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Former NASA astronaut Dr. Mae Jemison said Minnesota needs to develop a “science literate society” to ensure its economic competitiveness in the future at The Minneapolis Foundation’s Minnesota Meeting on Wednesday, April 22. She said all students have “a world filled with ideas and possibilities before them” if they receive a balanced education that includes [...]

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Higher Education Interlibrary Loan Management Benchmarks” report to their offering.
This special report examines closely the management and productivity practices of more than 85 academic libraries in the United States and Canada; the data focuses particularly on productivity and staff measurement and the impact of new technologies.
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AT&T Inc. announced a contribution of $10,000 to the Toronto Public Library’s Leading to Reading program. The donation will allow for the literacy program to continue during the summer months at the St. James Town location — a high priority neighbourhood in Toronto that is a priority focus for the Toronto Public Library.
Literacy is a [...]

A+ Child Development to Restructure Its Operations

A+ Child Development (Canada) Ltd (“A+”), a 70.33% subsidiary of Lingo Media Corporation (“Lingo Media”), is restructuring its operations and has filed a Notice of Intention to Make a Proposal under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act.
Michael Kraft, President & CEO of Lingo Media said, “After an extensive strategic evaluation, A+ made the tough decision to [...]

John Hancock Life Insurance Company (John Hancock) is reinforcing its commitment to helping producers meet new long-term care insurance (LTCI) training requirements through an affiliation with the ClearCert Clearinghouse. John Hancock began validating courses through ClearCert earlier in the year and effective January 1, 2009 will only accept training courses approved through the clearinghouse.
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Frontier Communications Corporation, the nation’s second largest rural local communications company, announced a marketing partnership with Penn Foster, Inc., a global leader in distance education. The parties’ collaborative arrangement offers Penn Foster students and alumni throughout the U.S. discounted pricing on Frontier’s innovative Peace of Mind services. Peace of Mind includes automatic hard drive [...]

Lingo Media Corporation, a leader in online and print-based English language learning products, is pleased to announce that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Speak2Me Inc. (“Speak2Me”), a state-of-the-art online English language learning service has achieved another significant milestone by launching version 1.0 website through www.speak2me.cn and has opened the site to the public in China.
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The new Turnitin WriteCycle(TM) suite, a 100-percent digital workflow solution aimed at improving student writing by improving the feedback process, is the winner of the “Best Education Solution” award given by The Educational Computing Organization of Ontario (ECOO) at its annual conference held Nov. 13-14 in Ontario, Canada.
The award recognizes WriteCycle as the best overall [...]

FranchiSeek International, a global franchise resource media network, publisher and consulting firm headquartered in the UK and India has just expanded its exposure for training products offered by Arizona-based Guerrilla Marketing Strategies, Inc. The international franchise support organization at first planned only to test Guerrilla Marketing Strategies in India and then consider a worldwide roll-out, [...]

B.C.’s Industry Training Authority (ITA) is encouraged that, in the audit report released by the Office of the Auditor General (OAG), the auditors recognize and commend the ITA for its continuing efforts in the critical leadership areas of communication and collaboration. Implementing change to develop an industry-driven trades training system requires effective communication and [...]

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