Education

A nuclear engineering research team at the University of Missouri receives a modest reprieve after it was targeted by administrators for elimination.

The Council on Public Higher Education in Missouri soon will have a new leader. Long-time policy and fiscal analyst Paul Wagner will take over as executive director on February 27. 

MU’s College of Education has put its search for a new executive director on hold, following controversy over a finalist’s background as a psychologist at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib.

More Missouri students are training for future careers while still in high school.

Sixty-three percent of the state's high school students participated in at least one career or technical education program in the 2011-2012 school year. The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education says that's a 3 percent increase from the previous year.