The South Carolina Department of Education plans to launch a statewide effort to prevent sex abuse in state schools. More than 10,000 teachers and school employees will participate in a training program that seeks to teach them how to spot potential problems and intervene in abusive relationships.
The Education Week reports that teachers, school nurses, counselors, [...]
The State legislature has agreed on a plan to ease GPA rules for Tennessee’s lottery-funded scholarships. The new plan will extend the 2.75 requirement of GPA.
The Education Week reports that currently students who receive Tennessee Lottery Scholarships are required to have GPA of 2.75 for freshman year, and to make a progress reaching to 3.00 [...]
All of Arkansas two and four year colleges and universities are now on required to ask their potential students if they live in the United States legally. Both the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and the University of Central Arkansas in Conway used to offer students in-state tuition if they had official transcripts from [...]
Eton College will enter into a partnership with local state schools. Eton plans to be involved in a four-year partnership with local schools including Langleywood, St Joseph’s Catholic High School, Beechwood School, Windsor Boys’ School and Heston Community School.
The BBC reports that the schools involved in this partnership will focus on gifted pupils [...]
The city’s Department of Education has released a list of 74 schools that are to have their budgets cut by more than 5 percent. The list includes schools ranging from Stuyvesant High School and the Bronx High School of Science, to P.S. 5, the Huguenot School, an elementary school on Staten Island, to the Salk [...]
The California State University’s Board of Trustees have voted 15 to 3 to raise yearly undergraduate tuition by $276. Undergraduates will pay an average of $3,797 next year, twice as much as what a California State University cost in the fall of 2000.
The New York Times reports that the increase in fees will be directed [...]
Boone Pickens has given Oklahoma State University a donation of $100 million, which is so far the largest gift given to the university to develop its academic programs. This is reportedly the second donation that Pickens presented to this university; he already donated $400 million several years ago.
Pickens earned a degree in geology from [...]
The Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama has been honored by London Metropolitan University for promoting peace globally. Dalai Lama is in London at the start of his 10-day visit to England.
The BBC News reports that the Tibetan spiritual leader will address Parliament and give evidence on human rights to a parliamentary committee during his [...]
One Laptop Per Child (OLCP) program has teamed up with Microsoft Corporation to make Windows XP available on its machines. The new innovative machines are designed to be used in harsh and remote environments and are set to be distributed to school children mainly to those who reside in developing countries.
BBC News reports that [...]
Organizer of the Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkley, Michael Rossman, died aged 68 at his home in Berkley on 12 May. Rossman is better known to the whole world for his books on politics, society and education.
Rossman was a graduate student at University of California, Berkley, when the Free Speech Movement [...]