Friday, February 17, 2006
Rural Education in the News
The Google news alert for rural education for this week.
Starbucks donates $1.5mln to boost rural education in China
Xinhua - China
U.S. coffee giant Starbucks has pledged to work with Chinese organizations to provide 40 million yuan (5 million U.S. dollars) to give poor Chinese students from rural areas better access to education. Starbucks and the Soong Ching-ling Foundation (SCLF), a social welfare organization set up in 1982 named after the late Chinese leader Soong Ching-ling, on Tuesday signed an agreement to launch the China Education Project in Beijing. Starbucks donated 12 million yuan (1.5 million U.S. dollars) tokick-start the project at the signing ceremony. [See all stories on this topic]
Rural education requires funding rethink
China Daily - China
The current financing system underpinning rural education cannot pay for a free nine-year compulsory education. The system must be reformed to ensure adequate funding for the economically underdeveloped countryside. Since the mid-80s, China has gradually established an educational funding system based on local resources, including both fiscal and non-fiscal funding. County-level fiscal funding has been the backbone of rural educational financing. In 2001, the State Council decided to reiterate the role of local governments in supporting compulsory education.
Rural education requires funding rethink
Xinhua - China
The current financing system underpinning rural education cannot pay for a free nine-year compulsory education. The system must be reformed to ensure adequate funding for the economically underdeveloped countryside. Since the mid-80s, China has gradually established an educational funding system based on local resources, including both fiscal and non-fiscal funding. County-level fiscal funding has been the backbone of rural educational financing. In 2001, the State Council decided to reiterate the role of local governments in supporting compulsory education.
Rural school teachers to enjoy better conditions
China Daily - China
The central government has mapped out a national development blueprint for rural compulsory education to provide better conditions for teachers and to tackle staff shortages. At present, a large number of rural teachers are working in vast rural areas in non-State official establishments. The teachers, called daike or temporary teachers, could be employed in more official capacities in the years to come under the blueprint.
Mary C. Gereau, specialist in education
The Free Lance-Star - Fredericksburg, VA, USA
Mary Condon Gereau, 89, of Colonial Beach, a "go to" person in education legislation at the state and federal level for nearly four decades, died Sunday, Feb. 12, 2006, at Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg. "Go see Mary" was what many in the national education community heard when working on a piece of legislation on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. [See all stories on this topic]
Rural career adds up to best option
Warrnambool Standard - Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia
The lure of the big-city accounting firms didn't distract the career aspirations of Sinclair Wilson's newest recruits. Remaining in their home base of Warrnambool and working for the south-west's biggest accounting firm was a primary focus for the Deakin University Warrnambool campus graduates. Mark Robson, 25, Tammie Wensley, 37 and Laurisa Walther, 26, are among the latest batch of graduates to be recruited under an innovative training program. [See all stories on this topic]
ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT OF INDIA TO PARLIAMENT
Deccan Herald - Bangalore, India
My greetings to you all. It is with a sense of optimism that we look forward to the New Year. A nation of a billion people rising to its potential is an exciting feeling. The feeling is palpable. It is not merely the statistics of economic growth or the enthusiasm that the world outside has shown for the Indian opportunity that makes these times so exciting. It is the fact that as a nation we have collectively decided to sink the differences of the past; that we have restored to our polity a sense of healing; that we have restored to our society a sense of inclusiveness; and that we have given our economy a sense of purpose.
Rural Education Reform Requires Funding Rethink
Black Enterprise - New York, NY, USA
The current financing system underpinning rural education cannot pay for a free nine-year compulsory education. The system must be reformed to ensure adequate funding for the economically underdeveloped countryside. Since the mid-80s, China has gradually established an educational funding system based on local resources, including both fiscal and non-fiscal funding. County-level fiscal funding has been the backbone of rural educational financing. In 2001, the State Council decided to reiterate the role of local governments in supporting compulsory education. This allows both the public and local governments to develop compulsory education.
Tags: AERA, rural, education
Starbucks donates $1.5mln to boost rural education in China
Xinhua - China
U.S. coffee giant Starbucks has pledged to work with Chinese organizations to provide 40 million yuan (5 million U.S. dollars) to give poor Chinese students from rural areas better access to education. Starbucks and the Soong Ching-ling Foundation (SCLF), a social welfare organization set up in 1982 named after the late Chinese leader Soong Ching-ling, on Tuesday signed an agreement to launch the China Education Project in Beijing. Starbucks donated 12 million yuan (1.5 million U.S. dollars) tokick-start the project at the signing ceremony. [See all stories on this topic]
Rural education requires funding rethink
China Daily - China
The current financing system underpinning rural education cannot pay for a free nine-year compulsory education. The system must be reformed to ensure adequate funding for the economically underdeveloped countryside. Since the mid-80s, China has gradually established an educational funding system based on local resources, including both fiscal and non-fiscal funding. County-level fiscal funding has been the backbone of rural educational financing. In 2001, the State Council decided to reiterate the role of local governments in supporting compulsory education.
Rural education requires funding rethink
Xinhua - China
The current financing system underpinning rural education cannot pay for a free nine-year compulsory education. The system must be reformed to ensure adequate funding for the economically underdeveloped countryside. Since the mid-80s, China has gradually established an educational funding system based on local resources, including both fiscal and non-fiscal funding. County-level fiscal funding has been the backbone of rural educational financing. In 2001, the State Council decided to reiterate the role of local governments in supporting compulsory education.
Rural school teachers to enjoy better conditions
China Daily - China
The central government has mapped out a national development blueprint for rural compulsory education to provide better conditions for teachers and to tackle staff shortages. At present, a large number of rural teachers are working in vast rural areas in non-State official establishments. The teachers, called daike or temporary teachers, could be employed in more official capacities in the years to come under the blueprint.
Mary C. Gereau, specialist in education
The Free Lance-Star - Fredericksburg, VA, USA
Mary Condon Gereau, 89, of Colonial Beach, a "go to" person in education legislation at the state and federal level for nearly four decades, died Sunday, Feb. 12, 2006, at Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg. "Go see Mary" was what many in the national education community heard when working on a piece of legislation on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. [See all stories on this topic]
Rural career adds up to best option
Warrnambool Standard - Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia
The lure of the big-city accounting firms didn't distract the career aspirations of Sinclair Wilson's newest recruits. Remaining in their home base of Warrnambool and working for the south-west's biggest accounting firm was a primary focus for the Deakin University Warrnambool campus graduates. Mark Robson, 25, Tammie Wensley, 37 and Laurisa Walther, 26, are among the latest batch of graduates to be recruited under an innovative training program. [See all stories on this topic]
ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT OF INDIA TO PARLIAMENT
Deccan Herald - Bangalore, India
My greetings to you all. It is with a sense of optimism that we look forward to the New Year. A nation of a billion people rising to its potential is an exciting feeling. The feeling is palpable. It is not merely the statistics of economic growth or the enthusiasm that the world outside has shown for the Indian opportunity that makes these times so exciting. It is the fact that as a nation we have collectively decided to sink the differences of the past; that we have restored to our polity a sense of healing; that we have restored to our society a sense of inclusiveness; and that we have given our economy a sense of purpose.
Rural Education Reform Requires Funding Rethink
Black Enterprise - New York, NY, USA
The current financing system underpinning rural education cannot pay for a free nine-year compulsory education. The system must be reformed to ensure adequate funding for the economically underdeveloped countryside. Since the mid-80s, China has gradually established an educational funding system based on local resources, including both fiscal and non-fiscal funding. County-level fiscal funding has been the backbone of rural educational financing. In 2001, the State Council decided to reiterate the role of local governments in supporting compulsory education. This allows both the public and local governments to develop compulsory education.
Tags: AERA, rural, education
