Ymci Wants Media Education In Schools
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As the world marks the African Child today, Youth Media and Communication Initiative, (YMCI) an international organisation dedicated to children and media has called for the introduction of media education into the school curriculum in Nigeria as a way of giving voice to children. In a statement to mark the Day of the African Child, [...]
Draud Urges Investment In Ky. Education
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If Kentuckians are going to overcome the challenges of the 21st century and realize the standard of living they desire, the commonwealth’s leaders must realize that investment in the state’s public educational system is the only way to be successful.
That was the message Kentucky Education Commissioner Dr. Jon Draud delivered as he spoke to about [...]
Wb Approves Grant For Burkina Faso Health, Education Project
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The World Bank on Thursday approved a grant and credit in 20 million U.S. dollars for health and education projects in the Republic of Burkina Faso.
The amount consists of 15 million dollars in additional grants for the Health Sector Support and Multisectoral AIDS project and a5-million-dollar credit for the International Institute for Water and Environmental [...]
Parliament Passes Education Law
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Slovak Parliament approved an Act on Education and Training that was drafted by the Education Ministry with the aim of revamping the school system. The new Act will substitute 20-year-old legislation that was introduced in the former communist Czechoslovakia.
Innovations at schools will be introduced via new curricula as the key element of the reforms. The [...]
Mesa Police Chief: Education Key To Preventing Crime
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George Gascón, who was named chief of the Mesa Police Department in August 2006, was the guest last week on aztalk Live Talk Wednesday.
Gascón oversees an agency of more than 1,400 employees that covers Mesa’s 133 square miles.
Gascón’s law enforcement career began in 1978 as an officer with the Los Angeles Police Department.
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“I left [...]
Aims Pune To Be The First Institute To Get An Approval For A Research Journal Of National Repute
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The Allana Institute of Management Sciences, (AIMS) Pune to be the First Institute to get an Approval for a Research Journal of National Repute
Dr. Pandit Vidyasagar, Director BCUD, was present as the Chief Guest
Dr. Baba Sangle, Dean Faculty of Commerce UoP, was present as the Guest of Honour
The Allana Institute of Management Sciences, Pune takes [...]
Public Schools As Good As Private Schools In Raising Math Scores, Study Says
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Students in public schools learn as much or more math between kindergarten and fifth grade as similar students in private schools, according to a new University of Illinois study of multi-year, longitudinal data on nearly 10,000 students.
The results of the study appear in the May issue of the education journal Phi Delta Kappan.
“These data provide [...]
Is Technical Education Being Overlooked
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Educators at the Cabell County Career Technology Center claim their technical programs can and do provide high school students with training in industries that offer jobs with good pay.
But in most cases, getting to the level of that “good pay” will require that they attend some sort of post-secondary education, whether it be an apprenticeship, [...]
High Risk Sexual Behaviour Under Scrutiny
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Scrutinize is a new series of short, animated commercials called animerts based on the realities of life in South Africa that place young people at risk of HIV infection.
The series, aimed at 18 to 32-year-olds, uses animated township characters to communicate with its target group. These characters are placed in everyday situations to illustrate the [...]
End Licence Raj In Higher Education
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The summer of 1991 will be one of those few outstanding and memorable moments in Parliament’s history. After teetering on the precipice of bankruptcy, Manmohan Singh’s first budget that summer blow-torched away all the chains that not only hindered economic growth but created what economists called opportunities for “rent seekingâ€. Sadly, some vestiges of that [...]
