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Educational News Digest

April 1995

Apr 01

• Minister of Education visits Al-Aghwar Schools (Q)

Apr 03

• Formation of parent/teacher council at Salem Girls School (Q)
• Parent council formed at Surief (Hebron) by the Cultural Forum of the village (N)
• Rules for forming parent/teacher councils issued by Nablus education office
• Heritage exhibition at Aboud Girls School. (Q)

Apr 04

• Parents Councils now formed in many of Nablus village schools (Q)
• Workshop on the development of technical education (A)
• Care Association publishes guide on parent councils (Q)

Apr 06

• Israeli army arrests and interrogates school principal and students of Al-Jalazone School after stone- throwing incident (A)

Apr 11

• Early marriage and its negative effects on education - a lecture at Balata schools and all its destructive effects on students
• Educational supervisors from Gaza visit Ramallah schools for co-operation, co-ordination and exchange of experience (Q)

Apr 12

• Article calls for flexible curriculum tailored to Palestinian educational needs (Q)
• Yaser 'Ammer, Minister of Education, announced signing of agreement with Egyptian Ministry of Education on the issuing of a Palestinian Secondary Certificate by the Palestinian Ministry equivalent to the Egyptian one; and the continued use of the Egyptian curriculum in Palestinian schools until the Palestinian curriculum is ready. Both ministries discussed the question of Palestinian students being admitted to Egyptian universities. (N)

Apr 13

• Teachers from 17 schools protest in a sit-down stike over their salary rise being disallowed (Q)

Apr 18

• Article criticises outmoded methods of teaching inspectors, calling on them to replace their former techniques of detecting teachers' weaknesses by a supportive approach incorporating an element of teacher self-evaluation (Q)

Apr 19

• Co-ordination meeting between the Ministry of Housing and the Ministry of Education (Q)

Apr 27

• Teachers workshop on democracy and teacher-training workshop in Nablus(Q)

Elaine Clark

Educational Network, POB 66, Ramallah, West Bank

tel: 02 995 6230/fax: 02 995 6231 e-mail: eclark@ednet.birzeit.edu