| Williams speaks about cost of higher education
President Peggy R. Williams spoke tonight about the rising costs of higher education on the pilot radio and television broadcast of "Higher Ed in the Round." Williams was joined by host David J. Skorton, president of Cornell University, and Carl Haynes, president of Tompkins Cortland Community College. During the hour-long program – aired on public radio stations WEOS-FM and WSKG-FM, and by channel 16 in the Ithaca area – they took questions from listeners and discussed general issues in higher education. But much of the discussion focused on the increasing costs of attending a college or university. Williams said the college is doing its best to limit the increase in costs, but can't control the rise in costs because of outside factors like insurance and utilities.
National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
HADDON HEIGHTS, N.J., March 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On March 1, 2007, the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America presented "Update on Colorectal Cancer: Knowledge Is Prevention," a FREE live educational teleconference for patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals. If you missed this important program that had 1,500 callers from all over the world, you can now take advantage of this educational lecture, available at http://www.rmei.com/ccfavl. Fernando S. Velayos, MD, MPH, Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, Center for Crohn's and Colitis, discussed the latest information on colorectal cancer screening, prevention, and treatment. An interesting and informative Q&A session followed Dr. Velayos' lecture. Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States.
Accredited Online Courses Make Continuing Education for Nursing ...
As the need for qualified nurses continues to outpace supply, nurses often find themselves spread too thinly. Online continuing education courses help relieve demands on nursing professionals' time by providing convenience and flexibility in meeting license renewal coursework requirements. (PRWeb) March 2, 2007 -- Nursing staff shortages across the U.S. and Canada have made it increasingly difficult for nurses to take time away from their shifts to physically attend continuing education for nursing courses. To help nurses keep their knowledge and credentials current, RN.ORG, Inc. announces the launch of its website to provide convenient, accredited, and cost-efficient online nursing continuing education courses. .
Govt promises adult education programme roll-out
The national education department has promised a huge roll-out in adult education programmes next year. The undertaking has been given to the National Council of Provinces by Duncan Hindle, the department's director general.
Hindle was responding to concerns about provinces' under spending of grants given to them for Adult Basic Education and Training programmes. Hindle says treasury has given them R20 million to undertake the planning and preparatory exercise so that the huge literacy roll-out can commence next year when they do have everything in place.
There is an urgent need to build new schools but a skills shortage and other priorities such as building stadia for the FIFA World Cup is holding up the process. A parliamentary hearing has also revealed a lack of integrated planning between departments.
Team to help public board balance books
The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board and the Ontario education minister Monday announced the appointment of the same Special Assistance Team that helped balance the books at the Toronto District School Board.
The team is expected to begin its work next week and to spend about six weeks examining the Ottawa board's budget management plan, which proposes making major cuts to teaching staff and special education programs to deal with an estimated $27.7-million funding shortfall for the 2007-2008 school year.
Joan Green and Brian Cain helped the Toronto board minimize cuts to classroom staff and programs by saving $84 million to balance the board's 2006-2007 budget by cutting administration and using $40 million in capital renewal grants to pay for facilities maintenance.
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Efforts underway to restore funding to Stadler-Benton complex
An OMNIBUS bill has been introduced at the Missouri legislature, in an effort to restore funding to buildings cut out of the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority loan sell-off.
The buildings cut, including Benton-Stadler Hall at UM-St. Louis, are buildings that could possibly house stem cell research in the future.
The proposed sale of the MOHELA loans, which is endorsed by Gov. Matt Blunt, would provide $350 million for building projects to all the state universities and community colleges.
UM-St. Louis Chancellor Tom George said the funds are desperately needed to renovate Benton-Stadler Hall, which houses the University's science department.
"The situation is, it's probably our oldest academic building on campus," George said.
Driver education is popular, but unproven
After nearly 40 years of teaching driver education, Allan Lazarus knew what was coming when he asked a group of teens why they were taking his course at Eastchester High School. "How many of you, by a show of hands, are taking this class so you can have your senior license by 17?" Lazarus asked as he spoke to about 80 students and parents in February. Nearly every hand went up. "Surprise, surprise," he said. "That's the number one reason kids take drivers ed." Whatever happened to taking driver education because it could make you a safer driver? It turns out driver education has not fared well in studies of whether the courses help prevent accidents. Yet its popularity appears to be rising in the United States.
Raffle's chances
Was your Feb. 12 article ("Lottery idea: $20 a play for $1 million") on the upcoming state raffle a math test for us, or was it to see if we were paying attention?Recently you reported that the lottery might be falling short of expected revenues, and some noted that North Carolina pays a smaller percentage back to the players (about 52 percent) than many states, including South Carolina (59.9 percent) and Virginia (58.1 percent). According to your article on the raffle, it will pay even less than that -- 50 percent. It would take another $200,000 given out in prizes to meet the 52 percent return (I would suggest 2,000 winners of $100 each).You also reported that if all tickets are sold [the plan is to sell 500,000 tickets at $20 each], the game will generate $3.5 million for education. Granted, that is the 35 percent designated for education, but that leaves $1.5 million left over.
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