Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
Monday, May 23rd, 2005
Jonathan Lawson of Reclaim the Media points to the danger being faced by Seattle high-school station KNHC. Unlike previous cases I've covered previously this time the danger is from the school district itself which faces a large budget shortfall and is considering selling the station. In a sign of the ...
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Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005
NUI, Galway is founding an Academy for Irish-language university education. The plan is to have 1,500 students participating in the various campuses, including the first (Irish-language) third level facility in the Chorca Dhuibhne Gaeltacht, with classes available in many of the disciplines offered in Arts and Science in the main ...
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Wednesday, April 27th, 2005
The Nation has just published a leaked memo by Columbia Provost Alan Brinkley from last February in which he proposes various sanctions that should be used against Graduate Employees if they go on strike, as they now have. The sanction would include forcing them to teach an extra semester (without ...
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Monday, April 25th, 2005
A survey out today on third level students in Ireland is being reported as very worrying by RTÉ. Among the reported issues are that one in ten students have engaged in unsafe sexual beahviour and that:Similar amounts of money were spent on food, an essential and on alcohol, a non-essential.To ...
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Friday, March 4th, 2005
You can't say the Bushies don't have long memories
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2004
Good to see that Irish students are not just turning over when it comes to the idea of reintroducing third level fees.
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004
The annual meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers takes place at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England.
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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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