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Today’s action by the Subcommittee would, if enacted, represent a $196 million cut to the EETT program on top of a similar sized cut last year. The Bush Administration proposed to eliminate EETT in its FY06 Budget Request.Read the Full Story
WASHINGTON – June 9, 2005 – John Lawson, president and CEO of the Association of Public Television Stations (APTS), strongly criticized cuts to federal funding for public broadcasting imposed by the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor-HHS-Education and Related Agencies.Read the Full Story
But as the dry tone of my first sentence suggests, we have very different approaches to our common topic. Lessig is a master at weaving personal vignettes with structural arguments. The vignettes are intended to introduce an intimate personal dimension to the arcane world of intellectual property. His readers receive a gut-level education about the […]
In a sense, it was. More than a hundred thousand had descended upon Porto Alegre, Brazil, to attend the World Social Forum, a conference intended to offer a progressive alternative to the much smaller, and much more famous, World Economic Forum meeting at Davos, Switzerland (see “Letter from Davos,” April 2005).Read the Full Story
This is the key message that a group of higher education associations* unveiled today as a part of a campaign they are urging Congress and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to consider in the upcoming review of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.Read the Full Story
COPPA applies to individually identifiable information about a child that is collected online, such as full name, home address, eMail address, telephone number, or any other information that would allow someone to identify or contact the child, according to the FTC.Read the Full Story
After all, public television no longer is alone in broadcasting high-end cultural, public affairs and educational programming, and its share of the TV audience has sunk to one-twentieth of the prime-time cable average.Read the Full Story
Mr Ben K. Osei, Head of Organisation and Administration of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), said the creation of more centres would enable teachers serving in deprived areas to also benefit from the programme.Read the Full Story
The survey is part of the multifaceted Improving Lives project that examines the challenges and barriers of low-income adults pursuing postsecondary education. More than 1,000 colleges and universities participated in the survey, which asked them to describe in detail their commitment to serving adults.Read the Full Story
The WIPO Online Forum is designed to enable and encourage an open debate on issues related to intellectual property in the information society, and in light of the goals of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). This presents a unique opportunity for all to engage and shape the emerging debate on the value […]
