MUSC to handle cuts with furloughs

11/26/2008

The Medical University of South Carolina said Monday that 1,200 of its 5,000 employees will be furloughed for four days to help absorb the nearly $17 million shortfall in state appropriations. A "handful" of employees will be laid off in departments that could not make reductions any other way, MUSC President Ray Greenberg said. The number of positions terminated will be about 10, Greenberg indicated, and the majority of those will be temporary employees.

Sunanda K Datta-Ray: Childish approach

11/22/2008

One of the most painfully funny sights I see most mornings is a fat little boy in a smart starched uniform waddling past my house to his school followed by a ragged child, smaller and much thinner than him, carrying his bag of books and flask of drinking water. Board of Secondary Education hopes to alleviate.

Parents plead for lessons on homework

7/27/2008 4:33:25 AM

Adults feel unable to help children because they are baffled by some modern teaching methods

Exams chief calls for earlier A-level results to help appeals

7/27/2008 4:33:25 AM

Current 10 day appeal turnaround 'often not quick enough' for university admissions timetable

Britain's first live-in school for fat pupils

7/27/2008 4:30:51 AM

Overweight children will learn dieting tips as well as the three Rs at a new private boarding facility

Letters: Don't destroy our children's innocence

7/27/2008 4:30:51 AM

The big issue:What could possess a responsible adult to want to talk sex with a four-year-old?

Radical Islam gains ground in campuses

7/27/2008 4:29:21 AM

Controversial study by think-tank reveals extent of homophobia, misogyny and commitment to religious war

Faculty in league table expulsion

7/25/2008 9:46:51 PM

A university department caught pressurising students in an official survey is to be excluded from this year's league table.

Test of time

7/25/2008 9:30:26 PM

Do we still need to test our primary school children?

Solar power call for more schools

7/25/2008 8:34:49 PM

Solar panels are being installed in schools to save energy and teach lessons about cutting carbon emissions.

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