The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) School of Nursing and the Health Sciences Center of Cisco College in Abilene have teamed up to revitalize a program designed to help licensed vocational nurses pursue an associate degree.

The Texas Board of Nursing withdrew approval for Cisco College’s Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) Program in January because of student passing rates, though students currently enrolled in the program were allowed to sit for the national nursing licensure examination after graduation in May.

“We had 50-plus students who needed one more semester to finish,” said Annette Smith, dean of instruction at Cisco. “The board allowed us, because we had instructors in place who had been working with them and were committed to finishing out the year with them, to continue to teach them for one more semester.”

The decision to shutter Cisco’s previous program was made after fewer than 80 percent of first-time-test-takers failed to pass the licensure examination over a three-year period.

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Thousands of five-year-olds are arriving at school with too limited a vocabulary to take part in lessons, a senior government adviser revealed today.

Even  some in high performing schools ion the leafier suburbs are struggling, Dr Liz Sidwell, the Government’s Schools Commissioner, told a conference in London today.

Dr Sidwell, whose job means she advises ministers on tackling under-performance and its flagship academies programme, warned that one of the biggest problems was parents just not getting out of bed in the morning to send their children off to school.

“If your parents are lying in bed and don’t go to work, it is very difficult to get the children up on time” she said. “This

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Students we interviewed reported that “Bulldog” football is a key component of autumn on the Yale University campus, and the Harvard-Yale rivalry (known as “The Game”) is considered one of the most important face-offs on each season’s schedule. Since 1875, The Game has been played nearly every November at the end of the football season. Because the event alternates between the Harvard and Yale venues each year, SOM students will have the opportunity to attend The Game at the Yale Bowl at least once during their time at the school. However, given the two schools’ proximity to each other, we expect that travelling to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to attend The Game at Harvard is worth considering.

Graduate students pay student pricing for most athletic events and sit in the student section. The Yale Bowl is only about a mile and a half from campus, and students often walk to the event together in “caravans” after tailgating in the parking lot. The Game brings both the universities and their business schools together. One second-year

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Kandell Scruggs (from left) emergency medical technology instructor, demonstrates a technique to students Macy Kramer and Matthew Buckley during lab at TSTC Friday. The TSTC paramedic program recently earned national accreditation. Nellie Doneva/Reporter-News

Texas State Technical College-West Texas is the first school in West Texas to earn a critical accreditation.

Officials were notified in early March that the school had earned accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs for its emergency medical technician-paramedic program. According to recently approved rules, such accreditation must be in place by Jan. 1, 2013.

Failure to receive the accreditation would have forced termination of the paramedic program, said Andy Weaver, program director for the Emergency Medical Services program at TSTC.

Current students would have been allowed to complete the program, but new students would not be allowed to enroll.

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A teacher at a prestigious independent school has died following a skiing accident in the French Alps, the school said today.

Ed How, a chemistry teacher at Charterhouse school in Godalming, Surrey, is understood to have fallen 200 metres down cliffs while going off-piste at Val D’Isere yesterday.

A spokeswoman for Charterhouse said: “The School learnt yesterday that one of its teachers, Ed How, had been killed in a skiing accident while on holiday with his family.

“Ed was 37, married with a baby. He was very popular, and an outstanding and highly respected teacher (Chemistry) and sportsman.

“This is a great shock to the school and our thoughts and prayers are with Ed’s family.”

Mr How is the second Briton in two weeks to die at the French resort.

Thomas Lynch, 22, from Leicestershire, also died following a skiing accident there last week.

By T.J. McAloon

Star correspondent

Only seven schools can claim to have made three straight Indiana high school state boys basketball finals. Park Tudor’s thrilling 62-49 semistate victory over Providence allows the Panthers to add their names to those historic teams.

Park Tudor will play Gary Bowman Saturday for Class 2A state championship.

“We’ve been talking about leaving a legacy all year,” Park Tudor coach Ed Schilling said of joining Franklin (1920-22), Martinsville (1926-28), Attucks (1954-56), Marion (1985-87), Lafayette Central Catholic (1998-2000), Pike (2001-03) and Lawrence North (2003-06). “Obviously leaving a legacy in terms of our wins and going to championships, but also the legacy of the quality of the team and the quality of the young men that we have, and that’s the biggest legacy.”

Park Tudor started off slow only scoring 11 points in the first quarter. Their shooting struggles continued into the second quarter and the Panthers trailed 24-21 at the half. Park Tudor sh

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