A New York University (NYU) professor has landed herself in the national spotlight after several of her students spoke out about a controversial class assignment that involved plotting the details of a realistic terrorist attack.
This week, Mother Nature occupied Wall Street. CNN, the Weather Channel and the National Weather Service reported that the floor of the New York Stock Exchange was under three feet of water. A live video feed of the trading floor said otherwise. Maybe it was just wishful thinking. The stock market was closed anyway.
Australia will be among the most elite educational system by 2025, according to Prime Minister Julia Gillard as she is scheduled to outline her government’s official response on the Gonski Review Monday.
The cost of tuition is soaring, outpacing the cost of living in most countries. Last year, tuition and fees at US public universities soared 8.3 percent, twice the rate of national inflation.
A group of young girls were mortified to find out a hidden video had been filming them while they changed clothes after a sports class. They were even more shocked to find out the camera belonged to one of their teachers.
The Coalition plans not only to deny government funding on private schools but also slash funds accessible for public ones, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Monday.
“F . . . the restraining order, she's dead,” a pregnant 16-year-old student in Geelong posted on Facebook after she was arrested Wednesday
Risking penalties for defying a New South Wales Industrial Relations Commission (NSW IRC) order, about 50,000 state teachers struck on Wednesday to protest new education policies.
Members of the New South Wales Teachers Federation will defy the NSW Industrial Relations Commission (IRC) order and stage a strike on Wednesday, June 27. The strike is expected to close 2,200 state schools and affect 760,000 NSW students.
In a bid to make the carbon tax more acceptable to Australian households, the Gillard government started to send on Thursday payouts of the Schoolkids Bonus. The yearly payouts, at $409 per child in primary school and $818 per child in high school, are part of the Family Tax Benefits Plan A.
When a candidate is unsuccessful, an all too common practice is for HR to discard them without a second thought. And with good reason. Narrowing the candidate pool is a unenviable task and sheer time constraints preclude many in HR from going the extra step in personalising the notification.
We are now in the work-from-home work culture, where businesses allow their employees to work from their homes on their beds wearing their pajamas and just go online for a certain period of time. In this article, we will tackle the advantages and disadvantages of this kind of work culture.
Teachers went on strike and stopped work in Victoria after a mass meeting of the education union concluded it was time to urge Premiere Ted Baillieu to fulfill his campaign promise to make Victorian teachers the best paid in the country.
About 30,000 teachers in Victoria state schools made good their threat to strike on Thursday. The industrial action caused the close of about 160 schools in the state over higher pay and better work conditions.
The news about the closing of Mowbray College has caused a lot of distress both to students and their parents as the school did not enlighten them about the school's financial status. Many parents were outraged when they realized that they will not be able to refund the school fees they already paid to the school.
A Net Impact study reveals that students want a job that will help make the world a better place for everyone.
In a ranking of the top 100 executive education programs, the Financial Times (UK) ranks the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) as number one for custom solutions in Australasia. The results consolidate AGSM’s long-standing position as a leader in management education and executive business leadership development.
Teachers would be pitted against school principals on Friday when tutors from 2,200 schools in New South Wales (NSW) strike over more powers to be given to principals.
For the fifth consecutive year, Mt Eliza Executive Education has been ranked Australia’s No. 1 provider of Executive Education, and is ranked globally at No. 40, in the prestigious Financial Times rankings released today.
What's one of the biggest mistakes that I see people make when they present a proposal to work more flexibly to their manager? They focus on "why" they want to work differently, when they should emphasize "how" they are going to get their job done.
London's finance sector is facing a 16-year low in the number of available jobs, said the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) on Wednesday, with the euro zone crisis expected to cause more than 25,000 layoffs in 2012.
In the news lately is the plight of the students. Everybody tells them they should go to college. But college is expensive. And since nobody has any money in America, they have to borrow. They end up with a worthless college degree and, on average, about $25,000 in debt.
A teacher at a Christian school told her family that having a child out of wedlock is the reason for the termination of her employment as her condition breaks the "lifestyle agreement" she signed with the school, Brisbanetimes.com.au reported.
A California college professor drew flak after her student complained that she showed pornographic material in her class, but the dean justified the educator’s choice of visual aids.
A research in Auckland University shows the idea that there are more teens engaging in drug abuse and sex today is only an “urban myth.” However, today’s young people are facing a different set of serious issues and web of problems, including poverty, violence and alcohol, Fairfax NZ News reports.
Primary school principals at Wellington have been invited for a seminar on child depression as Wellington's Central Regional Health School in the lower North Island raises alarm on the increasing number of children with depression problems.
The people in my community love their public schools. So too it is in most of the country. If only they knew the costs, and I don't mean just the financial costs, which are two and three times those of private schools. I also mean the opportunity costs: If only people knew what they were missing!
Foreign Secretary Tessie Lambourne of the Kiribati Republic has pledged that the vast Pacific archipelago would assist the latest effort to crack the mystery surrounding the disappearance of Amelia Earhart 75 years ago, as aviation enthusiasts from The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery are set to take on an underwater mission in July after they found a photograph of Kiribati's island of Nikumaroro.
Silence is golden, especially when the alternative can get you fired.
Wellington College is seen to be housing the brightest young Kiwi students for the school year. Preliminary results show Wellington College has gained the most number of NCEA (National Certificate of Educational Achievement) scholarships - 126 to be exact - since the exams began.
