Thursday, September 29, 2005
Rural Education in the News
From this week's Google News Alert service...
Radio broadcast in rural education
Calcutta Telegraph - Calcutta, India
Children in Arki block, 60 km from the state capital, would soon get to learn primary English through radio broadcasts. Project Eetun (education in Mundari) is the first of its kind in the state and is aimed at providing quality education to children in primary and middle schools. Children in the block would now get a chance to learn English through fun and games, over radio broadcasts.
Make Rural Education Priority -- Ministers
AllAfrica.com - Africa
AFRICAN ministers of education have urged their governments to make education for rural people a top national priority. They also called for increased budgetary allocations and investments to narrow the urban - rural divide in performance. "There are huge disparities between rural and urban people, as far as access to education and the quality of education is concerned, despite progress made by most countries at national levels," the ministers said in a communiqué issued at the end of an education conference in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa recently.
Middle East experts call for increased funding for education
Daily Star - Lebanon - Beirut, Lebanon
Education experts from across the Middle East called for increased funding for what was identified as every country's most vital sector during the first day of the second Arab Gathering for Education at the Phoenicia Inter-Continental Hotel. Kicked off yesterday, the four-day conference has brought together experts in education from all the Arab countries for a debate on how to provide education for rural communities with specific needs. Addressing the gathered Arab officials, Saudi Crown Prince Khaled Faysal, the head of the Arab Thought organization, said: "We have to reconsider how proportional our financial investments are to the level of education we want to have."
India needs to train its rural teachers: Premji
Hindustan Times - India
Teachers in rural India need proper training to give the right education to children and help the country become a knowledge hub, Azim Premji, chairman of software major Wipro, said in New Delhi on Wednesday. Participating in a seminar on "Opportunities for India in the Knowledge Economy" organised by the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi, Premji said the major challenge for education in rural India was the lack of well-trained teachers.
Education can break vicious poverty cycle
Xinhua - China
Statistics, they say, conceal more than they reveal. Not always, though. On September 8, the International Literacy Day, China announced it still has 85 million illiterate people. Most of them are clustered in the country's less developed rural areas of the landlocked western regions. Earlier, Liu Xiaoyun, a scholar with China Agricultural University, disclosed that there are the same number of people in China still in the grip of poverty. Again, they are rural residents or migrant "floating" groups from rural areas.
Tags: aera, rural, education
Radio broadcast in rural education
Calcutta Telegraph - Calcutta, India
Children in Arki block, 60 km from the state capital, would soon get to learn primary English through radio broadcasts. Project Eetun (education in Mundari) is the first of its kind in the state and is aimed at providing quality education to children in primary and middle schools. Children in the block would now get a chance to learn English through fun and games, over radio broadcasts.
Make Rural Education Priority -- Ministers
AllAfrica.com - Africa
AFRICAN ministers of education have urged their governments to make education for rural people a top national priority. They also called for increased budgetary allocations and investments to narrow the urban - rural divide in performance. "There are huge disparities between rural and urban people, as far as access to education and the quality of education is concerned, despite progress made by most countries at national levels," the ministers said in a communiqué issued at the end of an education conference in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa recently.
Middle East experts call for increased funding for education
Daily Star - Lebanon - Beirut, Lebanon
Education experts from across the Middle East called for increased funding for what was identified as every country's most vital sector during the first day of the second Arab Gathering for Education at the Phoenicia Inter-Continental Hotel. Kicked off yesterday, the four-day conference has brought together experts in education from all the Arab countries for a debate on how to provide education for rural communities with specific needs. Addressing the gathered Arab officials, Saudi Crown Prince Khaled Faysal, the head of the Arab Thought organization, said: "We have to reconsider how proportional our financial investments are to the level of education we want to have."
India needs to train its rural teachers: Premji
Hindustan Times - India
Teachers in rural India need proper training to give the right education to children and help the country become a knowledge hub, Azim Premji, chairman of software major Wipro, said in New Delhi on Wednesday. Participating in a seminar on "Opportunities for India in the Knowledge Economy" organised by the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi, Premji said the major challenge for education in rural India was the lack of well-trained teachers.
Education can break vicious poverty cycle
Xinhua - China
Statistics, they say, conceal more than they reveal. Not always, though. On September 8, the International Literacy Day, China announced it still has 85 million illiterate people. Most of them are clustered in the country's less developed rural areas of the landlocked western regions. Earlier, Liu Xiaoyun, a scholar with China Agricultural University, disclosed that there are the same number of people in China still in the grip of poverty. Again, they are rural residents or migrant "floating" groups from rural areas.
Tags: aera, rural, education
