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Vietnam Boosts Education for Ethnic Minority Children
Published on 2012-03-04 03:49:00
Vietnam boosts education for ethnic minority children. For more than a decade, Nguyen Thi Quyen's ethnic minority students in Lao Chai village primary school would stare at her blankly, unable to respond to her questions. As the school year wore on, they dropped out to tend farm animals or hawk knick-knacks to the tourists. Quyen was teaching in Vietnamese, the language of the majority Kinh, but ethnic minorities in the country's northern hills speak Mong. "Before, when I was teaching all sub [..] > read more
County Teachers Receive Grants to Travel Abroad
Published on 2012-03-03 20:24:00
County teachers receive grants to travel abroad.NEWARK -- Katelyn Kochheiser, a special education teacher at Cherry Valley Elementary School, will visit Cambodia for the second time this summer.The first-year teacher found out Wednesday she received a $2,500 grant to travel to the country and teach during the summer. She is one of three teachers in the county to receive a Tibbie Leslie Travel Grant from the Licking County Foundation this year.The grants were set up by a former teacher who grew u [..] > read more
Western Pupils Lag Asians by Three Years
Published on 2012-03-02 15:35:00
Western Pupils Lag Asians by Three Years. Western schoolchildren are up to three years behind those in China's Shanghai and success in Asian education is not just the product of pushy "tiger" parents, an Australian report released Friday said. The study by independent think-tank The Grattan Institute said East Asia was the centre of high performance in schools with four of the world's top systems in the region -- Hong Kong, South Korea, Shanghai and Singapore. "In Shanghai, the average 15-yea [..] > read more
"Free education" Not Really Free
Published on 2012-03-01 01:32:00
Test scores & education quality falling. Lack of accountability the problem, not money, 20% of govt budget to education, more than ASEAN neighbors. Free education policy needs overhaul, ombudsman report says Lamphai Intathep The 15-year free education scheme has failed due to resource mismanagement by the Education Ministry and may be unconstitutional, an ombudsman's report says. Ombudsman Sriracha Charoenpanich said the ministry needs to reconsider the policy initiated by the Democrat-led g [..] > read more
Impressive Investment in Education
Published on 2012-02-27 02:46:00
Impressive investment in education. Azim Premji, who turned his father's vegetable oil company into one of the world's leading software service providers, is looking to raise more money to help the educational fund he has set up. Mr Premji, who is estimated to be worth $7 billion, has donated more than $2 billion and is ready to commit more. "If there is a requirement of more funds, we will donate more," says the man regarded as the biggest philanthropist in a country where the wealthy have b [..] > read more
Study in America
Published on 2012-02-24 02:02:00
Study in America. With America being the top destination for students around the world, US-based International Student Network (ISN) will be holding the "American Education Scholarship Expo 2012" at the Four Seasons Bangkok on Feb 25 from 5:30-8pm. Top 25 universities in the US will be represented at this event and up to $1 million (about 31 million baht) in scholarships will be available to Thai students. The expo kicks off with a 30-minute talk on "How to get a US Student Visa" starting 5:3 [..] > read more
Thai Education An Escalating Problem
Published on 2012-02-23 01:58:00
Thai Education An Escalating Problem. You might think that three years in kindergarten, 12 years in school and four years in university would teach all the basics needed for daily life. If not, then your parents should have helped bridge any missing gaps in your knowledge. Apparently however, neither the education system nor many parents teach children about some important manners. It might sound like a trivial thing, but for a society in which department stores are everyone's second home [..] > read more
Young Migrants Changing Face of Chinese Cities
Published on 2012-02-21 05:40:00
Young migrants changing face of Chinese cities. Li Biying's hands tell you she's left the farm behind. Her long, tapered fingernails pinch apart pieces of gauzy fabric at the underwear factory that is her ticket out of rural poverty. They wouldn't last long in the fields where her parents coax corn, potatoes and greens from terraced plots. The 20-year-old Li has no plans to go home. Unlike older migrant workers who came to earn money for a few years before returning to their villages, t [..] > read more
eSchool Reading, Writing and Technology
Published on 2012-02-15 23:07:00
Reading, Writing and Technology? 1) First of all, I understand that you have just won an impressive award. Tell us about it. eSchool News, a publication network of eSchool Media Inc., identifies annually recipients of the Tech-Savvy Superintendent Award, which is award to the top 10 superintendents from coast to coast who best exemplify outstanding leadership and vision in using technology to advance their district’s educational goals. Dennis Pierce, editor of eSchool News, said “re [..] > read more
Elementary School Students Go Global With Technology
Published on 2012-02-14 19:26:00
Elementary School Students Go Global With Technology With the help of modern technology, students at the Charlotte Jewish Day School are talking to and learning from kids all over the world. Elementary students in Charlotte are going “global” with a technology initiative that links them to students from around the world. Once a week, students at the Charlotte Jewish Day School meet with teacher Rachel Moore and connect with students in classrooms worldwide in a program from kinderga [..] > read more
Taiwan Proposes New Education Cooperation with RI
Published on 2012-02-09 02:30:00
Taiwan proposes new education cooperation with RI. Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Taiwan proposes a new cooperation on the educational sector with the Indonesian government under a general Memorandum of Understanding. The educational theme is covered by the MoU along with other target sectors such as labor and the economy. “The proposal is now in the hands of the Foreign Affairs Ministry for further study. We hope the proposal can be approved and signed soon,” Taiwan`s Minister of Educati [..] > read more
China Universities Institutes Colleges List
Published on 2012-02-07 20:13:00
China Universities, Institutes and Colleges. List of Universities Directly Administrated by China Ministry of Education Peking University (Beijing University) Renmin University of China Tsinghua University (Qinghua University) University of Science and Technology Beijing Beijing University of Chemistry Technology Beijing Normal University Beijing Language and Culture University Beijing Foreign Studies University Beijing Jiaotong University (Northern Jiaotong University) Beijing Univer [..] > read more
Teaching Grammar: It's vs Its This one is confusing, because generally, in addition to being...
Published on 2012-01-19 05:20:00
Teaching Grammar: It’s vs Its This one is confusing, because generally, in addition to being used in contractions, an apostrophe indicates ownership, as in “Dad’s new car.” But, “it’s” is actually the short version of “it is” or “it has.” “Its” with no apostrophe means belonging to it. It’s = it is Its = belonging to it It’s important [...] > read more
Teaching Grammar: You're vs Your. The apostrophe means it's a contraction of two words...
Published on 2012-01-18 05:27:00
Teaching Grammar: You’re vs Your. The apostrophe means it’s a contraction of two words; “you’re” is the short version of “you are” (the “a” is dropped), so if your sentence makes sense if you say “you are,” then you’re good to use you’re. “Your” means it belongs to you, it’s yours. You’re = if you mean [...] > read more
Why We Forget. Science shows our memory can easily be distorted and erased, but...
Published on 2012-01-17 05:35:00
Why We Forget. Science shows our memory can easily be distorted and erased, but our forgetfulness also helps us survive. Our memories are wrong at least as often as they are right. At best, they are incomplete, though we might swear other wise. This affects countless aspects of our lives, and in many cases our [...] > read more
Learning in ‘pin drop silence’. The environment in an educational institute is a key...
Published on 2012-01-16 06:00:00
Learning in ‘pin drop silence’. The environment in an educational institute is a key feature that connects the multitude of activities on a campus and the mental and physical development of the student. There are three key areas that build the environment for an educational institution: the Mind- the Eye- the Ear. In many respects this [...] > read more
Growth rate of UK students studying abroad overtakes European neighbours. The growth rate of...
Published on 2012-01-15 07:00:00
Growth rate of UK students studying abroad overtakes European neighbours. The growth rate of UK students applying to study in the EU through the Erasmus programme has overtaken the European average, according to analysis by the British Council. UK participation rates increased by 8% on the previous year, compared to the European average of 7.4%. Across [...] > read more
Deepening Education Ties India and Japan. As Indian school education gains fans in Japan...
Published on 2012-01-14 08:00:00
Deepening Education Ties India and Japan. As Indian school education gains fans in Japan and the Japanese academia reaches out to Indian varsities, promising tie-ups are on the anvil that will present major opportunities for Indian educationists and students. Something is slipping in Japan, and it’s ringing alarm bells and causing dismay in the minds of [...] > read more
National Language Championship for schools. Vocab Express, the online modern foreign languages (MFL) vocabulary...
Published on 2012-01-13 06:00:00
National Language Championship for schools. Vocab Express, the online modern foreign languages (MFL) vocabulary learning application, has announced the launch of a free, week-long national language championship for all secondary schools in theUKandIrelandto take place during spring 2012. Supporting the current debate in education around encouraging and driving language learning, the Vocab Express National Championship [...] > read more
Professor refuses to teach if students don't bring snacks. Students in George Parrott's psychology...
Published on 2012-01-12 05:00:00
Professor refuses to teach if students don’t bring snacks. Students in George Parrott’s psychology courses have an unusual requirement: they must bring homemade snacks each week to the laboratory section, and they need to work out a schedule such that groups of students make sure each session is covered, and that snacks aren’t repeated from [...] > read more
More foreign students studying in USA. International students and their dependents contributed more than...
Published on 2012-01-11 06:00:00
More foreign students studying in USA. International students and their dependents contributed more than $20 billion to the U.S. economy last year as record numbers of foreigners enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities, reports to be released today show. The numbers of U.S. students earning college credit abroad also is on the rise. The number of [...] > read more
The School and the TEFL Certification Course. While there is no set international standard...
Published on 2012-01-10 04:00:00
The School and the TEFL Certification Course. While there is no set international standard for what constitutes a TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) Certification course, most countries will have requirements that schools must meet before handing out certificates. Sometimes the review is only cursory, but sometimes it may also be detailed and require certain [...] > read more