The Office of Financial Aid is now accepting applicants for its Free Application For Student Aid (FAFSA) program. They urge applicants to apply early to lock in their slots for the upcoming 2020-2021 academic year. FAFSA opens its door on October 1 for students planning to attend college in the fall of 2020. Though the […]
Philippine basketball imports may no longer play for local academic leagues when House Resolution No. 388 (HB 388) is approved. Deputy Speaker Michael Romero of 1-Pacman party-list asked his colleagues to support HB 388 which is “prohibition on the collegiate and university leagues from recruiting, acquiring and using non-Filipino citizens and foreign imports as players.” […]
Ferndale Middle School, a school in Michigan has started an Advancement via Individual Determination (AVID) program which enables students with mixed abilities to get the push they need to achieve equally as the other students. Also, this will help in increasing student diversity in higher education. Schools all around the state are planning to follow […]
Gavin Williamson, the UK Education Secretary has encouraged univerisites in their quest for diversity to move at a faster rate. He also also commended them for taking the initiative to reach out to different demographics of the population In 1999, Tony Blair, the then prime minister of the UK, set a target for admissions into […]
Papua New Guinea has shown tremendous commitment towards reforming its education system. One of the focus areas is teaching quality. According to the World Bank, teacher effectiveness ought to be regarded as the most fundamental school-based estimator of student learning. Nevertheless, Papua New Guinea has shown some laxity in this area based on the absence […]
Maintenance problems of bathrooms and inaccessible basic facilities of the student dorms at Princeton University sorely needed attention. The concerns rise especially in the case of Wilson College and some parts of Rockefeller College. Students have turned to Facebook confession pages with their complaints, calling the hall a ‘dump’ with a lack of access to […]
Special education schools are eligible to be reimbursed by Medicaid if a proposed bill is passed in Wyoming. This would save the state around $2.7 million annually after a few years. Wyoming is moving towards passing a bill that would remove funding cap for special education schools. They have also proposed a bill that would […]
Student-athlete endorsements became legal in California when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the bill allowing California college athletes to receive payment and other monetary incentives from brand endorsements. The bill also bans schools from kicking athletes off the team if they commit to any paid endorsements. The bill which will take effect in 2023 is the […]
“I want to be a teacher” is probably one of the most common ambitions we find in high school yearbooks, but in reality, it has slowly become a dying profession. Seana Deas, once a student under the education program recalled, I nearly spent $30,000 during my last year in college just to fulfill my dream. […]
The Education Department led by Betsy DeVos supported the Consortium of Middle East Studies (CMES) in Duke University-University of North Carolina consortium; this is despite her disagreement with CMES pro-Islam course content, which was supposedly not aligned with the national interest. As things stand, for now, the Duke-UNC CMES has received their funding for the […]
