(By Jayash Paudel, a PhD candidate in economics at the University of Virginia) Nepal’s most successful education reforms date back to the Panchayat regime, to a stupendous primary school enrollment increase from 10 percent in 1960 to 80 percent in 1990. However, as Nepal advances, the evaluation of current educational snapshot at the primary level (grades one–five) is inevitable for two important reasons.
Fans of the University of Virginia men's basketball team filled the hardwood on Sunday for Meet the Team Day.
College towns are at their finest in the fall. Students are fresh-faced, leaves are changing, there's football and beer, nostalgia and charm. A quick trip to a college town is the perfect weekend getaway. From striking campus architecture to all-American tailgates to leaf-peeping ventures, there's a great college town for everyone to visit. (The list includes Charlottesville.)
Political giving isn’t a requirement for appointment to higher education boards at Virginia’s top public universities and colleges, but it doesn’t hurt.
Despite encouraging signs, experts said last week any Republican candidate has a tough row to hoe in the staunchly Democratic city. “It’s an uphill battle and they know it, and it takes dedication and work and a certain amount of political gumption to make an uphill challenge,” said Bob Gibson, executive director of the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership at the University of Virginia.
Teresa Bryce Bazemore, 54, could not have picked a worse time to lead a mortgage insurance business. In July 2008, when Bazemore was appointed president of Radian Guaranty Inc., housing prices were falling, foreclosures were mounting, and money was pouring out of Radian as it struggled to make good on mortgages gone bad. The company is still losing money, but at a slower clip. On June 30, Bazemore's mortgage insurance business completed its first quarter of operating profitability since 2007.
Political giving isn’t a requirement for appointment to higher education boards at Virginia’s top public universities and colleges, but it doesn’t hurt.
Like nearly everyone who wears glasses, Ted Lichtenberger has experienced his share of spectacle-spurred frustration. “I started wearing glasses in third grade, so I had this experience with eyewear where it’s always a frustrating thing to purchase,” Lichtenberger said. “You’re kind of forced to wear them – it’s not a choice.” Lichtenberger and three other spectacle-wearing entrepreneurs have channeled their frustration into efforts to cast a new vision for the eyewear industry.
“A long list of people have doubts about these characters,” said Larry Sabato, a professor of political science at the University of Virginia. He said that while McAuliffe has “so-so” favorability ratings, Cuccinelli has “massive unfavorability ratings, and you can’t win under those circumstances.”
The University of Virginia has announced the formation of a commission that will investigate the university’s historical relationship with slavery. The commission is made up of 27 faculty and staff, students, alumni, and members of the local community.
A new project from the University of Virginia aims to help high school students get into college by using text messaging.
"Herring wants to try to define Obenshain in such a way that he can very much attach him to Cuccinelli," said Geoff Skelley, political analyst at University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
Allie Widener stood in front of a room full of students, parents and community leaders, wiping tears from her eyes as she talked about the drug that killed one of her best friends. Shelley Goldsmith, 19, a Jefferson Scholar at the University of Virginia, died Aug. 31. She had gone with her friends to Echostage, a dance club in the Washington, D.C., area, and took one dose of the drug called “molly,” friends told her family. In memory of Shelley, a local nursing group, the Southwestern Chapter of the Virginia Nurse's Association, started offering educational presentations about ...
The last time I interviewed Michael Knight, he was a 20-something winner of the Playboy college fiction contest with both a short story collection (“Dogfight”) and a novel (“Divining Rod”) in release. In the 15 years since, he’s written three more publications – a novel, a short story collection and a book of two novellas – and settled comfortably into a teaching gig at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Clearly, it’s time to catch up.
According to Valerie Gregory, Associate Dean of Admissions at the University of Virginia, preparing for college begins by taking advanced classes in middle school. “It puts you on a track that allows you, when you get into high school, to continue to take the most advanced classes,” Gregory said, noting that she often sees students who take less-challenging courses, get straight A’s, yet still suffer when they get to college.
When Dr. Kenneth Liu, neurosurgeon at University of Virginia Health System, met Taylor, he said his main focus was to simply keep her alive. After investigation, Liu diagnosed Taylor with an arterial vascular malformation -- bleeding in the brain.
The Jefferson Area Board for Aging is partnering with the Williams Mullen law firm and 12 University of Virginia law students to provide free will-creation services for seniors.
(Commentary) If we end up reading fewer books, but knowing more, do we then gain from the change? Michael Suarez, Director of the University of Virginia Rare Book School and editor in chief of the Scholarly Editions series at Oxford University Press, laments that the diffuse reading habits encouraged by the web may lead to the incapacity to make sense of an overabundance of information; yet, without this same web I would never have encountered his opinion in the online edition of the University of Virginia review.
On the road back to Johannesburg, in a part of South Africa you won't find in travel guides, the vans came upon a squatter camp. It wasn't the first the students had encountered. Many reached for their cameras. Henry Coley spoke up. The University of Virginia linebacker challenged his fellow students to stop and think about how they were interacting with the people in the camp. Was it as objects, or as humans?
(Editorial) The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has slapped down a senseless state regulation that violates the First Amendment. The court ruled on behalf of two college newspapers, The Cavalier Daily (at the University of Virginia) and The Collegiate Times (at Virginia Tech), which sued to overturn a Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control rule prohibiting them from running ads for alcohol.