TUI University Partners with U.S. Army Engineers School

April 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Specialized Business Administration degree will focus on management and
leadership skills
CYPRESS, Calif.–(Business Wire)–
TUI University (www.tuiu.edu), a leader in online education, today announced a
partnership with the U.S. Army Engineers School at Fort Leonard Wood, MO to
establish a specially tailored Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
degree for U.S. Army Engineers. The degree will emphasize management and
leadership, providing relevant courses which develop critical thinking, writing,
communication, and other skills necessary to enhance professional success.

“This new partnership with the U.S. Army Engineer School and the specialized
degree available to U.S. Army Engineers demonstrates TUI University`s ongoing
commitment to the higher education of the service-men and -women in this
country,” said Kenneth Sobaski, president and chief executive officer, TUI
University. “By tailoring this new degree to provide the management and
leadership skills required by U.S. Army Engineers, we aim to provide these
students with a practical education that will further their military career.”

This specialized degree is available to students awarded a 12/21 series Military
Occupation Specialty (MOS) by the U.S. Army Engineer School. Courses taken at
institutions prior to TUI University, including the Army Engineer School, will
be reviewed and evaluated for transfer credit according to the guidelines of the
American Council on Education (ACE).

“This partnership with TUI affords Soldiers of the Engineer Regiment the
opportunity to build lifelong skills that will not only be of benefit to the
Soldier now, but also when the Soldier transitions to another calling,” said BG
Bryan Watson Commandant of the U.S. Army Engineer School. “It is essential that
we arm our Soldiers with the skills to be successful in a multi-cultural,
multi-national environment and I think TUI has done a great job of providing
that institutional knowledge. TUI’s learning model allows our Soldiers to
complete their degree wherever in the world the Army demands its Engineers.”

TUI University will admit students into this specialized program at the
discounted military tuition rate. Most graduates of the U.S. Army Engineer
School are active duty and will also utilize military tuition assistance or GI
Bill benefits.

About TUI University

Founded in 1998, TUI University (www.tuiu.edu) has become a leading online
postsecondary university. Its technology-enabled online learning model and
solutions provide a convenient, cost-effective, and high-quality education to
students. TUI University is accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Senior
Colleges and Universities of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges
(WASC) and is based in Cypress, California.

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New Zealand reluctant to send more troops to Afghanistan

April 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Wellington – New Zealand is reluctant to send more troops to Afghanistan because it believes the situation there is becoming more unstable, Prime Minister John Key said Monday.

“The determining factor is whether we can see a plan, whether the plan in our opinion is likely to work and whether it fits in with our long-term exit strategy,” he said at his weekly news conference.

The United States has asked New Zealand to commit more troops to Afghanistan on top of the 130 army engineers it has working in Bamyan province as a provincial reconstruction team (PRT).

News reports have said that Washington would like a unit of New Zealand’s crack Special Air Services forces, who were last deployed in Afghanistan in 2006, to return as part of President Barack Obama’s plan to increase foreign troop levels in Afghanistan to better combat Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters.

But Key said, “The risk assessments that I’m getting from Afghanistan is that our troops in the PRT in Bamyan province are becoming more at risk – in other words, the situation in Afghanistan is becoming more unstable.

“It would be my long-term desire to exit our commitment in Afghanistan,” he said.

Key said the government was reviewing the military situation in Afghanistan before it made a final decision on sending more troops. (dpa)

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New Zealand leader protests “unacceptable” Afghan law on marital sex

April 6, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Wellington – New Zealand Prime Minister John Key said Monday that he was sending a letter to Afghan President Hamid Karzai protesting a law Karzai signed that decrees a wife is obliged to fulfil the sexual desires of her husband.

But he said at his weekly news conference that the law he earlier described as “abhorrent” would not colour his government’s decision on whether to expand New Zealand’s military commitment to Afghanistan

because they were different issues.

“We are trying to address the issue of terrorism and making sure that New Zealand is playing its part to reduce the potential risk and threat from terrorism,” he said.

“If we were to stop involvement with that because of what we think is an unacceptable law they’re passing in relation to sex in marriage, then in our view, we would be putting the world in greater risk, and that’s not appropriate,” Key said.

The new Afghan law recently passed by parliament is meant to legalize Shiite family law, but critics said it effectively bars women from leaving their homes without the permission of their husbands and it legalizes rape within marriage.

New Zealand has about 130 army engineers working as a provincial reconstruction team (PRT) in Afghanistan, and Key dodged a question about whether New Zealand planned to expand this deployment to include crack Special Air Services forces as US President Barack Obama aims to step up the foreign military presence in Afghanistan.

Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully attended the recent international conference on Afghanistan in The Hague and was due to meet US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington this week.

“I’m not ruling it out, but neither are we ruling it in at this point,” Key said when asked about a possible Special Air Services deployment.

“I’ve made it clear that our commitment to Afghanistan is quite substantial in terms of the PRT,” he said.

“Now, that doesn’t mean that we couldn’t increase our commitment there – every other country is being asked to do that – but whether we would do so is something we have not decided, and that is something the foreign minister will be communicating to Secretary Clinton.”

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