Wed love to hear what you think. Send your views and post your comments by visiting gb news. Com rac. But first, heres the news with tatiana sanchez. The news with tatiana sanchez. Good morning. The top stories an mp has given up the conservative party whip after claims he misused campaign funds. Mark menzies. Claims he misused campaign funds. Mark menzies. He is alleged to have used thousands of pounds of donations to fund his medical expenses, including £14,000 transferred to his personal Bank Accounts. The Times Newspaper also reports he made a late night phone call to an aide asking for help because hed been locked up in a flat by what he described as bad people who were demanding £5,000 for his release. In a statement, menzies has denied the allegations. Hell sit as an independent in the house of commons while the claims are being investigated , and the being investigated, and the government has promised to do whatever it needs to do to get flights off the ground. After peers de
Benefited their students, online courses and their benefits to nontraditional students such as members of the military. Thank you for attending the summit on innovation in education and thanks to all of you who will present this morning. Were excited and grateful to have so much knowledge and ek per tease in one room, and i know were eager to hear from all of you. Before we begin, i want to say a quick word about innovation, about the focus on innovation. This year, i embarked on our rethink school tour where we visited learning environments and institutions that are taking creative approaches to education for students of all ages. I continue to travel country to see the great work thats being done and ive been inspired by the educators and administrators ive met thus far, but theres still not enough. We need more like them and like you. The reality is that there are a number of challenges and opportunities facing Higher Education, and washington, d. C. , does not have all the answers.
Good morning, and thank you for the opportunity to be here. Were going to talk about the university of Maryland University college, which is a public Online University, that is designed here we go. Designed from the ground up to provide affordable, accessible, quality and careerrelevant education for adult learners and especially for military learners. And to understand who we are, i need to tell you the story of umuc. We were established in 1947, at the university of maryland, as a department that was charged with serving adult students, particularly those who were returning g is from world war ii. In 1949, we became the First University to send faculty overseas to teach our trips stationed in germany. And this was the beginning of umucs global reach. By 1956, we had established divisions to deliver Higher Education in both europe and asia, and in 1963, we became the first u. S. University to send faculty into a war zone in vietnam. In 1970, we became an independent, fully accredited
Alzheimers is projected to or likely to double every 20 years, we are in a race like few other diseases because it is proliferating so fast throughout the globe and according to dr. Maria bernard, the Deputy Director of the National Institute on age who will hear from momentarily, the numbers estimated to grow to 15 million by 2050 as populations around the world age. Predominantly it is a one of the byproducts of all of us aging and there seems to be a higher procliffty the older one gets and its been estimated that once somebody reaches 85, the chance of some form of dementia is one out of two. Its a very serious problem. The total estimated global cost of addressing this condition today is 818 billion but as early as next year it is estimated that this cost will rise to at least 1 trillion per year and it will go up from there. As we all know, alzheimers is a cruel disease robbing its victims of their memories and identities, robbing their family and friends of the person they know
Thank you so much. Rainy day books is a National World war i museum and memorial. We are pleased welcome tonight, andrew carol. Andrew is the editor of several New York Times bestsellers including war letters, letters of the nation, behind the lane trendline. He also added on a pro bono basis, operation homecoming, iraq, afghanistan and the homefront and that inspired the Emmy Awardwinning film of the same name. In 1998, andrew founded the legacy project, all volunteer initiatives that honors veterans and activeduty troops by preserving their wartime correspondence. His travel to all 50 states and more than 40 countries including iraq and afghanistan. He has collected today an estimated 100,000 previously unpublished letters and emails. Andrew donated this massive collection, free of charge to Chapman University which is also where roger and my son went to school. The legacy project has been renamed the center for american war letters and is part of Chapman University. Andrew stars as