XanEdu Expands Offering to Include Daily Desktop Updates to Its CoursePack Line.
XanEdu's CoursePacks+ Brings Breaking News Into Higher Education Courses - Making the Everyday World Part of the Learning Experience ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 12 /PRNewswire/ -- XanEdu, a division of Bell and Howell's Information and Learning (NYSE: BHW), in keeping with its aim...

VET. (Employment).
A survey of 70,000 TAFE students by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research revealed that TAFE students were still more likely to win a job than school-leavers who did not go on to further study. This was despite a small drop in graduate employment rates in 2001. Almost...

Service learning as a transgressive pedagogy: a must for today's generation.
The phrases "curriculum infusion," "teaching/learning anti-racism," "teaching against resistance," and incorporating "diversity" or "multiculturalism" into the curriculum are all attempts to democratize, de-canonize, and open up traditionally Euro-centric teaching approaches in the humanities and social science courses. I have discovered within the last six years, that the best way...

PU girls outsmart boys, once again.
Byline: B K Mishra PATNA: Patna University (PU) girls have outsmarted boys again in academics. They have not only fared pretty well in the three-year degree course examinations, but also secured all the top positions in almost all the honours subjects in the faculties of arts, science...

Reforming the labour market for Australian teachers.
Although there is a general consensus that teachers are important for student learning, there is little discussion of the process by which teachers are employed by schools: the teacher labour market. We argue, based on a mix of a priori and inductive reasoning, that inflexible attitudes about comparative wages...

Vilifying Australia: the perverse ideology of our adversary culture.
TWO YEARS AGO, when the journalist and broadcaster David Marr gave the Colin Simpson Lecture, he chose the title "The Role of the Writer in John Howard's Australia". He opened with a quotation from the novelist Patrick White: In all directions stretched the Great Australian Emptiness, in...

The Fessenden Honors in Engineering Program.
Developing honors opportunities for students in engineering programs can be difficult, and the experience at the University of Pittsburgh is no exception. Often these students' degree requirements are so demanding that their opportunities for participating in honors experiences are severely limited. In each of the two semesters of their...

Sexualities and communication in everyday life; a reader.
1412914434 Sexualities and communication in everyday life; a reader. Ed. by Karen E. Lovaas and Mercilee M. Jenkins. Sage Publications 2007 327 pages $36.95 Paperback HQ21 The anthology of 23 reading...

Eighteenth-century women; studies in their lives, work, and culture; v.4.
9780404647049 Eighteenth-century women; studies in their lives, work, and culture; v.4. Ed. by Linda V.Troost. AMS Press 2006 420 pages $112.50 Hardcover PR1269 Troost (Washington and Jefferson College) and contributors continue...

Can charities engage in research? CRA offers policy draft.
What research can charities engage in? The Canada Revenue Agency Charities Directorate offers a draft policy statement aimed at setting the legal and administrative requirements a registered charity is expected to fulfill, in order to conduct or fund research as a charitable activity. The policy statement is...