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Knowledge economy - ketchim - 04-23-2014

Folks ,

I wanna run a series of articles and discussions on here regarding the need for

knowledgeable and well schooled children including higher education of College and

University !

Re: Knowledge economy - ketchim - 04-23-2014

Shabana Basij-Rasikh, set up the women's college in Kabul in Afghanistan,

being driven by her own daunting early experiences.

he young founder of the School of Leadership, Afghanistan, speaking at the :

Global Education and Skills Forum in Dubai :

says she wants to start by emphasising the positive.

Re: Knowledge economy - ketchim - 04-23-2014

She has plans to expand her college to teach 340 young women :

the skills that will help them lead a modern, outward-looking Afghanistan.

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Re: Knowledge economy - ketchim - 04-23-2014

Bill Clinton said that improving education depended on the quality of teachers :

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Re: Knowledge economy - ketchim - 04-23-2014

Sunny Varkey launched plans for a $1m prize for teachers ;

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Re: Knowledge economy - ketchim - 04-23-2014

Unesco director general Irina Bokova warned of children without any education

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Re: Knowledge economy - ketchim - 04-23-2014

Educationalists and historians have been meeting across borders to attempt

the seemingly impossible - a common history textbook for South East Asia.  8)

This ambitious task is taking place within the Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean)

group of countries - Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines,

Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

Re: Knowledge economy - ketchim - 04-23-2014

A dispute over the Preah Vihear temple between Cambodia and Thailand :

began the idea of common history text book  Wink

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Re: Knowledge economy - ketchim - 04-23-2014

~~  War is NOT the answer  ~~ 

Re: Knowledge economy - ketchim - 04-23-2014

                                                  TEXTBOOK DIPLOMACY                          

[img alt=Book height=171 width=304]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/73064000/jpg/_73064060_012891154-1.jpg[/img] 
  • [li] February 2014: South Korea and Japan clash over the disputed name of a sea in US textbook[/li]
  • [li] January 2014: History textbooks become part of Paracel Islands dispute between China and Vietnam[/li]
    [li] May 2006: A joint Franco-German history book is launched near a First World War battlefield[/li]
    [li] April 2005: Controversy in South Korea and China over how Japan's history textbooks teach Second World War, with ambassadors being summoned[/li]
    [li] April 2001: South Korea makes formal protest to Japan over wartime history textbook, particularly lack of reference to Korean 'comfort women' [/li]