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Bangor man given Alzheimer's study grant
A QUEEN’S academic from Bangor has been awarded £228,000 to further his research into how Alzheimer’s disease progresses. Dr Stephen Todd, who works in the Department of Geriatric Medicine at Queen’s, has been announced as the only Beeson Ireland 2008 scholar after a transatlantic panel…
Author: The Community Telegraph
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U.S. Aid Urged for Education's Entrepreneurs
by Erik W. Robelen Washington With the presidential candidates both underscoring their support for entrepreneurial initiatives in education, policy experts are advancing ideas for helping such efforts flourish. In their Oct. 15 debate at Hofstra University, both Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Barack Obama…
Author: Education Week
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An immigrant's ID in the high court
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has provided one million USD to fund three projects aimed at helping the disabled in Da Nang to access health services and acquire essential work skills in order to successfully seek jobs. The US ambassador to Vietnam…
Author: Los Angeles Times
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South Africa to boost spending on health
by CLARE NULLIS South Africa will boost spending on education, health and infrastructure projects even though the global economic turmoil is expected to cut growth rates, its finance minister said Tuesday. Trevor Manuel argued that the South African economy will be shielded from the…
Author: Associated Press Worldstream
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Planning to leave the world of work
by CLARE NULLIS South Africa will boost spending on education, health and infrastructure projects even though the global economic turmoil is expected to cut growth rates, its finance minister said Tuesday. Trevor Manuel argued that the South African economy will be shielded from the…
Author: The Irish Times
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Budget cuts put rights at risk, says Amnesty
by OLIVIA KELLY THE DECISION to cut funding for two key human rights organisations in last week’s budget could spell their demise, executive director of Amnesty International Ireland Colm O’Gorman has said. The Government’s decision not to proceed with plans to merge the Equality Authority…
Author: Irish Times
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Report Cites Chronic Absenteeism in City Schools
by JENNIFER MEDINA More than 90,000 of New York City’s elementary school students – roughly 20 percent – missed at least a month of classes during the last school year, with attendance problems most acute in central Brooklyn, Harlem and the South Bronx, according to…
Author: The New York Times
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Study: Parents can't always afford health insurance for kids
by ALIZA MARCUS More than a fourth of uninsured children in the United States have a parent with health coverage, according to a study whose authors said it shows private insurance is too expensive for many working families. The insured parents of kids without coverage…
Author: Bloomberg News
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Activists tackle defence lawyers in lesbian's murder
by NATASHA JOSEPH GENDER activists say they are to lodge complaints with the Law Society of South Africa against several lawyers representing nine men accused of beating a lesbian to death more than two years ago. On February 4, 2006, Zoliswa Nkonyana, 18, was kicked,…
Author: Cape Times (South Africa)
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TUI warns budget cuts will 'asset-strip' education
by SEAN FLYNN, GORDON DEEGAN and KITTY HOLLAND Over 1,000 teaching posts will be lost and the entire education sector will be “asset-stripped” because of the budget cuts, the Teachers Union of Ireland (TUI) said yesterday. In a separate development, the Bishop of Killaloe, Dr…
Author: Irish Times
