Education

Chinese children attend a sex education class in Beijing on December 9, 2010. Chinese health and education experts are changing China's sex education strategy from focusing on teaching married couples birth control, as unmarried young also need to be targeted because parents are too reluctant to teach their children about sex, while more than 13 million abortions are undertaken at registered clinics every year.

Chinese children attend a sex education class in Beijing on December 9, 2010. Chinese health and education experts are changing China's sex education strategy from focusing on teaching married couples birth control, as unmarried young also need to be targeted because parents are too reluctant to teach their children about sex, while more than 13 million abortions are undertaken at registered clinics every year.

Chinese children attend a sex education class in Beijing on December 9, 2010. Chinese health and education experts are changing China's sex education strategy from focusing on teaching married couples birth control, as unmarried young also need to be targeted because parents are too reluctant to teach their children about sex, while more than 13 million abortions are undertaken at registered clinics every year.

French Higher Education and Research minister Valerie Pecresse (C) attends the weekly session of the questions to the government on October 20, 2010 at the French National Assembly in Paris. At right, Education minister Luc Chatel.

Indian Bachelor of Education (B-Ed) students protest outside the Commissioner and Director of School Education in Hyderabad, on November 20, 2010. The BEd students protest that due to the Supreme Court judgment in sharing 70:30 ratios of posts to B-Ed and D-Ed candidates, many B-Ed candidates lost job opportunities even though they scored good percentage of marks in the DSC-2008.

To go with AFP story: Japan-IT-education,FOCUS by Miwa Suzuki A Uchida Yoko employee demonstrates the company's latest educational products at at a digital education exhibition in Tokyo on September 22, 2010. Japan will soon start trialling electronic textbooks in primary schools, enhancing the role of IT in the classroom for a generation of 'digital natives' born in the wired age.

Sri Lanka Higher Education Minister S.B. Dissanayake (2nd R) launches the website of a Japanese medical educational institution Kaatsu International University, Sri Lanka, in Colombo on October 19, 2010 while Managing Director of the college, jagath Seneviratne (R) watches. Sri Lanka is wooing foreign universities to set up operations in the island as the island's own higher educational institutions are able to accomodate only about 20,000 out of the 130,000 to 150,000 students who annually qualify for higher education.

Sri Lanka Higher Education Minister S.B. Dissanayake (C) launches the website of a Japanese medical educational institution, Kaatsu International University, Sri Lanka, in Colombo on October 19, 2010 while Managing Director of the college, jagath Seneviratne (R) watches. Sri Lanka is wooing foreign universities to set up operations in the island as the island's own higher educational institutions are able to accomodate only about 20,000 out of the 130,000 to 150,000 students who annually qualify for higher education.

Sweden's education minister and leader of the 'Folkpartiet' (Peoples party) Jan Bjoerklund (C) meets potential voters after speaking at Sergels Torg in Stockholm,on September 15, 2010. A record number of first-time voters will head to Swedish polls on September 19 and politicians here have struggled to sway the younger generations, and their parents. Education policy, quality of schools, and youth unemployment have been hot-button issues in the tight race between the ruling centre-right alliance and the 'red-green' opposition, made up of the Social Democrat, Green, and formerly communist Left parties.

Sri Lanka Higher Education Minister S.B. Dissanayake (2nd R) launches the website of a Japanese medical educational institution Kaatsu International University, Sri Lanka, in Colombo on October 19, 2010 while Managing Director of the college, jagath Seneviratne (R) watches. Sri Lanka is wooing foreign universities to set up operations in the island as the island's own higher educational institutions are able to accomodate only about 20,000 out of the 130,000 to 150,000 students who annually qualify for higher education.

Sri Lankan Higher Education Minister S.B. Dissanayake (L) launches the website of a Japanese medical educational institution in Sri Lanka, Kaatsu International University, in Colombo on October 19, 2010 while Managing Director of the college, Jagath Seneviratne (R) looks on. Sri Lanka is wooing foreign universities to set up operations in the island as the island's own higher educational institutions are able to accomodate only about 20,000 out of the 130,000 to 150,000 students who annually qualify for higher education.

To go with AFP story: Japan-IT-education,FOCUS by Miwa Suzuki A Uchida Yoko employee demonstrates the company's latest 'MC1' PC tablet at at a digital education exhibition in Tokyo on September 22, 2010. Japan will soon start trialling electronic textbooks in primary schools, enhancing the role of IT in the classroom for a generation of 'digital natives' born in the wired age.

Indian Bachelor of Education (B-Ed) students stand on the building of the Commissioner and Director of School Education threathening to jump during a protest in Hyderabad, on November 20, 2010. The BEd students protest that due to the Supreme Court judgment in sharing 70:30 ratios of posts to B-Ed and D-Ed candidates, many B-Ed candidates lost job opportunities even though they scored good percentage of marks in the DSC-2008.

Sweden's education minister and leader of the 'Folkpartiet' (Peoples party) Jan Bjoerklund laughs as he meets with potential voters after speaking at Sergels Torg in Stockholm, on September 15, 2010. A record number of first-time voters will head to Swedish polls on September 19 and politicians here have struggled to sway the younger generations, and their parents. Education policy, quality of schools, and youth unemployment have been hot-button issues in the tight race between the ruling centre-right alliance and the 'red-green' opposition, made up of the Social Democrat, Green, and formerly communist Left parties.

Indian Bachelor of Education (B-Ed) students stand on the building of the Commissioner and Director of School Education threathening to jump during a protest in Hyderabad, on November 20, 2010. The BEd students protest that due to the Supreme Court judgment in sharing 70:30 ratios of posts to B-Ed and D-Ed candidates, many B-Ed candidates lost job opportunities even though they scored good percentage of marks in the DSC-2008.

Sweden's education minister and leader of the 'Folkpartiet' (Peoples party) Jan Bjoerklund laughs as he meets with potential voters after speaking at Sergels Torg in Stockholm, on September 15, 2010. A record number of first-time voters will head to Swedish polls on September 19 and politicians here have struggled to sway the younger generations, and their parents. Education policy, quality of schools, and youth unemployment have been hot-button issues in the tight race between the ruling centre-right alliance and the 'red-green' opposition, made up of the Social Democrat, Green, and formerly communist Left parties.

To go with AFP story: Japan-IT-education,FOCUS by Miwa Suzuki A Uchida Yoko employee demonstrates the company's latest 'MC1' PC tablet at at a digital education exhibition in Tokyo on September 22, 2010. Japan will soon start trialling electronic textbooks in primary schools, enhancing the role of IT in the classroom for a generation of 'digital natives' born in the wired age.

Indian Bachelor of Education (B-Ed) students protest outside the Commissioner and Director of School Education in Hyderabad, on November 20, 2010. The BEd students protest that due to the Supreme Court judgment in sharing 70:30 ratios of posts to B-Ed and D-Ed candidates, many B-Ed candidates lost job opportunities even though they scored good percentage of marks in the DSC-2008.

WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 23: (L-R) Dr. Gerry Gioia, chief of the Division of Pediatric Neuropsychology and director of the Safe Concussion Outcome, Recovery & Education (SCORE) Program at the Children's National Medical Center; student athlelte Alison Conca-Cheng; Katherine Brearley, mother of the late Owen Thomas, a former University of Pennsylvania football player; Sean Morey, former NFL athlete and current executive board member for the NFL Players Association; and Stanley Herring, chairman of the Subcommittee on Education and Advocacy, Head, Neck and Spine Committee of the NFL and team physician for the Seattle Seahawks and Seattle Mariners, testify before the House Education and Labor Committee about the Protecting Student Athletes from Concussions Act on Capitol Hill September 23, 2010 in Washington, DC. Brearley's son, University of Pennsylvania football player Owen Thomas, hung himself earlier this year at the age of 21. Brearley said that a posthumous diagnosis of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in Owen's brain may have caused depression and lead to his suicide and that his intense physical play since the age of 9 may have contributed.

WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 23: Dr. Gerry Gioia, chief of the Division of Pediatric Neuropsychology and director of the Safe Concussion Outcome, Recovery & Education (SCORE) Program at the Children's National Medical Center, testifies before the House Education and Labor Committee about the Protecting Student Athletes from Concussions Act on Capitol Hill September 23, 2010 in Washington, DC. Gioia has been active in the field of concussion education and prevention in high school athletics.

(back L-R) South African president Jacob Zuma, EU President Herman Van Rompuy, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso look at South African Minister for Basic Education Angie Motshekga (L) and EU commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth Androulla Vassiliou (R) during the ceremony of Signature of the EU-South Africa Primary Education Sector Policy Support Programme (PrimEd SPSP) on September 28, 2010 at the EU headquarters in Brussels. The third South Africa-EU Summit will provide an opportunity to strengthen the strategic dialogue between the EU and South Africa and to discuss a number of issues, in particular global governance, climate change, trade, development issues.

A young Chinese girl whispers to a boy to demonstrate how boys and girls bond as they attend a sex education class in Beijing on December 9, 2010. Chinese health and education experts are changing China's sex education strategy from focusing on teaching married couples birth control, as unmarried young also need to be targeted because parents are too reluctant to teach their children about sex, while more than 13 million abortions are undertaken at registered clinics every year.

(back L-R) South African president Jacob Zuma, EU President Herman Van Rompuy, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso look at South African Minister for Basic Education Angie Motshekga (L) and EU commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth Androulla Vassiliou (R) during the ceremony of Signature of the EU-South Africa Primary Education Sector Policy Support Programme (PrimEd SPSP) on September 28, 2010 at the EU headquarters in Brussels. The third South Africa-EU Summit will provide an opportunity to strengthen the strategic dialogue between the EU and South Africa and to discuss a number of issues, in particular global governance, climate change, trade, development issues.

Chinese children get a feel what their mothers experienced during pregnancy, at a sex education class in Beijing on December 9, 2010. Chinese health and education experts are changing China's sex education strategy from focusing on teaching married couples birth control, as unmarried young also need to be targeted because parents are too reluctant to teach their children about sex, while more than 13 million abortions are undertaken at registered clinics every year.

TOPSHOTSChinese children get a feel what their mothers experienced during pregnancy, at a sex education class in Beijing on December 9, 2010. Chinese health and education experts are changing China's sex education strategy from focusing on teaching married couples birth control, as unmarried young also need to be targeted because parents are too reluctant to teach their children about sex, while more than 13 million abortions are undertaken at registered clinics every year.

Reverend Al Sharpton conducts a press conference Sept 16, 2010, in Washington, DC, announcing the launch of 'Education SuperHighway', a nationally synidicated Sunday morning news and information magazine show premiering October 10, 2010. The non-partisan half-hour show will be an education themed news program discussing inequalities in education as well as health and civil rights.

TOPSHOTSA young Chinese girl whispers to a boy to demonstrate how boys and girls bond as they attend a sex education class in Beijing on December 9, 2010. Chinese health and education experts are changing China's sex education strategy from focusing on teaching married couples birth control, as unmarried young also need to be targeted because parents are too reluctant to teach their children about sex, while more than 13 million abortions are undertaken at registered clinics every year.

A young Chinese girl whispers to a boy to demonstrate how boys and girls bond as they attend a sex education class in Beijing on December 9, 2010. Chinese health and education experts are changing China's sex education strategy from focusing on teaching married couples birth control, as unmarried young also need to be targeted because parents are too reluctant to teach their children about sex, while more than 13 million abortions are undertaken at registered clinics every year.

WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 23: Dr. Gerry Gioia, chief of the Division of Pediatric Neuropsychology and director of the Safe Concussion Outcome, Recovery & Education (SCORE) Program at the Children's National Medical Center, testifies before the House Education and Labor Committee about the Protecting Student Athletes from Concussions Act on Capitol Hill September 23, 2010 in Washington, DC. Gioia has been active in the field of concussion education and prevention in high school athletics.

(back L-R) South African president Jacob Zuma, EU President Herman Van Rompuy, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso look at South African Minister for Basic Education Angie Motshekga (L) and EU commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth Androulla Vassiliou (R) during the ceremony of Signature of the EU-South Africa Primary Education Sector Policy Support Programme (PrimEd SPSP) on September 28, 2010 at the EU headquarters in Brussels. The third South Africa-EU Summit will provide an opportunity to strengthen the strategic dialogue between the EU and South Africa and to discuss a number of issues, in particular global governance, climate change, trade, development issues.

(back L-R) South African president Jacob Zuma, EU President Herman Van Rompuy, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso look at South African Minister for Basic Education Angie Motshekga (L) and EU commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth Androulla Vassiliou (R) during the ceremony of Signature of the EU-South Africa Primary Education Sector Policy Support Programme (PrimEd SPSP) on September 28, 2010 at the EU headquarters in Brussels. The third South Africa-EU Summit will provide an opportunity to strengthen the strategic dialogue between the EU and South Africa and to discuss a number of issues, in particular global governance, climate change, trade, development issues.

Chinese children get a feel what their mothers experienced during pregnancy, at a sex education class in Beijing on December 9, 2010. Chinese health and education experts are changing China's sex education strategy from focusing on teaching married couples birth control, as unmarried young also need to be targeted because parents are too reluctant to teach their children about sex, while more than 13 million abortions are undertaken at registered clinics every year.

Chinese children demonstrate how they were born as they attend a sex education class in Beijing on December 9, 2010. Chinese health and education experts are changing China's sex education strategy from focusing on teaching married couples birth control, as unmarried young also need to be targeted because parents are too reluctant to teach their children about sex, while more than 13 million abortions are undertaken at registered clinics every year.

Kenya's former higher education minister William Ruto (L), stands in the box of the accused to answer to corruption charges on October 26, 2010 charges at Nairobi's High Court. Ruto who was suspended by President Mwai Kibaki last week, is accused of receiving a 96-million-shilling (1.2 million dollar, 870,000 euro) bribe over the 2001 sale of 100 acres of land outside the capital Nairobi. He is widely believed to be a key suspect in the International Criminal Court's (ICC) probe into the violent aftermath of Kenya's disputed 2007 elections.

Kenya's former higher education minister William Ruto (L), confers with his lawyers before standing in the box of the accused to answer to corruption charges on October 26, 2010 charges at Nairobi's High Court. Ruto who was suspended by President Mwai Kibaki last week, is accused of receiving a 96-million-shilling (1.2 million dollar, 870,000 euro) bribe over the 2001 sale of 100 acres of land outside the capital Nairobi. He is widely believed to be a key suspect in the International Criminal Court's (ICC) probe into the violent aftermath of Kenya's disputed 2007 elections.

Education, Youth and Associative activities Minister Luc Chatel (C) arrives at the nursery school where a sword-wielding teenager was holding five or six children on December 13, 2010 in Besancon, eastern France. French police freed five nursery school pupils and their teacher taken hostage by a suicidal sword-wielding teenager, official said. The 17-year-old armed with two swords burst into the kindergarten in the eastern city of Besancon and initially took 20 children hostage as parents dropped them off for the start of class.

Chilean Education Minister Joaquin Lavin plays with a toddler during a visit at La Esperanza encampment, beside the San Jose mine, near Copiapo, 800 km north of Santiago, September 27, 2010. Four truckloads of metal tubes crucial to efforts to rescue 33 workers trapped underground in a Chile mine arrived on site Sunday. Despite the long wait until rescuers can begin pulling the men one by one -- by early November at the soonest -- the arrival of a first cage Saturday buoyed hopes in the makeshift campsite that sprung up after the August 5 cave-in.

Education, Youth and Associative activities Minister Luc Chatel arrives at the nursery school where a sword-wielding teenager was holding five or six children on December 13, 2010 in Besancon, eastern France. French police freed five nursery school pupils and their teacher taken hostage by a suicidal sword-wielding teenager, official said. The 17-year-old armed with two swords burst into the kindergarten in the eastern city of Besancon and initially took 20 children hostage as parents dropped them off for the start of class.

Kenya's former higher education minister William Ruto (L), confers with his lawyers before standing in the dock of the accused for corruption charges on October 26, 2010 in Nairobi's High Court. Ruto who was suspended by President Mwai Kibaki last week, is accused of receiving a 96-million-shilling (1.2 million dollar, 870,000 euro) bribe over the 2001 sale of 100 acres of land outside the capital Nairobi. He is widely believed to be a key suspect in the International Criminal Court's (ICC) probe into the violent aftermath of Kenya's disputed 2007 elections.

Kenya's former higher education minister William Ruto (L), stands of corruption charges on October 26, 2010 in Nairobi's High Court. Ruto who was suspended by President Mwai Kibaki last week, is accused of receiving a 96-million-shilling (1.2 million dollar, 870,000 euro) bribe over the 2001 sale of 100 acres of land outside the capital Nairobi. He is widely believed to be a key suspect in the International Criminal Court's (ICC) probe into the violent aftermath of Kenya's disputed 2007 elections.

British Education Secretary Michael Gove arrives for a Cabinet meeting in 10 Downing Street, in London, on December 9, 2010. Members of Parliament are expected to gather later Thursday for a controversial vote on plans to charge students additional fees per year.

Chilean Education Minister Joaquin Lavin (L) distributes schoolchildren's stuff during a visit at La Esperanza encampment, beside the San Jose mine, near Copiapo, 800 km north of Santiago, September 27, 2010. Four truckloads of metal tubes crucial to efforts to rescue 33 workers trapped underground in a Chile mine arrived on site Sunday. Despite the long wait until rescuers can begin pulling the men one by one -- by early November at the soonest -- the arrival of a first cage Saturday buoyed hopes in the makeshift campsite that sprung up after the August 5 cave-in.

British Education Secretary, Micheal Gove, applauds as he addresses delegates on the third day of the Conservative party conference at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham, central England, on October 5, 2010. The ruling Conservatives promised Monday the biggest shake-up in decades of Britain's welfare system, two weeks before the government unveils cuts to slash a huge budget deficit. Finance minister George Osborne pledged the most dramatic changes to the state benefits system since the 1940s, including the first ever cap on benefits paid to each family and an end to child benefit payments for the more wealthy.

Kenya's former higher education minister William Ruto (L), stands in the box of the accused to answer to corruption charges on October 26, 2010 charges at Nairobi's High Court. Ruto who was suspended by President Mwai Kibaki last week, is accused of receiving a 96-million-shilling (1.2 million dollar, 870,000 euro) bribe over the 2001 sale of 100 acres of land outside the capital Nairobi. He is widely believed to be a key suspect in the International Criminal Court's (ICC) probe into the violent aftermath of Kenya's disputed 2007 elections.

Chilean Education Minister Joaquin Lavin plays with a toddler during a visit at La Esperanza encampment, beside the San Jose mine, near Copiapo, 800 km north of Santiago, September 27, 2010. Four truckloads of metal tubes crucial to efforts to rescue 33 workers trapped underground in a Chile mine arrived on site Sunday. Despite the long wait until rescuers can begin pulling the men one by one -- by early November at the soonest -- the arrival of a first cage Saturday buoyed hopes in the makeshift campsite that sprung up after the August 5 cave-in.

British Education Secretary, Micheal Gove, addresses delegates on the third day of the Conservative party conference at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham, central England, on October 5, 2010. The ruling Conservatives promised Monday the biggest shake-up in decades of Britain's welfare system, two weeks before the government unveils cuts to slash a huge budget deficit. Finance minister George Osborne pledged the most dramatic changes to the state benefits system since the 1940s, including the first ever cap on benefits paid to each family and an end to child benefit payments for the more wealthy.

French Higher Education and Research Minister Valerie Pecresse and France's Industry Minister Christian Estrosi pose as they arrive at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, on November 11, 2010 to attend the Armistice Day ceremonies, marking the 92th anniversary of the end of World War I.

British Education Secretary, Micheal Gove, addresses delegates on the third day of the Conservative party conference at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham, central England, on October 5, 2010. The ruling Conservatives promised Monday the biggest shake-up in decades of Britain's welfare system, two weeks before the government unveils cuts to slash a huge budget deficit. Finance minister George Osborne pledged the most dramatic changes to the state benefits system since the 1940s, including the first ever cap on benefits paid to each family and an end to child benefit payments for the more wealthy.

Kenya's former higher education minister William Ruto (L), stands accused of corruption charges on October 26, 2010 in Nairobi's High Court. Ruto who was suspended by President Mwai Kibaki last week, is accused of receiving a 96-million-shilling (1.2 million dollar, 870,000 euro) bribe over the 2001 sale of 100 acres of land outside the capital Nairobi. He is widely believed to be a key suspect in the International Criminal Court's (ICC) probe into the violent aftermath of Kenya's disputed 2007 elections.

Kenya's former higher education minister William Ruto (L), confers with his lawyers before standing in the box of the accused to answer to corruption charges on October 26, 2010 charges at Nairobi's High Court. Ruto who was suspended by President Mwai Kibaki last week, is accused of receiving a 96-million-shilling (1.2 million dollar, 870,000 euro) bribe over the 2001 sale of 100 acres of land outside the capital Nairobi. He is widely believed to be a key suspect in the International Criminal Court's (ICC) probe into the violent aftermath of Kenya's disputed 2007 elections.