Na For Increase In Health, Education Budget, Subsidy In Oil, Electricity
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The Lower House of the Parliament Sunday continued debate on budget 2008-09 where the parliamentarians proposed further increase in health and education budget and recommended subsidy in oil and electricity charges for agricultural sector development.
He said that five percent increase in Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) 20 percent increase in salaries of government servants are [...]
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 [...]
Obama Gets Economic Tour Underway
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George Bush called it the Ownership Society, but it’s little more than a worn dogma that says we should give more to those at the top and hope that their good fortune trickles down to the hardworking many. For eight long years, our President sacrificed investments in health care, and education, and energy, and infrastructure [...]
Do We Really Need School Boards
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TROUBLE WAS predictable when, three years into their jobs, members of the Strait regional school board were ordered to write their own directive on ethics, responsibilities and how to behave with common courtesy.
Are these the folks we want running the system that teaches our children?
Over the weekend, Education Minister Karen Casey decided the answer to [...]
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 [...]
Rocks and tear gas in Chiles annual youth protests
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SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Masked youths threw stones at police who responded by firing tear gas and water cannon in the Chilean capital on Friday at the start of annual protests against the government and the country’s free-market system.
Dozens of youths, some in school uniforms, threw objects into the Santiago’s main street, the Alameda. Some wearing [...]
Wanted A few bad teachers
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Buying off bad teachers is part of his effort to improve education, Berman said.
“What I really want to do is jump-start a conversation,” Berman said. “There are lots of kids who can’t read or do math and are well behind in science. … I’ve interviewed teachers who say their colleagues are not competent to teach [...]
New schools threaten teachers working conditions
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Teachers in trust schools and academies face worsening working terms and conditions, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers conference will be warned today.Michael Catty, a representative from Hertfordshire, will press for the government to protect teachers from a worsening in teachers’ conditions of service when schools become trusts or academies and the loss of union [...]
Keep Big Brother out of the classroom says union
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The new president of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) will warn of an impending Orwellian education system at the first day of the union’s annual conference in Torquay today.Targets, testing, league tables, inspections and increasing use of camera surveillance in classrooms could lead to “Big Brother watching over schools in the next five [...]
Should elite cease to be a dirty word
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YesThe idea of an academic elite is a fundamental, democratic good and one that we must defend vigorously if British education is to compete seriously on the global stage. The trouble is that the word elite is now heavy with pejorative connotations. Its beginnings were innocuous enough. It came from the Latin eligere, meaning “to [...]
