| Turkmenistan reinstates physical culture classes
As the Ashgabat correspondent of Turkmenistan.ru reports referring to the press service of Turkmen president Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov, the head of state signed an important decree today aimed at radical reform in the sphere of education of Turkmenistan. According to the document, the aim of reform is "to ensure that national certificates of education receive world wide recognition" and "to create conditions for young people to receive education at the world best higher education establishments." According to the decree of the president of Turkmenistan, school's curriculums will be amended "taking into account the developed countries' experience in the sphere of secondary education." Physical culture classes will be reinstated and vocational training will be abolished from the schools' curriculum.
ECU Notes: Association honors ECU partnership commitment
The College of Education has received a national award for its collaboration with community colleges to meet the demand for more rural teachers. East Carolina University received the "Best Practice Award for Collaboration with Community Colleges" Feb. 27 from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education at the organization's annual meeting in New York. The university's collaborative effort is known as Wachovia Partnership East. "East Carolina University recognizes the importance of working closely with community colleges to support teacher candidates through their entire preparation from the community college to completion of a four-year degree," said Sharon P. Robinson, president and CEO of the association. "Without East Carolina's and the state's many community colleges' strong commitment to partnership, the profession would lose many potential teachers." John Swope, dean of the College of Education, who received the award on behalf of the university, said the honor highlights the college's motto of "Excellence through Partnership" and brings deserved recognition to its teacher preparation program.
OEDb: Online Education Database Publishes Online College Rankings
Chicago - CHICAGO -- OEDb earlier today published their first annual Online College Rankings. OEDb's Online College Rankings 2007 ranks 21 undergraduate colleges and universities that offer most or all of their degree programs online. The overall ranking for each college was derived from data from up to eight different metrics. Grand Canyon University topped the list. Due in large part to the growth of the Internet over the last 10 years, the face of education is changing rapidly. Distance education programs via the Internet are available more than ever before. Yet, the lack of transparency about the quality and acceptability of the education delivered by online colleges still remains a big issue. .
Bain scans help to improve students' class work
WYOMING -- While her peers at Tri-unity Christian Elementary School were quizzing each other on spelling words one recent morning, 9-year-old Nicole Keeler ducked out of the classroom for a quick scan of her brain waves. Down the hall in the 139 Education room, technician Amy Royer attached three electrodes to Nicole's head -- one on each ear lobe and another to her scalp -- and began measuring her brain's activity. Lines skipped across the computer screen, displaying her anxiety levels, degree of attentiveness, strength of memory and other brain functions. The graphs provide powerful information, both for Nicole and her teachers at Tri-unity, 2104 44th St., in Wyoming. They are the keys to success in the classroom and beyond, according to psychologists Tim Royer of Grandville and Brad Oostindie of Spring Lake.
Lender/University Entanglements
Three years ago, the University of Nebraska's Board of Regents, eager to find more funds for undergraduate need-based financial aid for students at its flagship campus in Lincoln, struck a deal in which the National Education Loan Network, would provide loan funds that the university would administer to its graduate and professional students. As part of the arrangement, authorized through a process known as “school as lender," Nelnet, as the Lincoln-based lender is known, would give the institution more than 6 percent of the profits to use for need-based aid. .
HEC announces roadmap for streamlining business education
ISLAMABAD: The National Curriculum Revision Committee of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) has prepared a roadmap for streamlining the business administration education in the country.
At a meeting on Monday, it decided to review the existing duration and credit hours for the bachelor and masters degrees in the business administration discipline. The two-day meeting, chaired by member HEC Dr Mukhtar Ahmad, was held at the NWFP Agricultural University, Peshawar.
It was decided that an MBA degree would now require 30-36 credit hours duration after a four-year bachelor degree. According to HEC sources, a roadmap has also been designed for the candidates from other streams of studies, like BA, BSc, BE, MBBS and M Com, who are desirous of doing MBA.
An MBA degree earned after this will be equivalent to the conventional M Phil degree, they said.
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