Friday, November 18, 2005
Rural Education in the News
Taken from my Google News Alert service...
Rural kids to get free education by 2010
China Daily - China
Rural elementary and secondary schools will get the bulk of educational funds allowing children to enjoy new computer and multimedia classrooms and free education as early as 2010, according to the Ministry of Education (MOE). "Rural education is still the weakest link, and our newly-allocated educational funds will be used mainly in rural areas," said Zhang Xinsheng, vice-minister of MOE.
164.4 bln yuan spent on compulsory rural education in 2004
Xinhua - China
China invested 164.4 billion yuan(approximately 20.1 billion US dollars) in the nine-year compulsory rural education last year, according to a report on national civil education released by the Ministry of Education on Thursday. The report said that the Chinese government invested more capital in rural compulsory education than in urban education in 2004, setting a goal of free compulsory education in all rural areas by 2010 and for the whole nation by 2015.
China spends 164.4 billion yuan on compulsory rural education in ...
People's Daily Online - Beijing, China
China invested 164.4 billion yuan (approximately 20.1 billion US dollars) in the nine-year compulsory rural education last year, according to a report on national civil education released by the Ministry of Education on Thursday. The report said that the Chinese government invested more capital in rural compulsory education than in urban education in 2004, setting a goal of free compulsory education in all rural areas by 2010 and for the whole nation by 2015.
Education Summit To Be Held This Week
MyMotherLode.com - Sonora, CA, USA
Assemblyman Dave Cogdill and several other legislators are gearing up for the 5th Bi-Annual rural education summit later this week. The summit will be held at Fish Camp near Yosemite National Park Thursday and Friday. The summit is designed to highlight and examine the needs of rural schools within the current state and federal education policies.
China Releases Report on Education for All
CRI - Beijing, China
China's Ministry of Health has just released the county's national report on education, paying special attention to rural education. In a press conference on the report's release, Vice Minister of Education, Zhang Xinsheng, says rural education is the weakest point of China's overall education and will strive to improve the situation. CRI's Zheng Chenguang has more. The newly released education report has thoroughly summarized the historical breakthroughs China has made since UNESCO's World Conference on Education for All in 2000. It fully demonstrates the progress China has achieved in terms of pre-education, compulsory education, professional education and many others.
Church Schools Growing Trend
WTOK - Meridian, MS, USA
Elementary and secondary schools founded by and based at churches are a growing trend, nationwide and here locally. For that reason, the Mississippi Rural Education Association is trying to help those schools properly educate children. A seminar is at MSU Meridian aimed at helping those who want to start church-based schools get on track.
Many teachers are diploma holders
Fiji Times - Suva, Fiji
FIJI's school system continues to have a large number of diploma holders as teachers even though secondary schools need higher level graduate teachers. Labour member and former education minister in the People's Coalition government Pratap Chand, said 41 per cent of teachers in secondary schools were "diplomats" - with no improvement to the percentage that existed in 1999. "There has been a lot of talk on addressing the concerns of rural education. And in this regard teachers along with the parents and other stakeholders play a pivotal role.
Until next week...
Tags: aera, rural, education
Rural kids to get free education by 2010
China Daily - China
Rural elementary and secondary schools will get the bulk of educational funds allowing children to enjoy new computer and multimedia classrooms and free education as early as 2010, according to the Ministry of Education (MOE). "Rural education is still the weakest link, and our newly-allocated educational funds will be used mainly in rural areas," said Zhang Xinsheng, vice-minister of MOE.
164.4 bln yuan spent on compulsory rural education in 2004
Xinhua - China
China invested 164.4 billion yuan(approximately 20.1 billion US dollars) in the nine-year compulsory rural education last year, according to a report on national civil education released by the Ministry of Education on Thursday. The report said that the Chinese government invested more capital in rural compulsory education than in urban education in 2004, setting a goal of free compulsory education in all rural areas by 2010 and for the whole nation by 2015.
China spends 164.4 billion yuan on compulsory rural education in ...
People's Daily Online - Beijing, China
China invested 164.4 billion yuan (approximately 20.1 billion US dollars) in the nine-year compulsory rural education last year, according to a report on national civil education released by the Ministry of Education on Thursday. The report said that the Chinese government invested more capital in rural compulsory education than in urban education in 2004, setting a goal of free compulsory education in all rural areas by 2010 and for the whole nation by 2015.
Education Summit To Be Held This Week
MyMotherLode.com - Sonora, CA, USA
Assemblyman Dave Cogdill and several other legislators are gearing up for the 5th Bi-Annual rural education summit later this week. The summit will be held at Fish Camp near Yosemite National Park Thursday and Friday. The summit is designed to highlight and examine the needs of rural schools within the current state and federal education policies.
China Releases Report on Education for All
CRI - Beijing, China
China's Ministry of Health has just released the county's national report on education, paying special attention to rural education. In a press conference on the report's release, Vice Minister of Education, Zhang Xinsheng, says rural education is the weakest point of China's overall education and will strive to improve the situation. CRI's Zheng Chenguang has more. The newly released education report has thoroughly summarized the historical breakthroughs China has made since UNESCO's World Conference on Education for All in 2000. It fully demonstrates the progress China has achieved in terms of pre-education, compulsory education, professional education and many others.
Church Schools Growing Trend
WTOK - Meridian, MS, USA
Elementary and secondary schools founded by and based at churches are a growing trend, nationwide and here locally. For that reason, the Mississippi Rural Education Association is trying to help those schools properly educate children. A seminar is at MSU Meridian aimed at helping those who want to start church-based schools get on track.
Many teachers are diploma holders
Fiji Times - Suva, Fiji
FIJI's school system continues to have a large number of diploma holders as teachers even though secondary schools need higher level graduate teachers. Labour member and former education minister in the People's Coalition government Pratap Chand, said 41 per cent of teachers in secondary schools were "diplomats" - with no improvement to the percentage that existed in 1999. "There has been a lot of talk on addressing the concerns of rural education. And in this regard teachers along with the parents and other stakeholders play a pivotal role.
Until next week...
Tags: aera, rural, education
