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For some, this amounts to a betrayal of the national language and, more specifically, of a particular way at looking at the world - for others it's just accepting the inevitable. It all started with a faux-pas - to use a French phrase commonly borrowed by English-speakers. Received Pronunciation. It is important not to confuse the notion of Received Pronunciation – a standard accent – with the standard variety of the English language used in England that is given names such as "Standard English", "the Queen's English", "Oxford English" or "BBC English".
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11 March 2013Last updated at 06:23 ET By Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent MIT and Harvard launched pioneering online courses last year Pic: Jon Fildes "Complacent" British universities that fail to respond to the rise of online universities will be swept away by global competition, says a report into the future of higher education.
Sir Michael Barber, chief education adviser for Pearson, says online courses will be a "threat and opportunity" for the UK's universities. This "avalanche" could see some middle-ranking universities closing, he says. "There are too many universities doing the same thing," says Sir Michael. Personal MBA - Business Book Recommender. By Josh Kaufman MBA programs don't have a monopoly on advanced business knowledge: you can teach yourself everything you need to know to succeed in life and at work.
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The perennial question asked by every former English, philosophy, and art history major now has an answer in some states. For University of Virginia students, it pays to major in engineering—$60,300, on average, 18 months after graduation—rather than sociology ($33,154), or worse, biology ($27,209). In Tennessee, a graduate of Dyersburg State Community College with an associate’s degree in health earns an average $5,000 more than someone who majored in health and picked up a bachelor’s at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, the state’s flagship school. With tuition and student debt skyrocketing and dim job prospects awaiting many graduates, states are trying to show residents what kind of return they can realistically expect for investing in a degree from a public college or university. The Elements of Computing Systems / Nisan & Schocken. The history of computer storage (slideshow) - Slideshow. Throughout the history of computers, one aspect has plagued and restricted its growth more than any other: permanent storage.
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Fischer PhD, Mar 29, 2014, at 09:00 am One may well wonder where the term “Hispanic,” and for that matter, “Latino,” came from. The press and pundits are all abuzz about the Hispanic vote, Hispanic organizations, and Hispanic cultural influences. Back in the mid-twentieth century, however, they wrote about Mexicans or Puerto Ricans or Guatemalans, not about Hispanics. Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud. Why Obama Praised IBM's Brooklyn Education Model. As pundits pick apart the State of the Union address for clues as to what’s likely to stick, pay attention to P-TECH.
That’s the Pathways in Technology Early College High School, an innovative collaboration between New York public schools, the City University of New York, and IBM (IBM). The 18-month-old experiment has caught not only the president’s eye but the attention of companies, politicians, and educators across the nation. The Brooklyn school takes students in the ninth grade and aims to have them graduate six years later with both a high school diploma and an associate degree in computers or engineering—not to mention a likely job at IBM. As President Obama said, “We need to give every American student opportunities like this.” What’s unusual about P-TECH is educators’ willingness to work with private-sector partners to design an academic program that’s heavy on workplace skills.
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Harvard Business School and TopCoder recently performed a study where they took a big genomics problem being worked on by Harvard Medical School, broke it into discreet abstract parts, and the threw the problem’s parts to the crowdsourced coding community to solve. What they gleaned was an interesting insight: the smartest guy in the room isn’t always your best problem solver.
Speaking at GigaOM’s Structure:Data conference Wednesday, Harvard Associate Professor Karim Lakhani said crowdsourcing the genomics project did several things. First and foremost it generated dozens of different approaches to tackling the same problem. Before the TopCoder contest was created, researchers were considering two different paths of investigation. The contest revealed 89 differing approaches to the problem, 20 of which were extreme values — possibilities Harvard and its National Institutes of Health counterparts had never considered. College Textbook Prices Increasing Faster Than Tuition And Inflation. College textbook prices have increased faster than tuition, health care costs and housing prices, all of which have risen faster than inflation. College textbook prices are 812 percent higher than they were a little more than three decades ago, the American Enterprise Institute, a think tank, reports. Textbook costs have well outpaced the 559 percent increase in tuition and fees over roughly the same period.
"The 812 percent increase in the price of college textbooks since 1978 makes the run-up in house prices and housing bubble (and subsequent crash) in the 2000s seem rather inconsequential," writes University of Michigan economics professor Mark J. Perry at the AEIdeas blog, "and the nine-fold increase in textbook prices also dwarfs the increase in the cost of medical services over the last three decades. " NACS no longer receives information from publishers about where textbook money goes, but as recently as 2008, they provided that cost breakdown.
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