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Harris said that the current unpredictable nature of class sizes has led the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to overspend on books, TFs and TAs, to the tune of over $1 million last year...
...long sought to reduce these inefficiencies. Two years ago, administrators began working with pre-semester estimates to reduce the number of TFs hired at the last minute to accommodate larger-than-expected classes. According to Harris, TFs who are hired after the semester has begun are often among the lowest rated in the Q Guide...
...last spring, FAS announced that it would cut up to 10 percent of section leader positions for the fall 2009 semester by adhering more closely to the target of 18-person sections...
...more than half in the third. Sebati Thakur, a 23-year-old from Keonjhar district in Orissa, lost her first baby to a bacterial infection. She began attending the meetings with her mother-in-law, learning, she says, to "go for checkups, take iron and get a Tetanus shot." Last year she gave birth to a healthy girl...
Researchers say they've found a way to keep more newborns alive in the poorest corners of eastern India: Get their mothers talking. A report published in The Lancet medical journal last month suggests that gathering women together for monthly chats on sound pregnancy practices and reproductive health may drastically cut neonatal mortality rates in rural communities. "Too many people in the health community think that health is about delivering little magic bullets to passive poor people," says Anthony Costello of University College London's Institute of Child Health, which spearheaded the project. "What that doesn...