The Times Higher Education - QS World University Rankings

Seeded on Thu Oct 9, 2008 10:49 PM EDT ()

universities, world-news, university-ranking, qs-world-university-rankings

Accountability for Wall Street

Seeded on Fri Sep 26, 2008 1:35 AM EDT (Reuters)

"... there should be accountability for the teachers, then there should be accountability for Wall Street,"

financial, wall-street, crisis, protest, finance, world-news, bailout, financial-meltdown

Hunt on for roo-bashing coward | カンガルー虐待男、豪当局が全国規模で捜索

Seeded on Fri Sep 12, 2008 4:03 AM EDT ()

オーストラリアの動物保護当局は１１日、男がカンガルーに意識を失うまで殴るけるの虐待を加える映像が発覚したのを受け、全国規模でこの男の捜索を開始した。

animals, world-news, animal-cruelty, rspca

Kangaroo Attack Sparks Boy Hunt

Seeded on Thu Sep 11, 2008 11:21 AM EDT (BBC News)

RSPCAはカンガルー虐待事件に関する情報を求めます

animals, odd-news, roos, animal-cruelty, kangaroo, rspca

Inequities are killing people on a "grand scale" reports WHO's Commission

Seeded on Fri Aug 29, 2008 8:11 AM EDT (WHO news)

"Social injustice is killing people on a grand scale." Inequities within countries

who, health

Teacher union backs cadet forces

Seeded on Sun Aug 3, 2008 12:37 PM EDT (BBC News)

"state schools in the UK should have military cadet forces to improve pupil behaviour, a teachers' union has said."

education, discipline, cadet-forces

Tories claim student inequality gap

Seeded on Sun Aug 3, 2008 12:35 PM EDT (Google)

"Conservatives have branded the educational inequality gap in English schools "a national disgrace""

education, inequality

School uniform shops ordering larger sizes | Herald Sun

Seeded on Sun Aug 3, 2008 12:33 PM EDT (Australian News Network)

PRIMARY school students are stretching school uniform shops with orders for dresses up to size 20 as Australia's obesity crisis worsens

obesity, education

Teachers' leader attacks 'greedy' parents

Seeded on Sat Aug 2, 2008 12:03 PM EDT (Independent.co.uk)

"A breakdown in family life has led to schools having to cope with a generation of children with few moral values, a teachers' leader warned yesterday."

education, parenting

Video websites 'must vet content'

Seeded on Sat Aug 2, 2008 12:00 PM EDT (BBC News)

"YouTube has been criticised by MPs, who say it must do more to vet its content. In a review of net safety, the Culture, Media and Sport select committee said a new industry body should be set up to protect children from harmful content. "

education, youtube, protection-of-children, policing-the-internet

Big change for welfarist Sweden: School choice

Seeded on Wed Jul 30, 2008 12:22 PM EDT (Associated Press - Google)

"It may sound out of place in Sweden, that paragon of taxpayer-funded cradle-to-grave welfare. But a sweeping reform of the school system has survived the critics and 16 years later is spreading and attracting interest abroad." - AFP ------

sweden, education, school-choice

Authors oppose 'toddler targets'

Seeded on Tue Jul 29, 2008 9:32 AM EDT (BBC News)

"Parents should have the right to choose how their pre-school children are cared for and educated.

education, pre-school

Blunkett: Oxbridge still too exclusive

Seeded on Tue Jul 29, 2008 9:29 AM EDT (Independent.co.uk)

"In an interview to be published in the Fabian Society magazine on Thursday, Mr Blunkett will say the interview process at the universities entrenches bias towards private school pupils.

education, oxbridge

Why early years monitoring is dangerous

Seeded on Mon Jul 28, 2008 2:33 PM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

"The incursion of the full weight of state into the early childhood realm cannot but create an environment of anxiety, which will affect practitioners as well as children.

education