by Beth Holmes | Mar 7, 2022 | News, Other
Skoltech, a Russian graduate university, is being cut off by MIT over the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In 2011, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology partnered with the Russian government to found the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, generally known...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 28, 2022 | News, Other, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
The Taliban hasn’t been paying teachers in Afghanistan. Now UNICEF is stepping in to make sure Afghan children don’t lose all access to education. The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan last August, international trade and banking sanctions against the new...
by Beth Holmes | Dec 27, 2021 | News, Other, Teacher Issues
Governor Greg Abbott of Texas announced Monday that $123.3 million in federal relief money would be going to Texas schools. The money is from the Coronavirus Response and and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, the bill passed by Congress in 2020. It contained...
by Beth Holmes | Jun 21, 2021 | News, Other
While student debt looks to be one of the peak issues of the current political field, school debt also ought to be part of the conversation. More than 1,200 colleges, most of them privately owned, for-profit schools, owe money to the federal Department of Education....
by Sarah Green | Jul 12, 2017 | Other, Student Issues
Photo: Students gather in Pacific Northwest College of Art’s new home in a repurposed federal building. Here, you can see students appreciating the juxtaposition of old and new. Photo courtesy of PNCA Having a beautiful campus is about more than aesthetics: it...
