Tag: Education

First Time Student Car Loans Are Easy to Obtain

How does it feel to have a car of your own right from the time you are in a high school? How does it feel to go out with your friends for a small excursion in your own car, and not in one borrowed from your daddy? Undoubtedly it feels great. Today, these are no [...]

October 8, 2011 | 0 Comments More
UAH Multimedia System

UAH Multimedia System

Performance strategist Tony Robbins will be at the University of Alabama in Huntsville today to help unveil a multimedia classroom teaching system. The system, SuperTeaching, is a software program that helps raise students’ concentration and learning. Its slogan is "Learning at the Speed of Thought." Dr. Wilson Luquire, UAHuntsville’s library dean, will demonstrate the system [...]

October 6, 2008 | 0 Comments More

College Presidents

Montgomery, AL. (AP) — The State Board of Education has unanimously approved a policy to begin evaluating presidents of Alabama’s two-year colleges. This will be the first time for the evaluations, which will begin later this year for some of the leaders of the college system’s 27 campuses. Under Thursday’s new policy, staff members in [...]

August 28, 2008 | 0 Comments More

High Ranked Universities

BIRMINGHAM — The University of Alabama and Auburn University have received high marks in a ranking of the nation’s top public universities. The 2009 rankings compiled by U.S. News & World Report puts Alabama at No. 37 and Auburn at No. 45. Alabama moved up a few spots from last year’s No. 42 ranking while [...]

August 25, 2008 | 0 Comments More

Homophones for the untaught

Jay Qualey, a language connoisseur from South Alabama, dropped by the greasepit at Wade’s Dixieco with a couple of examples of misused spell checks. The first was from a book "A Wolf at the Table" by Augusten Burroughs. One passage read: "I looked again at my mother, searched her face for certain evidence — the [...]

July 17, 2008 | 0 Comments More
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