuring to Cope Budget Crisis

  
  Great College Advice — Authority: 420
  Public universities, including the land grant universities, are being hard hit by the economic downturn. An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education today (registration required) reports on a survey of the members of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities. Sixty of the 87 responding ...
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