Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
Tuesday, April 27th, 2004
Last Friday saw a one day colloquium in Chicago where students of the Institute of Communications Research at UIUC had an opportunity to meet with students of the Communications Department at UIC. Organised by Sabryna Cornish the motivation came from the increasingly closer links between the two units, with some ...
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Monday, February 2nd, 2004
There's something very disturbing about the proposal from the HEA (Higher Education Authority) that some Irish universities be 'privatised' as the Irish Times describes it. The HEA calls for the universities to be changed to non-profit indepedent entities. It seems they think this would move universities out of the sphere ...
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Sunday, October 12th, 2003
Neil Postman died last Sunday, and Jay Rosen has a tribute on his weblog, which was also reprinted in Salon. Postman was, of course, most famously the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death.
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Thursday, September 25th, 2003
From an email that was passed to me earlier today:It is with great personal sorrow that we inform you of the death of Edward W. Said, today, the 24th of September, 2003, at approximately 4 p.m. EST. Edward had been very ill for the past couple of weeks and ...
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2003
Today's Daily Illini has an article on the report on the future of the College of Communications at UIUC. They have put a copy of the report online, and it doesn't make for fun reading. In short, they recommend that the ICR, my home unit, be either disbanded (with staff ...
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Friday, August 29th, 2003
Joanna Tuffy,the (Irish) Labour Party's Seanad spokesperson on education, has a wonderful suggestion for extending education opportunities in the community. The details may need finessing, but overall it hits the nail on the head.
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Monday, July 21st, 2003
Thomas Dzubin has an interesting piece on SEVIS in the latest edition of RISKS Digest:
Under new United States homeland security laws, all U.S. schools have to register their foreign students in the database, known as the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS). This system has all the attributes ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2003
Bush is proposing major changes to Head Start which are being opposed by those involved with the program, and by some Democrats such as Edward Kennedy.
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2003
The report of a child arrested for stomping in a puddle has reached Blogdex, so many may have seen it already, but I couldn't help linking. It's so crazy it masks a basic question: why did the school have a police officer in the first place?
I know a growing number ...
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