News
International Education News Round-up
(September 14-20, 2009)
iPhone app for fresher students
(BBC News 09/18/2009 Sean Coughlan)
A university is offering a free iPhone application it has developed to help students starting their first term.
New school pays for behavior
(EducationNews.org 09/14/2009)
A new school gives students paychecks for behaving appropriately.
Harvard to offer a doctorate in education leadership
(Boston Globe 09/15/2009)
The Harvard Graduate School of Education will offer a new, tuition-free doctoral degree in education leadership, its first new degree in 74 years.
Schools look abroad to hire teachers
(New York Times 09/14/2009 Sam Dillon)
Some American school districts have turned increasingly to overseas recruiting to find teachers willing to work in their hard-to-staff schools, according to a new report by a national teachers union.
(Published 22 September 2009, Smart Communications Inc.)
