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...Although the government does not keep exact figures, the Coalition to Uproot Ragging from Education, a non-profit lobby group, found 52 hazing incidents reported in India's English-language media between June and September of 2007. The group claims that six suicides and three attempted suicides in the same period can be blamed on harassment, which they say is widespread at engineering and medical colleges - mostly, although not exclusively, among male students. Anti-ragging activist Shivam Vij, who launched the website stopragging.org in 2005, claims that nine out of ten students in India are subject to ragging, but that...
...seem like they were proactively reforming themselves.The discrepancy in federal and state regulation would not be such a problem if there was not a strong possibility that student lenders would actively seek loopholes and adhere to the lowest standards of the law. As corporations serving financially inexperienced students and non-profit universities, one might assume that lenders are altruistic to some extent—or at least that universities would assume responsibility as an impartial judge of lenders. However, the recent scandals prove that regulators still have reason to doubt private interests. If such unsavory business practices persist, students will...
...Consulting payments can induce physicians to make treatment decisions because of financial ties—and not necessarily in the patient’s interest—according to Merrill Goozner, director of the Integrity in Science program at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a non-profit consumer group...
Rome wasn't built in a day, but that's all the time that Nicholas Negroponte has for the Eternal City right now. As he's done for the past three years, the founder and chairman of the non-profit One Laptop Per Child foundation has touched down in one world capital after another to pitch his innovative and audacious project to government leaders, curious techies, education advocates, NGOs and anyone else who will listen. But even as he was criss-crossing Rome in a hectic 14 hours earlier this week, Negroponte's attention was fixed on a factory near...
...Harvard Business School Club of New York (HBSCNY) announced last week that it will donate more than $1 million to non-profit organizations, the biggest donation the club has made up to date. Grants of $180,000 each will go to five education-oriented non-profits in the Greater New York area. The gift will provide another $200,000 for need-based scholarships at Harvard Business School (HBS), as well as full scholarships for two Harvard MBA students who focus on non-profit management. The club’s members provide about $1 million worth of pro bono consulting every...