Sunday, September 18, 2005
In the news this week....
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Addis Conference Calls On Govts to Prioritize Rural Education
AllAfrica.com - Africa
A three day Ministerial conference on rural education ended in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Friday, with participants calling on governments to prioritise Education for All to promote education for rural people. In a communiqué issued at the end of the conference, African Ministers of Education and Agriculture asked governments to improve on Education for All and rural development policies as a means of ensuring that the education priority is reflected.
Rural education day is Wednesday
Port Huron Times Herald - Port Huron, MI, USA
SANDUSKY- Sanilac County fourth-graders will attend the annual Rural Education Day on Wednesday at the 4-H fairgrounds. The event is sponsored by the Sanilac County Farm Bureau and Michigan State University Extension. It gives students the opportunity to learn about rural areas and how agriculture affects their communities.
African countries pledge to improve rural education
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Officials from 11 African countries today pledged to make education in rural areas a top priority in their efforts to meet UN targets to eradicate poverty. The decision was taken by ministers of education, agriculture, fisheries and rural development at the end of a three-day conference in Ethiopia.
African Ministers Converge in Ethiopia to Discuss Rural Education
AllAfrica.com - Africa
A three-day ministerial conference is converging at the Hilton Hotel in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to discuss education for rural people. The meeting which brings together African Ministers of Education and Agriculture is reviewing policies for education and skills formation set forth in national EFA plans and poverty reduction strategies. The ministers are also discussing appropriate means of improving analysis of the educational contexts and needs of rural dwellers. They are using this chance to discuss the most appropriate policies and effective strategies for increasing access to education for groups that are difficult to reach: working children, isolated populations, nomadic peoples, refugees and displaced persons, the poor and other vulnerable groups such as people living with HIV/Aids.
Official Reaffirms Gov't Commitment to Foster Rural Education
AllAfrica.com - Africa
Education Vice Minister Wondwossen Kiflu said that the Ethiopian government is committed to foster education in the rural areas where the majority of the Ethiopian population lives to tackle poverty. Opening "Regional Capacity Building Seminar on Education for Rural People in Africa" at the Addis Ababa Hilton yesterday, Wondwossen also said that 13 new universities will be established across the country in the coming five years that would benefit many youths coming from rural areas to join higher education institutions.
Asphalt net covers China's west
Asia Times Online - Kowloon, Hong Kong
Five years after starting its "go west" campaign to develop its western region, China's road construction in these strategic areas has reached a gigantic scale. Last month, the Yunnan (ATol map of Yunnan) provincial government announced the completion of a central section of the Kunming-Laos highway, a road that will eventually link Yunnan, in southwest China, to Thailand. Earlier this year, also in Yunnan, the new Kunming-Xiaguan highway was opened; this was the first section of the improved Yunnan-Tibet highway (ATol map of Tibet). China intends to complete paving and upgrading the road all the way to Lhasa. The Sichuan-Tibet highway is also underway (ATol map of Sichuan), creating great engineering challenges as workers upgrade a road on some of the world's highest and most difficult terrain.
Keeping Up with the Races
Richmond.com - Richmond, VA, USA
It's peak race season, and with only eight weeks until Election Day, now we will start to focus on who stands for what. This week's issue: education. We'll put the political jargon aside and examine who has plans to implement and who has a history to stand on.
Rural schools get technology boost
Manawatu Standard - Manawatu, New Zealand
When Tokomaru School students want something off the internet from now on, school principal Nick Beamsley won't have to whip home and get it through his own computer. Tokomaru is among 300 small rural schools nationwide that will benefit from a new $11 million-funding deal to beef up computer learning in rural schools, announced recently by Education Minister Trevor Mallard. Otaki MP Darren Hughes nipped up to Tokomaru last Friday to spread the word. Mr Beamsley said it was great news for the 74 students at Tokomaru School. They would now be able to use 21st-century technology to help learning.
Tags: aera, rural, education
Addis Conference Calls On Govts to Prioritize Rural Education
AllAfrica.com - Africa
A three day Ministerial conference on rural education ended in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Friday, with participants calling on governments to prioritise Education for All to promote education for rural people. In a communiqué issued at the end of the conference, African Ministers of Education and Agriculture asked governments to improve on Education for All and rural development policies as a means of ensuring that the education priority is reflected.
Rural education day is Wednesday
Port Huron Times Herald - Port Huron, MI, USA
SANDUSKY- Sanilac County fourth-graders will attend the annual Rural Education Day on Wednesday at the 4-H fairgrounds. The event is sponsored by the Sanilac County Farm Bureau and Michigan State University Extension. It gives students the opportunity to learn about rural areas and how agriculture affects their communities.
African countries pledge to improve rural education
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Officials from 11 African countries today pledged to make education in rural areas a top priority in their efforts to meet UN targets to eradicate poverty. The decision was taken by ministers of education, agriculture, fisheries and rural development at the end of a three-day conference in Ethiopia.
African Ministers Converge in Ethiopia to Discuss Rural Education
AllAfrica.com - Africa
A three-day ministerial conference is converging at the Hilton Hotel in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to discuss education for rural people. The meeting which brings together African Ministers of Education and Agriculture is reviewing policies for education and skills formation set forth in national EFA plans and poverty reduction strategies. The ministers are also discussing appropriate means of improving analysis of the educational contexts and needs of rural dwellers. They are using this chance to discuss the most appropriate policies and effective strategies for increasing access to education for groups that are difficult to reach: working children, isolated populations, nomadic peoples, refugees and displaced persons, the poor and other vulnerable groups such as people living with HIV/Aids.
Official Reaffirms Gov't Commitment to Foster Rural Education
AllAfrica.com - Africa
Education Vice Minister Wondwossen Kiflu said that the Ethiopian government is committed to foster education in the rural areas where the majority of the Ethiopian population lives to tackle poverty. Opening "Regional Capacity Building Seminar on Education for Rural People in Africa" at the Addis Ababa Hilton yesterday, Wondwossen also said that 13 new universities will be established across the country in the coming five years that would benefit many youths coming from rural areas to join higher education institutions.
Asphalt net covers China's west
Asia Times Online - Kowloon, Hong Kong
Five years after starting its "go west" campaign to develop its western region, China's road construction in these strategic areas has reached a gigantic scale. Last month, the Yunnan (ATol map of Yunnan) provincial government announced the completion of a central section of the Kunming-Laos highway, a road that will eventually link Yunnan, in southwest China, to Thailand. Earlier this year, also in Yunnan, the new Kunming-Xiaguan highway was opened; this was the first section of the improved Yunnan-Tibet highway (ATol map of Tibet). China intends to complete paving and upgrading the road all the way to Lhasa. The Sichuan-Tibet highway is also underway (ATol map of Sichuan), creating great engineering challenges as workers upgrade a road on some of the world's highest and most difficult terrain.
Keeping Up with the Races
Richmond.com - Richmond, VA, USA
It's peak race season, and with only eight weeks until Election Day, now we will start to focus on who stands for what. This week's issue: education. We'll put the political jargon aside and examine who has plans to implement and who has a history to stand on.
Rural schools get technology boost
Manawatu Standard - Manawatu, New Zealand
When Tokomaru School students want something off the internet from now on, school principal Nick Beamsley won't have to whip home and get it through his own computer. Tokomaru is among 300 small rural schools nationwide that will benefit from a new $11 million-funding deal to beef up computer learning in rural schools, announced recently by Education Minister Trevor Mallard. Otaki MP Darren Hughes nipped up to Tokomaru last Friday to spread the word. Mr Beamsley said it was great news for the 74 students at Tokomaru School. They would now be able to use 21st-century technology to help learning.
Tags: aera, rural, education
