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Posts Tagged ‘privitization’
Core Curricuum: Scrapping History??
Curriculum focus on core skills NATASHA BITA History and geography will be scrapped as separate subjects in the new national primary curriculum.[...]
Wisconsin Moves to Privatize Its Universities
The Privatization of Higher Education Governor (and likely Presidential candidate) Scott Walker announces ($300,000,000 of cuts to Wisconsin higher education, offering in exchange greater “independence” from state regulation. What this is likely to mean is staff and faculty layoffs, tu[...]
New (Re)Public RIP
Mike James from Facebook Addendum to The New Republic shakeup – editors and writers resigning after kid owner (Chris Hughes of Facebook millions) brings in new boss who says he’s into “breaking shit” and imagines the old and honorable mag as a “vertically integrated d[...]
How Detroit Could Have Been Saved
cleanliness is an essential part of surving a debacle. from 1954 [...]
New Term Starts in Germany .. WITH NO TUITION!
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Student Debt
This past April, facing the prospect of three 20-page papers due in the same week, Indiana University East student Harmony Glenn had a panic attack in the school library. “I couldn’t breathe, and my chest felt tight,” she said. “I was asking myself, ‘Do I push forward…or do I cut my loss[...]
BREAKING NEWS: A Trillion Dollars Taken from American Economy
US companies’ overseas cash hits $947bn Funds held outside US to avoid domestic tax bills[...]
Why is the UW Going Private?
Over at the AAUP. Amy Hogopian has posted this thoughtfull letter. I am not sure how the letter relates to search for yet another administrator, but I do wonder about her comments about privatization. If PCE is supposed to be self supporting, why shouldn’t the UW treat it like the Athletic[...]