Ale College Dean Peter Salovey has announced the appointments of the Dean of Student Affairs, Assistant Dean and Director of the Native American Cultural Center, and Deans of Branford, Calhoun and Morse residential colleges. The deans of the residential colleges were appointed in consultation with the masters of those colleges.

W. Marichal Gentry has been named Dean of Student Affairs and Associate Dean of Yale College.

Coming to us after eight years of positions of increasing responsibility at Middlebury College, Marichal brings to Yale an exemplary record of commitment to the highest standards in student affairs administration, Salovey said

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Leaders from business, the university and voluntary sectors, alongside school Heads will discuss how they can support schools in transforming expectations for the education system and deliver the Governments aspiration for a world-class education system, as the new National Council for Educational
Excellence holds its first meeting today at a London secondary school.

Chaired by the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, Ed Balls, the Council includes figures such as Sir Terry Leahy, CEO of Tesco, Professor Alison Richard, Vice-Chancellor of
Cambridge University, and Richard Lambert, Director General at the CBI.

Among the issues it will be examining are how businesses of all sizes can play a bigger part in supporting schools; what universities and colleges can do to build closer links with schools; and how independent and maintained schools can work together to raise standards.

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The government wants to see all academies sponsored by a university and a business partner under new plans set out today by the children, schools and families minister Ed Balls.

In a statement to the Commons, Mr Balls said the governments academy programme would be accelerated, with universities spearheading the next wave. He said he hoped that all universities would eventually become involved.

Universities, high performing colleges and schools will now be exempt from providing the minimum £2m sponsorship, as the programme expands to beyond the original 200 academies by 2010 to 400.

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St. Albans, England-based configurable processor supplier ARC International said late Thursday that it has acquired privately-held SoC design tool provider Tenison Technology EDA Ltd. for $2 million (1 million United Kingdom pounds) in cash and includes 15 members of Tenisons engineering team, along with patents and products such as the VTOC software suite and IP eXchange technology.

ARC said the acquired products will provide highly accurate models of its configurable processors and multimedia subsystems along with giving customers the ability to simulate virtually all logic on any ARC-based chip, including those using non-ARC technologies such as customer-developed intellectual property (IP) and IP from other suppliers like ARM Holdings.

Also, ARC established an engineering center in Cambridge, England and appointed Dr. David Greaves to ARCs office of the CTO, with the charter is to advance ARCs technology innovation and leadership in the areas of configurability, multicore SoC design, and software development environments.

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New Cambridge IGCSEs in Bangladesh, Pakistan and India Studies will be launched at an evening to mark the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Plassey at Londons City Hall.

Nobel Prize winning Indian economist and philosopher Professor Amartya Sen will address the event and take part in a panel discussion with historian and author Nick Robins, London Assembly Member Murad Qureshi (host of the event), and Barrister and Broadcaster Huma Price.

The event aims to bring together Bangladesh, Pakistan and the Indian communities to mark the anniversary of the Battle of Plassey and look at how extremism can be addressed in South Asian Communities through education. The event will be chaired by Channel 4 News Business Editor, Faisal Islam

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Several years ago research drew a connection between extreme obesity in childhood and early puberty, as marked by a girls first period. Scientists also noted that early puberty runs in families.

To investigate this relationship, a team at the University of Cambridge recently dug into a database that tracked the growth of 6,000 boys and girls born in the early 1990s.

They divided the children into groups based on the ages when their mothers reported they had reached puberty.

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