Archive for the ‘Education’ Category

Edward Said is dead

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 ...

Provost’s committee reports

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 ...

Part-time education in Ireland

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.

RISKS in SEVIS

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 ...

Head Start woes

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.

12 year old arrested for stomping in puddle

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 ...