Phản hồi các trao đổi về kiến nghị luyện bỏ chữ đẹp của mình, tiến sĩ Vũ Thu Hương cho rằng, giáo dục tiểu học hiện nay đang thiếu trầm trọng các nội dung để hình thành một con người hoàn chỉnh.

Ban đầu, khi khởi sự cấp học bổng cho sinh viên nghèo và xa nhà, nhận thấy các em ăn uống kham khổ mà như vậy có thể ảnh hưởng đến sức khỏe, Mắt Thương Nhìn Đời đã khởi xướng mô hình Bếp Ăn Sinh Viên với giá 5.000 đồng mỗi xuất ăn
Ba lợi ích thiết thực nhất của Bếp Ăn Sinh Viên, chị Diệu Liên nói tiếp, đặc biệt cho những em thuộc các gia đình nghèo và đang sống xa nhà, là tiết kiệm được tiền chợ, tiết kiệm thời gian nấu nướng, ăn uống điều độ, không bỏ bữa mà còn bảo đảm sức khỏe

Mr. Golden is one of about 600 student volunteers from a dozen colleges around Alabama who have been trained to help enroll people for insurance under President Obama’s signature law. They have canvassed churches, job fairs, barber shops in black neighborhoods, libraries — wherever people unlikely to have health care gather.
The all-volunteer organization, known as Bama Covered, is believed to be the only group doing enrollment that is made up solely of college students. The effort has the feel of student activism from an earlier time, like the push to register blacks to vote during the civil-rights era. By the end of February, Alabama reached 84 percent of its projected enrollment goal, ahead of the national figure of 75 percent.

“We used to be trying to open our doors to all students,” said Mr. Marshall, who has worked at independent schools for nearly four decades. “Now, it’s ‘Who can afford us?’ ”
That’s not many families. After paying $200,000 for four years of boarding school, parents are looking at another $200,000 or more for college. And that is for one child.
The magnitude of these costs mean that even parents with annual incomes of more than $300,000 are applying for financial aid and receiving it. Both Tabor and Webb said that about a third of students received aid.

TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas’s highest court ruled on Friday that funding disparities between school districts violated the state’s Constitution and ordered the Legislature to bridge the gap, setting the stage for a messy budget battle in the capital this year.

Most of these claims are directed at Britain’s preparatory schools, which typically admit children 4 to 13, with students living at the school starting at 7 or 8. Fees can be substantial, but in a country where private schooling is often seen as a key to success, many parents pay up in an effort to prepare pupils for entry to famous establishments for older children, like Eton College, Harrow School and Winchester College (known in Britain as public schools despite being private and expensive).
Britain’s fee-paying schools have a track record of brutality. These days, most have shed the strictness and austerity of previous eras, but many upper-class Britons remember childhoods of cold showers, inedible food and relentless corporal punishment.

This month’s referendum in Switzerland over tighter immigration laws is already affecting the country’s role in, and access to, some European education programs.
Erasmus+, the newest iteration of the popular European student exchange program, and Horizon 2020, an 80-billion-euro, or about $110 billion, research program led by the European Union that started in January, have become bargaining chips in bilateral negotiations between the Union and Switzerland that have taken place on the heels of the Swiss vote.
A week after the referendum, the Swiss government backed away from an agreement to allow citizens of Croatia, which joined the Union in July, to work freely in Switzerland. Last week, the Union suspended planned talks on Swiss participation in Erasmus+ and Horizon 2020.

The Spanish government has been flooded with thousands of inquiries about legislation it approved last month that will grant dual citizenship to descendants of Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain more than 500 years ago, the country’s justice minister said on Wednesday.
The minister, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, who considers the legislation his most important achievement, said in an interview at The New York Times that he anticipated that more than 150,000 people, scattered in the Sephardic Jewish diaspora, would seek Spanish citizenship under the measure, aimed at righting what the government has called a grievous error. The bill is expected to receive unanimous parliamentary approval.

Careers require more education than in the past, the income disparity between those with and without a degree has widened, and the rising cost of college has sharpened families’ focus on the bottom line. When politicians talk about promoting education, it is couched in terms of meeting the demands of a more sophisticated job market and competing economically with other nations.
Reports on the amount of money poured into higher education, high salaries for administrators and competition among schools invite comparisons to big business, with major college sports looking like an industry within that industry. And it is hard not to think of education as a commodity for sale in an era when colleges vie for students with promises not about the caliber of their academics, but also about the comfort of their dorms, the quality of their food and the amount of financial aid they can offer.

The proposal would give Vermont Economic Development Authority a banking license and allocate it 10% of taxes collected by the state, rather than the current scenario where large banks outside of the state hold (and use) Vermont’s money. With Vermont in control of its own finances, the state could use the money to fund projects that benefit the state and local economies, including granting loans to Vermonters.