Thursday, November 03, 2005
Rural Education in the News
From my Google News Alert service...
Youths from 89 countries for AIESEC confab in Abeokuta
Vanguard - Apapa, Lagos, Nigeria
About 250 delegates from a network of over 89 countries which make up AIESEC, an international platform for young people to discover and develop their potential, will hold International Development Congress (IDC) 2005, in Abeokuta, from 21st to 27th November, 2005. Venue is Gateway Hotel, Abeokuta, Ogun state.
AIESEC in Nigeria is bringing the International Development Congress to Nigeria and to Africa for the first time. AIESEC is French acronym for Association of International Economics Students.
It's Rohtak before US Inc for Hooda Jr
Times of India - India
At age 27, the newly minted MP from Rohtak and Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda's son, Deepender already has a sheaf of plans for his constituency. Education and power seem to top his list as he makes the transition from a job in the US to the heat and dust of Indian politics. He is due to take oath in the winter session of Parliament and he has been busy putting together a priority list of sorts. "There is a real opportunity for Rohtak to leapfrog into the 21st Century with a bang. I have a firm plan for the development of my constituency," says Deepender
A&M-C is set to help re-invent school education
North Texas e-News - Texas, USA
The U.S. Congress has made $500,000 available to the Re-Inventing Schools Coalition, and a portion of the funds will be used to bring the concept from Alaska to the lower 48 states. This is according to Dr. Michael Copeland, an assistant professor in educational administration at Texas A&M University-Commerce and recently appointed president of the Re-Inventing Schools Coalition, which is also supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Educational Foundation. Copeland is also past president of the National Rural Education Association, which traces its origins back to 1907.
Miri at the helm of Vanga
Solomon Star Newspaper - Honiara, Solomon Islands
VANGA Teachers College (VTC) is the only teacher training institution that specifically train teachers to teach at Rural Training Centres (RTCs).At the college teacher trainees are taught on mechanics, agriculture, carpentry and life skills (home economics) which they will use to teach at RTCs in the country.This institution which is situated in Kolombangara facing Vella La Vella was opened in 2002, but one of the amazing thing I find when I attended the school’s third graduation ceremony last Friday was that it was headed by a female principal.
Rural dwellers to be granted urban rights
Xinhua - China
A landmark initiative to abolish the divisions between rural and urban residents is being developed by 11 provinces. The reforms are expected to grant people from rural areas all the political, educational and social security benefits that their urban counterparts presently receive. The pilot provinces include Liaoning, Shandong, Fujian and Guangdong. Guangdong will allow all farmers to register as urban residents in one or two years, Ou Guangyuan, deputy secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the CPC, said Monday at a work conference.
Michigan pushes to meet goal for teachers
DetNews.com - Detroit, MI, USA
Michigan officials say they will push toward a goal of having 100 percent of the state's core-subject teachers "highly qualified" by the end of the year despite an offer from federal officials to extend a looming deadline.
States that fail to make the deadline set in 2001 by the No Child Left Behind Act will be required to prove they are making progress toward the goal or face the same previously threatened loss of federal funding.
Tags: aera, rural, education
Youths from 89 countries for AIESEC confab in Abeokuta
Vanguard - Apapa, Lagos, Nigeria
About 250 delegates from a network of over 89 countries which make up AIESEC, an international platform for young people to discover and develop their potential, will hold International Development Congress (IDC) 2005, in Abeokuta, from 21st to 27th November, 2005. Venue is Gateway Hotel, Abeokuta, Ogun state.
AIESEC in Nigeria is bringing the International Development Congress to Nigeria and to Africa for the first time. AIESEC is French acronym for Association of International Economics Students.
It's Rohtak before US Inc for Hooda Jr
Times of India - India
At age 27, the newly minted MP from Rohtak and Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda's son, Deepender already has a sheaf of plans for his constituency. Education and power seem to top his list as he makes the transition from a job in the US to the heat and dust of Indian politics. He is due to take oath in the winter session of Parliament and he has been busy putting together a priority list of sorts. "There is a real opportunity for Rohtak to leapfrog into the 21st Century with a bang. I have a firm plan for the development of my constituency," says Deepender
A&M-C is set to help re-invent school education
North Texas e-News - Texas, USA
The U.S. Congress has made $500,000 available to the Re-Inventing Schools Coalition, and a portion of the funds will be used to bring the concept from Alaska to the lower 48 states. This is according to Dr. Michael Copeland, an assistant professor in educational administration at Texas A&M University-Commerce and recently appointed president of the Re-Inventing Schools Coalition, which is also supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Educational Foundation. Copeland is also past president of the National Rural Education Association, which traces its origins back to 1907.
Miri at the helm of Vanga
Solomon Star Newspaper - Honiara, Solomon Islands
VANGA Teachers College (VTC) is the only teacher training institution that specifically train teachers to teach at Rural Training Centres (RTCs).At the college teacher trainees are taught on mechanics, agriculture, carpentry and life skills (home economics) which they will use to teach at RTCs in the country.This institution which is situated in Kolombangara facing Vella La Vella was opened in 2002, but one of the amazing thing I find when I attended the school’s third graduation ceremony last Friday was that it was headed by a female principal.
Rural dwellers to be granted urban rights
Xinhua - China
A landmark initiative to abolish the divisions between rural and urban residents is being developed by 11 provinces. The reforms are expected to grant people from rural areas all the political, educational and social security benefits that their urban counterparts presently receive. The pilot provinces include Liaoning, Shandong, Fujian and Guangdong. Guangdong will allow all farmers to register as urban residents in one or two years, Ou Guangyuan, deputy secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the CPC, said Monday at a work conference.
Michigan pushes to meet goal for teachers
DetNews.com - Detroit, MI, USA
Michigan officials say they will push toward a goal of having 100 percent of the state's core-subject teachers "highly qualified" by the end of the year despite an offer from federal officials to extend a looming deadline.
States that fail to make the deadline set in 2001 by the No Child Left Behind Act will be required to prove they are making progress toward the goal or face the same previously threatened loss of federal funding.
Tags: aera, rural, education
