Q&A with:James Heskett and W. Earl SasserPublished:December 22, 2008Authors:James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser, and Joe WheelerEditor's Note: Why is it that many of the same companies appear repeatedly on lists of the best places to work, the best providers

Cambridge University is facing accusations of "dumbing down" after offering to lend its name to qualifications in garden history and creative writing.

During a bitter stretch in the winter of 1925, the editor of the Rice Lake Chronotype decided to ask local old-timers about the famous bone-withering cold of January 1877, when local thermometers had supposedly stood at 68 degrees below zero.

Baz Luhrmann, director of Moulin Rouge and Australia, has purchased the film rights to The Great Gatsby. The "Australia" helmer has purchased the rights to "The Great Gatsby," F. Scott Fitzgerald's tome of the Roaring Twenties. While a script does

Renowned oncology researcher Dr. Daniel Von Hoff, a member of President Bush's National Cancer Advisory Board, provides an in-depth look at the "lost opportunity" in phase I oncology clinical trials. While most biotechnology companies use the phase I trial to

The National Universities Commission (NUC) has called on Nigerian Educationists in the Diaspora to assist the Federal Government in providing quality education for the citizenry in the country.The same Nigerians in the Diaspora, Rep. Abike Dabiri, said were remitting a

The teachers of physical education in Lobito District, in the central Benguela Province, considered that the lack of sports grounds in schools constitutes a hurdle to the success of their activities.

The government has developed a comprehensive Human Resource Development (HRD) Strategy to process, standardize and improve the curriculum for all the hospitality training institutions at the pre-tertiary level in the country.

The Angolan government has issued the organic statute of the Angolan Institute of Communications (Inacom) as a diploma that regulates the communication services, that disciplines, controls, monitors, manages and supervises the use of radio-electricactivity, ANGOP has learnt.

Mirage Networks, developer of patented, full-cycle Network Access Control (NAC) technology, today announced that North Lindsey College, the largest provider of post-16 education and training in North Lincolnshire, has selected Mirage Networks' NAC solution to secure the wired and wireless

Unique eco-challenge aligned with football rivalry; NBC Universal awards $ 10,000 to Notre Dame; $2,500 to Syracuse for green campus projects (PRWeb Dec 22, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/12/prweb1779344.htm

US$50,000 has been donated to the Episcopal Church owned Cuttington University (CU) by Lone Star Communication, a GSM service provider and the first and longest in the country.

Local members of the media should seek the true and verified information, deplore censorship, and value the quality of published information, especially in science related fields.

How do you find life as a professional dancer, a teacher, and a writer?All of these things actually give me a lot of fulfilment. Now that I am older, I don't have the kind of energy that I had in

The Federal Government has been called upon to aid private schools by giving them subventions and creating enabling environment for them to thrive, operate effectively and contribute meaningfully to the society.

Anglican Church is proving that university education is not the exclusive preserve of those outside the prison walls as it has instituted a programme to give education at that level to prison inmates.

President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua yesterday expressed disgust over the quality of graduates Nigerian universities churn out to the labour market.

The plan to introduce English as the official medium of instruction in all schools in the country, government institutions and the private sector is on the right track and should be completed by the end of 2012.

The current trend of engaging secondary school leavers to teach in primary schools will not be possible when the 17 boarding primary schools being built across the 17 local government areas in Yobe state are completed.

East African Community (EAC) ministers at the 6th round of the negotiations of the EAC Common Market Protocol have agreed to harmonise EAC academic documents and professional qualifications among other things that had been contentious in setting up the proposed