| Bahrain to host international conference on literacy
(MENAFN) Officials at the Arabian Reading Association (Tara) announced that the association will organize a conference on literacy education under the title Linking the World through Literacy in Manama this month, Gulf Daily News reported.
They indicated that the three-day conference will be attended by international professionals who will present seminars and workshops in Arabic and English on literacy education issues.
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Catholic Business Schools - Oxymoron of Higher Education?
Mr. Ernest Pierucci, Esq., a lawyer and specialist in Catholic Social Teaching and Catholic College Business Education, will discuss the reform necessary to integrate Catholic Social Teaching into the daily conduct of business, and to define the very nature of Catholic business school curriculum at the Catholics@Work breakfast event held at Crow Canyon Country Club, 711 Silver Lake Drive, Danville, CA 94526 on Tuesday, March 13, 2006. A full buffet breakfast is served starting at 7:00am (Mass is offered at 6:30am at the same location.) Danville, CA (PRWEB) February 21, 2007 -- Catholics@Work, a fellowship of individuals who explore how to actively live one's values in the workplace, (http://www.catholicsatwork.org), today announced its March 2007 breakfast meeting will feature Mr.
Côte d'Ivoire: Children and youth call for status and safeguards
Conflict's highest toll is often exacted on a country's most valuable and vulnerable resource, its children. Recent United Nations Security Council Resolutions have put Cte d'Ivoire on track for elections late next year and extended the UN peacekeeping mission, but have provided little help in improving the every day life for millions of children and youth at risk due to Cte d'Ivoire's continuing conflict. The impact of conflict on children can be injury, loss of parents, separation from loved ones, displacement, exploitation and abuse, an end to education and healthcare, recruitment into fighting forces, and sometimes the loss of an effective nationality. The presence of an ongoing conflict does not absolve state or non-state actors from their obligations under humanitarian law to protect children.
Sixth March: AHistoric day in Chitral -Article
I had taken leave from my studies at Karachi University and had arrived in Mogh, a hamlet in the Garamchashma valley in Chitral on March 4, 1976; it turned out to be my birthday. A large number of people representing all households of the many villages in the valley had been busy for days in widening the pedestrian track from Garamchashma polo ground to Ziyarat (a congregational space in memory of Nasir Khusraw, an eleventh century Muslim scholar, philosopher, poet and theologian revered by the Ismaili Muslims in Chitral and elsewhere in Central Asia), building a bridge over the Parabeg River connecting the road directly with the place of congregation, levelling the ground for a large number of people of both genders and of all ages, and preparing the stage for the centuries awaited guest to bless them. I did my bit as a young volunteer. With no electricity, it was very dark at 2:00 am in the early hours of March 6, 1976 when people began to arrive at Ziyarat for the occasion which none of them had ever experienced before. Whichever direction one turned his eyes to in the pitch dark morning, one could see the numerous kerosene lanterns, which every household was carrying to illuminate the winding descending pathways from mountain villages to the congregation place in the deep valley at the riverbank.
Funding addresses special education crises
The United States faces an ever increasing shortage of special education professors and teachers. According to a national survey of the country's doctoral programs, only two of three special education faculty positions are filled each year. In addition, the number of special education graduates has decreased while those awarded doctoral degrees in special education are choosing to work in arenas other than higher education. SF State has received funding from the U.S. Department of Education to address this crisis as well as to prepare special education teachers for the growing number of culturally and linguistically diverse students with autism. The Doctoral Special Education Leadership Preparation (SELP) project of the San Francisco State and University of California, Berkeley, joint doctoral program and Project Mosaic, which prepares special education teachers for work with Autism Spectrum Disorders, will each receive about $200,000 during the next four years.
More KU medical students are being trained in rural communities
An increasing number of students at the University of Kansas School of Medicine are choosing to hone their clinical skills by training with rural Kansas physicians. After the first two years of medical school in which much of the instruction is provided in the classroom, third year students participate in a clerkship program to start their hands-on training.Third-year students have the option of studying in KUs academic hospitals or traveling off campus to approved private practices in rural areas across the state to complete their clerkship. The rural component of the clerkship program has more than doubled in the past year. In the 2006 academic year, KU medical students completed 66 weeks of rural clerkships. For 2007, students have enrolled for 148 weeks of rural clerkships. Assistant Dean for Rural Health Education Michael Kennedy, MD, said the rural option of the clerkship program was poised for growth and thus he began to actively emphasize the benefits of the program to students and recruit additional physicians for the network.
Education turned honoree’s life around
Sasaki began to turn her life around in 1981 when, at age 26, she secured some government student loans and entered Washington State University. In three years, the former school dropout earned a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in adult education. Then, she set out to help others. First, Sasaki launched HOME (Helping Ourselves Means Education) a grass-roots organization that helped hundreds of poor women in Washington get into school and off welfare. Next, an interest in the plight of poor women and children in Third World countries led Sasaki to start the International Humanity Foundation, which today offers many programs to help needy people in many nations, all built around education. "Once, I thought of myself, not just as being stupid, but as having something innately wrong with me, that I was not a winner and there was nothing I could do about it," Sasaki said.
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