Education News - 14 Apr 2008

Toronto - The second-degree murder trial of Robert Baltovich, slated to begin Monday, was pushed back to Wednesday. Baltovich has been accused of killing his girlfriend, Elizabeth Bain, a University of Toronto student who disappeared in 1990 while heading to school.
Source: www.680news.com

LIMA - Peru says Yale University researchers took more than 40,000 artifacts from the Incan citadel of Machu Picchu in the early 1900s, or 10 times the original estimate, the state news agency reported on Sunday. A team from Peru's National Institute ...
Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

Lecturers warn against giving businesses too much influence over the content of university courses
Source: education.guardian.co.uk

"Dr. Aripoli has been a tremendous vice president for Missouri State over the past 15 years" Don Aripoli, vice president for student affairs at Missouri State University since 1993, has resigned his position and will take on other duties for the university. via KYTV Springfield
Source: www.topix.com

Three Washington state residents have admitted to selling thousands of bogus academic degrees through scores of phony online universities.
Source: www.edweek.org