Archive for September, 2006

Students learn about studying abroad

The Education Abroad Office held a study abroad fair on the Drillfield Tuesday that provided with information on everything from scholarships to pamphlets on the many different places a student could choose to study.
“The fair provided information about a range of programs, different types of programs, like one semester or full year. There are also […]

Saturday, September 30th, 2006

Regents: 90,000 at universities receive aid

More than 90,000 students at Arizona’s three public universities receive financial aid, collecting almost $933 million last year in scholarships, grants and loans, according to an Arizona Board of Regents report.
More than half of undergraduate students end up in debt, though the total has been roughly flat, near $17,000, the last several years.
The $932.9 million […]

Saturday, September 30th, 2006

Oxford board of education, teachers have tentative deal

The Oxford Education Association and the Board of Education reached a tentative contract agreement Wednesday evening, Pam Niles, a field representative for the New Jersey Education Association, said.
The association’s negotiating team will meet with members on Tuesday to share the settlement terms. No details will be released until after the ratification, she said.
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Saturday, September 30th, 2006

Astronaut Aldrin Presents Scholarship to Miami University Senior Newstadt

Miami University senior Greg Newstadt had an out-of- this-world experience Wednesday when astronaut Buzz Aldrin, one of the first men to set foot on the moon, presented him with a scholarship.
Newstadt, a physics and electrical engineering major from Louisville, won the $10,000 scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation, created in 1984 by the six surviving […]

Saturday, September 30th, 2006

Business School Online

In the second online executive education course in partnership with leading business schools, FT.com presents a lecture on experiential marketing by Bernd Schmitt, director of the Center on Global Brand Leadership at Columbia Business School in New York.
The programme is in five parts, with suggested readings to accompany each of the video instalments.
To complete the […]

Saturday, September 30th, 2006

Online Trading Academy Expanding to the UK

Financial education franchisor, Online Trading Academy™ (OTA) today announced the awarding of its franchise rights in the United Kingdom. The planned opening of a center in St. Albans in January will bring the proven professional OTA financial training courses and methods to thousands of new active traders throughout the UK.
Online Trading Academy’s training experience and […]

Saturday, September 30th, 2006

Fighting Online Predators With Education

One more police department is taking a stand against online predators. Marion police officers are asking parents and adults to join the fight right now, and the weapon of choice is education. But while local leaders want parents to get involved, TV-9 found other people who spend time with your kids, like volunteers at kids […]

Saturday, September 30th, 2006

Missouri student loan board backs Blunt’s higher ed plan

Gov. Matt Blunt’s appointees prevailed in a divided vote Wednesday as Missouri’s student loan authority endorsed his plan to siphon $350 million from the agency to finance college construction projects.
The 4-2 vote by the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority capped eight months of wrangling that began when Blunt initially proposed an outright sale of the […]

Saturday, September 30th, 2006

Fitch Rates National Collegiate Student Loan

Fitch assigned ratings to the following Student Loan Asset Backed Notes issued by The National Collegiate Student Loan Trust 2006-3:
Ratings for new issuance:

* $323,600,000 class A-1 ‘AAA’;
* $306,230,000 class A-2 ‘AAA’;
* $322,790,000 class A-3 ‘AAA’;
* $294,510,000 class A-4 ‘AAA’;
* […]

Saturday, September 30th, 2006

Studying for your MBA abroad

Studying for your MBA abroad is not the only way to gain a global outlook. Chris Alden reports .
Not so long ago, if you wanted to do an MBA, you went to the home of the MBA: the US. In the 70s and early 80s, European graduates would cross the Atlantic in search of the […]

Saturday, September 30th, 2006