Education Tidbits
India’s Union Human Resource Development Ministry will develop a syllabus for geospatial information studies in conjunction with Rolta. In time, a national accreditation authority will be set up to regulate foreign educational institutions in India.
- PTI News
Geoff Hughes, a geography student at University of Waikato, completed a Summer Research Scholarship project analysing police crime data in the Waikato region in New Zealand over a ten-year period. Sadly, the coverage of his work describe GIS as “an up and coming area of study that uses mapping software to capture and analyse data relating to location.”
- Scoop
Stephen Imre and Jeffrey Mauk of the School of Geography, Geology and Environmental Science at Auckland University studied New Zealand wine areas in a paper published by Geoscience Canada. The findings sound like just the tip of the iceberg in such studies: “Their paper said plantings throughout NZ are on a variety of soil types and little work has been done to examine how soils and geology affect wine country in a New Zealand context.”
Where are those with shiny MBA’s going to get jobs? East.
Every era has its version of the MBA dream. In the 1980s, it was about conquering Wall Street and choppering off to the Hamptons. The late 1990s saw a stampede to Silicon Valley. In the mid-aughts, the gilded, clubby preserve of private equity beckoned. Now, the emerging narrative is about steroidal Asia and its promise of growth. At premiere institutions such as the University of Chicago’s Booth School, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, and Northwestern’s Kellogg, the percentage of MBAs taking jobs in Asia—including U.S. students like Tsai as well as international students—has more than doubled in the past five years, from roughly 5% of the graduating class to more than 10%. “There is a sense that the center of gravity is shifting,” says Julie Morton, Booth’s associate dean for career services.
Kitty wrote:
We [I guess “AssociatesDegrees.com,” a site that “is here to help you further your education and find the best school for your interests and budget”] would love to share with you an article that we just posted on our own blog! “Google Earth for Educators: 50 Exciting Ideas for the Classroom” (http://www.associatesdegree.com/2010/03/14/google-earth-for-educators-50-exciting-ideas-for-the-classroom/ ) would be an interesting story for your readers to check out and discuss on your blog, so we hope you will consider sharing it!
It’s a list of apps that could be used in education; I’m sure some on the list will be new to some readers.
