| GSCC: Social work bursary transfers to NHS Business Services Authority
By 1 April 2007, the social work bursary and postgraduate bursary service will be transferred from the General Social Care Council (GSCC) to the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA). The change follows a review undertaken by the Department of Health (DH) in 2004 of its Arms Length Bodies in 2004, of which the GSCC is one. The review concluded that all health and social care student bursaries should be administered by one single body, the NHSBSA. The transfer is straightforward with the NHSBSA the new service administrator of the bursary scheme. From 1 April 2007, all enquiries on bursary matters and applications should be directed to the NHSBSA. The GSCC and the NHSBSA have been working together with the Department of Health (DH) to ensure the transfer goes as smoothly as possible. The GSCC have sent relevant information about the transfer to all social work students, including postgraduate students, Higher Education Institutions, local authorities, relevant government departments and other relevant business stakeholders.
School Board Decides To Keep Webb Open For Now
(CBS 42) AUSTIN Monday night the Austin Independent School District board voted 9-0 to keep Webb Middle School open "until further direction is obtained from the Texas Education Agency."The AISD board had been considering closing the North Austin middle school. Webb has been rated "academically unacceptable" for three consecutive years, based largely on its students' results on TAKS (Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills) tests. After four years of unacceptable performance, the Texas Education Agency could close the school or turn it over to alternative management.Parents of Webb Middle School students attended Monday night's meeting and pleaded with the board to allow the school to remain open. AISD Superintendent Pat Forgione had proposed that Webb be repurposed over a two-year phase-in, rather than waiting for TEA to intervene.
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.
DBCC trustees discuss name change
Daytona Beach Community College trustees aren't certain whether -- or what -- to rename their school. They are sure, though, that it's an institution whose mission should remain intact, even as it appears they are intent on adding a second four-year degree. .
UCR chosen to review new-teacher programs
UC Riverside has received a $925,000 grant from the California Department of Education to evaluate support programs for new teachers, the university announced. Education professor Douglas Mitchell and Linda Scott-Hendrick, director of teacher professional development programs at the Graduate School of Education, will study the programs this summer for the state Education Department and California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. They will lead a team that will assess more than 200 state-approved programs for beginning teachers and university interns. The programs serve 871 school districts statewide and cost nearly $25 million in 2005-06. --Shirin Parsavand sparsavand@PE.com .
Governor’s son leads protest over education funding
Before voters passed Referendum C in 2005, Colorado lawmakers had slashed $200 million in higher education funding during the state's budget crisis. Per pupil funding from the state had dropped from $4,390 to $2,900 per student. The hemorrhaging has stopped, but to truly staunch the wounds, advocates are asking for more money in the short-term and a commitment to debate how to fund higher education better in the long-term.
Specifically, the ASC lobbied lawmakers in favor of a 9.15 percent increase in the College Opportunity Fund which is the main way Colorado funds higher education. Gov. Ritter had asked for an increase of a little more than 8 percent in his budget request. The students picked their figure totaling $58,574,120 as it would equal the amount they and their parents will pay in increased tuition next year.
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