| Engineering welcomes improved funding for science courses
The Royal Academy of Engineering welcomes the improved funding for science courses announced yesterday by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) as a step towards running the kind of engineering courses that industry needs but stressed the need to maintain this level of investment.
Skills shortages in engineering are already affecting the performance of UK businesses, according to the Academy's research last year with Henley Management College, involving a survey of 444 companies from start-ups to internationals. The companies report shortages of suitable engineering graduates and specific gaps in problem-solving skills, application of theory to real-life problems and breadth and ability in maths. "Improved funding will help considerably," says Professor Graham Davies, Fellow of the Academy and Head of the School of Engineering at Birmingham University.
Bill would fund state sex education classes
HELENA - Montana's schoolchildren need to learn about contraception and sexually transmitted diseases - not just abstinence - in sex education classes, advocates of a bill to expand such offerings said Wednesday.Rep. Teresa Henry, D-Missoula, is proposing a measure to make comprehensive sex education programs available throughout the state. Her bill would provide more than $500,000 in state grants to city, county and tribal health departments each year for such programs. The courses would have to include instruction about abstinence, contraception, STDs, drug and alcohol use and other issues and could not teach or promote religion.The programs must also be "age-appropriate" and would have to promote self-esteem, nonviolent dating relationships and "healthy attitudes" about body image, sexual orientation and other subjects.Classes offered by Montana schools aren't cutting it, Henry and other supporters told the House Human Services Committee.
Teacher education efforts earn national award
ASU's College of Teacher Education and Leadership has a long-standing commitment to Arizona's education community through a variety of collaborations, outreach and programs. For its commitment, the college received a Best Practice Award for Effective Partnerships by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE). ASU was honored at AACTE's 59th annual meeting and exhibits in New York. The award recognizes ASU's outstanding partnership collaboration among schools, colleges and departments of education, local schools or school districts and other community entities that have demonstrated measurable contributions to the achievement and learning of prekindergarten through 12th-grade students. The work that our members do with P-12 schools is critical to the success of our programs, said Sharon Robinson, AACTE's president and chief executive officer, in presenting the award to Mari Koerner, dean of the College of Teacher Education and Leadership.
California Faces Critical Shortage of Math and Science Teachers
California faces a persistent and critical shortage of fully prepared math and science teachers and lacks the capacity to produce enough math and science teachers to meet future needs, according to a new report released today by the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) and the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning. "The shortage of fully prepared math and science teachers is undermining the quality of the state's education system and hampering the ability to produce college graduates with degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics," said Susan Hackwood, Executive Director of the California Council on Science and Technology. "Already, more than a third of novice high school math and science teachers are teaching before completing a preliminary teaching credential for the subjects they teach.
CEOs, faculty join in search for MIT dean
MIT's Sloan School of Management is opening a search for a new dean to succeed Richard Schmalensee, who is scheduled to step down in June after nine years at the helm of the business school. A search committee of outside business leaders and Sloan faculty members has retained two professional search firms: Heidrick & Struggles, which recruits top executives for corporations, and Isaacson, Miller, which specializes in recruiting for nonprofit organizations. Committee members completed a job description for the Sloan dean last week and circulated it within the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It calls for a dean who, among other things, will "lead the faculty and other key stakeholders in the development of a strategy for 21st century management education and research at MIT Sloan." They will begin sharing the job description more widely this week, targeting potential outside candidates, search committee cochairmen Lawrence K.
MP teachers object to book on AIDS
BHOPAL: Sex education in the time of AIDS has run into trouble in Madhya Pradesh. A section of school teachers have protested against ''indecency in the name of education''. They say they are uncomfortable talking about sex to students. They have threatened that if indecency in education is not withdrawn, protests would spread throughout the state. These teachers are being supported by state Congress and the National Students Union of India (NSUI) who have objected to lessons on AIDS and sex education in classrooms. For the past few days, Congress and NSUI have taken to the streets here protesting against ''indecency in the name of education''. The controversy started over a book, ''Flip Chart'', printed by the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) and UNICEF. This book had been distributed to a select number of teachers in the state who are being trained by the Madhya Pradesh government as resource persons for the Kishore Avastha Siksha — a programme aimed at imparting sex education in schools for protecting youngsters from sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS.
More black women than men entering medical school
(Taylor Media Services) - The trend of fewer and fewer young African-American males seeking higher education appears to be showing up in medical school enrollments. According to data released last week by the Association of American Medical Colleges, Black female applicants and medical school students now outnumber Black males by better than two to one. Among all ethnic and racial groups, the male-female ratio in the nation's medical schools is around 50-50. But among Blacks, females account for nearly 70 percent of medical school students, according to the association. The developments in medical schools reflect a disturbing national trend in which the number of Black females acquiring higher educations is rapidly outpacing the number of Black males seeking college education.
Check Out the New Black Digital Network
(BLACK PR WIRE) ( March 1, 2007) In conjunction with Music in Our Schools Month, Al Bell, former Motown music president and Stax Records owner, will join the Foundation for the Mid South, and the Millennium Education Music Project with VH1 Save The Music Foundation, and the National Association for Music Education (MENC) to promote the importance of music education.
The celebration will kick-off with Millennium Education Music Project delivering $25,000 worth of new musical instruments donated by a grant award from the VH1 Save The Music Foundation and a grant for new music software from the Foundation for the Mid Souths Raised UP Right Fund to Wonder Elementary School in West Memphis, Arkansas.
WHO:
Al Bell, VH1 Save The Music Foundation, MENC, Foundation for the Mid South, Millennium Education Music Project and Wonder Elementary School District
WHAT:
The delivery of new musical instruments donated by a grant from VH1 Save The Music Foundation and a grant of new music software from the Foundation for the Mid Souths Raised Up Right Fund to Wonder Elementary School
WHERE:
Wonder Elementary School, 801 South 16th St.,
West Memphis, AR
WHEN:
Friday, March 30, 2007, 10:00 a.m.
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