2016年3月30日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Education News

There’s Good News for Women When It Comes to Higher Education

Posted: 30 Mar 2016 01:49 PM PDT

There's Good News for Women When It Comes to Higher EducationMore Americans are getting college degrees but recent gains haven't been uniform across all parts of the population, according to a new Census study. The difference between men and women has been eliminated, but there are still gaps in educational attainment between racial and ethnic groups. Certain immigrant groups are more likely to pursue advanced degrees than their U.S.-born counterparts, but immigrants' college attainment overall falls behind native-born citizens.

Ontario Teachers' pension plan assessing 'Brexit' risk daily

Posted: 30 Mar 2016 11:45 AM PDT

By Matt Scuffham TORONTO (Reuters) - The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, one of the biggest investors in British infrastructure, said it is assessing daily the risk that Britain will leave the European Union and is considering hedging the currency risk on its investments. Ontario Teachers', Canada's third-largest public pension plan, led a consortium of investors that purchased London City Airport for about 2 billion pounds ($2.9 billion) last month. It also owns Britain's High Speed One Channel Tunnel railway link and its National Lottery operator.

Growing number of small colleges struggling to stay afloat

Posted: 30 Mar 2016 10:21 AM PDT

In this Feb. 4, 2016, students walk near the entrance to Dowling College in Oakdale, N.Y. Dowling is among a growing number of small liberal arts colleges facing similar difficulties in the aftermath of the Great Recession. Many of these schools share certain traits: They have minimal endowments and rely heavily on tuition revenue, their tuition is relatively high, and they're in suburban or rural areas where the number of college-age students has dropped. (AP Photo/Frank Eltman)OAKDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Despite a bucolic waterfront campus on Long Island property once owned by the Vanderbilts, things have not been pretty at Dowling College. The school, 60 miles east of New York City, has been hemorrhaging money, students and faculty.

Hungarian teachers hold walkout to protest education policy

Posted: 30 Mar 2016 03:18 AM PDT

Teachers gather in front of the Ferenc Kolcsey secondary school to demand the reconstruction of the Hungarian public education system in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, March 30. 2016. Hundreds of teachers in Hungary walked out of class for one hour, demanding changes to government policies, including cutting bureaucratic tasks, allowing greater choice in textbooks, more funds for education and reducing students' mandatory school time. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP)BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hundreds of teachers across Hungary walked out of class for one hour on Wednesday, demanding changes to official policies, including cutting bureaucratic tasks, greater choice in textbooks, more funds for education and reducing students' mandatory school time.

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