Middle East Politics.Net » Education http://middleeastpolitics.net Facts, News, Trends, Analysis Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:56:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Yemen and Philippines to Coordinate Higher Education http://middleeastpolitics.net/2008/12/04/yemen-and-phillipines-to-coordinate-higher-education/ http://middleeastpolitics.net/2008/12/04/yemen-and-phillipines-to-coordinate-higher-education/#comments Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:44:01 +0000 bkeenan http://middleeastpolitics.net/?p=3540 Yemen and the Philippines got together on Wednesday to discuss their scientific and cultural cooperation. Their main topic of discussion was the higher education possibilities in Yemen and the Philippines.  The Philippines already has their foot in the door of higher education and Yemen hopes to get a helping hand in learning about their style of higher education.  One way that Yemen would be helped by the Philippines is a trading of English teachers between the two countries.

Brad Keenan

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Recently the government has announced that they intend to employ 10,000 new teachers in order to improve the standard of education. This is a crucial first step. However, if curricula are not changed with regard to globalization and changing world theories, even the employment of teachers may not help. The educational system in Turkey is based on memorization and does not train students to be successful in real life interactions.

Yes, the government may be doing some things that seem to be going in the direction of development, but what is the real motive?

Aylin Cicek

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