The garden club of Brewster is offering a $2,000 scholarship to residents of Brewster. The applicant must be student graduating this year, or presently working in or studying in the field of landscape design, horticulture, conservation, environmental science, marine or related services. The applicant must be enrolled in further educational opportunities such as college courses, [...]

Engineers from New Jersey American Water shared their expertise with aspiring seventh and eighth grade engineers from across the state at the National Engineering Week Future Cities Competition, held on Saturday, January 17, on the Busch Campus at Rutgers University.
“Water and the Economy” is the focus of this year’s Future Cities Competition. The students, who [...]

Lincoln Educational Services Corporation announced that it entered into a definitive purchase agreement to acquire Briarwood College for approximately $11.4 million in cash. Briarwood is regionally accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) and currently offers two Bachelor’s degree programs and 31 Associate’s degree programs to approximately 700 students from Connecticut [...]

Lincoln Educational Services Corporation announced that it will host a conference call to discuss its third quarter 2008 earnings on Wednesday, November 5, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern time. A news release outlining Lincoln’s financial results will be issued before 9:30 a.m. Eastern time on the same day.
To access the live web cast of the [...]

VMware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, today announced new educational services and certification programs designed to help IT professionals build world-class virtual environments. The programs are designed for varied positions, including systems administrators, design architects, operators and managers who are interested in enhancing their knowledge and [...]

Insight Systems Exchange (ISE), a division of Insight Investments Corp., today announced its “green” state-of-the-art, 44,000-square-foot Tech Center at 7012 Belgrave Ave. in Garden Grove, California, is now operational. To commemorate this landmark occasion, ISE will host an Open House tomorrow afternoon that is open to the public and will be attended by many local [...]

One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a non-profit organization focused on providing educational tools to help children in developing countries “learn learning,” is strengthening its presence in Asia with the appointments of Anthony S K Wong as President of OLPC China and Satish Jha as President of OLPC India.
“With 40 percent of the world’s children located [...]

Hundreds of online Kaplan University students from all across the United States, and from Canada, Guam and the Virgin Islands, gathered at the Chicago Symphony Theatre today to celebrate a milestone event—their college graduation. Juli Norell, the student speaker, commended her fellow graduates for overcoming obstacles to achieve their dreams.
In Norell’s case, the obstacle was [...]

Ifema has already set the dates for the staging of the sixteenth edition of the fair, AULA´08, the International Educational Opportunities Exhibition, which will take place at its usual venue, Feria de Madrid, between 2nd and 6th April 2008. Over a number of years this event has consolidated its position as the leading Spanish event [...]

ITT Educational Services, Inc. (NYSE: ESI – News), a leading provider of technology-oriented postsecondary degree programs, announced today that it has arranged for Bank of America, Chase Education Finance and Citibank, The Student Loan Corporation to provide federal and private education loans to qualified ITT Technical Institute students and their parents for the remainder of [...]