Moreover, today's big mergers may give birth to hard-to-beat Internet learning partnerships, according to Clark Aldridge, an education analyst at Gartner Group (IT) .
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Wisconsin's Flexible Option program is "quite visionary, " said Molly Corbett Broad, president of the American Council on Education, an education policy and lobbying group that represents some 1, 800 accredited colleges and universities.
The Scottish Transplant Group recommended that an education pack should be developed in a report in July 2002.
More than half of the advertising money came from an obscure nonprofit group, the Economic Education Trust.
With the Post Co. picking up the tab, Kaplan began to acquire unglamorous education concerns like Schweser Study Programs (which trains certified financial analysts), the National Institute of Paralegal Arts and Sciences, and Dearborn Publishing Group (an adult-education company that offers training for real estate, securities and insurance certification).
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It was organized by the Aspen Institute, a nonprofit group with an arm that studies management education and society.
An afterschool and summer education program for poor kids, the group demonstrated that its students had a seven-month head start in reading, writing and math over their peers.
Quotas tend to benefit the luckiest and best-prepared of the favoured group, not the most disadvantaged, says Andreas Schleicher, an education expert at the OECD.
Another group, the St Patrick's Heritage Association, are planning an education programme which would help the Protestant community learn more about the saint.
The San Antonio Livestock Exposition, the group that organizes the event each year, has made an ambitious commitment to education.
"This is positive news and demonstrates that higher education is still an excellent investment, " said Alex Bols, executive director of the 1994 Group of research intensive universities.
Alex Bols, executive director of the 1994 Group of universities said the report was an "important contribution" and that higher education did have an important role to play in aiding social mobility, but some of the recommendations gave "real cause for concern".
Apollo Group, the largest for-profit education provider, is viewed as the leader in an unsustainable market.
The Persian Gulf visit by the First Minister is also to bang the drum for Scottish business and education, with McGrigors law firm opening an office, Heriot-Watt University opening a campus, Weir Group expected to announce new developments and exports of renewable energy technology to be promoted.
Universitas 21, an international group of universities, claimed the new ranking was the first to compare the effectiveness of national higher education systems.
John Daniel, UNESCO's Assistant Director-General for Education, said in his concluding remarks that he experienced "an enormous change" in the style of the Working Group.
The league has partnered with the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network and the Ad Council on an ad campaign addressing homophobic language and has worked with the gay rights advocacy group GLAAD on initiatives to address anti-gay bullying and other issues.
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