| BBA final-year exam postponed
KOZHIKODE: Calicut University has postponed the final-year exam of BBA course conducted by School of Distance Education. The revised date will be announced later.
Final-year BSc students (register nos: 201236 to 2013722) who have applied Govt Brennen College as the exam centre should collect their hall ticket from Krishna Menon Memorial College.
Hall tickets will be distributed from March 9 onwards. Those who have applied in the old scheme should write the exam in the new scheme.
The fourth-semester BTech/BArch exams (supplementary, part-time) will begin on March 13. Time: 1.30 pm. to 4.30 pm. .
Bill reauthorizes degrees for teachers at SSU
The measure encourages the State Board of Regents to create teacher education programs at all public four-year colleges and universities, but Jackson said his primary concern is SSU. "It would help in my little neck of the woods," Jackson told his fellow members of the House Higher Education Committee on Tuesday. He sponsored the bill because a constituent, Tuqwan Jordan, told him he has not been able to find a job in the 18 months since he graduated with a marketing degree from Savannah State University. Jordan claimed he already would have a job if he had been able to earn a teaching certificate at Savannah State. The House Higher Education Committee has recommended the bill's passage by the full House. Savannah State is one of seven Georgia universities that do not offer teaching degrees and the only one in Jackson's district without a teacher education program.
National Transcript Center Awarded Contract for Statewide ...
AUSTIN, Tex., Feb. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Transcript Center (NTC) announced today that it was awarded a three-year contract from the Texas Education Agency (TEA) for the development and deployment of the Texas Records Exchange System (TREx). Edvance Research, Inc. (ERI), a leading research firm to educational agencies, was subcontracted to direct statewide training and customer support. NTC is a division of ESP Solutions Group, the leading designer and developer of large-scale data systems for PK-20 education. TEA is the second largest state education agency in the country with approximately 4.5 million public school students and 8,000 campuses. The union of industry giants such as NTC/ESP and TEA makes the TREx program a ground-breaking venture. TREx will improve the efficiency, cost, and security of student record exchange in Texas.
Kurdistan offers women second chance at education
Chamchamal, Iraq - Schools in the Kurdish north are encouraging adult education for women who never had a chance to go to school when they were young. Until three months ago, Miryam Majeed's early morning routine involved feeding her two children and starting on the day's chores. But now there is a new task that gets her out of bed and fills her with enthusiasm - she has gone back to school. Now 29, Majeed from Chamchamal, 60 kilometers (37.5 miles) south of Sulaimaniyah in Iraq's Kurdish region, never received an education as a child. "My father did not let me go to school," she explained. Now she carries her books to classes four days a week and spends several hours studying at home. Majeed counts herself lucky that her husband has backed her in her desire to get an education. "Illiteracy is like being blind," she said.
Entrepreneurial Education Program Gets Lift
Feb. 26, 2007 -- Visa USA is providing $300,000 to the Young Entrepreneur Foundation, a national program that promotes educational initiatives for young entrepreneurs, the company announced Monday. The program, which is overseen by the National Federation of Independent Business, a Washington-based small-business advocacy group, seeks to familiarize high school and college students with issues related to small-business ownership. The grant will help sponsor projects that bring entrepreneurs into classrooms and coach teachers on small-business issues, as well as an online simulation that allows students to experience the challenges of running their own businesses. "The U.S. economy and our rapidly changing world of new ideas, products and technologies depend upon the entrepreneurial spirit flourishing in America," NFIB President Todd Stottlemeyer said in a statement.
Vantage Career Center names Kaufman new superintendent
Vantage Career Center ended its search late Monday afternoon by selecting Staci Kaufman to take over for the retiring Dr. Stephen Mercer, as Vantage superintendent, effective August 1, 2007.
Kaufman comes to Vantage from Four County Career Center in Archbold, Ohio, where she has served as career technical supervisor for more than 15 years. For the past four years, she has supervised academics, curriculum, and the attendance office, and also led the High Schools That Work (HSTW) school improvement effort. Prior to that, she was senior lecturer of business education courses at Defiance College.
"I've been in the Vantage building several times as a member of the HSTW technical assistance review team and as a supervisor for FCCLA and Business Professionals of America," Kaufman said.
Celebrating technical skills
In celebration of Career & Technical Education month in Virginia, Stafford High School's advanced drafting students assumed the role of their teacher for a day. The faculty and the drafting students' family members were invited to be the students. The second-, third- and fourth-year drafting students first learned how to develop a lesson plan from their teacher, Bobby Jett. They devised lesson plans and instructional strategies for teaching mechanical and architectural computer-aided design software to adult students with little or no experience in CAD, architecture or mechanics. The drafting students' objective was to teach their adult students how to create and print a working drawing of a floor plan or a mechanical part. Fourth-year student Andrew Spencer designed a problem for the adult students to create as instructed by the drafting students.
Four-year Early Childhood degree now available
If you are interested in a career working with young children, but you are limited by the times you can attend classes or the distance you can travel, the new Early Childhood Education degree options at Ridgewater College might be just for you. At Ridgewater College, you can now earn an Associate of Science degree in Early Childhood Education, and if you choose, you can continue your education right at Ridgewater by obtaining a Bachelor of Science degree through a partnership with Southwest Minnesota State University, Marshall. That's right, you get to stay right at Ridgewater's campus — no moving or commuting — and still earn a B.S. degree that will allow you to teach in educational environments with children from infants to 3rd grade. Cindy Salfer, Ridgewater instructor, explained that the great part of this partnership with SMSU is that the entire degree will be offered on both Hutchinson and Willmar campuses.
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