Education News | News Date April 25, 2012

IOM to Support Italian-Egyptian Cooperation in Hotel Management, Tourism

(MENAFN - Qatar News Agency) The International Organization of Migration (IOM), the Italian government, and the Egyptian Ministry of education have joined forces to renovate and upgrade Al-Fayoum ...

Obama: College Debt 'Not Something I Read About in Briefing Book'

BOULDER, Colo. â€" President Obama tonight cast himself as a champion of an affordable college education and drew a veiled contrast with Republican rival Mitt Romney in a speech before an electrified crowd at the University of Colorado. Calling a college education the "best tool...

How One App Uses Digital to Empower Education

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Ubooly Plush Toy Uses Your iPhone or iPad to Teach Children [VIDEO]

What's orange, furry, adorable and can teach your kids Spanish? Meet the new plush toy Ubooly. It combines teddy bear cuteness with a voice recognition app to become an interactive educational tool for kids.

South Africa's apartheid land fix withers in fields

SENEKAL, South Africa (Reuters) - South Africa's plans to undo the wrongs of apartheid by returning land seized from native blacks is embodied in the life of Koos Mthimkhulu. He was born on a white-owned farm in 1955 and attended a school set up by white farmers to give him just enough education for a life as field hand. A short childhood gave way to decades of milking cows, driving tractors and ploughing fields for poverty-level wages. When white-minority rule ended in 1994, the new democratic government made it a priority to return land to those dispossessed. ...

Flu Vaccine Rates Improved Via Texting For Low Income Children

According to a study in the April 25 issue of JAMA, the coverage for children to get vaccinated against influenza increased amongst low-income, hard-to-reach, minority children and adolescents if their patients received education-related text message reminders, as compared with the standard care, even though the overall coverage remained low...

Muslims in Europe dogged by bias, Amnesty says

Muslims in Europe face discrimination in education, employment and religious freedom, an Amnesty International report said Tuesday.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?a=tqd-DkYK0A4:a7uHqKZ-0ws:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?a=tqd-DkYK0A4:a7uHqKZ-0ws:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?a=tqd-DkYK0A4:a7uHqKZ-0ws:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?i=tqd-DkYK0A4:a7uHqKZ-0ws:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?a=tqd-DkYK0A4:a7uHqKZ-0ws:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a>

Obamacare Is Complicating Some Student Loans

The Department of education has been transferring large batches of federal student loans to new loan-servicing companies 2014 leaving in the lurch some borrowers who are suddenly encountering problems with their loans, such as payments that are mysteriously adjusted up or down.

Jobless Graduates Show Need for Change in Higher Education

COMMENTARY | As if we all didn't already know that getting a college degree just isn't what it used to be, recent analysis by the Associated Press of government data proves it. Half of young college graduates are either unemployed or underemployed and holding jobs that don't utilize the skills and knowledge they gained while earning their degree.

NJ lawmakers to look at budget for universities

New Jersey's Assembly Budget Committee is set to take a close look this week at Gov. Christie's plans for higher education spending.

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