Sunday, August 14, 2005
In the news - Weekly edition
From my Google Alert this week in the news...
Rural teachers find it difficult to find life partners
Borneo Bulletin - Borneo, Brunei Darussalam
Some teachers posted to the interior want to be transferred out after three years because they need to look for potential spouses. Being posted too long in a rural school is tantamount to depriving them of the opportunity to look for a life partner....
Delavan teacher top rural educator
Peoria Journal Star - Peoria, IL, USA
Delavan teacher Rich Lessen made state history last week when he won the National Rural Education Association Teacher of The Year Award. "This is really a recognition of our school, because we're a small school and everybody has to work together. It could be anybody on our staff at the school," he said Tuesday while packing up to head to the Illinois State Fair with students....
Rural-area teacher shortage looms
Salem Statesman Journal - Salem, OR, USA
Rural school districts traditionally have had a tough time attracting teachers because they can't pay as well as metropolitan schools or offer the amenities of cities. The federal No Child Left Behind education law will make recruitment even more difficult, rural educators said. Signed by President Bush in 2002, it requires all school districts to have "highly qualified" teachers in place by spring....
GES moves to provide more teachers in the country
GhanaWeb - Accra, Ghana
The perennial shortage of staff especially teachers in the rural areas of the country has for years now been a major impediment to the development of all levels of education in the country. Right down from the basic to tertiary levels, there are either lack of qualified teachers or no teachers at all to handle some of the subjects in the nation's numerous schools in spite of the high turnout of teachers from various teacher training colleges and other professional institutions in the country....
New System Gives Rural Children of Burkino Faso Chance to Learn
Voice of America - USA
The West African nation of Burkina Faso is one of the world's poorest countries. It ranks near the bottom of just about every development indicator, and education is no exception. Less than four out of every 10 Burkinabe children even attend first grade. Nonetheless, primary school attendance is slowly growing -- thanks, development experts say, to a fledgling effort to build small "satellite" classrooms in rural villages. The schools do much more than teach reading, writing and arithmetic. The secondhand desks are nicked with age, and the floor is dirty concrete. But the three-room schoolhouse is the pride of this tiny village of thatched huts, where chickens peck the dust for food and the local Lobi people eke out a meager living from fields of sorghum and millet....
Teachers shun interior postings for fear of being single
Daily Express - Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
Teachers are not keen to serve in the interior too long for fear of ending up as singles. Deputy Director-General Dato' Kusaini bin Haji Hasbullah (pic) said this is among reasons some apply for transfer. "These teachers think they must leave the place in order to meet someone ideal and marry. This is the reality they are facing and (there is) a need for the Ministry to understand and look into it." ...
Tags: aera, rural, education
Rural teachers find it difficult to find life partners
Borneo Bulletin - Borneo, Brunei Darussalam
Some teachers posted to the interior want to be transferred out after three years because they need to look for potential spouses. Being posted too long in a rural school is tantamount to depriving them of the opportunity to look for a life partner....
Delavan teacher top rural educator
Peoria Journal Star - Peoria, IL, USA
Delavan teacher Rich Lessen made state history last week when he won the National Rural Education Association Teacher of The Year Award. "This is really a recognition of our school, because we're a small school and everybody has to work together. It could be anybody on our staff at the school," he said Tuesday while packing up to head to the Illinois State Fair with students....
Rural-area teacher shortage looms
Salem Statesman Journal - Salem, OR, USA
Rural school districts traditionally have had a tough time attracting teachers because they can't pay as well as metropolitan schools or offer the amenities of cities. The federal No Child Left Behind education law will make recruitment even more difficult, rural educators said. Signed by President Bush in 2002, it requires all school districts to have "highly qualified" teachers in place by spring....
GES moves to provide more teachers in the country
GhanaWeb - Accra, Ghana
The perennial shortage of staff especially teachers in the rural areas of the country has for years now been a major impediment to the development of all levels of education in the country. Right down from the basic to tertiary levels, there are either lack of qualified teachers or no teachers at all to handle some of the subjects in the nation's numerous schools in spite of the high turnout of teachers from various teacher training colleges and other professional institutions in the country....
New System Gives Rural Children of Burkino Faso Chance to Learn
Voice of America - USA
The West African nation of Burkina Faso is one of the world's poorest countries. It ranks near the bottom of just about every development indicator, and education is no exception. Less than four out of every 10 Burkinabe children even attend first grade. Nonetheless, primary school attendance is slowly growing -- thanks, development experts say, to a fledgling effort to build small "satellite" classrooms in rural villages. The schools do much more than teach reading, writing and arithmetic. The secondhand desks are nicked with age, and the floor is dirty concrete. But the three-room schoolhouse is the pride of this tiny village of thatched huts, where chickens peck the dust for food and the local Lobi people eke out a meager living from fields of sorghum and millet....
Teachers shun interior postings for fear of being single
Daily Express - Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
Teachers are not keen to serve in the interior too long for fear of ending up as singles. Deputy Director-General Dato' Kusaini bin Haji Hasbullah (pic) said this is among reasons some apply for transfer. "These teachers think they must leave the place in order to meet someone ideal and marry. This is the reality they are facing and (there is) a need for the Ministry to understand and look into it." ...
Tags: aera, rural, education
