November, 2009
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Nov 09
Get To Know Educaedu
Here at Educaedu, we are very proud to have officially created our very own blog!
(APPLAUSE)
We will keep you up-to-date with what’s going on at Educaedu and provide you with relevant news from the world of education. Whether you are currently looking for more information about a program or just interested in what’s new in education, this is the blog for you.
What? You’re not familiar with us? Well then please, sit back, relax and let us tell you a little bit about ourselves.
Educaedu is an online education directory where prospective students can search for higher education programs by keyword, category or location. Founded in 2001, Educaedu originally started in Spain with three websites (Busca Oposiciones, Tu Master and Canal Cursos). In January 2008, they decided to expand the directory and launch Educaedu on a global scale, opening an office in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Now we operate in 18 countries in 8 different languages, and our database contains 92,000 programs. Soon we will be expanding in Russia, China, Korea and India.
Our team is made up of 53 people and 11 different nationalities.
Educaedu currently operates in the following countries:
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish.
We will be updating this blog multiple times a week, so check back frequently and please let us know if you have any comments. We are always open to suggestions!
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Nov 09
Natalie Portman – Actor? Scholar? Both?
Portman as a guest lecturer at Harvard Business School in October of 2007.
Did you know that Natalie Portman went to one of the most prestigious universities in the world? Not only is she talented and beautiful, but she can hold her own when it comes to academics.
In June of 2003, Portman graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in Psychology. Since then, she has taken postgraduate courses at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has even been a guest lecturer on terrorism and counterterrorism at Columbia University in New York.
Natalie Portman shows that education is an important part of life. No matter who you are or how famous you become, there is no limit to what you can learn.
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Nov 09
World University Rankings
The BBC is reporting that European and Asian universities are rising in world-wide rankings.
The 2009 Times Higher Education table, the source of this new information, is based on a survey of academics and graduate employers worldwide.
This year there are 39 European universities in the top 100, up from 36, and the number of Asian universities rose from 14 to 16.
“The broad message of these tables is clear – the leading UK research universities are held in high esteem internationally,” said Dr. Wendy Piatt, director general of the Russell Group of Universities.
“But countries like China and Korea, which are investing massively in their best institutions, are snapping at our heels.”
In case you are interested, here are some of the top schools organized by country:
AUSTRALIA
17. Australian National University (ANU)
36. The University of Melbourne
36. The University of Sydney
41. Queensland University
45. Monash University
47. University of NSW
81. University of Adelaide
84. University of Western Australia
CANADA
18. McGill University
29. University of Toronto
40. University of British Columbia
59. University of Alberta
FRANCE
28. Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
36. Ecole Polytechnique
GERMANY
55. Technical University of Munich
57. Heidelberg University
94. Free University of Berlin
98. Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich
UK
2. University of Cambridge
4. University College London
5. Imperial College London
5. University of Oxford
20. University of Edinburgh
23. King’s College London
26. University of Manchester
34. University of Bristol
58. University of Warwick
66. University of Birmingham
67. London School of Economics
70. University of York
79. University of Glasgow
82. University of Sheffield
87. University of St Andrews
91. University of Nottingham
95. University of Southampton
99. University of Leeds
For more information, visit the BBC article.
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Nov 09
From Basketball to Journalism to Acting
Denzel then... and Denzel now.
Denzel Washington is one of todays most respected actors. With numerous awards and accolades from his peers, one would never guess that in college he would have rather played basketball than act. He started as a freshman at Fordham University playing on their basketball team. He planned on studying journalism and medicine, but found he was not driven by those areas. During a brief absense from school, Washington worked as a counselor at a summer camp called Camp Sloane YMCA in Connecticut. After participating in a staff talent show for the campers, a colleague suggested he try acting. Returning to Fordham that fall, he enrolled at the Lincoln Center campus to study acting, getting cast in the title roles in both Eugene O’Neill’s The Emperor Jones, and William Shakespeare’s Othello, where he earned rave reviews. These experienes must have really impacted Denzel because he ended up earning a Bachelor of Arts, double majoring in Drama and Journalism in 1977. Upon graduation, he was given a scholarship to attend graduate school at the prestigious American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, where he stayed for one year before deciding to return to New York to begin a professional acting career.
I bet Denzel is quite thankful for the encouragement from his fellow camp counselor. I wonder if they are still in touch?
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Nov 09
Paper or Electronic? Trends in Higher Education
A printed format section at the New York Library.
Primary Research Group, a New York-based firm that does research reports, surveys and benchmarking studies for businesses, colleges, libraries, law firms, hospitals, museums and other institutions, recently released a new report regarding the use of print and electronic library collections of scholarly journals. It is based on an investigation done with more than 550 higher education faculty in the United States and Canada. Faculty members would present their opinions on a variety of topics related to their preferences for print or paper vs. electronic journal formats.
Here are just a few findings from the report:
- Canadian faculty members were more likely than their American counterparts to think of the paper copies as a waste of time – nearly 45% thought so.
- In general, age was highly inversely correlated with the tendency to think of paper copies as wasteful and redundant when online versions were available.
- Only 13.86% of faculty members at research universities prefer paper to online journal formats.
- Only a third of community college faculty express support for increased spending on academic journals while about 64.3% of faculty in MA/Ph.D. granting colleges expressed such support.
More findings from a related Primary Research Group report:
- Libraries canceled an average of 53 journal titles in the past year.
- Average spending on print edition only subscriptions was $130,721, less than a sixth of total spending.
- 15.56% of libraries have paid a publication fee on behalf of an author from their institution.
- 42.22% of libraries with all new subscriptions to journals include electronic access.
It seems as though that the resources that academia uses are quickly changing and that faculty members do not agree whether or not it is a good thing.
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