Certainly my colleagues from London Business School and I rapidly convened a meeting to ask the simple question of what it is that face-to-face education does that could be superior to virtual education.
We know that technology is changing the face of education every day.
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"The objective of these profiles is to give countries a clear idea of the challenges they face in education, " says Zulmira Rodrigues, Coordinator of Education in UNESCO Dakar.
The central challenge we face in education is, as Steve Denning, my fellow Forbes contributor who wrote on this topic recently, said the basic factory model of education.
Some Welsh universities are to face closure, Education Minister Leighton Andrews has announced.
The first is a developed world problem, the challenge working-class youth without higher education face finding work in a de-industrialized society.
The Morrill Act represents a dramatic and necessary change to the face of the American education system by making it much more democratic.
Launched on the margin of the "World Innovation Summit for Education" (WISE) on 13 November 2012 in Doha, Qatar, the "Educate a Child" initiative aims to support selected countries, including Iraq, overcome the challenges they face in terms of education, with an overall goal of increasing enrollment in primary levels.
The vice-chancellor said higher education had to face up to the impact of the internet on delivering courses.
Higher education institutions now face pressures similar to those that reshaped other inefficient industries, like the car industry or the airline.
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Young people also face difficulties in achieving the education they want, as well as experience challenges in finding suitable employment after they graduate.
Finally, as more of the economy moves towards higher-quality products that are personalized, we also expect to see the emergence of new services that are social by design to address the large worldwide problems we face in job creation, education and health care.
This is a collaborative committee between the union, MCEA and the ESOL Division Administration of MCPS. As the Chair, I lead the committee to discuss and bring attention to the many issues that our ESOL teachers face that ultimately affect the education of our LEP students.
They face the tremendous challenges of urban education each and every day with steadfast determination and an unwavering commitment to our students.
From creating jobs to reducing deficits to making sure every child has a decent education, we still face enormous challenges in this country.
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"This will help overcome the barriers people may face in access to employment, education and local services and it will give many the opportunity for the first time to use the Internet, " Mr Brown said.
There's also an article by reporter Hiroko Tashiro, former head of the parent-teacher association at a suburban Tokyo elementary school, on the anxieties that her daughter--and millions of Japanese schoolchildren--face in the nation's rigid education system.
The administration must realize that America's schools need more than just money to address the many problems they face and to promote the kind of education that will be needed to support our economy and democracy in the 21st century.
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Women face a range of structural inequalities from graduate education to grant funding to tenure cases.
Districts that fail to settle by then will face a state-imposed system designed by Education Commissioner John King.
Rapid changes in society call educational systems into question: how relevant and efficient is education to prepare new generations to face present and future challenges?
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The Department for Education has been warned it could face hundreds of unfair dismissal claims if it pushes ahead with plans in England to axe about 1, 000 jobs and cut its costs by 50%.
For me, like so many challenges we face in society, it all comes back to education.
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It is true that Catholic politicians face hard questioning: Ruth Kelly, a former education secretary, was criticised for her Roman leanings.
The STAR programme is therefore designed to provide virtual and face-to-face training services and technical assistance to Adult Basic Education (ABE) instructors or teachers in order to enhance their knowledge about and capacity to effectively use evidence-based reading instruction strategies or practices to teach and assist adult learners to improve their reading skills.
Education Secretary Charles Clarke has admitted some schools face problems as a result of the introduction of the local government funding formula.
"Everyone involved in education, including the EIS, needs to face up to the stark financial realities that councils must address, " she said.
Many students tend to accept the basic tenets of the education system, assuming that any problems they face are due to their personal learning limitations, not the system itself.
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