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Dodgy colleges may face spot fines
Sydney :: Australia | 8 days ago
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State Government proposal designed to safeguard the international student market. As Australia seeks to rebuild its reputation as an education hub for foreign students, the Brumby Government is pushing the Commonwealth for sweeping changes designed to...
Tags: international students, federal government, private college, Australia, Sydney, Education, Politics
Real Estate, On the Wane, Fights to Stay Politically Relevant Amid Financial Reform
Washington :: DC :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility A glut of available credit compounded matters, in turn flash-freezing property buying...And the federal government wants to ensure that the risky mortgage products that in part helped hurl the nation headlong into this mess are strictly regulated...House...
Tags: estate industry, U.S. Senate, Senate Banking, Congress, financial reform, federal government, subprime loans, election cycle, lobbying expenditures, Chuck Schumer, Washington, Chuck Schumer, Dismissal of United States Attorneys controversy, Video game censorship, Subprime lending, National Association of Realtors, Subprime mortgage crisis, Financial economics, Interest rates, Business Finance, Politics
Senators: Let's drop out of Medicaid
Miami :: FL :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility Top Florida senators said the state should consider dropping out of the federal-state Medicaid program to avoid a planned expansion and create its own healthcare system for low-income residents...Mike Haridopolos, R-Melbourne, and Don Gaetz, R-Niceville,...
Tags: Gaetz-Haridopolos, News Service of Florida, Florida Top Florida, Florida CHAIN, Don Gaetz, Mike Haridopolos, U.S. Senate, federal government, Washington, U.S. House, Miami, Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson, State Children's Health Insurance Program, TennCare, Healthcare reform in the United States, Healthcare in the United States, Medicaid, Health Medical Pharma, Social Issues, Politics
Intervention taskforce member slams Federal Govt
Sydney :: Australia | 10 days ago
Credibility The Australian Medical Association's Territory branch says compulsory health checks uncovered thousands of children with serious lung problems but about 500 have not been given adequate follow-up treatment. It says only about two of these cases per week...
Tags: federal government, Federal and Territory Governments, intervention taskforce, taskforce member, Australia, Sydney, Government of Australia, Law enforcement in Australia, Northern Territory National Emergency Response, Northern Territory, Warren Snowdon, Members of the Australian House of Representatives, Indigenous peoples of Australia, Human rights, Politics
Lukin backs Crawford Report
Sydney :: Australia | 10 days ago
Credibility The report questions so-called funding "bias" towards Olympic sports at the expense of more resources being directed at higher participation sports such as cricket, football codes, basketball, hockey and netball. Despite weightlifting being one of the...
Tags: Australian Institute of Sport, olympic sport, Crawford Report, sport funding, John Coates (sports administrator), olympic committee, David Crawford, federal government, Australia, Sydney, Australian Olympic Committee, Dean Lukin, John Dowling Coates, Olympic Games, allnews, Australian Sports Commission, Coates, Summer Olympics, Sport in Australia, Australia women's national water polo team, Rebecca Rippon, Rudd, Human Interest, Business Finance, Politics, Sports science, Curriculum, Education in England, Exercise, Physical education, Education
Top doctor says very few adverse reactions to H1N1 vaccine
Ottawa :: Canada | 10 days ago
Credibility The country's chief public health officer says few Canadians have suffered serious side effects from the swine-flu shot. Dr. David Butler-Jones says that of the 6.5 million people who have received the H1N1 vaccine, only 36 have had serious adverse reactions....
Tags: public health, health officer, chief public, adverse reactions, federal government, swine flu, h1n1 vaccination, Canada, Ottawa, Influenza vaccine, Influenza, flu pandemic, Swine influenza, flu pandemic vaccine, Vaccines, Pandemics, Influenza A virus subtype H1N1, Health Medical Pharma, flu pandemic in the United States, flu pandemic in North America, Health in the United States, Leona Aglukkaq, Social Issues, Influenza pandemic, MedImmune, flu pandemic in Asia, Vaccination schedule, Immunology, Politics
League tables law is simply rank
Melbourne :: Australia | 10 days ago
Credibility First we had the Herald brazenly breaking the law last week by publishing a comparison of the test results of three schools, and next we were told there was a real possibility that the ban on publishing such material breached the constitution by restricting...
Tags: NSW Parliament, University of NSW, schools results, federal government, government website, Herald, league tables, Australia, Melbourne, United States law, The Herald, Freedom of expression, First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Freedom of speech in the United States, Politics, Education
Brüderle's refusal to help Opel angers state premiers
Berlin :: Germany | 10 days ago
Credibility It was �not acceptable for the federal government to back out of an agreement, which we only made 10 days ago,� he added. North Rhine-Westphalia Premier J�rgen R�ttgers of the Christian Democrats was less overt in his criticism, but pointedly remarked...
Tags: federal government, Opel, Germany, Berlin, Rhineland-Palatinate, Car manufacturers, Magna International, General Motors, Politics
Illinois prison could host military trials of detainees
Thomson :: GA :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility In addition to housing foreign detainees, an Illinois state prison could become a site for military trials of those charged with acts of terrorism, an administration official acknowleged Monday. As the Obama administration works to identify a detention...
Tags: Guantanamo Bay, Illinois, U.S, Cuba, Thomson Correctional Center, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, federal government, Thomson, John McCain, United States presidential election, Sarah Palin, Rod Blagojevich, Law Crime, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Interrogations, Baloch people, Islamic terrorism, Politics, Iraq conflict, Spanish-American War, Presidency of Barack Obama, Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Kuwaiti captives in Guantanamo, Human rights abuses, Geography of Cuba, Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Said Boujaadia, Waterboarding, Bagram Theater Internment Facility, Internments, Carroll County Illinois, Prison
Early signs of success
Melbourne :: Australia | 11 days ago
Credibility Australia should try to learn from Britain's mistakes in rolling out its plan to give all four-year-olds access to kindergarten, a visiting educator has warned. Professor Iram Siraj-Blatchford, an internationally renowned early childhood researcher, says...
Tags: early childhood, Australian Research Council, childhood educator, Britain, Professor Siraj-Blatchford, Treasury, says professor, federal government, Iram Siraj-Blatchford, Australia, Melbourne, Preschool education, Early childhood educator, Universal preschool, Early childhood education, Educational stages, Kindergarten, Education
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