The Minister of Education, Professor Naana Jane Opoku Agyemang has called for an immediate end to the sale of handouts by lecturers to students in the country’s tertiary institutions. The Minister said the practice does not only place further financial burden on parents, but also stifled research, originality and independent work by students. In an address… Read More »
Hillary Rodham Clinton AFT: Today, almost 50 million students attend our nation’s public schools. Along with their parents, communities, teachers, paraprofessionals and other school employees, these students have been forced to live under test-and-punish policies that include sanctions and school closings, high-stakes assessments, and federalized teacher evaluations that are counterproductive and have taken the joy… Read More »
This lack of solidarity among tenured professors with their more precariously employed peers is one of the starkest similarities between the situation in Europe and the United States. (The situation in the developing world, with even fewer resources for higher education, is even more precarious.) Even at my home university, the University of California, allegedly… Read More »
Text size Comments (0) Education Minister Naftali Bennett has fired the ministry official in charge of curriculum, Dr. Nir Michaeli, head of Pedagogical Secretariat. The head of the secretariat is often replaced when a new education minister is appointed, but in this case Michaeli did not want to leave so soon after having assumed the… Read More »
Back July 19, 2015 by norman lebrecht 10 comments. An authoritative survey shows that children who are not from university-educated, middle-class households are less likely to attend music lessons in German schools. In some schools, fewer than half the children receive music instruction. Read here (auf Deutsch). Whatever became of the German concept of Bildung?… Read More »
Brazilian startup Descomplica (“Uncomplicate”) has raised an $8 million Series B to build an education entertainment company that the company hopes could actually change the future of education in Brazil. Descomplica is already known as a test prep platform for Brazil’s standardized college entrance exam tests, delivering a library of 15,000 videos, and eight hours of live-streamed content… Read More »
Regional News of Sunday, 19 July 2015 Source: GNA 2015-07-19 Participants at a round table organized by Action Aid Ghana (AAG), a development charity have called for increased investment in Girl-child education to curb poverty and female vulnerability in Ghana. According to them, the benefits of educating a girl include higher savings and disposable incomes… Read More »
The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), has indicated that that government risks ‘destroying education’ in the country by taking up the responsibilities of parents. NAGRAT Vice President, Angel Karbonu was of the view that the educational sector will suffer great harm if the government fails to fulfill the responsibilities it has taken up. He… Read More »
While 43 education students from Ayotzinapa, Mexico, are feared dead after they were forcibly disappeared last September, 122 of their classmates in the year above them graduated Saturday. A number of prominent writers and activist leaders attended the ceremony, and individual paintings of all 43 missing students were on display. ”To you young ones, Mexico hasn’t given you what you… Read More »
A few years ago, the Obama administration caught backlash after the Department of Education released suggested lesson plans to schools in conjunction with a national back-to-school address that the president was delivering on Sept. 8, 2009. But federally directed lesson plans are so 2009. On Friday the Department of Education released a “checklist” designed to “help… Read More »