Topic: Education Policy

A Dutch university says a transsexual former student has won a battle to be granted a replacement graduation diploma with his new name and gender printed on it.. University of Amsterdam spokesman Paul Helbing says Justus Eisfeld will get a new diploma ...
After compromise naming of deputy, media executive is granted waiver to lead NYC schoolsThe New York state education commissioner has granted a waiver to let media executive Cathie Black head New York City's school system.The announcement Monday came after Mayor Michael Bloomberg ...
The state's education commissioner will grant media executive Cathie Black a waiver to serve as chancellor of the nation's largest school system, an official with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press Friday.. An advisory panel appointed to weigh Black's qualifications ...
An official with knowledge of the decision says New York's education commissioner will grant media executive Cathie Black a waiver to serve as chancellor of the nation's largest school system.. The official spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Friday ...
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Major news items in leading Japanese newspapers

The following are the major news items in leading Japanese newspapers on Friday: -- The education ministry has decided to stop accepting high school tuition waiver applications from pro-Pyongyang schools, the Yomiuri Shimbun learned Thursday, throwing some schools and their students into ...

2,000 students storm Italian Senate

More than 2,000 students stormed the Italian Senate Thursday to protest education cuts and called on the education minister to resign, police in Rome said. During the protest, some students chanted "resign, resign," a call ANSA said was directed at Education Minister ...

Further cuts spur fear of lawsuits

Adequately funding schools could become constitutional issueThe arguments against more cuts in education are blunt: The schools are in bad enough shape. Children are our future. It would be irresponsible. To that list, Mo Denis, who will be chairman of the Senate ...
Is $8.6 billion too much to spend on an education program that doesn't help kids?Every year, American schools pay more than $8.6 billion in bonuses to teachers with master's degrees, even though the idea that a higher degree makes a teacher more ...

'Sack school head teachers who lose control'

More heads should be fired if they fail to run their schools well, according to a teacher who was sacked after highlighting " Katharine Birbalsingh lost her job as deputy head of St Michael and All Angels Academy in Camberwell after speaking ...