Ardipithecus and the research university Kevin Padian, professor of paleontology and evolutionary biology | 10/10/09 | excerpted from the Berkeley Blog Ardipithecusis the focus of a lot of media attention at the moment. New research discoveries made by the Berkeley faculty seem to make the news co[...]
Posts Tagged ‘privitization’
September 24th, 2011 - 5:11 am § in Science
National Academy Proposes Ways to Save US Research Endeavour
(based on article in The Scientist) A National Academy of Sciences panel, chaired by Chad Holliday, former chief executive of chemical company DuPont and now chairman of the board of Bank of America, is drafting a plan ….. for “significant belt-tightening.” Chad Holliday, told [...]
September 20th, 2011 - 9:10 am § in Politics
FREE SPEECH: Censorship to topple Aljazeera?
The Guardian: Al-Jazeera boss Wadah Khanfar steps down to be replaced by Qatari royal TV channel head quits after revolutionising Middle East broadcasting for past eight years, especially during Arab Spring Wadah Khanfar, director general of the al-Jazeera network Qatar‘s government has replac[...]
September 18th, 2011 - 11:57 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Work Study:Free Tuition in Kentucky College
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Will the UW lose its role in global higher education?
Even a Century After the Fall of the British Empire, Oxford and Cambridge Retain Their Roles As Global Leaders in Higher Education …. The UW has that role today as one of America’s great “private ivies.” Will we retain our stature? (Based in part of report by CHRISTINE A[...]
September 12th, 2011 - 8:45 am § in Schools & Colleges
Enrollement in Higher Ed in England Drops
More than half of English universities are expecting a fall in undergraduate numbers in the first year of higher fees, with the sector as a whole planning for a drop of almost 2 per cent. Read more at Times Higher Education.[...]
September 10th, 2011 - 8:22 am § in Misc.
PRIVITIZATION Princeton Style
The AVE has reported previously that the private ivies, because they subsidize tuition by merit scholarships, are actually a lot mess expensive than public schools like the UW. While the UW and its peer public ivies drift toward a financially elite status, “private ” schools like Princ[...]
September 6th, 2011 - 7:46 am § in Politics
BREAKING NEWS: Ikea ‘used political prisoners in GDR as slave labour’
Swedish retail giant Ikea used political prisoners in East Germany as “slave labour” to make furniture, secret police files unearthed by a German broadcaster appear to show. Ikea developed strong links with the communist state in the 1970s, opening a number of manufacturing facilities, one of wh[...]
August 10th, 2011 - 11:02 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Texas Pursues Profit Models for Higher Education.
Rick Perry Pushes ALEC-Backed Education Policies To Turn Texas Universities Into Businesses …from Think Progress By Travis Waldron posted from ThinkProgress Education on Aug 5, 2011 at 7:10 pm ThinkProgress intern Sarah Bufkin contributed to this report The Governor’s Transcript fro[...]
June 28th, 2011 - 6:31 am § in Schools & Colleges
What a rip-off! US-style fees undermine British Higher Ed
Should the UK Emulate US Pay to Study University System? from Times Higher Education by Anthony Glees, director of the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies, University of Buckingham. One of many claims our vice-chancellors regularly rehearse is that American universities are the best in the [...]