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International Education News Round-up
(December 14-20, 2009)
US university coding future of news
(Inquirer, 12/16/2009, AFP)
A university in Illinois sets up an Internet-based customized newscast presented by digital avatars and written by computers.
Master's degree at 17 for precocious Austrian
(Inquirer, 12/15/2009, AFP)
With a high school diploma at 15 and a bachelor's degree at 16, precocious teenager Marian Kogler has now become Austria's youngest master's graduate at the age of 17.
Controlling a classroom isn't as easy as ABC
(EducationNews.org 12/15/2009 Seema Mehta)
Among the top reasons why teachers are deemed unsuccessful or leave the profession is their inability to effectively manage student behavior, experts say.
UK freezes Kenya school funding amid fraud allegations
(BBC News 12/14/2009)
The UK government has frozen funding for free primary education in Kenya until an investigation into fraud allegations has been carried out.
Teach five-year-olds to beware of advertising, says government inquiry
(The Guardian 12/14/2009 Jessica Shepherd)
Children as young as five should be given lessons in how to deal with the onslaught of adverts hurled at them, lawmakers suggest.
More than 10,000 high-school-age youths lack health insurance
(Breitbart.com 12/16/2009)
Some 10,600 youths of high school age in Japan remain uninsured because their parents have fallen behind in payments of national health insurance premiums, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said.
(Published 21 December 2009, Smart Communications Inc.)
