In an effort to provide a long-term solution to the teacher shortage in rural West Texas, Texas Tech s College of Education announced Wednesday that it is establishing a partnership between school districts and post-secondary institutions to recruit and prepare educators for rural classrooms.
Tech says it is launching the West Texas Rural Education Partnership – an alliance of West Texas universities, community colleges and school districts to recruit and train a pipeline of teachers. The shortage of qualified teachers across West Texas represents a need for school districts and post-secondary institutions to work together to provide for the future of rural communities, said Doug Hamman, chair of the Teacher Education Department at Texas Tech and director of the West Texas Rural Education Partnership. School districts are suffering from chronic teacher shortages, high teacher attrition, declining student achievement and flight from rural areas that are no longer able to s
Rebooting Economy 63: Budgeting FY22 with critical information gaps
India has no data on jobs lost and businesses shut; no estimate of how many would have slipped into poverty or how income, health and education inequalities would have risen due to the pandemic. How will the Budget 2021 allocate resources appropriately to revive growth and bring development?
Prasanna Mohanty | January 30, 2021 | Updated 13:58 IST
Credible and adequate data is needed for the budget to determine the path to revive demand, incipiently pre-pandemic but worsened due to the lockdown
A few days to go for the first post-pandemic budget, there are great expectations from it, especially since the first advance estimates (AE) project the GDP growth to fall to minus 7.7% in FY21. The expectations are not just about quick recovery in the GDP growth but also revival of jobs, businesses and investments lost first to the pre-pandemic slowdown and then to the lockdown. It has been a long and painful wait for the
India would be an engine of global growth, help revive global economy significantly: FM Nirmala Sitharaman
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said investment in health is going to be critical, not just to keep lives safer, but also to make health and health-related expenditures more predictable.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
India would be the engine of global growth, along with a few other countries, contributing to the revival of the global economy in a significant way, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said at the CII Partnership Summit on December 18. I m not saying we ll be the only ones, but will be a significant contributor to the global economic revival. We owe it to the humanity that we all put our heads together, pan up something and come up with a budget which can play its role in reviving India, Sitharaman said.
‘India needs to reduce import tariffs to have closer economic ties with US’
December 16, 2020
US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer - REUTERS× India has to reduce its import tariffs to have a closer economic relationship with the US, US Trade Representative (USTR) Robert Lighthizer has said. “The US can’t have a relationship where one country has tariffs five or six times higher than theirs. It is a political decision and a business decision. I am not saying that there should be no tariffs on anything. We have our own politics and security issues. But that is a single (largest) issue you have. You have very high tariffs. In fact, more than other developing countries,” Lighthizer said at a ‘Fireside Chat’ at the CII Partnership Summit on Wednesday.