| EDITORIAL:New degrees point to new directions | | Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 2:53:51 PM by Blog57 Team | | Last November, as Western expanded its athletics program with the move to Division I-A football, the Herald urged the university to match athletic gains with academic expansion. Western has wisely done so by expanding its departments so students can focus on more specific career paths. A doctorate program is being set up for one of the most sought-after fields: educational leadership. Other degrees are being added on the baccalaureate level, also expanding and improving areas of study at Western. These programs ensure that Western remains a viable university, not only in Kentucky, but in the nation as a whole. They strengthen Western's stature by making it more competitive with bigger universities in attracting students and faculty who are exploring very specialized studies.... | |
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| | | ‘Police doc bought degrees from web’ | | Posted Thursday, January 25, 2007 12:34:15 PM by Blog57 Team | | "Rochville University provides, through an associated website called ‘Affordable Degrees,' apparently genuine qualifications to anybody willing to pay for them." In order to demonstrate how easy it was to get a degree from the ‘university,' he said a detective constable went online to apply for the same qualifications as Morrison. Mr Flewitt said she was sent a package of documents through the post with almost identical certificates to those obtained by Morrison — a Bachelor of Science degree in forensic psychology; a Masters in forensic investigation and a Doctorate of arts in criminology — simply by filling in an internet request form and paying $1,398. Morrison is charged with nine counts of obtaining money by deception, three counts of attempting to obtain property by deception, eight counts of intending to pervert the course of justice, and three counts of perjury between 2002 and 2005.... | |
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| | | Mico launches BEd in Language and Literacy | | Posted Sunday, January 14, 2007 2:55:23 PM by Blog57 Team | | The Mico University College's newest Bachelor's degree programme got off the ground following a brief orienation exercise at its Marescaux Road campus in Kingston on January 5. The BEd in Language and Literacy is the latest innovation for the 172-year-old teacher-training institution and targets teachers who are currently practising their profession in classrooms throughout the island. According to board chairman Karl James, and Mico Foundation head, Professor Neville Ying, the new programme is particularly timely in light of the existing paltry state of literacy in the island. The first cohort comprising over 50 students began classes last Monday. .... | |
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| | | E. Alan Hartman: Education needs to be sold as an investment with ... | | Posted Monday, January 01, 2007 12:53:04 PM by Blog57 Team | | In preparation for developing the 2007-2009 biennial budget, UW-Oshkosh Chancellor Richard Wells recently made a presentation to the Board of Regents. His presentation www.uwosh.edu/ chancellor/documents/NEWIgrowthagendaBOR.ppt captures key points about our state and educational system that I wish to share with you. For appropriate attribution, I took much of the data from Well's presentation. Many of you have heard that we have a "brain drain." What Wells demonstrated is that we have two issues: low in-migration and low transition from associate degree to bachelor degree citizens. Our state has a lower percentage of residents with a bachelor's degree (24.1 percent), which ranks us 35th among states. We do not have a brain drain problem, with 83 percent of Wisconsin residents who graduate from UW institutions remaining in the state.... | |
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| | | Is Online Learning For You? | | Posted Wednesday, December 27, 2006 2:52:07 PM by Blog57 Team | | More and more college students are taking classes online, according to a new survey by the College Board and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. About 3.2 million people took at least one college course online during the fall of 2005 term, compared to 2.3 million in the fall of 2004.In 2005, women ages 25-34 with bachelor's degrees earned 70 percent more than those with high school diplomas, and for men the difference was 63 percent. For all full-time workers in this age group, the average earnings premium for a four-year college degree is almost $14,000, according to "Education Pays 2006," published by The College Board.Online courses can be a terrific way to both pick up the education you need and still be able to work, parent, or juggle the many commitments that define most adult lives. There are currently over 1,500 online degrees offered by over 130 online colleges.... | |
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| | | Fewer Utahns earning bachelor's | | Posted Friday, December 01, 2006 12:53:37 PM by Blog57 Team | | Fewer people are earning bachelor's degrees, and state legislatures must act now to reverse the trend or face adverse consequences, according to a new report. "There is an increasing sense that a higher education degree is a private right as opposed to a public interest," said Denise Merrill, a Connecticut lawmaker and co-chairwoman of the National Conference of State Legislatures' Blue Ribbon Commission on Higher Education. "But it is in the public interest to have as many people with degrees as possible." Utah is a good example of the trend detailed in the report the commission released Monday. In the state, 30.2 percent of residents ages 45 to 64 have four-year degrees, ranking the state 12th in the nation in that age group.... | |
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| | | 'US lost many students to other nations' | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 6:51:19 PM by Blog57 Team | | WASHINGTON: The decision of US universities to accept three-year bachelor's degrees for admission to their graduate schools has come as a welcome news for Indian students. Between 2005 and 2006, the percentage of schools saying the three-year degree was ‘‘not an issue'' rose from 41% to 56%, according to the CGS report. The percentage of US graduate schools saying they would not admit international students who hold three-year degrees fell from 29% in 2005 to 18% in 2006. More importantly for India, 44% of US graduate schools now say they are willing to consider students from non-European countries who hold three-year degrees. India already sends the largest pool of students to the US for graduate studies (more than 80,000 annually now). If the new norm comes into effect, this number could rise significantly since a huge pool of degree holders in basic sciences, arts, commerce (BSc, BA, BCom) would be eligible for graduate studies in US universities.... | |
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| | | USCB to launch nursing program in fall | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 6:52:20 PM by Blog57 Team | | The University of South Carolina Beaufort will begin offering bachelor's degrees in nursing next fall, a move local hospitals hope will help recruitment of qualified nurses amid a growing statewide and national shortage. The school announced this week it received approval from the state Commission of Higher Education and the Southern Association of Schools and Colleges, the regional accrediting body, to begin accepting students and recruiting faculty members for the first phase of the program. USCB is proposing a two-track program, both of which will offer bachelor's degrees. The first phase is a continuing-education track that will allow registered nurses with associate degrees to earn bachelor's degrees. Pre-requisite courses for the program begin in January.... | |
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| | | British choreographer remakes dance history | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 2:51:37 PM by Blog57 Team | | If you were to teach Shakespeare to students, the last thing you would expect is that one of them would later go on to rewrite "Romeo and Juliet" or "Othello." I've never taught Shakespeare, but the same goes for me. In the 1980s, I used to teach dance history at a place called the Laban Centre for Movement and Dance, which then ran the first bachelor's degree course in dance in Britain. The students were, in other respects, mainly being instructed in aspects of modern dance, but I used to start them off with the history of 19th century ballet. (For one thing, the connection to Romanticism used to fire the imagination of every young student. For another, most of them had a clearer idea about ballets like "Swan Lake" than they had about anything choreographed in the 20th century.) And so in the autumn term of 1982, at 27, I taught "La Sylphide," "Swan Lake" and "Nutcracker" to a group of new students.... | |
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| | | PEOPLE ON THE MOVE | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 12:58:49 PM by Blog57 Team | | Tom Yingling has joined Lighthouse Title Group, of Kalamazoo, as its new marketing representative, providing service to local retailers and lenders. Previously, Yingling worked for three years in sales at the Miller-Schuring Agency. Brianna Hollenkamp, Leslie Rich and Andrea Twiss have joined Plante & Moran PLLC's Kalamazoo office. The three are recent graduates of Western Michigan University, where they each earned bachelor's degrees in business administration and master's degrees in accountancy. Shannen K. Miller recently joined Greenleaf Trust, of Kalamazoo, in trust-operations support. Miller, who has more than six years of experience in the financial-services industry, previously worked as an account administrator for Wachovia Securities LLC. Also, Patrick R.... | |
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