Hill said in the October 1991 televised hearings that Thomas had sexually harassed her while he was her supervisor at the Department of Education and the EEOC.

October 2007, the In Education program partnered with the Massachusetts Literacy Foundation and Got Books?

The Shanghai Jiao Tong University ’ s Academic Ranking of World Universities in 2009 ranked Macquarie University as 7th in Australia ( following University of Western Australia and UNSW ), while the UK ’ s Times Higher Education Supplement World University Rankings published in October 2009 ranked Macquarie 9th in Australia ( behind the University of Adelaide and the University of Western Australia ).

Therefore, the ministry sponsored cultural workshops throughout the country until October 1988 when the Ministry of Culture was integrated into the Ministry of Education because of financial troubles.

* October 24 – Eugenie Scott, Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education

* October 10 – The Ministry for Education of Japan issues the jōyō kanji.

* October 14 – The Komisja Edukacji Narodowej ( Polish for Commission for the Education of the People ), formed in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, is considered to be the first ministry of education in the history of mankind.

The university absorbed Crewe and Alsager College of Higher Education on 1 October 1992 and the Manchester School of Physiotherapy in 2003.

In October Minister of Education Vincent Teekah was mysteriously shot to death.

According to Bureau of Labor Statistics data from October 2008, the largest sectors of non-agricultural employment were: Government, 24. 3 %; Trade, Transportation, and Utilities, 17. 3 % ( including 11. 0 % in retail trade ); Professional and Business Services, 11. 9 %; Manufacturing, 10. 9 %; Education and Health Services, 10. 0 % ( including 8. 5 % in Health Care & Social Assistance ); Leisure and Hospitality, 9. 2 %; Financial Activities, 6. 0 %, Natural Resources, Mining and Construction, 5. 1 %; Information, 1. 4 %; and Other services 4. 0 %.

Recreated by the Department of Education Organization Act ( Public Law 96-88 ) and signed into law by President Jimmy Carter on October 17, 1979, it began operating on May 4, 1980.

In terms of national rankings, Maclean's ranked Waterloo 3rd in their 2011 comprehensive university rankings. The Higher Education Strategy Associates ranked the University 8th nationally in Science and Engineering. In an employability survey published by the New York Times in October 2011, when CEOs and chairmans were asked to select the top universities which they recruited from, Waterloo placed 106th in the world, and sixth in Canada.

Since the U. S. Congress passed the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act in October 1994 all manufactured forms of pennyroyal in the United States have carried a warning label against its use by pregnant women, but pennyroyal is not regulated by the U. S. Food and Drug Administration.

As of 1 October 2009, the 33d FW transitioned to a training wing for the new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter ( JSF ) under Air Education and Training Command.

The Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium published a comprehensive study on the Ph. D. productivity of all undergraduate programs in October 2006.

* September – October 1903 – Lord Londonderry succeeds the Duke of Devonshire as Lord President, while remaining also President of the Board of Education.

One of the most significant achievements of AIHEC was to work with the United States Congress to authorize in 1994 land-grant status to 29 tribal colleges, achieved in October 1994 under the Elementary and Secondary Education Reauthorization Act.

However, as of October 2009, the Singaporean Ministry of Education has put off funding plans.

* The College of Information was created in October of 2008 by consolidating two existing academic units: Learning Technologies, formerly within the College of Education, and Library and Information Sciences, formerly the School of Library and Information Sciences.

Opened to the public in October 1971 Belfast became a branch of the Imperial War Museum on 1 March 1978, being acknowledged by the then Secretary of State for Education and Science, Shirley Williams, as ' a unique demonstration of an important phase of our history and technology '.

A bill to create a Department of Education at the federal level was introduced in October 1918, designed to restrict federal funds to states that enforced English-only education.

On 12 October 2010, The Refectory of the Leeds University Union hosted a live edition of the Channel 4 News, with students, academics and economists expressing their reaction to the Browne Review, an independent review of Higher Education funding and student finance conducted by John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley.

On October 13, 2010, UNBC was co-awarded the Campus Sustainability Leadership Award by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education ( AASHE ) for its bio-energy project, which targets a reduction in fossil fuel use by supplying 85 % of UNBC's heating needs.

This was the first time that the Lord President had not been a leader of one of the Houses since the period 20 October 1963 to 16 October 1964, wherein Lord Hailsham, after resigning as Leader of the House of Lords, kept the office along with the offices of Minister for Sport and, from 1 April 1964, also of Secretary of State for Education and Science.

Arbor Day reached its height of popularity on its 125th anniversary in 1997, when David J. Wright, noticed that a Nebraska nonprofit organization called the National Arbor Day Foundation had taken the name of the holiday and commercialized it for their own use as a trademark for their publication " Arbor Day ," so he countered their efforts, launched a website, and trademarked it for " public use celebrations " and defended the matter in a federal district court in the United States to ensure it was judged as property of the public domain, the case was settled in October 1999.

Software development for the GNU operating system began in January 1984, and the Free Software Foundation ( FSF ) was founded in October 1985.

From October 2005 to May 2007, he held the position of Director of Committer Community Development at the Eclipse Foundation.

* October 4 – The Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, USA.

* October 13 – Foundation of Washington, DC: The cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion, known as the White House after 1818, is laid.

* Lifetime Achievement Award from LD Access Foundation, October 2001

In October the Foundation sponsors an annual Harvest Festival, featuring tons of pumpkins grown on the Pierce farm, a five-mile ( 8 km ) corn maze, rock climbing, games and rides for the children, a petting zoo, live music and Halloween frights for the whole family.

* Lannan Foundation reading and conversation with Dennis O ' Driscoll, 1 October 2003.

* Williams, J. R. and Pentland, A. P., " Superquadric and Modal Dynamics for Discrete Elements in Concurrent Design ," National Science Foundation Sponsored 1st U. S. Conference of Discrete Element Methods, Golden, CO, October 19 – 20, 1989.

Curtis is also involved in the work of the Children Affected by AIDS Foundation, serving as the annual host for the organization's " Dream Halloween " event in Los Angeles, launched every year in October.

In October 2009 the Foundation For the Future announced that Pääbo had been awarded the 2009 Kistler Prize for his work isolating and sequencing ancient DNA, beginning in 1984 with a 2, 400-year-old mummy.

* At the October 16, 2008 Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, then, Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama joked that he was from Krypton, saying " Contrary to the rumors you have heard, I was not born in a manger.

Speaking to the Heritage Foundation in October 1989, UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi called the Heritage Foundation's efforts " a source of great support.

*" The Coming Winds of Democracy in Angola ", by Jonas Savimbi, Heritage Foundation Lecture # 217, October 4, 1989.

Kinstons ' Bill Fay Park is home to the Annual Allen Pearson Foundation Softball Tournament held each year annually during the first weekend in October.

The Westcott House Foundation managed the extensive 5 year, $ 5. 3 million restoration, the house was fully restored to its original glory in October 2005, when it officially opened to the public for guided tours.

In October 1995 it was announced that Mrs. Ruth Ann Holland has left $ 500, 000 to the Library Foundation in her will.

The Foundation Stone was laid in June 1823 and the school opened for the first session in October 1824.

Singapore's expertise in successful new town design was internationally recognised when the Building and Social Housing Foundation ( BSHF ) of the United Nations awarded the World Habitat Award to Tampines New Town, which was selected as a representative of Singapore's new towns, on 5 October 1992.

The college was named in honour of W. K. Kellogg on 1 October 1994, in recognition of the generous support given by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation to the university over the preceding decades.

The Queen's Birthday is generally observed on the second Monday in June, except in Western Australia, where it usually is observed in September or October to move it away from Western Australia Day ( formerly Foundation Day ).

On October 22, 2007, the Holy Land Foundation trial ended in a mistrial.

U. S. Congressmen Sue Myrick ( R-NC ), Trent Franks ( R-AZ ), John Shadegg ( R-AZ ), and Paul Broun ( R-GA ) wrote Attorney General Eric Holder on October 21, 2009, that they were very concerned about CAIR's relationships with terrorist groups, and requesting that the Department of Justice ( DOJ ) provide each Congressman a summary of DOJ's evidence and findings that led DOJ to name CAIR an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism trial.