Thursday, September 01, 2005
Rural ed in the news this week...
From Google News alert this week...
$411,200 for Otago projects for gifted students
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - New ZealandCentral Otago's Rural Education
Two Otago projects aimed at supporting gifted and talented learners in our region are to gain up to $411,200 in new government funding. Central Otago's Rural Education Activities Programme will receive up to $168,300* over three years in partnership with the George Parkyn National Centre for Gifted to develop a One Day School programme to meet the needs of rural students in the Otago region. The programme aims to enable rurally isolated gifted students to find a peer group that with guidance will encourage a positive attitude to learning as well as address their social and emotional needs.
Free schooling is crucial for future
China Daily - China
For a vast country like China, the future will undoubtedly hinge on balanced development. This is not only in economic terms, but, more importantly, a balance demographically. It is in this sense that we applaud the promise from the central educational authorities that during the 2006-10 period, China will start to adopt a system of free nine-year compulsory education for the country's rural children.
Distance learning classes seen as boon to state's rural schools
Billings Gazette - MT, USA
HELENA - More than 40 school districts will offer dozens of online courses to public, private and home-schooled students across the state starting next month under a new distance learning program. Class registration for the Montana Schools E-Learning Consortium began recently and runs through Sept. 15, although students can sign up throughout the school year, project manager Leanne West said. Some 35 courses will be offered by 44 participating districts.
Panel weighs change in funding for schools
Augusta Chronicle (subscription) - Augusta, GA, USA
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In Kwara, you either shape up or chip out (2)
Daily Independent - Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria
The Emir of Tsonga, Dr. Halilu Yahya is in full support of the project. If the traditional ruler of the community, who represents his people, is pleased about the project, and he has not been kicked out from his domain like it was done in Babaloma when the people were against their traditional ruler, all we have to do is support Saraki's move to put commercial farming in place in Kwara State. The presence of Zimbabwean farmers had brought a Chinese delegation to Ilorin, Tuesday, August 9, 2005 on a three-day fact-finding mission on importation of cassava chips and allied products from Nigeria. The visit of the delegation was facilitated by Kwara indigenes in China, who have been in the vanguard of mobilising prospective Chinese investors to the state. Commercial farming would facilitate the mass production of cassava in Kwara State.
Edumazde bemoans performance in public schools
Accra Mail - Accra, Ghana
Mr Isaac Edumadze, Central Regional Minister, has stated that the calibre of the teachers is very essential in the nation's effort at building a solid and high quality education for its future leaders. He expressed regret that private basic schools, which mainly had untrained teachers, are doing far better academically than the public schools, which had better trained teachers.
No drastic changes can be expected in school education this year ...
RIA Novosti - Moscow, Russia
MOSCOW, September 1 (RIA Novosti) - No drastic changes are planned for this school year, which begins September 1, but some experiments and innovations are on the agenda, the Russian education minister said in a RIA Novosti interview. Andrei Fursenko said that one of the current experiments in Moscow was an extension of elementary schooling from four to six years, and another involved making budget allocations for schools proportionate to the number of pupils.
Welfare key to communal harmony: CM
Newindpress - Chennai, India
BHUBANESWAR: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has underscored the need for a greater thrust on socio-economic measures such as promotion of universal literacy and eradication of poverty for maintaining communal harmony in the Country.Speaking at the National Integration Council (NIC) meeting in New Delhi, held after 13 years, on Wednesday, the Chief Minister underlined the role of education in promoting secular outlook and communal harmony as also the need for empowering the weaker sections in order to bring them into the national mainstream.
Tags: aera, rural, education
$411,200 for Otago projects for gifted students
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - New ZealandCentral Otago's Rural Education
Two Otago projects aimed at supporting gifted and talented learners in our region are to gain up to $411,200 in new government funding. Central Otago's Rural Education Activities Programme will receive up to $168,300* over three years in partnership with the George Parkyn National Centre for Gifted to develop a One Day School programme to meet the needs of rural students in the Otago region. The programme aims to enable rurally isolated gifted students to find a peer group that with guidance will encourage a positive attitude to learning as well as address their social and emotional needs.
Free schooling is crucial for future
China Daily - China
For a vast country like China, the future will undoubtedly hinge on balanced development. This is not only in economic terms, but, more importantly, a balance demographically. It is in this sense that we applaud the promise from the central educational authorities that during the 2006-10 period, China will start to adopt a system of free nine-year compulsory education for the country's rural children.
Distance learning classes seen as boon to state's rural schools
Billings Gazette - MT, USA
HELENA - More than 40 school districts will offer dozens of online courses to public, private and home-schooled students across the state starting next month under a new distance learning program. Class registration for the Montana Schools E-Learning Consortium began recently and runs through Sept. 15, although students can sign up throughout the school year, project manager Leanne West said. Some 35 courses will be offered by 44 participating districts.
Panel weighs change in funding for schools
Augusta Chronicle (subscription) - Augusta, GA, USA
No preview available...
In Kwara, you either shape up or chip out (2)
Daily Independent - Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria
The Emir of Tsonga, Dr. Halilu Yahya is in full support of the project. If the traditional ruler of the community, who represents his people, is pleased about the project, and he has not been kicked out from his domain like it was done in Babaloma when the people were against their traditional ruler, all we have to do is support Saraki's move to put commercial farming in place in Kwara State. The presence of Zimbabwean farmers had brought a Chinese delegation to Ilorin, Tuesday, August 9, 2005 on a three-day fact-finding mission on importation of cassava chips and allied products from Nigeria. The visit of the delegation was facilitated by Kwara indigenes in China, who have been in the vanguard of mobilising prospective Chinese investors to the state. Commercial farming would facilitate the mass production of cassava in Kwara State.
Edumazde bemoans performance in public schools
Accra Mail - Accra, Ghana
Mr Isaac Edumadze, Central Regional Minister, has stated that the calibre of the teachers is very essential in the nation's effort at building a solid and high quality education for its future leaders. He expressed regret that private basic schools, which mainly had untrained teachers, are doing far better academically than the public schools, which had better trained teachers.
No drastic changes can be expected in school education this year ...
RIA Novosti - Moscow, Russia
MOSCOW, September 1 (RIA Novosti) - No drastic changes are planned for this school year, which begins September 1, but some experiments and innovations are on the agenda, the Russian education minister said in a RIA Novosti interview. Andrei Fursenko said that one of the current experiments in Moscow was an extension of elementary schooling from four to six years, and another involved making budget allocations for schools proportionate to the number of pupils.
Welfare key to communal harmony: CM
Newindpress - Chennai, India
BHUBANESWAR: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has underscored the need for a greater thrust on socio-economic measures such as promotion of universal literacy and eradication of poverty for maintaining communal harmony in the Country.Speaking at the National Integration Council (NIC) meeting in New Delhi, held after 13 years, on Wednesday, the Chief Minister underlined the role of education in promoting secular outlook and communal harmony as also the need for empowering the weaker sections in order to bring them into the national mainstream.
Tags: aera, rural, education
