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Saginaw Valley State opens Macomb County facility

Its programs offering advanced degrees and certification for teachers started in an office in the Macomb Intermediate School District building and, most recently, operated out of L’Anse Creuse Middle School-East in Chesterfield Township. Read the Full Article

Online Learning: Examining the Successful Student Profile

Can anyone learn anywhere at anytime or are there required pre-requisite skills or strategies to achieve such learning? Read the Full Article

Laptops project to boost learning for Malcolm X Academy students

Today is the day the kids will start learning about the Apple iBook computers they’ll soon be using in the classroom — the ones they’ll eventually be able to take home. Read the Full Article

North Dakota AG: Board members can attend meetings via videoconferencing

In response to a query from a member of the Grand Forks school board, state Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem said in a Jan. 2 letter of opinion that North Dakota’s Century Code does not imply that board members have to be physically present to form a quorum, only that they have to be in a […]

Art History Without Slides

Dana Leibsohn, an assistant professor of art at Smith College, is talking about Nazcan pottery in her survey course on pre-Columbian art. The rough surfaces of the vessels, she explains, reflect the rock-strewn deserts of the makers’ Peruvian homeland. Read the Full Article

Chinese Deploy Riverstone

In the first phase of construction, Anhui, a province in southeastern China, will deploy Riverstone’s RS 38000 and RS 8000 routers and ES 500 switches to build an educational network that will bring distance learning opportunities to its 60 million residents. Next year, Anhui will continue to expand its network with additional deployments throughout the […]

The New Science and Technology Policy

The new Science and Technology Policy 2003 was officially launched by the Prime Minister, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, during the inauguration of the five-day congress on January 3. Read the Full Article

Boston to offer online training in insurance

The company is hopeful of signing an MoU with the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) and a few insurance companies, to launch its online courses in February, simultaneously with its `Financial Campus India.com’ portal developed specifically for Indian requirements. Read the Full Article

Kerala Receives Rs 7,000-crore Investment Proposals At GIM

The Nest Group on Sunday announced projects to the tune of Rs 3,000 crore for setting up a virtual university, growth venture fund and highway projects. The Reliance group signed an MoU for setting up the Thampanoor bus station and a marina at Ernakulam boat jetty with an investment of Rs 50 crore. Read the […]

University Libraries Launch Virtual Archive of ‘The Papers of John Jay’

This new access tool links users to Jay’s unpublished papers (correspondence, memos, diaries and diplomatic papers) written by or to Jay, diplomat and first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and Columbia graduate from when the school was known as King’s College. Read the Full Article