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Analysis of 1976 Ebola outbreak holds lessons relevant today (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)

Edit Public Technologies 17 Jul 2016

He also chaired the Harvard Global Health Institute and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Independent Panel on the Global Response to Ebola, published in November 2015, which put forward 10 major reform proposals to prevent future such catastrophes ... He was involved in the recent Ebola response and was also an author on the Harvard-London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine report....

The travesty of teacher tenure

Edit Denver Post 17 Jul 2016

Wheat Ridge High School teacher Stephanie Rossi works with a student in her American History class on Feb ... Instead, school districts are forced to adopt what is called the “dance of the lemons,” whereby grossly ineffective teachers are shuffled from school to school ... These are disproportionately schools attended by low-income minority children....

City turning into lab for private education?

Edit The Hindu 17 Jul 2016

Pearson and the Emergence of Multinational Edu-businesses in Hyderabad, India” claims that international players eyeing the huge school education sector have actually turned Hyderabad into a laboratory so as to replicate the same across the country ... “Replicating a ‘start-up’ business model, edu-businesses appear, intent to ......

Judge rules against excessive tuition costs in divorce settlement

Edit Belfast Telegraph 17 Jul 2016

Two teenagers whose mother said she needed £60,000 a year to cover the cost of out-of-school tutors do not have enough time in their lives to enjoy being children, a High Court judge has suggested ... Their father said they were both at expensive private schools - which he paid for ... He said he should be required to pay for only extra tuition recommended by the school....

Bad year for Wall Street's Golden Boy Ackman

Edit The Times of India 17 Jul 2016

Agreeing with Ackman's longtime rival in Wall Street big-time activist investing, Carl Icahn, the Federal Trade Commission ruled the Herbalife is not a pyramid operation and, while forcing it to pay out $200 million to injured distributors, said the company could stay in business ... that eventually those will undermine the company's business model....

B'luru girl hits top GMAT score in her first attempt

Edit The Times of India 17 Jul 2016

Bengaluru. Annie Vinod Manjila has proved that no test is too hard ... However, the score alone is not enough because some B-schools have additional criteria that need to be met ... Annie has applied to Oxford University, London School of Economics, and London Business School for Masters in Finance and Economics ... Through micro-financing, I can work with Self-Help Groups and other economically underprivileged business people," she said ... RELATED....

Now, low-cost education too gets commercialised

Edit The Times of India 17 Jul 2016

There are several international "actors" who are responsible for the rise of the low-fee private school (LFPS) "movement" which include a professor from a UK based university who studied private schools, which have mushroomed over the years, in the area south of the Musi ... According to the report, there are only 254 government schools and 61 aided schools when compared to 550 private schools in these mandals....

Karnataka: Three districts shut for Kalasa Banduri project

Edit Deccan Chronicle 17 Jul 2016

The bandh saw all business establishments voluntarily down shutters, and schools and colleges shut for the day in Gadag ... in Hubballi with leaders of several local organisations refusing to back it and schools and colleges functioning as usual....

GOOD INVESTMENT Driving a bargain at the University of Virginia

Edit Richmond Times Dispatch 17 Jul 2016

No matter where a student attends school, the cost of attending a four-year university can feel like an extreme financial burden ... Given that UVa is Virginia’s flagship public university, you may expect our tuition would be the highest among the public schools in the state ... One of the reasons we are not the most expensive public school in the state is our strong alumni support....

GST will ease tax burden: experts

Edit The Hindu 17 Jul 2016

Seshaiah, director of ICFAI business school, maintained that the tax reform will result in reduction of overall tax burden by making the process simpler ... ....

Darul Uloom Haqqania — When the past is present

Edit Dawn 17 Jul 2016

He already had the Western media swooning over him after the press had dumped, “the pretty girl who went to Harvard and Oxford”, said IK, adding, “As for Nawaz Sharif, they don’t know him!” ... In the quaint bazaar bordering the Darul Uloom Haqqania, I often drove down the busy sloping alley to shop for provisions, or park the car and walk to my tailor Noor Mohammad’s tiny shop....

Urgent action needed to prepare UK for effects of climate change (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)

Edit Public Technologies 17 Jul 2016

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) ... Hundreds of leading scientists and experts were involved in the report, including Dr Sari Kovats from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine ... Dr Sari Kovats, from the School's Department of Social and Environmental Health Research, was a co-lead contributor on Chapter 5 of the report....

US-based Turkish cleric denies involvement in coup

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 17 Jul 2016

The Erdogan regime has launched a broad campaign against Gulen's movement in Turkey and abroad, purging civil servants suspected of ties to the movement, seizing businesses ......

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