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...Japanese, the Japan Foundation, the nation's rough equivalent to the British Council or Germany's Goethe Institute, invites 500 foreign teachers from more than 50 nations to Japan each year for all-expenses-paid training programs. (Alimansyar is currently participating in the course.) The Foundation also plans to establish 100 Japanese-language hubs overseas by 2010, more than double those that existed just this...
...party's small-government purists, meanwhile, will insist that voters punished Republicans for going on a spending spree and that what the party most needs to do is re-establish an image of tightfistedness. The problem with this theory is while spending restraint is popular in general, so is nearly every specific spending program...
...women numbered 38 percent of engineering concentrators and only 17 percent of computer-science concentrators.According to Joanne Cohoon, a research scientist at the National Center for Women & Information Technology, this trend is nothing new. Female enrollment in computer-science courses has been declining since the 1980s. The push to establish computer science as an independent discipline with specialized knowledge “hardened” the image of computer scientists “into something stereotyped as masculine,” she said. In addition, as the number of students in the field increased, the size of the faculty could...
...this point, he added that department chairs have been very receptive to proposed efforts. Golan will also oversee the master’s degree programs at the Medical School and direct the educational component of the Harvard Catalyst, a pan-University initiative providing resources to all Harvard affiliates. Established in May, the Catalyst is primarily funded by a $117.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to use research to address health problems. Golan will also advise Flier to help design global education programs and establish research partnerships to provide opportunities for Harvard faculty and students working both abroad...
...Cambridge Public School Committee voted last night. The change will stay in effect indefinitely, until a more comprehensive decision on Cambridge’s long-standing “controlled choice” policy is reached in the spring. The district’s policy seeks to establish socioeconomic diversity at all Cambridge schools. In keeping with the program, the school district has required that each kindergarten class reflect the demographics of the entire incoming student population—which is determined by enrollment numbers in previous years—with a ten percent variance factor. Justin Martin, director...