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Oxbridge Academy is a private, coeducational, college-preparatory middle and high school in West Palm Beach, Florida, United States. The school, managed by the Oxbridge Academy Foundation, Inc. , serves grades 6–12.
United States Department of Education statistics put the combined tenured/tenure-track rate at 56% for 1975, 46.8% for 1989, and 31.9% for 2005. That is to say, by the year 2005, 68.1% of US college teachers were neither tenured nor eligible for tenure; a full 48% of teachers that year were part-time employees.
Only 101 of Florida's 10,689 new teachers were dismissed by the school in 1998. While this reform was considered a success by some, teacher unions stepped in and won back many protections. In 2009, a new plan was proposed. Legislators wished to get rid of tenure for all new teachers. Tenure would be replaced with yearly renewable contracts.
Permanent research, teaching and management positions below professorship as an "Akademischer Rat" (a civil service position salaried like high school teachers) have become relatively rare compared to the 1970s and 1980s and are often no longer refilled after a retirement. [10]
Oxbridge Academic Programs is an organization that runs summer academic programs for high school students throughout Europe. The programs began with Oxford in 1985, followed by Paris in 1991 and Cambridge in 1994, with the Barcelona program opening in 2007.
Oxbridge Academy is a private distance learning college [1] based in Stellenbosch, South Africa. It was founded in 1997, to help address the skills shortage in the South African job market. Oxbridge Academy also offers courses to students internationally, but the majority of their students are situated in southern Africa. [2]
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Many said they were willing to pay fees for student centers or health care, but in general did not support fees for athletics. Mike Reddy for the Huffington Post Brea Woods, a 20-year-old junior at Georgia State, said she didn’t know she paid an athletics fee, which costs full-time students $554 a year.