Iflove Schooling and Educational Stories: Our Education, Our Future
Iflove Schooling and Educational Stories: Our Education, Our Future
Egypt: Drive to boost girls’ education
Thanks to a government and UN-sponsored drive to build over 1,000 ‘girl-friendly’ schools in seven Egyptian provinces, thousands of girls now have the opportunity for an education. About 1,063 schools have so far been built and 27,784 students enrolled. The ‘girl-friendly’ schools also accept boys but their number should not exceed 25 per cent of classroom capacity.
United States: Georgia school system goes to single-gender classrooms
The district of Greene County, in Georgia, is set to become the first public school district in the nation to go entirely with boys and girls in separate classrooms.
United States: New Indian research chair at UCLA to study consciousness
The University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) is establishing the Dr Mani Bhaumik Chair of Consciousness Study, in order to study the mind-universe relationship. Dr Bhaumik acknowledges that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) programme, ’showed to the West how our consciousness affects the body’.
United States: Stanford University waives tuition if income under $100,000
Amid calls by some US lawmakers for wealthy universities to lower tuition costs, officials at Stanford University said on Wednesday they would no longer charge tuition to students from families earning less than $100,000 a year. Harvard University, Yale University, and Stanford have the three largest endowments among U.S. universities.
‘Telemedicine’ links Africans to Indian expertise
India launched the ‘telemedicine’ project in Ethiopia last July at a cost of $2.13 million. The project links hospitals in Ethiopia with those in India. The scheme is part of the pan-African e-network, a 5.42 billion-rupee ($135.6-million) joint initiative between the African Union and India. Indian officials estimate that 100 patients in Africa have benefited from the pan-African e-network which is plugged in to 12 specialist hospitals in India.
Guinea-Bissau: Programme offers food to children in education drive
Aid programmes are attracting poor children to school by offering food, in the hope that proper nutrition and education will help them thrive. Some countries are learning to cultivate school gardens and use locally produced foods in their national school feeding programmes.
Plans made in Jordan to remove 3,000 children from labour market this year
Inspectors at Jordan’s Labour Ministry have set a 2008 target to remove from the labour market about 3,000 children. The plan is part of a long-term strategy to remove some 38,000 children from the labour market. Children under 16 are encouraged by the ministry to return to school or obtain job training.
South Africa: Nedbank launches R15m bursary scheme
Financial services group Nedbank has launched a R15 million bursary programme aimed at addressing skills shortages in the banking and finance sector. The Nedbank Bursary Programme will provide financial assistance to students undertaking undergraduate degrees in the fields of Business Science and Commerce with a particular emphasis on subjects like Accounting Sciences, Statistics, Economics, Finance and Financial management, Actuarial Science, Information Systems or Informatics, and Computer Science.
South Africa: Old Mutual rises to the Lapdesk Challenge
Old Mutual has risen to the ‘Lapdesk Challenge’ and pledged R3 million for the purchase of 60,000 lapdesks to be distributed in 74 schools throughout South Africa. The Lapdesk is an innovative alternative to the traditional classroom desk as its ergonomic design allows a child to hold it against his body or sit with it on his lap. The board provides an effective writing surface whether sitting under a tree in a rural school, in a classroom without desks, or at home.
India: UNESCO helps fund Veda research
The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) is providing funds to 15 institutions working on projects that aim to preserve the Vedas.
Iflove Schooling and Educational Stories: Our Education, Our Future. Editing by Elizabeth Long
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