China on track to achieve millennium goal of gender parity in education:...

Xinhua News Agency;  November 27, 2005 ;     219 words ......track to achieve millennium goal of gender parity in education: UNICEF Beijing, Nov...China will achieve the objectives of gender parity in primary and secondary education...achieve the 2005 and 2015 goals of gender parity in education and we're very optimistic...

WEF launches first Mideast gender parity group

Xinhua News Agency;  May 19, 2008 ;     270 words ...WEF launches first Mideast gender parity group SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, May 19...has launched its first Middle East Gender Parity Group to tackle discrimination and...goal to develop strategies to drive gender parity in the region by 2020, the gender parity...

New Jersey Industry Leaders, Workforce Specialists Seek Gender Parity.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  June 12, 2002 ;     513 words ......to brainstorm ways to better achieve gender parity and diversity on the job. The participants...sponsored by the New Jersey Council on Gender Parity in Labor and Education and its partner...and Work is the research arm of the gender parity council, which is part of the state...

Canadian universities, academic freedom, labour, and the Left.

Labour/Le Travail;  September 22, 2000 ;   Horn, Michiel;   787 words ......radical leadership emerge from our Canadian universities? He answered in the negative. The...and at other times. By and large, Canadian universities have not welcomed adherents of...gradually to tolerate them. The Canadian universities with which W.H. Alexander was familiar...

Rep. Towns Introduces Restroom Gender Parity in Federal Buildings Act

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 9, 2007 ;     287 words ......D-New York, has introduced the Restroom Gender Parity in Federal Buildings Act of 2007 (H...40, U.S. Code, to require restroom gender parity in federal buildings." The bill, introduced...of the legislation follows:Restroom Gender Parity in Federal Buildings Act of 2007H.R...

A Growing Number of U.S. Students See Value in Canadian Universities.

Detroit Free Press (Detroit, Michigan) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  August 2, 2002 ;     787 words ......ago, 4,124 U.S. students attended Canadian universities. Then the secret started to spread...quality. American applications to Canadian universities have soared 70 percent since. Slowly...to a Canadian school, she says. Canadian universities also have fewer freshmen requirements...

American students at Canadian universities on rise

University Wire;  October 21, 2002 ;   Stefanie Pervos;   417 words ......s lower-tuition universities. Canadian universities such as the University of British...Canadian standards. The advantage of Canadian universities for many students is the low cost...the impression from my visit that Canadian universities were eager to accept Americans...

UTS on gender parity in the Pacific.

Australasian Business Intelligence;  July 22, 2005 ;     140 words ......via COMTEX) -- The success of French legislation to enforce gender parity in politics will affect the prospect of New Caledonia's separation...Nationalism and gender inequality in New Caledonia . A law on gender parity in politics in France was introduced through the amendment...

More American students discovering Canadian universities

Sunday Gazette-Mail;  August 11, 2002 ;   Ellen Creager;   725 words ......north where the brisk wind blows, Canadian universities have turned on the porch light...ago, 4,124 U.S. students attended Canadian universities. Then the secret started to spread...quality. American applications to Canadian universities have soared 70 percent since. Slowly...

MIDDLE EAST GENDER EQUALITY GETS A BOOST WITH NEW GENDER PARITY GROUP

Info-Prod Research (Middle East);  May 19, 2008 ;     162 words ......male leaders have formed a Middle East Gender Parity Group to tackle discrimination and...Economic Forum's Women Leaders and Gender Parity Programme. Launched at the World Economic...El Sheikh, the Forum's Middle East Gender Parity Group is a multistakeholder community...

$10.1 Million to Strengthen Research Infrastructure at Canadian...

Canadian Chemical News;  April 1, 2000 ;     266 words ......investment of $10.1 million to boost research capacity at 27 Canadian universities. The CFI investment helps build the critical mass for research at Canadian universities and not-for-profit institutions, said Strangway. The availability...

More American students discovering Canadian universities.

Detroit Free Press (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service);  August 11, 2002 ;     753 words ......north where the brisk wind blows, Canadian universities have turned on the porch light...ago, 4,124 U.S. students attended Canadian universities. Then the secret started to spread...quality. American applications to Canadian universities have soared 70 percent since. Slowly...

Canadian universities.

Alberta Report;  October 9, 2000 ;     45 words ...Combined federal, provincial and municipal government grants and contracts to all Canadian universities totalled almost $7 billion for 1998-99, a 3.6% increase over the previous year. It was the first increase in six years. Taxpayers provided 55.2% of all university revenue for 1998-99.

Academic contests? Merit pay in Canadian universities.

Industrial Relations (Canadian);  September 22, 1998 ;   Grant, Hugh;   787 words ......governments has placed pressure on Canadian universities to create a more market-driven...application of merit pay plans in Canadian universities. It first reviews the theoretical...and then summarizes its use in Canadian universities. Subsequently, the problems of...

Gender parity within five years. (Education Briefs).(Brief Article)

IIE Solutions;  November 1, 2002 ;     45 words ...Southern Methodist University's School of Engineering aims to be the first engineering school in the United States to reach gender parity within five years by developing programs that will interest a broad range of students, Currently, only 20 percent of engineering...