| Namibia: Education the Greatest Tool for Change
"When we talk about 100%, what are we referring to? A whole! Something that is complete. A number representing a whole entity from many smaller pieces. Khomastura forms such a WHOLE. It has learners, teachers, a principal and facilities." So said the Chief Education Officer of the Khomas Region, Thea Seefeldt, on Friday when she officially opened an open day at the Khomastura Secondary School in the capital. .
Expanding the Pool of Qualified Educators
Drexel University Online, a pioneer in Internet-based education programs, aims to provide quality education options to busy educators seeking to excel within the education field. The online university has added three new education degree programs to its offerings. Philadelphia, PA (PRWeb) February 7, 2007 -- Drexel University Online, a pioneer in Internet-based education programs, aims to provide quality education options to busy educators seeking to excel within the education field. The online university has added three new education degree programs to its offerings. The new online programs include, Bachelor of Science in Education, Master of Science in Global and International Education, and Master of Science in Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum degree.
According to the National Center for Education Statistics 2008, nationwide, 2.4 million teachers will be needed in the next 11 years due to growing enrollment and class size reduction efforts.
Student notes
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. The Westminster College Concert Choir and Wind Ensemble recently returned from a two-week tour of Spain. Manitowoc's Sarah Gold, daughter of Gary and Ann Gold, participated. She is a senior music education major. She sings soprano in the concert choir. During winter break, 67 people from the Westminster College Music Department traveled to the Andalusian region of southern Spain for a two-week performance tour. The first concert took place in the small town of Palos de la Frontera. The United States Achievement Academy announced recently that Randy A. Boyer of Anniston, Ala., has been named a Collegiate All-American Scholar. Dr. Cynthia Harper nominated Boyer, who attends Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, Ala., for this national award.
Contract extended on superintendent
School district trustees split 4-3 on whether to extend district superintendent Roberto Bobby Fernandezs employment contract Monday. Trustees extended the contract for a year but denied him a pay raise.
The vote to keep Fernandez came after a three-hour closed session meeting of the San Felipe Del Rio Consolidated Independent School District Board of Trustees Monday night, and evaluation of Fernandezs job performance was one of the agenda items.
With the recent discovery that the districts bilingual program is under investigation by the Texas Education Agency for scores that have consistently lagged behind state guidelines on the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills test, Fernandezs evaluation drew more opposition from the public than in prior years.
The board announced their vote around 10 p.m.
Cable companies support UCC distance education
The University College of the Caribbean (UCC), through its Office of Distance Education and Global Learning (DEGL), says it has partnered with Jamaica Amalgamated Cable System (JACS) and Cornwall Communications cable companies in St. Catherine and St. James, respectively, to deliver the content of its distance education business administration degree programmes to UCC-registered students in the distance programme, beginning next March. UCC says for the past two weeks, its DEGL office has been spearheading a pilot project in St. James and St. Catherine using JACS and Cornwall Communi-cations cable platform to deliver content to coincide with end-of-module examinations now in progress. "So far we are very pleased with the result of the pilot test project", reports Everton Pryce, the UCC's director of distance education.
Basu: Allow life-saving lessons in school
Earlier this winter, a furor erupted in parts of the country over a move to require 11-and 12-year old schoolgirls to be vaccinated against a sexually-transmitted virus that causes cancer.
Texas' governor issued an executive order requiring the vaccination, which was licensed last summer, for girls entering sixth grade. It protects against four types of HPV or human papillomavirus, including two linked to cervical cancer.
Some parents were incensed about having their preteen daughters associated with anything related to sex. But maybe the real furor should have been over the fact so many of us hadn't known until recently that cervical cancer is transmitted through sex.
About 11,150 cases of invasive cervical cancer will be diagnosed in the United States, and it will kill 3,670 women this year, according to the American Cancer Society.
China's Wen speaks to key concerns of education, health care as
BEIJING -- Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Monday pledged hefty spending increases on education and other key concerns for ordinary Chinese as top leaders move toward renewing their mandate at a Communist Party congress later this year. Yet, appealing to core nationalist sentiments, Wen also promised the sprawling but largely backward military a technological upgrade and said China would resist efforts by self-governing Taiwan to formalize its independence from the mainland. "We must put people first, promote faster progress in social programs, work energetically to solve the most practical problems that are of greatest concern to the people ... and ensure that all of the people share in the fruits of reform and development," Wen said in a speech to China's legislature, the National People's Congress.
Assessments for kindy kids, says Iemma
A RE-ELECTED NSW Labor government would introduce literacy and numeracy assessments for all kindergarten children starting in public schools, Premier Morris Iemma said today. Campaigning on the state's south coast today, Mr Iemma announced the testing as part of a four-year, $82 million education program. He said all students starting kindergarten in state schools from 2010 would be assessed on their literacy and numeracy skills early in the year. "This new service will also give parents an early warning of any learning issues and allow teachers and parents to work together to address them," Mr Iemma said. "It will also give parents more information on their children's needs and how they can help them at home." The Government would also recruit an extra 200 reading recovery teachers and provide early learning plans for students in the early years of school using information obtained from the literacy and numeracy assessments.
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