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Protests over Italy school reform
School pupils, university students and teachers have staged demonstrations across Italy against a school reform law just passed by parliament. |
Hanoi leading the country in illiteracy: survey
According to the statistics released by the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET), by June 2008, Vietnam had more than 140,000 illiterate people between the ages of 15 and 25. The figure was 250,000 for those aged 25-35. The highest percentage of illiterates fall in the group of those over 36, with nearly 1.3mil people. |
Education in Mexico
This explosive growth in enrollments has placed tremendous pressure on the Mexican education system. Educational authorities and planners in Mexico are faced with two quite different and partially conflicting tasks: on the one hand, to manage and increase educational opportunities for the burgeoning population; on the other hand, to improve the quality of education at all levels in the face of this increasing demand. |
Pay-To-Behave Program Debuts In D.C. Schools
At Shaw-Garnet-Patterson Middle School in Washington, D.C., students like the idea of getting paid for good grades or for just showing up. They have a harder time agreeing on how much they should get. |
Pupils to get free home computers
Some 150,000 youngsters could benefit, while approved packages would get a quality mark and be used in the national roll-out of this "Next Generation Learning" scheme. |
1 in 7 Japanese kids faced with economic disadvantages
Poverty has long been known to adversely effect children's health and education, but there also are concerns now that growing up in poverty tends to lock children into a cycle of poverty that leaves them economically disadvantaged all their lives. |
Primary school pupils violent and rude, say teachers
Some teachers said children aged five to 11 were now just as likely to cause major disruption as pupils in secondary schools. |
Teaching cuts 'will result in pupils being sent home'
The Irish National Teachers' Organisation (INTO) also predicted up to 1,000 teachers will be lost to primary schools across the country from September, as the full impact of the education cuts sank in last night. |
Rwanda: Country's Investment in Education is Exemplary
Education is not only a social service, it is also an investment and the kind of priorities the kids were putting forward to the President clearly underscored the fact that Rwanda has evidently invested wisely. |
Partha blames state for trainee teachers’ crisis
Mr Partha Chatterjee, today held the state government responsible for the problems 75,000 students of primary teachers training institutes (PTTI) are facing and advised them to seek the Governor's help. |
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Chicago High School Raises Crops, Career Hopes
Students at Chicago's High School for Agricultural Sciences learn from farming livestock and crops, but they also train for several other careers. Ag High's curriculum includes subjects such as English, history and science, along with classes literally taught in the field. |
High Schools Add Electives to Cultivate Interests
The students in the jewelry and metalsmithing class at Pelham Memorial High School painstakingly coiled copper and brass wires into necklaces the other morning, while across the hall, the history of rock ’n’ roll class pondered the meaning of Don McLean’s "American Pie." |
Plea to modernise distance education
PATNA: Pleading for modernisation of the teaching-learning process under the distance education
mode, Patna University (PU) pro-VC S I Ahson said
distance learners must be provided CD Roms along with printed study materials for having a better understanding of the subject. |
Evaluating Teachers In New York City
Educators have long argued that standardized testing is a poor way to evaluate student knowledge. They also disagree over whether test scores are the best way to evaluate teachers. In New York City schools, a surprising compromise allows some of that data to be used. |
Computer game boosts maths scores - BBC
A daily dose of computer games can boost maths attainment, according to a study carried out in Scottish schools. |
Advanced programs offer students a global view
Looking for a school that will challenge a talented student with advanced course work that covers a wide spectrum of subjects taught from a global perspective? |
Local Schools to Study Whether Math -- Topics = Better Instruction
Advocates of new math and old math, back-to-basics math and "fuzzy" math might be shelving their differences to collectively focus on what many consider a more pressing problem: too much math. |
New science A-levels are 'dumbed down'
New science A-levels are being "dumbed down" to such an extent that some courses will demand no prior knowledge of the subject. |
Preparing kids for disaster should be curriculum
JAPAN: A Yomiuri Shimbun survey conducted from late November to mid-December reveals that there are several problems to tackle in promoting antidisaster education at school. |
Parents back school money lessons
Most parents and teachers think personal finance should be taught in schools, according to an industry body. |
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Education in Mexico
This project was intended to provide The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation with
background and contextual information on the K-12 education system in Mexico and to identify the main issues and the challenges associated with them. |
Countryside abandons schools
Schools are being shut at the rate of almost one a day, with hundreds axed in rural areas in the past five years. |
EU-Canada: towards increasing cooperation in higher education, training and youth
This year, the European Commission is funding 11 new student-centred projects. The amount of 1.4 million from the European Commission will be matched by the Canadian authorities. |
More Support for Schools' "Teach Less, Learn More" Initiatives
To provide more support for our schools' "Teach Less, Learn More" (TLLM) initiatives, MOE will offer the "TLLM Ignite!" package to 100 selected schools and will disseminate the "PETAL(Trademark): The Teacher's Toolbox" to all schools.v |
School leadership for systemic improvement in Finland
Report on innovative school leadership practices for systemic improvement in Finland. |
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Weak teachers who are "hardened blockers of progress" should be forced out or sacked, a government adviser says in a book on how to improve failing schools.... |
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The contract between educated people and the society at large, which mandates that education gained from the sweat and toil of the society will be used for its benefit is being violated today.... |
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If Northern Ireland really wants to compete on a world stage, then it must retain the current schools and address the shortcomings of the secondary sector... |
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Hanoi's Deputy Prime Minister seeks to drive education with ties, expressing his hope that more Vietnamese students would have the chance to study abroad. |
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Four out of ten men aged 18-22 believe that higher education is either unimportant or a so-so factor in landing a desired job. Only 27 percent of young women believe that further education is not a vital factor, according to a survey by Respons in Norway |
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Financing Education
Uganda: 'Promote Local Investors in Education'
The Government should promote local investors in education to lift
standards, Kawempe South MP Latif Ssebagala has said.
India: Education Should Be A Right
The 86th amendment adds a new Article 21A to the Constitution that says: "The
state shall provide free and compulsory education to all children of the age of
six to 14 years in such manner as the state may, by law, determine". This makes
the right to education a fundamental right for children in this age group.
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