Friday, June 23, 2006
Rural Education and Small Schools in the News
SIU considers online rural health school
Southern Illinoisan Sun, 18 Jun 2006 4:55 AM PDT
Officials in the Southern Illinois University president's office are exploring the possibility of opening a virtual school of rural public health in the near future.
Moving to the Google news alert for rural education.
Rural schools are "characterised starkly by poverty". (Photograph ...
Mail & Guardian Online - Johannesburg,South Africa
... In the one education system, the report says, are rural and township schools “characterised starkly by poverty ... dysfunctionality ... [See all stories on this topic]
SWAZILAND: AIDS slows down school building efforts in rural areas
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
... IRIN) - Deaths of parents from AIDS-related illnesses in rural Swaziland has ... The Ministry of Education provides the teachers, and recently began paying for ...
Namibia: Insurance Giant Backs Rural Schools
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... their donation of a fax and a photocopy machine to the rural school and ... 30th anniversary of the uprising that was sparked by the oppressive education laws of ... [See all stories on this topic]
Private universities in rural Bangladesh
The Daily Star - Dhaka,Bangladesh
... my experience of establishing an ICT-based private university in rural Bangladesh. ... all developing countries are almost the same in respect of higher education. ...
US $1.64 BILLION NEEDED ANNUALLY FOR RURAL EDUCATION AND POVERTY ...
Accra Daily Mail - Accra,Ghana
"Rural people with basic education are more likely to adopt new technologies and become more productive," FAO Assistant Director-General Alexander Müller told ...
More staff for smallest schools
Bega District News - Bega,New South Wales,Australia
... Education Minister Carmel Tebbutt said the extra staff would provide additional support to ... will benefit around 158 schools across regional and rural NSW," Ms ...
Registered Nursing Celebrates Rural Health Week, June 18-24, 2006
Canada NewsWire (press release) - Canada
... role in improving access to health services in rural communities," says ... registered nurses working in direct care, nursing management, education and research. ...
DSU’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Rural Revitalization ...
Dickinson State University - ND, United States
The Center for Entrepreneurship and Rural Revitalization at Dickinson State ... criteria of directly linking economic development and education to create higher ...
Global poor need schools investment, conference hears
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... Research presented to an FAO-led conference on rural education in Beijing last November showed that basic education "immediately and positively" affected the ...
Executive Director Named for Rural Health Recruitment Center
Kingsport Times News - Kingsport,TN,USA
... to conduct a demand assessment of health professionals in rural Tennessee--already is ... to joining the center, Siler was CEO of Regional Education and Community ...
Computers a boost for primary school
Fiji Times - Suva,Fiji
A rural primary school for the first time was blessed with technology when presented ... says the head teacher, will go a long way in advancing education for the ...
And finally, the Google news Alert for small schools
District 60 embracing 'small schools' concept
Waukegan News Sun - Waukegan,IL,USA
... schools initiative set to run through Thursday at the University Center of Lake County in Grayslake, on Monday featured a talk by small schools expert Michael ...
City's New Small Schools Are Focus of a Bias Inquiry
New York Times - United States
... to the council, an elected advisory panel, "a deliberate policy to exclude otherwise eligible students with disabilities from the small schools, at least ...
Small schools changing shape of largest education system
Providence Journal (subscription) - Providence,RI,USA
... The small schools in New York are often highly specialized, with themes ranging from human rights to aerospace. There is the High School for Violin and Dance. ...
Bill Gates Gets Schooled
BusinessWeek - USA
... Many of the 1,000 small schools the Gateses have funded are still new, however, and it's too soon to project what percentage of their students will finish ...
Small schools to be dissolved; fight continues to save them
Beatrice Daily Sun - Beatrice,NE,USA
... Stenberg said. The US Supreme Court last month rejected without comment an appeal to save the small schools. Stenberg argued that ...
Small schools to gain
Goulburn Post - Goulburn,New South Wales,Australia
... next year under a new plan announced by the NSW Department of Education last week, which provides funding for two staff members to be in small schools at all ...
Joel McNally: School can't handle truth of valedictorian's speech
The Capital Times - Madison,WI,USA
... Despite what the critics say, the best and the brightest turned out by Milwaukee Public Schools are just as talented as students fortunate enough to have ... [See all stories on this topic]
Special Ed pupils in limbo
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA
... intimate settings. So when Bloomberg announced he was creating 200 small schools to nurture teens, Infante was thrilled. But then ...
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