Education News - 1 Feb 2008

GALVESTON — Dr. C. Joan Richardson, chief of medical staff at the University of Texas Medical Branch, will join seven other UTMB faculty members and six medical and graduate students in a dramatic reading of George Bernard Shaw’s “The Doctor’s Dilemma” on Nov. 20.
Source: galvestondailynews.com

Feachem, former director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria who is now the director of the Global Health Group at the University of California at San Francisco. "This is not theoretical. We do not have to wait for a vaccine or ...
Source: www.msnbc.msn.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

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