| China to make education 'strategic priority'
Beijing, March 5 (Xinhua) Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Monday announced a hefty educational investment plan for this year, making education a 'strategic priority.' A total of 85.85 billion yuan ($11 billion) will be allocated from the central budget this year, an increase of 41.7 percent over the previous year, government statistics show. .
Free computer education in Chandigarh schools
Chandigarh: Chandigarh is all set to impart free computer and information technology (IT) education in all government schools from the coming academic year, a senior official said Monday. Students from Class 1 to 10 in all government schools of the city would have free computer education to prepare them for various competitions, said Home and Education Secretary Krishna Mohan. The programme would commence from the 2007-08 academic session beginning in April. While it would be a compulsory subject for all classes till Class 10, it will be optional for Classes 11 and 12. There are over 100 government schools in the city with 100,000 students. The administration has already invited tenders from private computer service organisations to provide education.
‘Govt promoting medical education’
LAHORE: The government is promoting medical education and has set up three new medical colleges and two medical universities in the province for this purpose, Health Minister Muhammad Iqbal said on Sunday.
He said a new building for the Services Institute of Medical Sciences (SIMS) was being constructed. He said the building would be completed at a cost of Rs 1.24 billion. He said the project was a testimony to the governments provision of health facilities. He said the government had also provided Rs 10 million each to teaching hospitals in the Punjab for research purposes.
He told a delegation of medical students that the SIMS was established in 2003 under directions from the chief minister.
The new SIMS building would be constructed over an area of 40 kanals on the Services Hospital premises.
Education Department officials vow to toughen checks on school-bus ...
Changes to the way schools hire and monitor school bus drivers are coming, the state says, and they're coming quickly. "The very first change that will have to happen is that districts have to have access to an extended driving record," said Pete Japikse, who oversees pupil transportation for the Ohio Department of Education. Up until now, when schools wanted to hire a bus driver, they only received an applicant's driving record for the past three years. But they should be able to see farther back in the driver's history, Japikse said, in case they want to weed out applicants with a spotty record. Bureau of Motor Vehicles officials have said that a driver's full record is available but those requesting a background check typically have been given only a three-year abstract.
Berryville School's construction plans approved by state
BERRYVILLE - State education officials have approved construction plans and money amounts for the four main building projects at Berryville Schools, but not the proposed K-2 physical education facility.Superintendent Mike Cox said the K-2 building won't be allowed because of “space calculations" used by the state to determine necessity. Those calculations indicated there would too much physical education space on the west campus, especially with the new multi-purpose building planned nearby. “All students from the K-5 campus will use the multi-purpose building for physical education classes," he told the Berryville Board of Education when it met Monday night.The four main projects approved for state funding include the 3-5 school building and multi-purpose building on the west campus, and the fine arts building and renovation of the band building into a physical education facility on the east campus.The state has promised to contribute $6,224,742 to those projects, which is $180,000 more than previously promised.
Sadie Saulter discussion continues
The Pitt County Board of Education today will discuss again what to do with unfilled space at Sadie Saulter Elementary School. There are 224 K-5 students at the school, which has room for 418 children. Another 40 are attending preschool and special education programs at Sadie Saulter. Pitt County Schools' projections have 211 elementary students there next year, leaving as many as 12 rooms empty. The school board meets at 7:30 p.m. at the Pitt County Office Building, 1717 W. Fifth St. The board last took up the Saulter space issue Feb. 19. Schools staff reported at that meeting that a survey of county K-4 parents turned up little interest in an extended day-care program at Sadie Saulter. The board asked for more detail on a full range of options, including turning Sadie Saulter into a magnet school.
Lafayette Parish Schools Rank Well
District performance scores are in for school districts around the state and while Lafayette Parish's score dropped slightly, its ranking went up. The numbers can be a little confusing so here's a breakdown to further explain what the numbers mean. The recent release from the Louisiana Department of Education ranks Lafayette Parish schools 16th in the state with a district performance score of 90.9. That is two stars on the states ranking system. Last year Lafayette schools ranked 22nd in the state. .
Parents taught to teach
When it comes to the educational success of their children, experts at Lompoc High School on Saturday told parents that school involvement and communication are crucial to that end.
About 515 parents from throughout the Central Coast attended the 31st annual “Parents are Teachers, Too" conference on parenting and childhood education from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday. The event was hosted by the Lompoc Unified School District Adult Education Department.
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