Education
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08-03-10
Huntington Bank Partners With Big Lots and Donates Backpacks to 30,000 Schoolchildren in Need
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Huntington Bank (Nasdaq: HBAN; www.huntington.com) today announced it is donating 30,000 backpacks to support schoolchildren in need, just in time for the back-to-school season. The donation, ...
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07-29-10
Virtusa supports One Laptop per Child Program
Virtusa Corporation (NASDAQ: VRTU), a global IT services company that offers a broad spectrum of business consulting and outsourcing services, has initiated a novel pilot program towards supporting the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program, a UN endorsed Open Source project. T...
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07-29-10
CORE K12 Releases Seedplay(R), a Social Utility Designed to Transform Education for the iGeneration
/PRNewswire/ - CORE K12, an international education company dedicated to providing useful, practical technology solutions to K-12 educators, announced today the release of Seedplay. In the face of unprecedented economic challenges, Seedplay provides educators with a low-cost...
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07-27-10
NEW! MA Human Rights and Business at Middlesex University, London
Multinational corporations may be involved in human rights abuses in a variety of ways, especially in developing countries where such corporations may be unaware of political realities and sometimes end up being accused of complicity in the commission of gross human rights v...
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07-22-10
Walden University Will Award Degrees to More Than 4,800 Graduates from 50 States, 29 Countries
/PRNewswire/ - Walden University will celebrate the graduation of more than 4,800 students at its 44th commencement ceremony on Saturday, July 24, at the Minneapolis Convention Center. The Walden graduates...
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07-20-10
GW School of Business Net Impact Chapter Achieves Gold Rating
The Net Impact chapter of The George Washington University School of Business (GWSB) attained a gold rating, joining an elite group of graduate, student-led chapters worldwide recognized for outstanding work advancing so...
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07-19-10
PricewaterhouseCoopers Commits Time, Talent and Resources to Operation HOPE's Education Initiative, 5MK
/PRNewswire/ -- For the second time in four months, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is mobilizing nearly 600 interns to teach financial literacy to thousands of youths nationwide. The effort, which will occur th...
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06-30-10
Reading Is Fundamental and Macy's Launch Book A Brighter Future
/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ - Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) and Macy's have teamed up to launch the fifth year of Book A Brighter Future™, RIF's largest customer supported campaign held at Macy's stores nationwide. The funds raised through Book A Brighter Future will benefit 17,0...
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06-29-10
Research links carbon pricing and productivity
A policy brief released today links carbon pricing to possible gains in productivity through increases in innovation. The review profiles a growing body of academic research and good evidence to show that careful carbon pricing policy may be a tool to help Canada prosper in ...
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06-25-10
Building Robots to Counter Dropout Rates
(Feb. 17, 2010) - Youth Fusion is thrilled to announce that BMO Financial Group-Quebec, Bell, Bombardier Inc., CAE, Hydro-Québec and Vigilant Futures have joined forces to send 45 Montreal students to FIRST, an international robotics competition.
