Makfax Vesnik: Teachers’ strike continues, more radical steps expected next week
Skopje /28/11/ 07:51
The teachers’ strike continues for the fifth day on Friday with announcements for more radical protests as of the next week.
The Union and the Government were unable to close the gap between their positions at the meeting held on Thursday.
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The Independent Weekly: Was the IRC right to cancel the SA teachers’ strike
The Rann Government enters the Industrial Relations Commission for arbitration with the Education Union next week. It could be a long, drawn-out process, with the union predicting it will take 10 to 12 months to reach a resolution.
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Globe and Mail: Teachers union holds out for less money
Here’s an intelligence test drawn from real life.
Your employer offers you a reasonably generous pay raise every year for four years, but asks that you accept the terms by a certain date. If you don’t accept it, the offer will be withdrawn and a discounted offer put on the table.
The question is, do you accept the original generous offer or say, “No thanks, I’ll settle for something less”?
That, in a nutshell, is the predicament facing Ontario’s 73,000 public elementary school teachers this weekend as the four-year labour peace in the province’s education sector threatens to unravel.
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Ynetnews.com: Teachers’ Association threatens strike over reform plan
Chairman Ran Erez says Education Ministry trying to impose plan’s wage, employment clauses without Association’s consent
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Ynetnews.com: Teachers’ Association threatens strike over reform plan
Chairman Ran Erez says Education Ministry trying to impose plan’s wage, employment clauses without Association’s consent
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Lawmaker suggests merging historically black colleges
Republican Seth Harp wants to save money by putting them with white-majority schools
The chairman of a key state Senate committee wants the University System to consider merging historically black public colleges with nearby white-majority schools to save money.
In making the suggestion Monday, Senate Higher Education Committee Chairman Seth Harp (R-Midland) immediately ran into opposition from supporters of the black schools who say they serve an important role as independent campuses.
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Inside Higher Ed: Lincoln Educational Services Corp. said Monday that it had completed its $11.4 million purchase of Briarwood College, a two-year for-profit college that offers bachelor’s and associate degrees on its residential campus in Connecticut. Lincoln operates 34 campuses in 17 states, most of which are nationally accredited. Briarwood is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.
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Leader-Post: Black eye for FNUniv
A new controversy greets the embattled First Nations university
Canada’s university teachers are blackballing the First Nations University of Canada as a potential employer.
The 65,000-member Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) has censured the FNUniv., the first time the association has imposed such sanctions on an institution in 29 years.
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The Chronicle News Blog: Canadian Faculty Group Censures First Nations U. Over Governance
The Canadian Association of University Teachers has censured the First Nations University of Canada, in Saskatchewan, the first time in nearly 30 years that the organization has voted to boycott a college or university.
First Nations is the only aboriginally controlled university in Canada. By imposing censure, the association asks that all professors, including those in other countries, not accept faculty jobs at First Nations, nor invitations to speak there or participate in its conferences.
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The Galveston County Daily News: UTMB layoffs included 127 faculty
Published November 30, 2008
GALVESTON — Experts in molecular medicine, researchers on infectious diseases and well-known surgeons were among the 127 University of Texas Medical Branch faculty members laid off after Hurricane Ike.
The doctors, professors and researchers were among 3,000 layoffs at the medical branch.
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Posted in Budgets & Funding, Faculty
The Chronicle News Blog: Colleges Are Accused of Giving Little Consideration to Alternatives to Affirmative Action
Many colleges have largely disregarded the U.S. Supreme Court’s admonition to seriously consider other options before using race-conscious admissions policies, argues a forthcoming Catholic University Law Review article co-written by a former federal civil-rights official.
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Inside Higher Ed: Christmas Wins Another Round
There may be a war against Christmas, but the holiday is holding its own at public universities. On Wednesday, facing widespread criticism, the president of Florida Gulf Coast University reversed a ban on religious holiday decorations on the campus. This is the second year in a row that a public university has initially called off Christmas decorations but then abruptly changed course following criticism. Last year, Missouri State University restored a Christmas tree to a prominent place on the campus.
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Inside Higher Ed: Scrutiny for a Presidential Spouse
Carol Petersen, wife of the system president, John Petersen, was recently banned by the university’s board from any contact with donors or staff members at the university following an incident in which she is alleged to have treated a donor rudely, leaving the donor in tears. The ban was lifted only after John Petersen wrote a letter to the university pledging that his wife’s activities would be conducted only as a volunteer and with no authority over anyone. President Petersen also acknowledged that the incident and its handling would be part of his five-year review, currently being conducted by his board. The situation escalated to a point that the state’s governor, Phil Bredesen, was informed.
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San Francisco Chronicle: UC restores labor program governor tried to cut
UC President Mark Yudof agreed this week to fund labor and employment research programs at UC Berkeley and UCLA that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had sought to eliminate by removing their funding from the state budget in September.
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The Chronicle News Blog: College of Santa Fe Looks to State as Deal With Laureate Collapses
The State of New Mexico might need to take over a struggling private college there after its discussions to be acquired by a for-profit provider fell through.
The College of Santa Fe was in talks with Laureate Education for it to assume the college’s debt and assist in marketing the college, in affirming its brand, and in recruiting more students.
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Boston Globe: N.E. colleges see profit in China’s multitudes
BEIJING – Some elite American universities come to China to scout the smartest students possible. Other lesser known schools, particularly small private colleges around New England, arrive here with a far different motive: profit.
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Daily News Egypt: Police officers banned on Cairo University campus
CAIRO: The Cairo Administrative Court Tuesday issued a ruling that bans the presence of police officers on Cairo University’s campus.
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Detroit Free Press: Advocacy group filing suit against OU on dorm denial
Michigan Protection and Advocacy Service, a disability advocacy group, announced Tuesday it is filing suit against Oakland University on behalf of a man who is fighting to live in campus dorms.
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St Louis Post-Dispatch: University of Missouri coach Gary Pinkel’s $650,000 raise comes amid financial stress at school
Two events that took place at the University of Missouri-Columbia on Tuesday seemed to tell different stories about the financial health of the university and the state of the economy at large.
One portrayed a university that’s tightening its belt; the other showed a school showering money on its beloved football coach.
Around noon, Chancellor Brady Deaton held a news briefing to outline how a university saddled with a hiring freeze will decide which critical positions it can afford to fill.
“We are entering this period of economic uncertainty, unprecedented in our lifetimes,” Deaton wrote in an e-mail to faculty and staff. And he told reporters, “We’re going to be doing more with less.”
Then, about two hours later, the Board of Curators met in closed session and approved what amounts to a 35 percent — or $650,000 — raise for Gary Pinkel, the campus’ successful football coach. Pinkel’s new $2.5 million compensation package makes him the third-highest paid coach in the Big 12, the athletic conference in which Mizzou competes.
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Sacramento Bee: California’s college applicants face cuts, fewer choices
A succession of bad news over the past two weeks has turned the college plans of California high school seniors upside down.
The Community College League of California announced that proposed state budget cuts at community colleges could drive away 262,000 students.
Four days later, California State University administrators said they plan to eliminate 10,000 admission spots for the upcoming school year.
Two days after that, University of California regents warned they may limit freshman enrollments next fall.
The timing couldn’t be much worse for high school students in the thick of the college application season – Sunday is the deadline for many students applying to CSU and UC.
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