Education News - 1 Feb 2008

People don’t pay enough attention to how repugnance affects decisions about what can be bought and sold, asserts an economist at Harvard University.
Source: biz.yahoo.com

The rate of Arkansas college and university students needing extra help in the basics to perform at college level has slowly declined over the past decade. via KAIT-TV Jonesboro
Source: www.topix.com

... only is (the Swiss proposal) dangerous, it's misleading and it is not considering the implications of the biological facts involved with HIV transmission," said Jay Levy, director of the Laboratory for Tumor and AIDS Virus Research at the University ...
Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

In response to a shortage of 400 teachers this year, Gov. Huntsman recommended increasing teachers’ salaries by 7 percent and called on universities to graduate 1,000 more teachers annually, over the next four years.
Source: www.edweek.org

Tensions are surfacing over proposals to restructure the union that represents FE and university lecturers. Francis Beckett reports
Source: education.guardian.co.uk