Friday, January 13, 2006
Rural Education in the News
Only a few this week from our Google News Alert for rural education.
Jiangsu to promote rural compulsory education
Xinhua - China
East China's Jiangsu Province is expected to spend 2 billion yuan (some 246 million US dollars) this year to help exempt all education tuition and fees for students during their compulsory education period, according to the provincial government. The province will continue to provide free textbooks and subsidies for the students from needy families, said an official with the provincial government. Students in central Jiangsu will also receive free textbooks, according to the official. He said the total number of beneficiaries will reach 800,000 this year.
Pens for pupils
Bizcommunity.com - Cape Town, South Africa
Internet Service Provider MWEB has partnered with DSTV, Pick n' Pay and SMILE to launch the Big Stationery Drive, an initiative that hopes to help right the future of education in our country and to provide learners with the tools for a better education. Daniela Browne, director of SMILE, a national community-based education non-profit organization, says: "Learners in South Africa's rural schools don't even have pencils and when they do, they're forced to share. Imagine sharing one pencil with three of your friends. I see this everyday." [See all stories on this topic]
Schoolbags for 10,000 pupils in rural areas
Malay Mail - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Some 10,000 underprivileged pupils from schools in rural areas will each receive a new schoolbag.
Rotary Club of Kuala Lumpur president Low Kok Hwa yesterday presented a token school bag to Education Ministry director-general Datuk Ahamad Sipon.“Most of the parents’ incomes are affected because of the increase in fuel prices, so we would like to ease their burden by providing them with the free schoolbags,” said schoolbags distribution organising chairman Chan Kam Fatt.He said the luminous band on the 10,000 schoolbags is an added safety feature as it will alert motorists to school children.
Tags: aera, rural, education
Jiangsu to promote rural compulsory education
Xinhua - China
East China's Jiangsu Province is expected to spend 2 billion yuan (some 246 million US dollars) this year to help exempt all education tuition and fees for students during their compulsory education period, according to the provincial government. The province will continue to provide free textbooks and subsidies for the students from needy families, said an official with the provincial government. Students in central Jiangsu will also receive free textbooks, according to the official. He said the total number of beneficiaries will reach 800,000 this year.
Pens for pupils
Bizcommunity.com - Cape Town, South Africa
Internet Service Provider MWEB has partnered with DSTV, Pick n' Pay and SMILE to launch the Big Stationery Drive, an initiative that hopes to help right the future of education in our country and to provide learners with the tools for a better education. Daniela Browne, director of SMILE, a national community-based education non-profit organization, says: "Learners in South Africa's rural schools don't even have pencils and when they do, they're forced to share. Imagine sharing one pencil with three of your friends. I see this everyday." [See all stories on this topic]
Schoolbags for 10,000 pupils in rural areas
Malay Mail - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Some 10,000 underprivileged pupils from schools in rural areas will each receive a new schoolbag.
Rotary Club of Kuala Lumpur president Low Kok Hwa yesterday presented a token school bag to Education Ministry director-general Datuk Ahamad Sipon.“Most of the parents’ incomes are affected because of the increase in fuel prices, so we would like to ease their burden by providing them with the free schoolbags,” said schoolbags distribution organising chairman Chan Kam Fatt.He said the luminous band on the 10,000 schoolbags is an added safety feature as it will alert motorists to school children.
Tags: aera, rural, education
