Malaysian Teachers & Education

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The French government subsidizes most private primary and secondary schools, including those affiliated with religious denominations, under contracts stipulating that education must follow the same curriculum as public schools and that schools cannot discriminate on grounds of religion or force pupils to attend religion classes. This system of école libre (Free Schooling) is mostly used not for religious reasons, but for practical reasons (private schools may offer more services, such as after-class tutoring) as well as the desire of parents living in disenfranchised areas to send their children away from the local schools, where they perceive that the youth are too prone to delinquency or have too many difficulties keeping up with schooling requirements that the educational content is bound to suffer. The threatened repealing of that status in the 1980s triggered mass street demonstrations in favor of the status.[citation needed]

Sweden reformed its school system in 1992.[17] Its system of school choice is one of the freest in the world, allowing students to use public funds for the publicly or privately run school of their choice, including religious and for-profit schools.[17] Fifteen years after the reform, private school enrolment had increased from 1% to 10% of the student population.[17]

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1851 the first Efterskole founded at Ryslinge, Fyn (Funen).

1996 the Danish Parliament in a significant law reform tightens up and emphasises the conditions for receiving state funding: an Efterskole must (prove itself to) be free and independent. Under no circumstances may the school from a legal point of view have strong organisational and financial links to – or be dependent on – other schools or movements.

Each Efterskole must be truly free and independent, and "master in its own house". This puts even more responsibility on the school board.

Democratic Schools are based on the basic assumption that students are curios and love to learn. The students on Democratic Schools have the right to decide how, when and what they want to learn. They have also a huge amount of rights to participate in the decision making process within the school. At many schools, e.g. the Sudbury Valley School, the students have the right to hire staff members and to manage the budget.In this film we will show Democratic Schools in Germany, the Netherlands, Israel, Puerto Rico and the USA.

The Efterskole is a unique Danish independent residential school for students between 14 and 18 years old. Presently some 28.500 students attend one of the app. 260 schools throughout Denmark. The schools are open to students from abroad, but please note that to attend you like Danish students must pay school fees.

institutions for adult education that generally do not grant academic degrees, though certain courses might exist leading to that goal

The concept originally came from the Danish writer, poet, philosopher and pastor N. F. S. Grundtvig

Folk high schools in Germany and Sweden are in fact much closer to the institutions known as folkeuniversitet or folkuniversitet in Norway and Denmark which provide adult education. However, unlike the folkuniversitet, folk high schools in Sweden are not connected to a regular university.

In 1976 the future Labour prime minister James Callaghan gave a speech at Oxford's Ruskin College. He launched what became known as the 'great debate' on the education system. He went on to list the areas he felt needed closest scrutiny: the case for a core curriculum, the validity and use of informal teaching methods, the role of school inspection and the future of the examination system.

Comprehensive schools remain the most common type of state secondary school in England, and the only type in Wales. They account for around 90% of pupils, or 64% if one does not count schools with low-level selection.

Since the 1988 Education Reform Act, parents have a right to choose which school their child should go to. This concept of "school choice" introduces the idea of competition between state schools, a fundamental change to the original "neighbourhood comprehensive" model, and is partly intended as a means by which schools that are perceived to be inferior are forced either to improve or, if hardly anyone wants to go there, to close down

When schools were taken over by the state and made compulsory, and directed toward secular ends, the basic structure and methods of schooling remained unchanged. Subsequent attempts at reform have failed because, though they have tinkered some with the structure, they haven’t altered the basic blueprint.

The top-down, teach-and-test method, in which learning is motivated by a system of rewards and punishments rather than by curiosity or by any real, felt desire to know, is well designed for indoctrination and obedience training but not much else

many of the world’s greatest entrepreneurs and innovators either left school early (like Thomas Edison), or said they hated school and learned despite it, not because of it (like Albert Einstein)

But the plans have raised political sensitivities about the boundary between free schools funded by public money and the involvement of the private sector in state education.

Free schools are funded from the public education budget - but the schools are run independently.

Alicia Rickards-Ottevanger, one of the group of local families supporting the free school plan, said the Swedish firm had been chosen because it seemed closest to the trust's ambitions for the school, regardless of whether they were a profit-making business.

Historically and culturally the Efterskole is related to the Danish free school movement, and the Efterskole is often regarded as a junior form of the Danish Folkehøjskole (Folk High School).

Each youngster is set weekly goals and gets a 15-minute briefing with their own tutor at the end of the week to check on progress and discuss how to reach the targets setfor the following week.

The big difference between the education system in Sweden and the UK is that, in Sweden parents are given an educational voucher for each child, and they use that voucher to apply for any school they want to.

Bertil Ostoberg, the Swedish Secretary of State for Education, summarised the scheme as "providing freedom of choice for the parents and the pupils, much wider freedom of choice". He added: "They have to compete to provide a high quality to get pupils. We think this competition has led to a higher quality in the system."

Program coordinators with CNA language schools were looking for a way to help make their lessons more real for teens who want to learn to speak fluent English. Their idea was to pair them with Americans to chat with them via video. At a retirement community in Chicago, Illinois, elderly residents signed up to be part of the program, mostly because they were lonely and just wanted someone to talk to

majority of academies are secondary schools, but some primary schools also have academy status.

Academies are self-governing and all are constituted as non-profit charitable trusts