Category: GPA News

Editor’s Note: Driven by university innovation, Polytechnic Elementary School opened its doors in 2008 to students in kindergarden through sixth grade, and launched what would become a promising partnership between Arizona State University and …
source:http://asunews.asu.edu/20090622_polyelementary

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said Monday it was awarding $16.5 million to 15 community colleges and five states in an effort to help struggling students complete college. The Development Education Initiative will award the funding to …
source:http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2009/06/22/daily9.html

Average, that is, in tuition costs. For decades, Florida has prided itself in providing a world-class university education at bargain basement prices. Last year, according to The College Board, the average Florida college student paid $3,792 in …
source:http://www.theledger.com/article/20090618/NEWS/906175022?Title=A-Long-Unpleasant-Journey

There are fears the body responsible for funding England’s further education colleges could face its third cash crisis in a year, the BBC has learned. Colleges fear the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) may not fund all of the apprenticeships it has …
source:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/8101019.stm

One in six is now classed as “Neet” – not in education, employment or training – compared to one-in-eight when the Government came to power. The overall number of school-leavers aged 16 to 18 plunged into the category has also soared in the last 12 …
source:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/5549175/Neets-more-teenagers-without-education-jobs-or-training.html

Ten of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire’s Colleges of Further Education must scale back £2bn redevelopment plan because public cash is unavailable. Barnsley College: demolition in progress Many of the colleges say if the money isn’t made available …
source:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/politics_show/8082967.stm

Phoenix students have a new resource for pursuing higher education. On Wednesday, the city opened College Depot on the second floor of Burton Barr Central Library. The depot will be staffed with bilingual college counselors who will assist high …
source:http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/06/11/20090611collegedepot0611.html

It is going to take a lot more than money to fix the education problems in this state and this country. The fact that only one third of eligible eighth- and ninth-grade students have signed up with Washington’s College Success Foundation shows that …
source:http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/northwestvoices/2009324443_higher_education_1.html

This May, the final four students who benefited from La Roche College’s Pacem in Terris program graduated. Luis Alberto Galvis Mujica was among them. Mujica, now a permanent resident in Canada, lost his mother, sister and cousin to a bombing in his …
source:http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/06/08/laroche

Sometimes called the “home-school college,” or “God’s Harvard,” Patrick Henry College (PHC), located in Purcellville, Va., celebrated another graduation May 16. Seventy-six seniors received their diploma, and many are preparing to become leaders in …
source:http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/07/home-schooling-no-debating-the-success-of-college/?feat=article_related_stories

The Mississippi College Board will name its picks this week for the next commissioner of higher education and the next University of Mississippi chancellor. Board members expect to announce their selections for “preferred candidates” for the …
source:http://www.wtok.com/home/headlines/46633027.html

Hawthorne Middle School seventh-grader Amber Mann, 13, wants to be a veterinarian one day or perhaps a caretaker for senior citizens. If she doesn’t venture down those career paths, Mann says she might become a doctor. She already knows she wants to …
source:http://www.gainesville.com/article/20090531/ARTICLES/905311005/1002?Title=Scholarship-program-helps-kids-make-it-to-college