Tunis, Tunisia — The project, to be implemented over a five-year period, aims at the training of middle and senior-level personnel through reform of the training system, increase Schools’ admission capacity countrywide, improve the quality and relevance of programmes and, consequently, the effectiveness of public resources allocated to the education sector, as well as gradual reduction of …

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AfDB Approves CFAF 71.5 Billion for Higher Education and Vocational Training (AllAfrica.com)

Editor’s Note: This is the last in a four-part series of articles from Randolph Community College about its Automotive Systems Technology and Autobody Repair programs and their move into the new Richard Petty Education Center, which will officially open with a Ribbon Cutting on Tuesday and an Open House on Thursday.

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RCC’s Richard Petty Education Center gets green flag this week (Asheboro Courier-Tribune)

Two international humanitarian organizations maintaining partnership with the American-based organization, Youth Action International (YAI), have expressed their concerns in improving the lives of the Liberian people through education, teachers training and other aspects such as teaching and training of early child education program and empowering women in micro credit.

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Liberia: Litword, Hub Vow to Improve Education – Commences Teachers’ Training Program Soon (AllAfrica.com)

Addis Ababa — A research conducted on the “Quality of Science Education in Ethiopian Public Universities” pointed out that ignoring the quality and maintaining the quantity of education does not add any value to the Ethiopian economy, instead it ends up with producing “educated” but unemployed citizens.

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Ethiopia: Researchers Call for Quality Education, Warn of Having ‘Educated’ Unemployed Citizens (AllAfrica.com)

State education officials Tuesday slashed millions of dollars from dozens of initiatives — ranging from preschool to after-school to gifted programs — and warned of a “catastrophic” year ahead, when $2 billion in federal stimulus dollars will dry up. Acting in emergency session, State Board of Education members faced with shrunken state revenues approved a $7.26 billion budget for this …

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Millions cut from education initiatives (Chicago Sun-Times)

When the memoir of an important person contains insightful information, large dollops of self-deprecation, some humor and clear writing, count that memoir unusual. The memoir of Peter G. Peterson,The Education of an American Dreamer: How a Son of Greek Immigrants Learned His Way From a Nebraska Diner to Washington, Wall Street, and Beyond, qualifies as unusual.

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‘Education of an American Dreamer’ an unusual memoir (USA Today)

( University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ) Christopher M. Span, a professor of educational policy studies at Illinois, has written a new book, “From Cotton Field to Schoolhouse: African-American Education in Missisippi, 1862-1875,” that explores the question of education for newly emancipated slaves in post-bellum Mississippi.

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New book explores post-emancipation education of blacks in Mississippi (EurekAlert!)

PUTRAJAYA, July 21 (Bernama) — Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has called on educators to give their 100 per cent support to the changes to the national education policy, particularly the decision to revert the teaching of Science and Mathematics in English to the Malay language from 2012.

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SUPPORT CHANGES IN EDUCATION SYSTEM, MUHYIDDIN TELLS EDUCATORS (Bernama via Yahoo! Malaysia News)

In an effort to address the global conversation on environmental education and to elevate Florida Gulf Coast University’s mission of educating for sustainability, the Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education recently participated at the World Environmental Education Congress (WEEC) 5 in Montreal, Canada.

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FGCU attends World Environmental Education Congress in Montreal (Naples Daily News)

If you are looking for the perfect college major and are not quite sure what you would want to go for, you may have thought about earning a degree in journalism. There are a number of different things that someone interested in a journalism degree can do, but this does not necessarily mean that it is the right choice for you. Here are some of the things that you should be sure to take into consideration if you are thinking about choosing journalism as your college major

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Is a Degree in Journalism Right For You?

<!– /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:””; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-fareast-font-family:”Times New Roman”;} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} –> For some people the classroom is not the ideal place to learn. Between students trying to prove themselves as subject-matter experts and those who ask questions for the sake of asking questions, between the busy work and lack of work handed out by teachers, between the clocks that are five minutes fast and five minutes slow; there is very little room for a proper education. How a student is able retain any information presented in a classroom crammed with annoyances and the tiniest discrepancy is beyond me.

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COLUMBUS — Parents of more than 250,000 special-education students in Ohio are likely to find some welcome news in the partial settlement of a federal lawsuit that has been kicking around the courts for years. The tentative agreement reached this…

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Proposed special education lawsuit settlement could give Ohio bigger role in school districts’ compliance with federal … (The Cleveland Plain…

By Asrul Hadi Abdullah Sani SEPANG, July 20 — Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin plans to introduce an annual 1 Malaysia camp for students to instil a sense of unity in them. The deputy prime minister and education minister said 1 Malaysia was one of his four key performance indicators (KPI) for the Education Ministry

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Education minister wants 1 Malaysia camp for students (The Malaysian Insider)

A fervor for education in English without a national strategy is a recipe for the decline of Japanese. If everyone tries to speak English, the richness of Japanese could be reduced to a local language in which no intellectual conversations take place.

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A fervor for education in English without a national strategy is a recipe for the decline of Japanese. If everyone … (Japan Today)

SUSAN KETCHUM/SUN NEWSRetiring Assistant Superintendent John Fell reflects on how education has changed since he started, especially technology in the classroom. By Susan Ketchum sketchum@sunnews.comsketchum@sunnews.com One of John Fell’s favorite memories of the Euclid City Schools came when he was…

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Euclid Assistant Superintendent John Fell retiring after 34 years in education (Euclid Sun Journal)

The tribal children who live in Bangladesh’s remote Chittagong Hill Tracts are receiving pre-school education due to the Integrated Community Development Project (ICDP) supported by United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Chittagong Hill Tracts, situated in southeastern Bangladesh and sparsely populated with about half of the population being indigenous tribal people, consists of three …

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Tribal children in Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts receive pre-school education (People’s Daily)

The annual trade exhibition for education and training industry in the region, and the trade meeting point for education and training professionals, where the educational and training institutions can display and present latest programs with trends and network with postgraduate students, undergraduate students, public & private high school students, parents, educational professionals, business …

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Education and Training International Exhibition & Seminars (AME Info)

Commending the technical education in India as the “best in the world”, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Saturday suggested her country and India should work together in the field to help bridge the gap between talent and opportunities.

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Clinton said the gap between talent and opportunities among the children can be bridged through education (NDTV)

Oregon State University might move its College of Education to the Cascades Campus as part of a plan to save money and consolidate programs.A letter released by OSU President Ed Ray on Wednesday details the ways OSU hopes to deal with a 2009-11 budget with millions of dollars less than the previous biennium. They include increases in tuition and class size and the elimination or consolidation of …

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OSU College of Education could be Bend-bound; Savings and ‘signature programs’ for Central Oregon cited as benefits (The Bulletin)

During his campaign for president, Barack Obama proposed a Global Fund for Education to ensure a basic education for all children to “counter the radical madrassas that have filled young minds with messages of hate.”

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Education can break cycle of global poverty (The Record and Herald News)