Commentary Why Johnny can read in the Caribbean but cant in the United States
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By Jean H Charles The United States might be spending per capita, for the primary and secondary education of its pupils, more than any other country in the world, yet the result is less than satisfactory. The youngsters, who come from Jamaica, Barbados or, as matter of fact, Haiti, will climb very soon to the [...]
Caribbean symposium on inclusive education to held in Jamaica
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PARIS, France (UNESCO): A UNESCO symposium on inclusive education in the Caribbean is being held in Kingston, Jamaica from 5-7 December 2007. It will allow Member States in the region to focus on reaching out to the excluded and providing equal access to education.
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Testing times for pupils who arent prefect
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Last night I had a recurring dream - I hadn’t done enough work to pass my maths O-level. I offered to give up watching Property Ladder and use the time for private tuition, but that did not convince my maths teacher, who bore more than a passing resemblance to Ann Widdecombe.It is 26 years since [...]
Tests reveal major inconsistencies between medical schools
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Tests taken by UK doctors show enormous variation in performance depending on which medical school they attended, according to new research that highlights the need for a national qualifying exam for all medical graduates.Medical graduates from Oxbridge and Newcastle universities performed better than average while those from Liverpool, Dundee, Belfast and Aberdeen universities did least [...]
Moving on up
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With hordes of big kids, dozens of new teachers and a sprawling campus of confusing corridors to contend with, an 11-year-old just starting secondary school is bound to feel very small. Almost two-thirds of pupils attend schools with more than 1,000 pupils on the roll, while the number being educated in giant schools of over [...]
This is not just a building it is a community
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Morville is a typical small Shropshire village. Opposite the church and to the side of the pub is a row of tall green railings guarding a Victorian building, the home to Morville C of E primary school. For more than 150 years it has remained pretty much unnoticed. But last week it found itself at [...]
U. program infuses arts into learning statewide
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Ninth-grade dance students twisted and turned in tune with DNA replication Tuesday at the University of Utah’s Marriott Center for Dance, portraying the impact fine arts can have on basic education.
Their mingling of science and art was one of many performances that help to not [...]
McTraining and real education
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Rowenna Davis (Mc A-levels will produce mere cogs in the machine) seems to suggest that while “corporations won’t waste time asking the bigger questions” traditional institutions will. I am not so sanguine.It is over 20 years since philosophy of education disappeared from the curricula of teacher training institutions. The last thing the government wanted was [...]
High school sports Bill lets charter school students play sports
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Charter and on-line school students will be allowed to participate in extracurricular activities at their home boundary schools if a Senate bill is successful.
Sen. Mark Madsen, R-Lehi, is sponsoring Senate Bill 36 which requires public schools to allow charter and on-line students access to public [...]
Medical schools prepare for “silver tsunami”
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PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (Reuters) - Just a few years ago, a graduate from Brown University medical school had just an inkling about how to care for the elderly.
Now, Brown and other U.S. medical schools are plugging geriatric courses into their curricula and adding specially trained faculty members as they respond to an imminent boom in [...]
