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The state’s largest public university by enrollment is pulling back on growth plans after adding nearly 20 percent more students over the decade ending in 2010.

The News & Observer of Raleigh reported today that campus leaders at N.C. State now plan to increase the number of students by about 6 percent by 2020. That will push the student body from nearly 35,000 today to about 37,000.

The new plan shifts N.C. State’s emphasis toward graduate research, the kind of academic work that attracts funding from companies and can lead to high-tech spinoffs that boost the state’s economy.

The number of students seeking doctorates would grow 40 percent from 2011 to 2020, while the percentage of new freshmen would be nearly flat.

Today, Bolton – tomorrow, the world.

Ask anyone in the education world which is the most technologically advanced state school in the country, and their answer is the same: Bolton’s Essa Academy, which has undergone a technological revolution envied by schools across Britain.

On the face of it, many might consider the Lancashire town an unlikely spot to herald one of the biggest revolutions in learning the state education system has seen in decades.

Essa is a 900-pupil 11 to 16 school, taking most of its pupils from disadvantaged communities in the town. Its predecessor was deemed to be a failure by Ofsted, but it is now flourishing, after a remarkable shake-up in the way pupils are learning.

Every pupil has their own iPod Touch, which they keep with them day and night. The gadget helps them to do their homework and gives them the opportunity to email their teachers with questions whenever they like. W

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Halogen TV is pleased to announce a partnership with The Global Poverty Project to serve as corporate sponsor of the 1.4 Billion Reasons 2012 Spring Tour, which began in January of this year. The announcement was made today by Kyle Chowning, VP of Marketing for Halogen TV.

“This is a perfect fit for Halogen TV,” said Chowning. “Our network encourages viewers to go beyond what they are watching, and to ‘be the change they want to see in the world.’ Through our programming, we constantly are looking for opportunities to show people how they can make a difference in their local and global communities. The Global Poverty Project’s spring tour does just that. This project presents the kind of marriage we want to encourage with our network and communities, viewers, and distribution partners. Without question, we had to be involved in this monumental effort.”

The 1.4 Billion Reasons Tour is the latest example of Halogen TV’s commitment to partner with non-profit organizations to educate communities on timely and relevant social issues.

The 1.4 Billion Reasons tour will arrive on college campuses across the country to reach the millennial generation with information on ways to get involved.

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  Simply relying on IBM wasn’t a recipe for business success. Schools need to have the flexibility to experiment with new innovations. Photo by Adam Jenkins.

Once upon a time, corporate IT departments lived by the slogan “no one ever got fired for buying IBM.” Big Blue’s products were a safe bet in a rapidly evolving industry. The over-reliance of the Fortune 500 on that safe bet proved to be a problem for those companies, which missed out on innovations adopted by more nimble rivals, and for IBM itself, which stagnated in the absence of pressure from customers to push the envelope. District schools suffer from the same “buy IBM” problem, with state policies and district budget decisions making it difficult for principals and teachers to adopt promising new options for delivering instruction.

An EdWeek piece today documents the struggle ed-tech startups wage to get their products adopted, and catalogues a number of promising companies that are gaining headway despite those challenges.

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