At first glance therefore it may appear that the global learning initiative has been seized by European schools.
Charlene O'Connor, from the agency's skills and learning initiative, said the number of new jobs being created was good news for the country, but added that filling them with suitably skilled workers would present major challenges.
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The word no ends discussions, stifles creativity, kills innovation, impedes learning, and gates initiative.
Spending on virtually any K-12 educational initiative without having increased student learning as the ultimate priority makes no sense.
It also helps Chinese students develop confidence, initiative, commitment and active learning -- all qualities that are cherished by our higher institutions.
Mr Coles said that Paddington Academy in London and William Hulme Grammar School in Manchester, also run by United Learning, would share leadership of the initiative to provide initial teacher training for 50 students from September this year and some 200 trainee teachers the following year.
Minister for Learning and Technology, Michael Wills, announced the initiative on Monday at the Local Government Association's Tomorrow's Socially Excluded conference.
When an improvement program does result in some improvement, but leadership perceives the initiative to be an outright failure an important learning opportunity gets missed.
Beyond providing education-focused PC technology, Lenovo is committed to improving learning and increasing operational efficiency at all levels of academia through the Education Research Initiative (ERI).
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Fiona Banks, head of learning at Globe Education at Shakespeare s Globe, in Southwark, London, said the initiative would help "students engage with Shakespeare's plays - as plays - to be experienced practically and through performance".
The initiative will target three priorities: promoting better equity in access, improving the quality of learning and promoting global citizenship.
This week, the Opportunity Finance Network and Goldman Sachs announced the next phase of their partnership in the 10, 000 Small Businesses Initiative, a three-year program called the CDFI Growth Collaborative that will provide participating CDFIs with a learning program to help CDFI loan funds address the needs of small businesses in underserved communities across the country.
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