Sunday, October 13, 2013

Online Gradute

UF online opens new doors for students
MiamiHerald.com
Although UF is among the first bricks-and-mortar public universities to create an online option for first-time-in-college undergraduates, we have been offering online education at thegraduate level for years. In fact, we currently have about 70 mostly ...
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Everyone has a story: Online route led Atlantic City woman tograduation
Press of Atlantic City
"My first reaction, I was kind of confused," said the 2000graduate of Atlantic City High School. "I knew I wanted to continue on with my studies." Someone at Montclair suggested Thomas Edison State College and online courses. She had never even heard ...
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GRADUATE: Baker College
Argus Press
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MHS grad Christopher Hunt pursuing lead roles
Reporter-Times
MARTINSVILLE — Martinsville High School graduateChristopher Hunt was attending Vincennes University when an episode of “Smallville” changed the direction of his life. Hunt, 28 .... An online service is needed to view this article in its entirety. You ...
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Fall 2013 Online Graduate Courses
AUTO 503* Automotive Engineering Project. Professor James Freudenberg. The intent of this project course is to provide students with a capstone project ...
isd.engin.umich.edu/onlinelearning

Scientific Journal

Scientist Gets Bogus Research Published in Top Journals
IBTimes.co.uk
An American biologist fooled scientific journals into publishing fictitious research containing a host of lies and glaring errors. John Bohannon, who is also a science journalist, sent details of a bogus study on the effects of lichen on cancer to 304 ...
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Arafat and Polonium Poisoning: A Sort-of Update
Wired
The Swiss scientists note that after the exhumation (which apparently they did not recommend) three different teams were assigned to analyze samples from Arafat's body: “Because of legal procedures, the date of publication of the detailed results of ...
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Science Briefs: How chimps choose friends
News & Observer
The results of this study appear in the scientific journalEvolution and Human Behaviour. Chimpanzee personality in two zoos was measured with behavioral experiments and years of observations of chimpanzee behavior. “We found that, especially among ...
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UN Education Program

New global education program, Cats, Dogs and Us, brings compassion into the ...
Sacramento Bee
IFAW's educational program have recently been endorsed by the European Commission, the Ministry of Education for the United Arab Emirates, and the UN Educational, Social and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), among others. In the United States, IFAW is ...
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Somalia Gets Aid to Educate Children
New York Times
Somalia, which has one of the lowest primary school enrollment rates in the world, has started a three-year, $117 million, basic education program with financial support from Unicef, Unesco, the U.N. World Food Program and a consortium of international ...
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Malala Yousafzai: Accolades, applause and a grim milestone
CNN
The U.N. started a global education program for girls called "I am Malala," the name she has chosen for her biography. This year, the Malala Fund was created to support educationfor girls around the world. She recovered and addressed theUnited ...
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Music Together(R) to Celebrate United Nations International Day of Peace with ...
HispanicBusiness.com
12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Music Together(R), the leading international early childhood music education program, will commemorate the United Nations International Day of Peace (September 21) with family music events at many of its 2000 locations in 40 ...
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Food and Education Can Change the World
Huffington Post
The UN World Food Programme (WFP), which is providing school meals in Mali, forwarded a translation of the letter: Hello papa et maman. After 11 months of occupation in North Mali by armed bandits we're today on the path to school. Our parents are poor ...
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biNu Receives United Nations Innovation Award
Consumer Electronics Net
... UN's next set of Millennium Development Goals, aprogram of initiatives agreed to by all countries and development institutions, including halving extreme poverty, halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primaryeducation, all by the ...
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Panasonic Announces Six Grand Prix Finalists for Kid Witness News Global ...
ITNews
The Grand Prix winner will be announced at a global awards ceremony to be held at the headquarters of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris in December. KWN is a hands-on video ...The Grand Prix will be ...
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UN: Asian Economic Growth Alone Won't Lift Millions Out of Poverty
Voice of America
The report comes less than two years ahead of the target date from the region's Millennium Development Goals [MDGs] that set benchmarks for progress in areas ranging from income distribution, health, education, food consumption and safe drinking water ...
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UNICEF's Auction for Action to benefit play-based learningprogram
GMA News
Part of the Philippines' drive to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goal of achieving universal primary education, the SNP program aims to reach children in remote areas in particular, where the importance of childhood education is not reinforced.
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Music Together celebrates 'Peace, Love, & Music' with festival at Elizabeth Park
West Hartford News
HARTFORD—Music Together, the leading international early childhood music education program, will commemorate theUnited Nations' International Day of Peace (September 21) with family music events at many of its 2000 locations in 40 countries around ...
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O-Level Education







New O'level curriculum to focus on Life EducationPublish Date: Sep 26, 2013
New Vision
Speaking at a sensitization workshop for religious and cultural leaders on Life Education, one of the core learning areas in the new curriculum, Connie Kateeba, the Director NCDC said there was need to overhaul and merge related subjects. “Learners are ...
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Maldives kicks off O-Level exams with over 8000 students
haveeruonline
Maldives today kicked off the General Certificate of Education(GCE) ordinary level exams with 8,280 students sitting for the test papers provided by the Cambridge university. Students who have completed grade 10 will sit today and tomorrow for the ...
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Distribution of CDs to conduct seminars for the GCE O-LevelExamination ...
SLBC
Distribution of CDs to conduct seminars for the G.C.E. O-Level Examination commenced today. They were handed over to Provincial Education Directors throughout the country by Minister Bandula Gunawardena at a ceremony held at Ministry of Education.
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Updated - Government caught playing about with stipends - PN
Times of Malta
PN: GOVERNMENT STARTS PLAYING ABOUT WITH STIPENDS. The Nationalist Party said Education Minister Evarist Bartolo had been caught red handed trying to stop stipends for students who were following O level courses in post-secondary schools.
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Student Entrepreneur

Why students are natural entrepreneurs - The Globe and Mail
Universities must craft programs that allow students to take a pause from their studies to devote the amount of time required to hatch a successful start up.
www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...is.../article14802550/
For the college entrepreneur, options and choices abound
Students are asking themselves, their parents and their counselors,
www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/.../2953795/
My 10 tips for student entrepreneurs – Student and entrepreneur
My 10 tips for student entrepreneurs. Students have the most creative minds. History has shown us that numerous successful companies were built by students.
blogs.denmark.dk/.../my-10-succesful-tips-for-student-entrepr...
Young entrepreneur presents innovative neuromarketing techniques ...
The company won the Startup Madness competition in the spring of 2012, an entrepreneurship contest for students at Atlantic Coast Conference schools.
www.elon.edu/e-net/Article/79924
Opportunity: Entrepreneurship@Dyson is looking for 4 ...
E@D (http://eship.dyson.cornell.edu/) needs you to help with giving a voice to student entrepreneurship in the Dyson school. Entrepreneurship@Dyson's ...
eship.dyson.cornell.edu/.../opportunity-entrepreneurshipdyson...

Scholarships Listing 2013-2014

Posted: 13 Oct 2013 01:03 PM PDT
Description The University of British Columbia, Canada partner with the MasterCard foundation Scholars Program to grant $25M Scholarships for African students; Over the next 10 years, 77...

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Posted: 13 Oct 2013 12:03 PM PDT
The NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) offers scientists and engineers unique opportunities to engage in NASA research in space science, earth science, aeronautics, exploration systems, lunar...

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Posted: 13 Oct 2013 09:05 AM PDT
Eligibility: To be eligible for this award you must: -be a Postgraduate Home Student, ordinarily resident in the UK (strong preference will be given to students from the North East of England as...

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Posted: 13 Oct 2013 09:05 AM PDT
Starting April 1st, 2014 the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne, the Graduate School of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Cologne offers 20 PhD...

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Posted: 13 Oct 2013 09:02 AM PDT
Each year the University of Warwick continues to invest in postgraduate researchers by funding the Chancellor’s and Chancellor’s International Scholarships. In 2012/13 alone the...

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Posted: 13 Oct 2013 07:03 AM PDT
Closing Date: 29/01/2014 Value of Award: $8,000 No. of awards: 4 Each year the Kate Edger Educational Charitable Trust (formerly the New Zealand Federation of University Women (Auckland Branch)...

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Posted: 13 Oct 2013 05:08 AM PDT
Deadline: 8 Jan 2014 (annual) Study in: France Course Starts AY 2014-2015 Description: The Eiffel scholarship program was developed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a tool to allow...

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Posted: 13 Oct 2013 05:03 AM PDT
A range of companies from across the Australian Engineering Industry sponsor the UTS: Engineering Cooperative Scholarships. A number of Cooperative scholarships are available and provide financial...

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Posted: 13 Oct 2013 02:08 AM PDT
Eligibility: Adelaide University China Fee Scholarships (AUCFS) will only be available to those applicants who: -Are citizens and permanent residents of the People’s Republic of China at...

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Posted: 13 Oct 2013 01:06 AM PDT
The UTS: Business School is an academic merit scholarship. It is awarded to top ATAR students who undertakes the UTS Bachelor of Business Degree. The Scholarship is not available to combined degree...