Private Education

Nigeria: Need for ICT in Keeping Schools' Records

Records of most schools in Nigeria, either public or private, are kept manually, in paper form. With the passage of time, vital records and information are lost as the papers get defaced. This problem, coupled with the...

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Study abroad? American students rethinking plans

Economic reality and money problems may be cooling the enthusiasm of U.S. college students to study abroad, just two years after students' interest in foreign study was at an all-time high. Four times as many students went...

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St Paul's adds a helping hand

The 18 state school pupils in the maths classroom at St Paul's looked out of place – with their pink pencil cases and polyester sweatshirts – but they were having the time of their lives at one of Britain's top boys' private...

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Education Secretary Rejects D.C. Voucher Program As Parents Press Congress to Continue It

in the District of Columbia. President Barack Obama dropped funding for the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program in his 2010 fiscal year budget, dashing the hopes of 216 children who already had been notified that they would...

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Filling A Gap in Pakistan’s School System

Amna Nawaz, NBC News KARACHI, Pakistan – No one is exactly sure how old Taimur Muslim is. A soft-spoken, lanky lad with a chipped front tooth and eyes undecided between green and gray, Taimur told me that school is his favorite...

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HBCUs Get On Board With Direct Lending (Diverse)

"As Congress moves closer to wrapping up deliberation on the Obama administration's proposal to convert the U.S. higher education student loan system of public and private lending into one fully run by the federal government,...

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Find Private Nursing Schools Online

about 800 students. In order to train the student on how to handle patients and how to associate with the public, the university provides clinical services for the graduates and the undergraduates. Normally private nursing...

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Who's Who in West Virginia Business 2009 Winner: Edwin Welch

Posted Tuesday, November 24, 2009 ; 04:53 PM | CHARLESTON -- Edwin Welch, president of the University of Charleston, has been in office for twice that long. He has spent most of his career in higher education, although he...

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If You Want to Graduate, Lose the Weight: Cool or Not?

After years of midterms, finals, and all-nighters, a group of students at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania are being told they are too fat to graduate . The private college's core curriculum states that students must have a...

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Penn’s pricey reputation ‘a myth’

Penn tuition has a reputation for being excessively pricey — but experts think otherwise. The University was recently ranked eighth on Kiplinger’s 2009-2010 list for Best Values in Private Universities, which considers academic...

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