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Papua New Guinea: Education System Shift Delayed Till End Of 2013

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Papua New Guinea/November 14, 2017/By: Alexander Rheeney/Source: http://www.pireport.org

Papua New Guinea’s Outcome-based Education (OBE) will remain until a review led by a Government-appointment taskforce into the controversial curriculum is complete at the end of next year.

In the interim period all schools, from elementary to secondary schools in PNG, will use English as the medium of instruction from February 2013, replacing Tok Pisin and vernacular languages in elementary schools until the review is done. Prime Minister Peter O’Neill said this yesterday at a press conference in Port Moresby, in response to the special coverage by the Post-Courier last Friday on the numerous challenges facing the education sector, including the plans by the Government to phase out the OBE.

He said when the acting Education Minister, James Marape, announced plans for the Education Department to phase out the curriculum, it was to be part of the review that the Government would undertake. «The complete review of the OBE system will take place over 12 months. When we took over government in 2001 we announced that the OBE will be gone, in line with the previous government’s decision that was done in 2010,» Mr. O’Neill said.

«So we wasted 2010, we wasted 2011, we wasted 2012. Not one single review has taken place, as the Government of the day demanded, whether it was Somare or our government, because people were complaining. I don’t need any more excuses from anybody, 12 months is good enough (for the review),» he said.

The work of the taskforce, to be chaired by the Divine Word University (DWU) president and Catholic priest Father Jan Czuba, will cost taxpayers between one to two million kina [US$476,417 to US$952,834] and have its terms of reference discussed and vetted by a special cabinet sitting in January 2013.

The Catholic Church, one of PNG’s leading providers of education, last week criticized the O’Neill Government for not consulting the churches on its plans to remove the OBE.

However, Father Jan’s chairing of the taskforce now enables the church to participate, which Mr. O’Neill highlighted at the press conference yesterday.

«We have agreed that Father Jan Czuba, the president of Divine Word University who is of course one of the leading educationist in the country, has volunteered to become the chairman of that taskforce that will review the OBE system over the next 12 months,» the PM said. According to Mr. O’Neill, Father Jan is already in contact with key educationists including National Research Institute (NRI) director Dr. Thomas Webster, former Education Department secretary Jerry Tetaga, the principal of the Enga Teachers College and Education Department officials, who would work towards addressing the issue before the start of the 2014 academic year. The PNG Teachers Association (PNGTA) recently blamed the lack of funding and resources for the demise of the OBE, but Mr. O’Neill yesterday assured the country that his Government will not let that happen when a new curriculum is in place. «I can guarantee you that we are spending close to K2 billion [US$952.8 million] on the education sector in 2013,» the PM said.

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http://www.pireport.org/articles/2012/12/25/png-education-system-shift-delayed-till-end-2013

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Indian: DBT has shown mixed results for education system: World Bank official

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Indian/November 14, 2017/By: PTI/Source: http://indianexpress.com

The conditional stipend for girls going for secondary education in Bangladesh led to a movement to bring girls to schools and the enrolments rose to 53 per cent of the total strength, said Junaid Kamal Ahmad, Country Director for the World Bank in India.

The direct benefit transfer (DBT) scheme has shown mixed results for the education system, although it can have a major impact on poverty levels and nutrition, a senior official of the World Bank said Sunday. The DBT scheme can have major impact on poverty levels, access and nutrition, said Junaid Kamal Ahmad, Country Director for the World Bank in India, adding “whether it has any impact on outcomes of learning – mixed results so far.”

Ahmad advocated that the DBT scheme be made a part of the broader reform programme in schools to achieve desired goals. “DBT has to be part of a broader reform programme in the school system,” he said in his address at a conference on DBT in education organised by the Centre for Civil Society (CCS).

Citing the huge impact of conditional grant in improving enrolment of girls in secondary education in his home country Bangladesh, he stressed on the importance of decentralisation of schools. The conditional stipend for girls going for secondary education in Bangladesh led to a movement to bring girls to schools and the enrolments rose to 53 per cent of the total strength, he said.

Ahmad said the DBT scheme should be enabled across every single service through investing in capacity of states to bring together the functions of unique IDs, financial systems, financial transfers and registry. CCS president Parth Shah called for complimentary interventions like ease of opening schools, fixing accountability and measuring learning outcomes to boost DBT’s effects on education.

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http://indianexpress.com/article/education/dbt-has-shown-mixed-results-for-education-system-world-bank-official-4933840/

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EEUU: Democrat Shea proposes sweeping — and costly — education plan that covers kids from womb to job interview

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EEUU/November 14, 2017/By: Erin Cox/ Source: http://www.capitalgazette.com

Democrat Jim Shea is pitching an expansive, costly plan to overhaul Maryland’s education system, starting with expanded prenatal care and stretching through on-the-job training.

The multibillion-dollar proposal emphasizes extra funding for poor areas, universal preschool, child care subsidies, after-school care and summer programs, plus tuition-free community college, higher pay for teachers and a new K-12 curriculum pegged to international standards.

“We have to have all of these building blocks,” Shea said.

The 21-page proposal released Monday morning, however, does not offer a timeline or a price tag for the plan. Shea said those details would come later, after a state commission that’s also working on education reform releases its price estimates for similar ideas.

Shea said in an interview he expected it to cost in the billions of dollars — and that he doesn’t expect to raise taxes in order to pay for it.

Shea criticized Republican Gov. Larry Hogan’s record on education, pointing out that education spending has not risen as quickly as the state’s revenue. Hogan’s spokesman has said the governor has increased education funding each year, and the governor’s record speaks for itself.

Shea promised that, if elected after winning the eight-way Democratic primary, he would make putting more cash into the education system his top priority, and he was willing to make “tough choices” to do it.

He declined to identify what he would trim from state spending in order to make education spending increase at the same rate as state revenue, but he acknowledged it was a big expense that would require significant “political will.”

“Properly funding public education is expensive,” Shea said. “In the long term, however, failing to fund education is far more expensive in lost productivity and underutilized human capital.”

In order to save some money, Shea said that non-classroom costs like transportation, energy and materials could be purchased through a statewide joint purchasing agreement. He speculated that that could save about $100 million annually — about 5 percent of the cost of such purchases.

Many of Shea’s proposals are the same ideas under discussion by the Kirwan Commission, a panel charged by the state legislature to come up with ways to overhaul education in the state. The commission plans to issue its recommendations — and the large price tag that goes with it — by this June.

Shea promised that, if elected, he would fully implement the commission’s recommendations.

A consultant for the commission has estimated Maryland needs to spend $2.9 billion more each year on education, though some commission members have said they expect the total cost of their proposals to be less than that.

“Maryland must invest boldly in education,” Shea said. “If, however, we commit fully to a bold plan to have an education system rivaling the best in the world, the benefits to our children and our state will be enormous and more than justified.”

Shea said that Maryland has taken steps before, pointing to the landmark Thorton funding formula that increased K-12 school funding from $2.6 billion annually in 2002 to $7.9 billion this year.

Maryland eventually raised taxes, in 2007 under then-Gov. Martin O’Malley, in order to pay for the promises in the Thornton program.

Shea called it “morally wrong and, ultimately, economically and socially destructive” that minority and young mothers are less likely to have access to prenatal care.

While Shea said that he believes his entire education plan should be enacted at the same time, he singled out funneling more resources to economically depressed areas as his top priority.

“Every year we delay on that, we are creating more and more problems for ourselves,” he said.

Shea’s proposal includes raising pay for teachers — but he doesn’t say by how much or how quickly those raises would be implemented. He also pitches more professional training for educators, residency programs for teachers in training, and hiring more teachers in order to reduce class sizes.

He said community colleges should offer child care and health care, and Maryland needs more vocational training to connect high school students with jobs.

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http://www.capitalgazette.com/news/government/bs-md-democrat-pitches-womb-to-job-interview-education-plan-20171110-story.html

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Armenia: Access to education and equity. Live discussion

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Armenia/September 26, 2017/Source: http://en.a1plus.am

“PROBLEMS OF AVAILABILITY AND EQUALITY OF IMPLEMENTATION OF THE RIGHT TO EDUCATION IN THE GENERAL EDUCATIONAL SPHERE OF RA”

The presentation and discussion of the REASERCH

Open Society Foundations – Armenia and “Article 3” Club invite to the presentation and discussion of the preliminary findings of the “Problems of Availability and Equality of Implementation of the Right to Education in the General Education Sphere of RA” research report.

The research objective is to evaluate and identify the equality and justice issues in public education that hinder the full realization of the right to education, as well as develop alternative policy solutions in cooperation with various stakeholders.

In recent years, numerous studies held by the Armenian education system, as well as official statistics have been continuously alarming about the linkage between the level of education of the population and poverty, the lack of access to quality education for socially vulnerable families and / or rural children, especially girls.

The figures speak for themselves, and the study recorded the most profound picture of the problems and their causes:

  • During the period of 2010-2015, poverty among the population with a higher education has dropped by about 3%, while the proportion of people with elementary and lower education has increased by about 16.8%.
  • Compared to 2009 (6.8%), in 2015, the share of payments for education in general household expenditure has essentially decreased, with the costs being substantially different in urban and rural areas. In 2015 they were 2.5% and 0.7%, meanwhile in 2009 they were 8% and 3.6%.
  • During 2016/2017 academic year, 34.3% of children of families in need, got scores 9 and 10, meanwhile, in the case of the children of well-provided families, the indicator was 42.8%. In the same period, the children of the well-provided families did not score 0-5, whereas 8.7% of children of families in need received such scores.

Speakers are:

DAVID AMIRYAN – Deputy Director for Armenian Programs of Open Society Foundations

LILIT NAZARYAN Coordinator of Educational Programs in Armenia OF Open Society Foundation

https://www.facebook.com/article3club/videos/1938960212983058/

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http://en.a1plus.am/1263977.html

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Real education is more than becoming a doctor or engineer, says writer Devdutt Pattanaik

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Today’s education system should not be about only earning money. We are making engineers but should not they understand management and will only be taught mathematics?»

Renowned writer and mythologist Dr Devdutt Pattanaik has said that instead of equated only with monetary gains, today’s education should be aimed at holistic development of young minds.

“Today’s education system should not be about only earning money. We are making engineers but should not they understand management and will only be taught mathematics? Engineers are made but many a time they fail to understand management as they are only taught mathematics,” Pattanaik said at a ‘Principals’ and Academicians’ Conclave here last night.

On the need to connect education with real life and not solely concentrate on book-based knowledge, he said, “Our kitchen is the biggest laboratory where chemistry can be taught but everyone is keen to learn chemistry from books. Real education is more than becoming a doctor or engineer,” the 46-year-old author said.

Speaking on applying traditional knowledge to modern education, Pattanaik said, “Blending mythology with mainstream studies will lead to holistic development of young minds.”

Pattanaik, the author of 30 books, was delivering the keynote address at the conclave hosted by Aakash Institute in association with The Newtown School.

Source:

http://indianexpress.com/article/education/real-education-is-more-than-becoming-a-doctor-or-engineer-says-writer-devdutt-pattanaik-4846551/

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New Zealand children getting an education ‘from the past’

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New Zealand/September 12, 2017/ Source: http://www.nzherald.co.nz

Some of New Zealand’s top entrepreneurs are warning New Zealand’s education system needs to change if the country is going to keep up with a rapidly changing workforce.

The comments were made during the latest PwC Herald Talks, Global vs Local, held today at the St James Theatre in Wellington.

Keynote speaker and Zuru founder Nick Mowbray said New Zealand did not have a lot of global brands, partly because the education system did not set people up for entrepreneurism.

«We always sit back and rely on our core competencies and export earners, which are agriculture, tourism and education,» Mowbray said.

«But there are lots of small economies that build truly global companies, look at Switzerland or the Nordic markets.

«They have loads of global brands and global companies, and we have very few. So I think it’s how we can create these global companies, and it starts earlier, with education,» he said.

«If you can’t build this into kids from an early age, you’re never going to be good at it later on.»

Mowbray said digital, social and entrepreneurial skills were the new requirements for success, but many New Zealand children were getting an education «from the past».

«Half the world’s jobs aren’t going to exist in the next 25 to 30 years,» Mowbray said.

«They’re going to be replaced by automation, it’s going to be a robot that flips your burger, it’s going to be self-driving cars. For us, we’re replacing a lot of our production lines with robots,» he said.

«So it’s just the basics of how do I make a product, how do I make a service, what is my channel plan, what is my marketing plan, what is my sales plan?

«All of these basic skills could be taught in school from a young age.»

New Zealand Story Group director Rebecca Smith said better language skills also needed to be added into the mix.

«We need to be teaching our children more about the opportunities that are in the world, creating global citizens, ones that understand different cultures and the diversity of what the world has to offer,» Smith said.

«I’ve got one child who is learning Spanish and one who is learning Chinese, so we figure we’ve got most of the world covered with those two languages.

«As long as they’re learning a different language, it just changes the way the brain functions, and it gives them the opportunity to be open-minded about new languages in the future.»

Smith said New Zealand’s current crop of entrepreneurs scored highly for integrity and honesty, they just needed a bit more confidence.

«We find solutions to problems that other people don’t even think about.

«So we do need to keep that ingenuity and care, it’s why people buy from us.

«Now we need to learn how to sell, and how to market ourselves better. To pitch up and be more confident.»

Opus International Consultants chief executive David Prentice said students needed to be better equipped than they were now, for a world that was rapidly changing.

He said there needed to be changes to focus on the demands of a digital world.

«We simply can’t continue down the path that we’re going using traditional subjects, and expect that in 10, 20, 30 years time they’ll be equipped for what the world is like then.

«IT is very general, it’s very broad. But there’s no doubt about IT and the innovation and opportunities that that creates.

«Whether you’re looking at 3D goggles, or driverless cars, all of it has a fundamental basis in IT.»

The next PwC Herald Talks event is being held in Auckland on Wednesday morning at SkyCity theatre.

Source:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11885281

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Need to overhaul Indian education system on the lines of Finland: Mohan Bhagwat

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Indian/ September 12, 2017/By: ANI/Source: http://www.sify.com

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat said that there is a need to overhaul the existing Indian education system on the lines of Finland, which is based on ancient Indian Gurukul system.
There is a «consensus in the society» that the education system needs to be revived, Bhagwat said at the launch of the Indian Education Manual (Bhartiya Shiksha Granth Mala) by Ahmedabad based think-tank Punarutthan Vidyapeeth.
«Every time whenever there is a talk of progress or development, one looks at U.S. or U.K. On the other hand, in the area of education, Finland has the best school education system in the world, which is similar to ancient Indian Gurukul system,» said Bhagwat, and added that «Finland education system is vastly different from that of U.S., U.K. and other European countries».
Bhagwat said that the notable freedom fighters from the Indian history including Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore had been educated under a «western» system but were never influenced by it.
Bhagwat was pointing out that it is not only the schooling, but a child’s parents and the atmosphere at home and in the society play a larger role in upbringing of children. Bhagwat said various RSS outfits have spoken out against «westernised» education and its impact on our culture. (ANI)
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http://www.sify.com/news/need-to-overhaul-indian-education-system-on-the-lines-of-finland-mohan-bhagwat-news-national-rjjwLihaahdeg.html
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