Science Education & Policy
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NEW YORK, August 4 /PRNewswire/ --
- The Ranking, In Its 7th Year, To Be Unveiled At 3rd Annual Top 250 Global Energy Companies Asia Leadership Awards Dinner
Platts, the world's leading energy information provider and a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), will announce its annual Platts Top 250 Global Energy Companies in Singapore on October 20, 2008.
The Platts Top 250 Global Energy Companies ranking, now in its seventh year, measures corporate leadership by examining each company's performance and tracks the changes in ranks of regional energy companies as they increasingly…
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LONDON, August 4 /PRNewswire/ --
The most valuable business asset that you and your sports and leisure facility could own this year will cost you nothing more than your time. Because a ticket to Sports Development Week (SDW, 23-25 September, Birmingham NEC), the UK's primary annual event focused on participation, infrastructure and performance in sport, is completely free when you pre-register at www.sdwshow.co.uk (and avoid the 15 pounds Sterling entry fee when registering at the show).
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Incorporated within Leisure Industry week,…
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MANHASSET, New York, August 4 /PRNewswire/ --
- Industry Veterans Rank Financial Engineering Programs Based on Wall Street Recruitability
TechWeb's Advanced Trading, the premiere source for objective industry-specific content for trading executives, today announced the Top Ten schools for quantitative analysts. Working closely with Wall Street veterans, Advanced Trading chose the top schools in terms of financial services recruitability. Published in the August issue, the article entitled, "The Top 10 Quant Schools, According to the Street" was written by executive editor, Cristina McEachern…
Growing interest in publicly funded programs for young children has drawn attention to whether and how Head Start and other early childhood programs should be asked to prove their worth.
Congress asked the National Research Council for guidance on how to identify important outcomes for children from birth to age 5 and how best to assess them in preschools, child care, and other early childhood programs.
The Research Council's new report concludes that well-planned assessments can inform teaching and efforts to improve programs and can contribute to better outcomes for children, but poor…
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LONDON, August 4 /PRNewswire/ --
- Brightcove's New Subsidiary in Japan Adds General Manager, Announces First Customer, and Closes $4.9 Million Financing; gorin.jp to Publish Beijing Olympic Video With Brightcove
Brightcove Inc., the leading global Internet video platform, today announced that it has appointed technology industry leader and entrepreneur Hisashige Hashimoto as general manager of Brightcove KK, Brightcove's Japan-based subsidiary. It was also announced that Web TV distribution giant, PRESENTCAST, has selected the Brightcove Internet video platform for gorin.jp, the exclusive…
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We don't have a lot of students reading here but if we did, I would tell them not to sweat the letter grades too much.
You can be a 'C' student at Yale and be President of the United States.
Heck, you can be an even worse student and be his Democrat opponent in 2004.
You can even be regarded as a brilliant physicist - eventually.
Werner Heisenberg - you've heard of him, he's that uncertainty principle guy who came up with the notion that at the small level the measurement of position disturbs a particle's momentum, often confused with the observer effect rather than being a manifestation of…
Ohio State University researchers have developed a new method of measuring school quality based on schools’ 'impact on learning' and their results say that summer vacations and parent incomes have more to do with low test scores than the quality of the schools.
Using this 'impact' measure, about three-quarters of the schools now considered “failing” because of their low test scores would no longer would be failing.
A school system measuring tool where everyone is above average even if they have poor test scores and where good test scores can still mean failure? Is that legitimate or is it…
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CALGARY, Canada, August 1 /PRNewswire/ --
- International Consortium Formed for Investment in Gas Development - Including the Potential Monetization of OML137 Gas
Addax Petroleum Corporation (TSX: AXC and LSE: AXC) ("Addax Petroleum" or the "Corporation"), together with its partners Chrome Oil Services Limited ("Chrome") and Korea Gas Corporation ("KOGAS"), announces today that it has received the approval from the Federal Government of Nigeria, for its proposed implementation of an integrated gas utilization project in Nigeria. Addax Petroleum has also entered into a heads of agreement with…
EQUATE Petrochemical Company Adopts Advanced Learning Management From Tata Interactive Systems (TIS)
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MUMBAI, August 1 /PRNewswire/ -- - TIS' Learning Planet(TM) all set to Enable Success at one of the World's Leading Petrochemical Companies.
Learning Planet(TM), an Enterprise Learning Management System from global E-learning provider TIS, has recently been implemented at EQUATE Petrochemical Company, a Kuwait-based global downstream petrochemical company.
According to Anil Sonkar - Head, Software Solutions, TIS, "EQUATE was looking for a system that enables seamless connectivity to its current SAP portal and meets the company's objectives to facilitate training and workflow process…
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GENEVA and PARIS, August 1 /PRNewswire/ --
SunGard and GL TRADE today announced SunGard's intention to acquire a majority stake in GL TRADE, a global financial software solutions company serving more than 1,600 customers.
SunGard has made a binding offer and entered into final discussions with GL TRADE's main shareholders Euronext Paris S.A., Gagnieres, and Messrs. Pierre Gatignol, Louis-Christophe Laurent and Frederic Morin (together the "Main Shareholders") to acquire a block of shares representing, directly and indirectly, 64.51% of GL TRADE's share capital at a price of euro 41.70 per GL…