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She said the distance education programme that started a few years ago, has not only helped to ease the pressure on facilities of the existing universities but had made a dramatic difference to many people, especially for teachers who want to continue to stay in the classroom while studying for their degrees.Read the Full Story
The company’s advisors, which include global leaders in training management, learning theory, and outsourcing, provide Intrepid management with ongoing counsel and assistance on how best to expand and improve Intrepid’s industry leading training services. Until his retirement earlier this year, Obermayer was a director and senior partner at McKinsey. After serving as head of the […]
The Accrediting Commission of the Distance Education and Training Council met June 4-5, 2004, in Washington, D.C. and voted to extend accreditation to At-Home Professions located in Fort Collins, Colorado. Since 1981, At-Home Professions has trained thousands of men and women at home for careers in some of the country’s fastest-growing job categories with particular […]
“Knowledge Held Hostage? Scholarly Versus Corporate Rights in the Digital World,” sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, sought to find a place for digital media under the provision of “fair use”–a hotly debated exemption in U.S. copyright law that permits researchers and scholars to reproduce selected materials for educational purposes without […]
In recent weeks, Pennsylvania has sent out hundreds of warning letters about overdue cyber-school tuition payments, said Dan Felix, the state Education Department’s charter-schools teams leader.Read the Full Story
Jon Bernstein202/478-6191 Carrie Lowe, ALA202/628-8410 Anjetta McQueen, NEA 202/822-7251 Washington, DC. (June 17, 2004) – The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold hearings today on alleged abuses on the E-rate program, which provides discounts on telecommunication services, Internet access, and internal connections to America’s public and private schools and public […]
“While a well-intentioned idea, the eRate program, as it is currently structured, is an invitation for disaster,” said Greenwood, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, which organized the hearing. “Indeed, if one were to design a program to pour money out the window, this would be the way to […]
We are disappointed to learn that a few individuals have engaged in practices that undermine the E-Rate program and endanger the great benefits it provides millions of students, teachers and community members. We support all efforts to protect the integrity of the E-Rate and bring to justice individuals that have committed fraud upon the program. […]
The Idaho Distance Education Academy is targeted at home-schoolers. They’d get a state-paid allotment of 600 to 16 hundred dollars a year _ depending on a child’s grade _ and can still pick whatever curriculum parents want.Read the Full Story
Commissioners, at their open meeting June 10, also voted to retain existing rules for educational spectrum, including schools’ ability to rent the spectrum for profit. Eligibility for the spectrum, known as Instructional Television Fixed Service (ITFS), would also remain limited to educational institutions. Read the Full Story