Photo: Reuters Students of the University of Ibadan check their graduation gowns at their campus in Ibadan, south west Nigeria (2006 file photo). In Nigeria, about a million students pass the college-entrance qualifying exam every year, but most never attend a college class. Nigerian universities [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Funding’
NIH Budget Crunch
There is a petition to the White House to increase the NIH budget for FY 2013. This petition was started by Steve Metzler at Johns Hopkins. The current White House proposal calls for a flat NIH budget. After factoring in inflation, flat funding is an equivalent of a funding cut. Research is already [...]
March 13th, 2012 - 10:41 am § in Hypocrisy, Schools & Colleges
Lobster Over Wage Raises?
Harvard Students ask: Lobster Over Wage Raises? Op-Eds | By Iman E. James, Karen A. Narefsky, and William P. Whitham Given that the Harvard Club continues to host extravagant events such as the “Champagne and Sparkling Wine Walkaround,” and taking into account the high cost of living in Boston, [...]
February 27th, 2012 - 7:24 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Unions vs Teacher: Who is the bad guy?
Who Breaks a Butterfly Upon a Wheel by Bill Lyne An Open Letter to Nick Hanauer Our friends over at Publicola have recently been hosting a rousing debate between big bucks Democrat Nick Hanauer and WEA President Mary Lindquist on teachers’ unions and K-12 schools. Here at the blog, we have a har[...]
The Dangerous “Research Works Act”
Richard Price, founder and CEO of Academia.edu from TECHCRUNCH Congress is currently considering a bill called “The Research Works Act”, whose purpose is to restrict public access to publicly-funded research. The bill is sponsored by large academic publishers who are keen to keep all research, i[...]
50% Drop In TOP Students Choosing Science and Engineering!
Even greater in number are the undergrad science majors who glimpse their future as a jaded graduate student, and decide that they would be better off in another line of work. People are walking away from science, and taking their future potentially ground-breaking accomplishments with them. Study t[...]
Goldy Disses UW President For Not Supporting Tax Reform, Republican Pushes FOR Tax reform,
While over at the SLOG, David Goldstein criticizes UW President Young for not arguing for tax reform at the TownHall Forum. how many liberals are aware that a Republican, WA Senator Michael Baumgartner, has proposed a constitutional amendment to force the State to support higher ed? For what it is w[...]
Washington State Schools Get a “C” in Science.
The Fordham Institute has released their annual evaluation of state science standards. We Washington did pretty good .. by the dismal standards of the US. We ranked with Michigan, Georgia and Texas … getting a gentleman’s C. Our neighbors ranked worse … with Fs for the 0ther [...]
January 12th, 2012 - 12:19 pm § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
The Huskies are heroes to the community … %$$# the students!
Last month Bloomberg Businessweek ran a longform report on Husky Stadium. I have copied the text with added comments and links it below but here are some highlights: “We were cutting billions of dollars out of our budget, and we are going to build a stadium. Really?” says Hunter, 51, a D[...]
A CPA Looks at the UW Athletic Department
I attended last Saturday’s Republican caucus to support Rick Santorum. As a follower of Jefferson, I believe wer need two real parties. It time the Republican Party run an hoest candidate. I will write more about this later …now I want to discuss the Huskies. At that SaturdayR[...]