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Interesting article by Edward B. Fiske (former Times education editor and author of the Fiske Guide to Colleges) about (a) how Reagan appointed a commission to push a political agenda that included voluntary prayers in schools, but the commission he appointed came up with a report that focused on quality of education and (b) why […]
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New Education Act:
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This post is part of a series by the Education Forum on how school education is delivered in other parts of the world.
From Article by Bruce Sheerin, Ministry of Education, New Zealand
(http://titania.sourceoecd.org/vl=1756152/cl=13/nw=1/rpsv/cgi-bin/wppdf?file=5kzr6wrctk9p.pdf)
The government of New Zealand delegates property expenditure decisions to each individual school. Such a decentralised environment creates a challenge for school […]
Justine Ferrari, Education writer | February 05, 2008
(http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23161015-13881,00.html)
PUBLIC schools in NSW will be free to hire their own teachers under changes announced yesterday, but the union has threatened to fight the move.
Education Minister John Della Bosca said all government schools would have the option of advertising openly to fill vacancies.
Schools would still have the choice […]
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Notice of Public Meeting
on
Recommendations for a New Education Act
February 18, Monday, 2008, 3p – 5p
Sri Lanka Foundation Institute
Sri Lanka Education Forum has been hosting a series of meetings to identify areas of agreement among civil society organizations regarding recommendations for a New Education Act to the Ministry of Education’s Committee to Draft […]
The Education forum has conducted 3 study sessions so far with a good cross section of persons representing Associations of teachers, principals, and past pupils and educationists and well wishers. Compilation of past legislations, circulars and Policy papers are now complete. Paper copies of these can be obtained for the cost of photocopying from Ms. […]
In Sri Lanka, as in many others countries with a centralized teacher service, there is a problem of getting teachers to locate In poor rural (and estate) areas, when they can tap patronage systems to obtain transfers to more popular areas. Various incentives schemes have been tried, in a number of countries including Sri Lanka, […]
Submission of Proposals for formulating a New Education Act
(Advertisement posted by National Committee
for the Drafting of a New Education Act on January 17, 2008)
On the Directions of His Excellency the President, the Minister of Education, Hon. Susil Premajayantha has appointed a National Committee under the chairmanship of Dr G. B. Gunawardena and comprising panel […]
NUS or National University of Singapore is a premier university in Asia with school leavers form all over the world competing for places. NUS admit school leavers from India, Malaysia, Pakistan and other countries on the strength of each local public examination but Sri Lankan students, even those with the 3As that we felicitate here, […]
If Colombo is home to you, did you know that 50% or so of homes in Colombo are in tenement gardens or are illegal shanties. The children from these homes attend neighborhood schools of poor quality. These children attend a school close to home and go home without causing congestion or pollution.
Not so with the […]