Grand granny in the service of education

Are you for or against the possibility of working up to 70 years? Why?
70ans to work as a teacher in kindergarten? Ah ah ah! What a challenge that is! And who would like to seventies for mistress? And what a kindergarten teacher could (and would not even) still teach and care for 30 small devils 3, 4, ou5ans? Even 55ans, profession, if well done, is a feat in itself, with all these changes perpetual imposed without consultation of the database (us), then, well no, I do not see myself teaching beyond 58 mater years, an official of this category that requires a big punch to take this little world here, and not because of an amazing retirement pension that is far less interesting than we want to believe in under private, then attention to this notion of possible today, it does not become an obligation of tomorrow.

Would you be willing to work until 65 or 70 years?
For the reasons stated previously, no, fatigue is real.

What do you think the ideal age of retirement?
Between 55 and 60 years, the form, the harshness of employment, the rate of retirement.

Student registration: sensitive data removed of "base students"

in the Official Order of the Ministry of Education on the roster of students from kindergarten and primary, called Base students, "experienced since 2005. The text does appear certain sensitive data, such as occupation and social class of parents, family status of the student, reported absenteeism or special educational needs.
This is what the ministry promised last June to silence the controversy launched by associations. Data on the nationality or ethnicity of students, their parents or guardians had already been withdrawn from the base.
The League of Human Rights, mounted the niche against the file "Base students," welcomes the contents of the Order. According to her, he sets a limited data may be recorded and the duration of their conservation, prohibits the collection of information on nationality and on "racial or ethnic origin" [sic], limit the Mayors access to data that fall strictly within their jurisdiction and imposes the anonymization of data transmitted to the administrative services of National Education. " It nevertheless called the "maintenance of greater vigilance against the implementation of this Order."
The only personal data in the file are: identification and details of the student, identifying his or her guardians, persons to contact in case of emergency or authorized to take charge students out of school, school student activities. The maximum conservation of these data will not exceed the end of the calendar year in which the student is enrolled in the first degree.

Quebec should better supervise colleges, said the auditor general

The Ministry of Education should put his nose in the financial commitments of colleges, according to the Auditor General of Quebec, which raises the specter of financial fiasco UQAM.

It points the finger at the lax business relationships between colleges and their partners, with the tacit complicity of the ministry.

Ultimately, in some cases, the taxpayers must foot the bill, according to audits conducted by Renaud Lachance, in the first volume of its annual report released Tuesday.

"Normally, Quebec should" seek some form of accountability to colleges, "he said in a press conference.

Quebec pays $ 1.3 billion per year to the network of colleges.

However, the Ministry of Education may need to intervene when colleges suffer financial losses, said the auditor general, who examined the financial statements of six colleges.

The direction of a college has the financial flexibility to engage in a project, except that if the project goes wrong, government, "in extreme cases, will have to pay", as in the case of UQAM, at he recalled.

In a previous report, Mr. Lachance had denounced the "weak governance" and the lack of rigorous monitoring of the Ministry of Education that led to the financial fiasco UQAM.

Quebec has swallowed $ 400 million of public funds to help UQAM to get out of the abyss.

On a smaller scale, "says Lachance, the Ministry of Education had to pay last March $ 2.5 million CEGEP du Vieux-Montreal, which has lost money on the sale of a residence student.

The Auditor General notes that the ministry has no portrait of all the partners of colleges.

No authorization of the Ministry is required before the funds colleges do in a project, he adds.

Moreover, as each year the annual report of the Auditor General on shortcomings in other government agencies.

For example, the Ministry of Health evaluates poorly support to community organizations.

He accuses including not to a "systematic and periodic reassessment of the amount granted to each of these organizations.

Shortcomings were found also in the issuance of liquor license by the Liquor, races and games.

Finally, Mr. Lachance concludes that there is no evidence that there squandering of public funds or abuses of power by the Public Protector.

It is the protector of the citizen who had asked him last March to verify the allegations contained in an anonymous letter.

Eight universities prospect in Senegal

The Minister of Secondary, regional academic centers and universities, Professor Moustapha Sourang, visited the exhibition stands of Education in Canada organized by the Canadian Embassy in Senegal. For him, this exploration of universities and institutes is a recognition of the credibility of our degrees, lessons and the level of teachers.

The students and many students came yesterday at the Salon de l'Education in Canada, organized by the Canadian Embassy. More than 8 prospect universities and institutions in Senegal. This mobilization of students illustrates that this country is increasingly attracting young Senegalese. "The objective of this exhibition is to provide information to the Senegalese wishing to study in Canada has become a destination for some time. There are students who have achieved good results in Bachelor, parents have the means, but they fail to get the visa or the Pre-enrollment. We give them information to mount a good record, "says the representative in West Africa College of St. Boniface, Babacar Gaye.

Canadian Ambassador to Senegal, Jean Pierre Bolduc, also revealed the scope of this educational exhibition, both for Senegal and for Canada.

"This exhibition allows students Senegalese to be in direct contact with the universities. They will inquire about the availability of training and opportunities to study in Canada, "said the ambassador, Jean Pierre Bolduc. He listed the requirements for obtaining a visa. "To get a visa, you must complete a number of conditions. Any student who meets these conditions, can be confident to get a visa, "expressed the ambassador.

The minister Moustapha Sourang, for his part, welcomed the initiative. He sees through this exploration of the international recognition of our qualifications, the quality of teaching and good teachers. "This exhibition shows the character of our International Baccalaureate which is one of the best French-speaking countries. If several Canadian universities are exposing their offer of training, this is proof of our recognition of diplomas, but also good teachers. This is extremely important, "suggested the minister who also welcomed the good success rate of Senegalese in Canadian universities. Today, more than 2,000 Senegalese are enrolled in universities and colleges. The big problem, "said the minister Sourang is to bring them back after their training. "There is a good success rate of Senegalese in Canadian universities. "This rate is 2 times higher than for nationals of other French-speaking countries," said the representative in West Africa College of St. Boniface.

Obama, McCain and education

"The education of Obama is more complete than McCain." It is estimated that in early September, a former member of the Department of Education of the Bush administration.

Main difference between the two men: the Democratic candidate promises to increase the education budget. He wants, for example, doubling federal funding programs for students. His Republican rival also plans to improve and expand existing programs. But he did not think the federal government should spend more than at present. It also intends to encourage the system of "good school": the state gives parents a check to finance their children's education. Parents then use it in the school of their choice.

Barack Obama also plans to increase teacher salaries and establish a permanent training program to improve their performance. John McCain, meanwhile, wants to establish a system of merit pay and bonuses in reward teachers who agree to teach in disadvantaged areas. It also advocates for the development of online education.

Finally, both agreed to facilitate access to university. The first seeks to simplify the granting of scholarships and create a tax credit of $ 4,000 to finance part of higher education, very expensive in the United States. The second proposes to increase university scholarships and creating loans for further studies.

Events in Italy against education reform

Education reform continues to make waves in Italy: Tens of thousands of students, teachers and representatives from school paraded in Rome and other cities across the country Thursday to protest against the controversial changes in the education system proposed by the government of Silvio Berlusconi.

These events were recorded within a strike of 24 hours, which resulted in the closure of schools throughout the country.

The rallies were organized following the adoption by the Senate of the reform, which includes the return to single teacher primary school.

For critics of the reform, these changes will affect the quality of the education system and the rule of a teacher in primary be the cause of layoffs.

In Rome, riot police were mobilized at a rally where demonstrators waved flags and chanted slogans hostile to government proposals.

In Milan, youths gathered in front of the Exchange and began shouting that they did not want to pay for the financial crisis, according to press information.

In Florence, one hundred students briefly occupied tracks in a railway station, forcing some trains to take another route. "We have so many people, and if we can not change anything, then it means that it is a form of dictatorship," said Lara Nori, a student of 17 years.

They are "issues affecting the future of our youth, for his part observed Guglielmo Epifani, leader of the largest union in the country, the CGIL, at the demonstration in Rome. "This battle will continue."

Adoption of Education budget, the first of the state, against a background of concern

PARIS (AFP) - The Assembly adopted Tuesday credits of the mission school in 2009, the first item of expenditure from the state budget with 60 billion euros, thanks to the votes of the majority UMP face the Opposition regrets that the elimination of 13,500 positions.

"The national education budget continues to grow by 2.06% to a total of 59.9 billion euros," said Education Minister Xavier Darcos, before a House very sparse.

During the budget review, several hundred teachers in school failure (so-called "Rased") demonstrated outside the National Assembly.

In the Chamber desert, a handful of opposition MPs have relayed their protests by repeatedly posing the question of "suppression" of 3,000 posts in these specialized networks aid to students in difficulty ( "Rased").

"No, we do not delete any post of specialist teachers. For some of them -3000 on just over 11,000 we réaffectons in classes where we need them," replied each time the minister , Calling for "an experiment" a year.

Mr. Darcos also mentioned the reform of secondary schools (teaching semesters ...) who "has no budgetary consequences on the Finance Bill 2009": "if we do not renew 2000 teaching posts in secondary Back in 2009, because there will be 22,000 fewer students in classes of second degree. "

Figures to support the minister assured that classes were not overcrowded on average more that a few years ago: "You can not say that the offer educational decreases. It is simply not true", at it launched at the opposition.

"To believe that the success of the education system based simply without any change, on an accumulation of devices and posts is lying," he says.

Referring to the "malaise" of teachers, the minister said: "The education system is not for teachers, it is for the students that you show last year and worse", had launched the PS member Sandrine Mazetier, who had participated in the demonstration of support for public education in Paris in mid-October. "The budget for school education in 2009 is a true copy of that and for the family."

Gardens awakening for toddlers?

children aged two to three years are welcomed into the "garden of enlightenment." It would create a new public service an "innovative structure midway between the nursery and the school." "This installment of age requires a different method of care, which accepts that the child develops at their own pace. They need emotional security but also of enlightenment, "explains the senators UMP Monique Papon (Loire-Atlantique) and Peter Martin (Sum).
Big disparities
On the basis of their proposal, a double observation: on the one hand, the school offers "a little environment for children two years and schooling is" a false good idea for academic success, and other , the modes of custody of the little children (cribs, child minders, etc.). are insufficient, while the birth rate is dynamic. The authors acknowledge that the enrollment
Two years is seen as an "opportunity" to reconcile work and family life. France, with Belgium, is also an exception in Europe by agreeing to host kindergarten children as young as two years. In the 1990s, more than one child of two years was enrolled in three (34.1% in 1999), but since the rate declined to 20.9% in 2007. The Senate report also emphasizes strong regional disparities. Thus, approximately 60% of children two years were enrolled in 2007 or Finistere Morbihan, against 2.5% in Haute-Savoie or 5% in Seine-Saint-Denis.
A controversial topic
Senators agree therefore clearly in favor of an alternative to early schooling, a controversial topic. Last September, Education Minister Xavier Darcos, had felt that the issue of schooling for two to three years should be debated. He particularly questioned the training of teachers for toddlers. Words that had been bouncing teacher unions and the opposition. For the SE-UNSA union, the early schooling must remain an option: it is concerned that children should be "cleaned with a simple fiscal space" used to "justify the job cuts." However, Socialist and Communist senators did not agree with the proposal of their UMP colleagues, fearing including "the end of free home" or the "cost risk transferred to municipalities.

Education is deteriorating does in Europe?

The Brussels correspondent of the daily Romania Libera, Dan Alexe, is concerned about the future of the education sector: "In many countries, France, Britain, Belgium, etc.. We know already that the next generation will face a shortage of trainers and teachers. My two children go to school in Belgium and I for years that the quality decreases and that many teachers lack sufficient knowledge of the matter they teach. The primary school teachers have problems spelling or use the Internet without having ever set foot in a library, there are people whose knowledge of the world is done by the through television. The teachers belong to any category are most poorly paid, both in Eastern Europe than in Western Europe. ... Today, the teacher is a loser. An individual who never enough money to make a real estate transaction. "

Therapeutic Education and prevention: INPE and the High Authority of Health sign a framework agreement

The National Institute for Prevention and Health Education (INPES) and the Health Authority (HAS) strengthen their cooperation by signing today a framework agreement to develop common or complementary in their fields of competence, particularly in the field of therapeutic education and prevention. For a better execution of their missions and create synergies to facilitate their work, this collaboration will implement concrete actions in three areas: - Recommendations of best practices affecting the field of prevention and health education; - Assessing the quality and effectiveness of actions or prevention programs; - Training for health education. A first program of joint actions (CAP) rate for the year 2008. The Framework Agreement provides that each calendar year, a program of joint actions will be developed during the first half. It will specify the distribution of shares, the timetable, etc.. Thus the subject of reflection and future actions will focus on such overweight and obesity in adults and children, training on health education and therapeutic education on the certification of websites dedicated to health, the perinatology ...

Rumors elections

Félix Séguin talks with Jean-Marc Fournier. Government House Leader and Minister of Revenue, Jean-Marc Fournier, reported on his political future this morning at a press conference in Châteauguay. He announced that he would not fifth mandate at any provincial general election, but he completed his term. He was first elected in 1994 but said he did not leave political life, but he was taking "leave". He said hoped "step back", "live other experiences." Jean-Marc Fournier, age 49, said that the economic slowdown and the lack of cooperation of opposition parties led him to consider his future. During his political career, Jean-Marc Fournier has headed several ministries, including those Municipal Affairs and Education.

Rased: Inspectors of Education oppose reform

In an open letter to Xavier Darcos, the union of the inspection of Education is against reform Rased announced by the minister. They require a concerted reflection with it before any changes in these networks of expertise to aid students. After teachers' unions, it is the turn of the inspectors of Education (NEI) to oppose the reform Networks specialized assistance to students in difficulty (Rased). What Rased? Networks of specialized aid to students in difficulty (Rased) have to provide special aid to students into regular classes in primary schools, at the request of teachers in those grades in these classes or outside this classes. They include teachers responsible for teaching aids dominant, the "masters E" (learning difficulties), teachers specialized aid mainly rehabilitation, "masters G" (difficulty adjusting to school), and school psychologists. In a rather unexpected letter addressed to Xavier Darcos October 16, the union disputes the reform Rased. It plans to settle 3000 posts of these masters specializing in academic difficulty (see box) in schools in difficulty. These de facto personal replace 3,000 teachers to retire and will be in a class. "We are worried" For NEI, the redeployment of posts threatens the effectiveness of Rased in the fight against the difficulties school: "A weakening of these teams would be a grave harm to students in great difficulty," they write. This reallocation is problematic for the union because the specialist teacher "exercise all of his service in schools", a modus operandi that can not be imposed for the NEI, at the risk of "weakening the very idea of piloting proximity ". For the union, is "to the inspector of the district, after consultation with the teaching teams" to make that choice. Inspectors of Education Xavier Darcos request to postpone "the measure announced and open a dialogue enlarged to enhance the impact of personal Rased on students.

The British argue the age of sex education

Zoom British Age advance of sex education Animal breeding, the description of the different parts of the body, information about puberty and feelings will be the subjects used in schools to provide education to children. Older children will receive courses on respect for the individual and risky behavior. With regard to drugs and alcohol, younger study the effects of drugs and toxins on the human body. These programs also include information on diet, exercise and first aid.Small English should receive sex education at school from the age of 5. This will be included in compulsory education on health and personal behavior in society. "The government considers education as essential to help young people avoid teenage pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, drug use and alcohol abuse," said the British government to justify this measure, which should cover 6.5 million youth.

Crisis and reforms: Teachers at the forefront of the discontented

The national event on Sunday October 19 in Paris "for the defense of public education service" was announced since September 3. But unions, across the board, except SNALC ( "apolitical"), had agreed on this initiative could not provide the financial crisis since mid-September, came to cloud the issue. Keep this article in your workbook. Subscribe to Monde.fr: € 6 per month + 30 days offered ON THIS TOPIC Archive Edition subscribers: Justice asks Delanoe to apply the minimum service in schools You live in a commune have already experienced. How do you rate this new device? ON THIS TOPIC The special edition economy in crisis Edition subscribers Archive: Teachers' unions rely on a "turning point" of the opinion Fiscal rectitude in education by going to be more difficult to accept? This event has, according to its impact, provide initial response. "We are witnessing a breakdown of substance in the priority given to the nation education", say organizers. Gerard Aschieri, secretary general of the FSU federation majority, highlights the "contradictions" between the "billions on the table" for banks and "investments are not made in education." The Minister of Education, Xavier Darcos, has so far managed to upset the world teaching without major clashes. A day of action on September 11, remained the most symbolic. And the call for a Sunday show also aims to overcome the difficulty to strike. But the accumulation of frustrations and concerns on important current issues, is evident. The reform of primary school. In primary education, which is played is accession or not teachers to a comprehensive reform of accomplished during the 2007-2008 school year. Translated into the official texts, it continues to be tensions. The new programs are accused of marking a "regression". And modalities of support to students in difficulty (placements of upgrading and times reached by removing the course Saturday morning) are deemed ineffective or even harmful. The announcement Sept. 26 that 3 000 teachers specialized on 9 000 working in networks of specialized assistance for students in difficulty (RASED) would be reassigned in 2009 in regular classes, has triggered an uproar. This decision seems difficult to reconcile with the objective stated by Mr. Darcos of "divide by three" school failure, heavy primary. The strike Thursday October 16 in the only schools in Paris was very well attended. The minimum service. The establishment by law of 20 August 2008, the "right home" in schools in the event of a strike has compounded the sense that the government played opinion against teachers. The refusal of the Paris City Hall Friday 17 October, under the guise of safety rules, implement in the future this law it deems "inapplicable", created a new front of tension with the government. Posts. The main bone of contention remains the abolition of posts: 8 500 in 2007, 11 200 2008 13 500 planned for 2009. The government has warned that the movement would continue. According to the unions and teachers in schools affected, the consequences of this policy are hard on the ground. The school "modular". The subject potentially more difficult for Mr. Darcos is its reform of high schools, which also elaborates in a few days. His goal is to complete the project in late December for an initial application in second class at the beginning of 2009. The broad outlines are well known: a drawing of lessons in half-yearly modules, allowing each student to build his career. A distinction between lessons "general", "complementary" and "support", according to proportions that were respectively 60%, 20% and 20% in second class, and evolve in the first and final. The schedule for students Weekly second would be reduced to 27 hours (as against 28 to 30.5 now). All unions had signed a memorandum of discussion, but some working hypotheses have sown panic. The physical sciences, history and geography, mathematics data were excluded from the core. The Economic and Social Sciences (SES) are already "cut" by the reform, philosophy threatened, and so on. The Ministry of denials have not raised concerns. After the CGT from mid-September, the SNES-FSU, the majority in secondary schools, left the discussions. The major risk for Mr. Darcos, in this case is that of a student movement that would catalyze and radicalize all these oppositions.

The "base students' Corrected

A new version of the "base students" was published in the Official Journal yesterday in an order of the Ministry of Education. This is a file computerized data completed by school leaders in the enrollment of children. It uses software for the management of students, monitoring of school. The text of the decree, dated October 20, stipulates that only personal data stored will include identification and contact information ...

Forced to apply the law of minimum service in schools, Delanoe called

The mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoë judge "unrealistic" the delay of 48 hours to organize a minimum service reception in the 660 kindergartens and elementary schools in the capital © PHOTOPQR / LA DEPECHE du Midi. Print React Sort The saga of the minimum service host (SMA) of children at school in case of strike in Paris continues. After reluctantly agreed to implement this law, the mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoë was finally abandoned last Friday to implement. Unfortunately, the judge of the Administrative Tribunal of Paris has "suspended" this decision Wednesday. The court also ordered the city of Paris to conduct "a further review of implementing the law for the establishment of the home she expects", without waiting for the judge's decision before the primary. In a statement, the City immediately expressed its decision to appeal, considering that the modalities for implementing this law does not allow municipalities to make application in a manner compatible with the imperative of security Children welcome. " The city of Paris appealed The battle between the city of Paris and the government is committed to continued movement of Education, October 16. The municipality said being unable to "security reasons" in particular, to implement this law, which provides for "major strike" of teachers, set up by the joint service of Home of children enrolled in nursery schools or public elementary school during the time required. "The law that the Rector can not tell us that 48 hours before the number of schools on strike. (...) It is impossible for a community to mobilize the necessary number of leaders," explained Pascal Cherki, assistant charge of school life to the city of Paris at point.fr, who recalled that "136,000 children enrolled in public school in Paris." Xavier Darcos is calling Xavier Darcos called Wednesday evening the mayor of Paris to back down. "I just wish that the law applies to many students and families and the mayor of Paris found the Republican meaning he has shown so far," said Minister of National Education, cited by his entourage. Thursday, Bertrand Delanoë and his teams will be tested: a strike, which should be followed shortly, is planned. According to the City, the judge did not order to implement the ADM at it. It therefore appealed to parents to keep children at home. Until the next episode.

Darcos nuance his remarks on the link-Parliament teaching of history

The Minister of Education has qualified his remarks Wednesday after viewing the eve of Parliament to entrust the responsibility to prescribe "what should be taught", including history, a sensitive issue for teachers who are demanding full freedom for their discipline. "Does he should not be a good time for all what we consider to be taught to students is prescribed by national representation", was asked Tuesday Xavier Darcos in the National Assembly. Heard by members of the mission of information on matters memorial ", he added:" As far as history in particular, I wonder even if it is not necessary "because" we have to less major topics to be recognized once and for all. " Volte-face explanation or simple text? On this sensitive issue, Xavier Darcos to be held twice Wednesday. At the exit of the Council of Ministers, first, he said he would accept "no political interference in the teaching of history." "This is, as we did for primary education (whose programs have been changed for the start), to obtain the opinion of the national representation on how the programs are directed" at - he said. The programs are "a regulatory powers of the Minister of National Education, said moreover to AFP minister's entourage. However, it is the "Nation said" what are the key dates and events to celebrate, argued the minister. Mr. Darcos has also sent a letter to the academician Pierre Nora, president of the association "Freedom for history", including campaigning for freedom of expression historians face of political interference. The minister assured that "it does not" in its "intention to ask Parliament to replace the community of historians to define the content of the programs history." He asked Mr. Nora to inform him of his "feeling" about this "recurring debate." Questioned by AFP, the historian Jean-Pierre Azema, member of the association, has "a personal, condemned without appeal this new attempt to impose what should be taught in history." Stressing that "educational freedom" is "absolutely necessary", he deemed "unacceptable for political power and parliamentary government can impose what must be sought and a fortiori taught." However, "it is in the role of national representation to establish commemorations," he added. "The remarks of the minister held Tuesday concern us, those of Wednesday reassure us," said his side Hubert Tison, president of the Association of Professors of history and geography. "Parliament can question the place and importance of history, but it would be dangerous because it legislates in Programs, which must be made by the experts," he said. According to him, the gap between what the minister held Tuesday and Wednesday is "perhaps because there is debate in his ministry on the teaching of history." The relationship between politics and teaching of history have often been subject to controversy. In 2005, Article 4 of the Law of 23 February 2005, requiring teachers to discuss their courses in the "positive role of the French presence overseas" and have been challenged had been repealed at the request of Jacques Chirac.

An international conference on education held in Cape Verde

An international conference on Education and intercultural dialogue opens this Friday in Praia, the capital of Cape Verde, under the theme "Educating for Diversity and global citizenship." The meeting brought together parliamentarians from Cape Verde, the European Union (EU), the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP), the International Organization of la Francophonie (OIF), specialists in the sector of the education, representatives of civil society, by UNESCO and the Economic Community of African States (ECOWAS). The aim is to promote discussion and dialogue between parliamentarians and to seek common responses that reflect a Euro-African dimension. The meeting is held within the framework of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue and comes after the launch by the Ministers of the Council of Europe, a White Paper on intercultural dialogue.

Education: call for national strike in schools on November 20

The three main unions of primary teachers called Friday a day nationwide strike on November 20 next in kindergartens and elementary to denounce the government's educational policy. This movement will take place while 21 organizations in the education sector, including all federations of teachers, announced Wednesday evening a week of action in Education between 17 and 21 November with a "moment of mobilization "November 20. The Minister of National Education Xavier Darcos "made no response to dissatisfaction and demands" at the national event last Sunday in Paris, write SNUipp, the SGEN-CFDT and the SE-UNSA in a joint statement released Friday. "After the publication of programs heavier past whose vision is accompanied by a reduced teaching time of two hours, 'you doing' or provocative on what kindergarten teachers, the foundations of 'public schools that are challenged, they believe. According to unions, "for the first time in the first degree, an increase of nearly 20,000 students accompanied by the elimination of 5,500 positions" in 2009 and the abolition of networks of aid to students in difficulty ( RASED) "without any consultation." Under the action week from 17 to 21 October, the SGEN-CFDT, the SE-UNSA and FSU-SNUipp "decide to call school teachers to strike massively", said the press release. Meanwhile, the SE-UNSA In a statement released Friday a meeting Inter in the second degree and a call to strike unit in colleges and high schools, also on November 20. This new announcement to strike in the primary also while SGEN-CFDT said Wednesday that the replacement teachers were more assured "for over a month (...) in many schools, students are distributed in other classes that are overcrowded by the union. The SGEN-CFDT said feared a situation "critical" after the holidays of All Saints, depending on the extent of seasonal diseases like influenza.

A senior Chinese official emphasizes the moral education of youth

HANGZHOU, - Li Changchun, a senior official of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) called Sunday for more efforts to ideological and moral education of youth in the country following the assassination of three professors by their students in October. "We must pay special attention to children and their development because they are the successors of the socialist cause ...", said Li, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, in its letter to a national conference on moral education of young people who ended Sunday. According to Li, culture and ideals of morality among young people is closely linked to the future and the fate of the country, the interests of the people and social harmony and progress in this area have been made. A law professor at the University of Law and Political Sciences of China was stabbed to death by a fourth year student Tuesday evening in a classroom. Also in October, a 16-year-old student killed his teacher with a knife in the northern province of Shanxi, and another student of the same age in the eastern province of Zhejiang his teacher killed by strangulation. Liu Yunshan, head of the Department of Information of the CPC Central Committee, said at the conference that more effort should be made to create a social and cultural environment for healthy young people. "More healthy cultural products must be manufactured for home ... cultivate such values as patriotism and civilized ways," he said.

Stages in Education: A significant advance towards improving the conditions of teacher

As demanded by the public Members of the Federation of University Students of Quebec (FEUQ), the students in science education must be compensated financially during their fourth stage. "The Minister of Education, Mrs. Courchesne came meet students at the Congress of the FEUQ last Saturday. Recognizing the problems attributable to the requirements of the fourth stage of teacher, it undertook to create this week, a table bringing together key stakeholders, "said David Paradis, President of the FEUQ. "The creation of this table is a step in the right direction. We have very eager to begin to discuss solutions for our students and our students can finally see their conditions improved at the end of their studies. We hope to reach a consensus which will compensate losses that future teachers face when last stage of their training, "added Maxime Tassé, president of Association of Students of the Faculty of Sciences Education UQAM (ADEESE-UQAM). "The two representatives of opposition parties also say concerned about the situation of trainees from the fourth year in teaching. Marie Malavoy, the Parti Quebecois was in favor of a financial compensation for these students. As for Eric Laporte, Action Democratic, he was sensitive to the situation of those who teach Tomorrow the children of Quebec. The FEUQ is pleased to see that all parties at the National Assembly affirmed at its congress, want remedy this situation, "continued David Paradise. "The challenge of fourth courses in education was raised by the FEUQ. The establishment of the table from the minister and expressed sensitivities by the representatives of opposition groups would not have been possible without the concerted work of members of the Federation ", concluded David Paradis and Maxime Tassé. For over 19 years, the FEUQ represents students Quebec university. Composed of 15 member associations and strong over 120 000 members, the FEUQ is the largest youth group in Quebec. www.feuq.qc.ca With over 4700 members, ADEESE-UQAM represents over 20 years, students who constitute nearly 30% of Future Teachers of Quebec. www.adeese.org

Education Protects the impact of Alzheimer's disease

A teacher sits at his desk. Italian scientists have stated that their research, education and many professions seeking the brain creates a form of protection against dementia. (Photos.com) LONDON - professions that require intellectual skills and education thrust seems to be preserved memory loss associated with Alzheimer's disease, said last week Italian scientists. These findings confirm previous research conducted on Alzheimer's disease and other forms of brain decrease, said Valentina Garibotto, the San Raffaele University, the Institute of Science and the National Institute of Neuroscience in Milan. "The theory is that education and the professions seeking much (the brain) create a form of protection against the effects of brain dementia or cognitive reserve," said Garibotto. "Their brains are able to compensate the damage and allow them to remain in office despite the damage suffered." An estimated 30 million people with dementia in the world, the most common form is Alzheimer's disease. The study of Italian researchers, published in the journal Neurology, focused on 242 people suffering from Alzheimer's, 72 men and women with mild memory problems and 144 volunteers with no memory problem.

Teaching English: a person of middle launches a cry of alarm

QUEBEC - Arlette Driver, president of the Association of French Teachers, slams door Monitoring Committee action plan for improving the teaching of French. In an interview, Ms. Driver says that more than ever, Quebec needs a permanent independent body to ensure the quality of language teaching. Last February, Education Minister Michelle Courchesne, presented 22 measures for the French becomes a priority in school. A few months later, a monitoring committee was established to ensure the implementation of this plan of action. Arlette driver had been mandated to be included. It was however disappointed that the chairmanship of the committee was entrusted to Alain Veilleux, Assistant Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Education. In his opinion, Mr. Veilleux could lead to both the work of its staff to oversee internal and independent committee activities, but still remained in office. To explain his resignation, it complains the role of figuration in which the committee is confined, she said. She believes that the Ministry of Education should take the time to analyze and develop effective long term. She regretted that the committee come to be used to create stacks of documents and Web sites for teachers. The ministry made public this week a document detailing the first to acquire knowledge in spelling and conjugation primary. Other documents will follow during the year. In addition, the dictations and the meetings of daily readings in the plan are a balm on a far greater evil, says Driver. The department should focus more on effective long-term support and training of teachers and specialists, but this is not politically profitable, does it. Arlette driver is more than ever convinced of the need to establish a permanent external and independent to ensure the quality of teaching French in the long term.

Compensation trainees science education - Minister Michelle Courchesne CONFIRMS THE CREATION OF REFLECTION TABLE

Minister of Education, Recreation and Sport and Minister of Family Affairs, Ms. Michelle Courchesne, confirmed at the end this week, during his visit to the congress of the Student Federation University of Quebec (FEUQ), the creation of a panel discussion on Trainees remuneration of fourth-grade science education. "The recruitment of teachers is essential to maintaining the quality of our education system. Each year, nearly 3 500 students in educational sciences performing internship in the school system. The table thinking that we are announcing today will have a mandate to look into the conditions of probation these students. It will also explore measures to enhance support these teachers in become, "said Minister Courchesne. Composed of representatives from the Ministry of Education, Recreation and Sports, different universities and the FEUQ, the table Reflection begin its work in the coming days. The minister concluded by reiterating its willingness to work with all science departments of education to improve the training of Teachers.

The Federal life: Education Insertion

The National Resource Center Insert Sport Education publishes a guide of "financing of education and integration through sport." It is a methodological tool that accompanies project managers in fund-raising, mobilization of partners and in the diversification of their financial resources. It will be completed by 2009 with a database of local funding on the website of the cluster resources. It is available to any community, association, a public, free of charge upon request to PRN SEI, at this address

Student registration: sensitive data removed

The decree concerning the file "Base students" was published in the Official Journal. " Information on the ethnicity of children and occupation of parents would be omitted. Julie de Meslon, Update on 3 November 2008 On November 1, was published in the Official Order of the Ministry of Education on the roster of students from kindergarten and primary, called Base students, "experienced since 2005. The text does appear certain sensitive data, such as occupation and social class of parents, family status of the student, reported absenteeism or special educational needs. This is what the ministry promised last June to silence the controversy launched by associations. Data on the nationality or ethnicity of students, their parents or guardians had already been withdrawn from the base. The League of Human Rights, mounted the niche against the file "Base students," welcomes the contents of the Order. According to her, he sets a limited data may be recorded and the duration of their conservation, prohibits the collection of information on nationality and on "racial or ethnic origin" [sic], limit the Mayors access to data that fall strictly within their jurisdiction and imposes the anonymization of data transmitted to the administrative services of National Education. " It nevertheless called the "maintenance of greater vigilance against the implementation of this Order." The only personal data in the file are: identification and details of the student, identifying his or her guardians, persons to contact in case of emergency or authorized to take charge students out of school, school student activities. The maximum conservation of these data will not exceed the end of the calendar year in which the student is enrolled in the first degree.

Italy: the need for school reform

A major student movement and student currently rocking Italy. As stressed by other articles of NOVOpress, this movement is, by what took place the student organizations of the radical right, including the Roman Blocco Studentesco. But whatever sympathy we can feel right for this antagonist, particularly in its battle with unions leftists, we should not be mistaken: school reform in Italy is rather a good reform. Two measures are the subject of the dispute schoolgirl: - Decree Gelmini, now endorsed by Parliament, which deals mainly primary school - The Finance Act for education, or "Legge 133" (Act 133). The primary reform desired by Mariastella Gelmini (pictured right against), Minister of Education, has five main points. :: The return to the single classroom teacher. Since 1990, Italian schoolchildren have effect three Instits they share with another class. This strange system was invented by the left in 1990 to avoid the deletion of teaching posts because of the demographic crisis transalpine. :: The return of notes in 10 elementary and college (instead of simple comments from teachers) to enable parents to better understand the course of their children. :: The return of a note of discipline, could pave the way to change school pupils the most dispelled. :: The recruitment of teachers on a regional basis rather than national, novelty desired by the Northern League to encourage the establishment of a genuine local autonomy in education. :: The establishment of a special financing plan to complete the safety of school buildings. Legge 133 provides for its reduced expenditures and the development of partnerships between universities and enterprises. We must bear in mind that in Italy more than in France, universities overflow of students without opportunities to eventually accept 30 years trades under-qualified for 1000 euros per month. Discipline, self-efficacy are all thrust of these measures, undoubtedly insufficient to fully recover to level the Italian education system, but which nevertheless can not do it well. Even if the Italian nationalist students, marked by the cult of strong state and equal in deem otherwise.

School admission problems remain

England's school admissions watchdog has said no system will ever give all parents their first choice of school.
And Schools Adjudicator Philip Hunter flagged up a problem of infant school admissions being constrained by the law that classes must not exceed 30 pupils.
Publishing his annual report, Sir Philip said all schools would comply with the tighter admissions code, after a review found thousands of breaches.
But a union representing school leaders said the code was too complex.
During this year the adjudicator was asked by the government to undertake a wide-ranging review of admissions across England, which identified thousands of breaches of its tightened admissions code, especially by faith schools.
Almost without exception schools had corrected these once the problems had been explained, Sir Philip told journalists.
"My assessment is that there was not wilful disregard of the code."
'Better organised'
The problems were by and large such things as failing to define the terms "parent" or "sibling", "place of residence" or "distance from school".
Disputes could arise if the distance were measured down the centre of roads rather than along the pavements, for example - but were easily dealt with provided the criterion had been made explicit.
Head teacher Matthew Quinn told the BBC News website that the admission policy of his large school had been found wanting by the adjudicator last year.
"This naturally came as a shock as the policy had been vetted and sent to a number of organisations prior to approval, including the local authority," he said.
"On closer inspection of the adjudication it appeared that we had not accurately defined the precise method of measurement of the distance between the school and the location of the house of a prospective student in the case of a tie-break.
"This by any measure is a minor infringement compared to using unscrupulous methods including interview which, correctly, are strictly forbidden."
Changes
Sir Philip said it should not be necessary for each school's governing body to have to arrive at their own definitions.
He also proposed that there should be a website on which all schools' admissions policies were published for everyone's scrutiny.
Sir Philip said: "School admissions are now better organized than they were six years ago.
"No admission system is ever going to give all parents their first choice of school.
"But we now have a system that gives parents clear admission criteria, an efficient means of expressing their preferences and an objective means of administering the allocation process.
"Parents also have means for objecting to admission arrangements they think unfair and appealing to an independent panel when they think their own application has not been properly handled," he said.
But he said those independent appeal panels had been complaining that they were bound by the law on infant class sizes.
"I'm saying it's a problem," he said.
Sir Philip - who is retiring from the post - said he did not know what the answer was but he had passed on the issue to the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF).
Upheld
Previously, individual parents were not able to object to schools' admissions policies.
Now they can - and the volume of complaints more than doubled this past year to 289, with 108 being from parents and 142 from local authorities.
Of the parental complaints, 36 were upheld and 54 partially upheld, while 18 were rejected.
Local authorities' objections were better founded, with 142 of the 158 upheld and 10 partially so, with six failing.
Schools Secretary Ed Balls said: "The message I want to say is that we've got a tough code, it's really important that the law is applied in every school, because every parent should have the right to send their child to the school of their choice if they can get in on fair criteria.
"It should not be about schools choosing which parents or which children to have.
"The code's tough and the adjudicator will make sure it's properly implemented in every community of our country."
But the Association of School and College Leaders said the code was too complicated and confusing.
'Don't tinker'
General secretary John Dunford said most dissatisfaction came from parents being misled by the rhetoric of school choice.
"The core problem for school admissions, as the schools adjudicator has recognised in his report today, is difference between choice and preference.
"Parents do not have, and cannot have, as much choice over schools as the political rhetoric of 'choice and diversity' has led them to believe.
"Selecting a school is not like choosing breakfast cereals or clothes, in which there is a genuine choice for consumers, nor is it like healthcare, where you can delay an operation in order to be in the hospital of your choice.
"Schools have a fixed number of places and children move into them at fixed times."
But he said the government should resist the urge to issue a revised admissions code this academic year.
"The last thing that parents and schools need is more tinkering around the edges."