Education News

One of the biggest problems of college students and newly graduates is student debt.

The former chancellor at the City College of San Francisco has been charged with making illegal campaign contributions and steering public funds to a secret account used in part to buy liquor and pay parking tickets, prosecutors said Wednesday.

AS THE Economist 's education correspondent, I've been invited by Economist Conferences, one of the businesses in the Economist group, to chair a conference in New York entitled " Global Education 2020 ". It's just one day, but if I'm going to make the trip from London, I may as well stay longer and visit some schools.

The computerized Uniform CPA Examination has achieved one million administrations, according to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, National Association of State Boards of Accountancy and Prometric, the three parties in charge of the exam.

THE State Coroner has pledged to improve data on international student deaths in Australia.

Brigham Young University students and fans hold the distinction of being the "most stone-cold sober" in the country, according to the Princeton Review .

Sydney, July 6 : As a top-level Australian delegation meets Indian officials, parents and students in New Delhi today, Indian will closely watch how Australia plans to treat its international students recently subjected to racial attacks.

Seen here on a field trip with her students, Peace Corps volunteer Megan DaPisa of Arlington Heights is using her suburban connections to bring a solar-powered computer lab to a rural village in Kenya.

By Murali Krishnan, Sydney, July 5 : Australia's booming $12 billion education industry seems to have come under a shadow following a string of attacks on Indian students that has now galvanised the government to act.

SAN FERNANDO - The son of the head basketball coach at California State University, Northridge, has been sentenced to probation and community service after pleading no contest to charges of stealing thousands from the Best Buy store where he worked.

Princeton and Brown advanced to the final of the Temple Cup for student eights at the Henley Royal Regatta on the river Thames.

For the fourth consecutive year, eKnowledge Corp., in alliance with the Department of Defense and donations from National Football League players, is providing free SAT and ACT prep programs for high school students in Florida and Georgia.

Hoboken parents and children watch the patriotic hot air balloon this morning. Did you see the American flag balloon in Hoboken this morning? For the fourth year running, PNC Bank and the QuickChek Festival of Ballooning inflated their giant America flag balloon at the athletic field at Stevens Institute of Technology campus.

NEWBURGH - Mount Saint Mary College invites local students to celebrate the history, culture and beauty of the Hudson Valley through its Elderhostel programs this summer.

July 2, 2009 Reprinted from the Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence.

Education and career services company, Kaplan Inc., signed a lease Wednesday for a nearly 100,000-square-foot building in Alpharetta, which the company said would accommodate its growing back office functions and bring 75 new jobs to the northern metro area.

PEAK university bodies' claims that education is the country's third largest export earner are "grossly misleading" as up to half the headline $15 billion figure can come from overseas student earnings in Australia, a leading academic says.

Ottawa, ON, and New Orleans, LA, Jun 29, 2009 -- Market leader Halogen Software and e-learning provider SkillSoft today announced that they will deliver 10 SkillSoft e-learning courses as a standard component of Halogen eLearning Manager , providing outstanding value to corporate learning centers everywhere.

Thomas Mann grew up in Dothan, and now he wants to give back. Mann, 19, a film school student at Columbia College Chicago, is working with three friends from the college to create a documentary about the arts in Dothan.

It's been awhile since I've had to keep up with a 10-year-old boy. But that's exactly what I did - give or take a few groans - last week.