| BCC closer to offering a four-year teaching degree
Broward Community College is one step closer to offering a four-year degree in education, a move it hopes will alleviate teacher shortages and make higher education more affordable. The Florida Board of Education approved the college's application Tuesday to offer a bachelor of science in education degree. It would be the college's first bachelor's program for its 60,000 students. BCC applied for approval from the board, which governs public education in the state, after the school's trustees made the suggestion last year. ''This is historical,'' said Donna Henderson, interim vice president for academic affairs at BCC. BCC's four-year education degree could be offered as soon as the fall session, providing the college gets additional approvals from the state and BCC's accrediting body, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
Liberals need to fill policy vacuum
What's more, he's got federal Liberal MPs to help him. Take the "3 Rs" of Australian politics refugees, reconciliation and the republic. Howard was steadfast on each of these issues, and he spent a decade campaigning on them. With Howard gone, the Liberals have decided to agree with Labor on two of these three issues. At the weekend the Liberals announced that they accepted the shutting down of the Pacific Solution for refugees, while a fortnight ago they ultimately supported the stolen generations apology. To this can be added a further three matters: Iraq, Kyoto and industrial relations. Rather than opposing Labor's withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq, the Liberals now claim that had they won the election they would have scaled down Australia's commitment anyway. After spending years arguing against the Kyoto Protocol, and after Howard overruled Malcolm Turnbull's suggestion that the Liberals ratify it, the party has decided that ratification is a good idea.
Barack Obama - a John Kennedy for our times
Al-Qaeda may be unpredictable, but it would be a mistake for it to interfere in American politics, even if it had the capacity to do so. At the start of the primaries, when all eyes were on Iowa and New Hampshire, Senator Clinton was the frontrunner for the Democratic Party nomination. She had the organisation, she had the money, she had the name recognition, she had the professionalism; she even had Bill Clinton, even if he is something of an unguided missile. But those days are now long ago. Senator Clinton has fallen behind Senator Obama in almost all of these factors, except for Bill Clinton's support. Senator Obama has captured the public's imagination, and gone ahead in the polls, but he also has more money, a better organisation and valuable endorsements from all sectors of the Democratic spectrum.
Woman shot in neck
THREE men have been arrested and an air rifle recovered after a woman was shot in the neck. The 31-year-old was walking back to her car in Bolton Road, close to the junction with Fairy Street, at 7.30pm on Monday, when she was hit. She was taken to hospital, where a pellet was removed from the right side of her neck. .
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