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Educational Testing & Examinations

UQ ALTC grant winners ready to tackle big issues

Learner-centred, web-based video recordings and interactions are part of a new elearning initiative being developed at UQ through an Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) grant. Three UQ research teams received ALTC...

Open Thread: LSAT Eve

For aspiring law students, tomorrow marks a crucial step on the prestige whore journey. The LSAT will go a long way towards defining which school you are supposedly "insecure" about not getting into. It's all too easy to say...

Schools aim to position students on college track

Red Bank eighth-graders to take PSAT BY SHARON LEFF Staff Witer RED BANK — To encourage students to start thinking about college at an earlier age, Red Bank Middle School will offer eighth-graders the opportunity to take the...

Why the Tories turned to Sweden

Social engineering or fair play? So instead of the government's target of 400 City Academies, the Conservatives want more than double that number. In Sweden, the new private schools are allowed to make a profit To use a Tony...

Natus Medical Completes Acquisition of NeuroCom International

Natus Medical Incorporated (Nasdaq:BABY) today announced that it has completed its acquisition of privately held NeuroCom International, Inc. NeuroCom, based in Clackamas, Oregon, develops and markets computerized systems for...

Disease diagnosis in just 15 minutes

Testing for diseases such as cancer and multiple sclerosis could soon be as simple as using a pregnancy testing kit. A team led by scientists at the University of Leeds has developed a biosensor technology that uses antibodies...

New Horizons Enters Into $6 Million Credit Revolver

October 3, 2008 (FinancialWire) -- New Horizons Worldwide, Inc. (OTCBB: NEWH) (Current Market Cap: US$16.78 Mil.) said it has refinanced its existing $4 million secured credit facility with Camden LLC and other lenders as it...

Firing Teachers: Readers vs. Me

The Internet arrived late in my career. Its annoyances are far outweighed by its joys. One of the best things about the new era is that I can converse with far more readers and at much greater depth than I ever could with just...

Lecturers Threaten Strike

Posted to the web 3 October 2008 John Ekongo Windhoek Lecturers at the four colleges of education are back in the spotlight, this time with a damning threat of "no salary increases, no examinations for learners". "Due to the...

Plight of the Little Emperors

Coddled from infancy and raised to be academic machines, China's only children expect the world. When Dawei Liu was growing up in the coastal city of Tai'an during the 1990s, all of his classmates—95 percent of whom were only...

               

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