Fast-growing for-profit colleges, under fire for saddling students with unmanageable debt, are rolling out new policies aimed at raising graduation rates while also hoping a Republican- controlled House will block unfavorable legislation. We have a great opportunity to educate [the newly elected representatives] on the value our sector plays in the higher education system and the economy," said Harris Miller, president of the 1,800-member Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities (APSCU). Miller is hoping that President Obama's push to get more Americans to complete college could mean education will become an area of bipartisan agreement in a divided Congress.
Introduction - II. Intellectual property systems - A. Copyright - B. Trademark - C. Trade Secrets - D. Patents - 1. Early Patent Law - 2. Current Patent System - 3. Plant Protection Act and Plant Variety Protection Act - III. International patent-related treaties, conventions, and documents - A. Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works - B. Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Properties - C. GATT and the WTO - D. TRIPS - E. Shortcomings in the Current International IP Regime for Dissemination of Innovation to Developing Nations - F. Conclusion - IV. University participation in patent systems - A. Overview of Higher Education Systems in the United States - B. Commercialization and Universities - C. Models of University IP Systems - 1. Ivory Towe...
There's an important question that should be answered as America begins to tackle the serious problem of childhood obesity: How do you tell kids that they're fat without causing psychological damage? Privacy, privacy, privacy.
India is racing ahead to become a global hub for advanced R&D in several industries. In trying to understand how India is achieving this feat, the authors learned that the Indian private sector has found a way to overcome deficiencies in its education system through innovative programs of workforce training and development. These have transformed workers with a weak educational foundation into R&D specialists. In response, then, the US needs learn from India and upgrade its workforce. If workforce training can take the output of an education system as weak as India's and turn its graduates into world-class engineers and scientists, imagine what could be done with a worker base that has received among the best education in the world, as is the case in the US. US companies have lo...
It passed with little fanfare in the slipstream of health care reform last week, but a looming overhaul of the nation's student- loan market may bring just as large a policy revolution in higher- education finance as Obamacare does for the nation's medical- delivery system. Private lenders are angry, and many colleges and universities are scrambling to adjust in the next three months, following passage by the Senate and House of a bill of "fixes" to President Obama's signature health care reform. Congressional Democrats used the must- pass bill as a vehicle to push through the long-sought student-loan package as well, making the federal government - not the private sector - the direct provider of federal loans to some 8 million students nationwide annually.
Christine Gallo, writer of the letter "Scoffing at privatization" (March 4 and TribLIVE.com), must be the product of the modern education system to believe that Social Security should not be modified to allow for private investment accounts. Utilizing a conservative 50/50 allocation of stocks and bonds over 40 working years would provide at least double what Social Security would, and the money would be yours to do with as you saw fit. In its current form, when you die, it is gone. Social Security is underfunded by tens of trillions of dollars and is not guaranteed to be there when the rules say it should. The rules can be changed at any time, as they have been over the years and most assuredly will be in the near future, or eliminated altogether, although that probably won't happen. Pe...
Need to end direct subsidies to public universities The state government-controlled higher education system has changed private higher education and threatens the independence of private colleges and universities. Public finance lowers the tuition at public schools and allows them to capture an expanding share of enrollment. Direct subsidies to public universities should be eliminated.
One of the strongest arguments against private school vouchers was that public money shouldn't fund private choices, particularly when public charter schools offer school choice within the government education system. What a difference a few years make.
Iran has barred private schools from teaching music, saying it clashes with the establishment's Islamic values, following a push to enforce moral standards that may lead to a national dress code for university students. The use of musical instruments is against the principles of our value system," Ali Bagherzadeh, head of the private-schools office in the Education Ministry, said in a phone interview from Tehran on Tuesday. Iran's 16,000 private schools have 1.1 million students, the Islamic Republic News Agency said.
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