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Education Project In Rwanda Combines Online Classes, Local help

A new Experimental program using MOOCs or massive open online courses opened
recently in Kigali, Rwanda. The Kepler project is designed for people in the developing
world. It uses MOOCs provided by foreign universities. It combines these online classes
with help from local instructors and an internship program. A business foundation is
helping to finance the first four years of the project. The students in the kepler project pay
no tuition. Fifty students are talking part in the first class in Rwanda. Canadian
educational consultant Tony bates praises the Kepler program for giving students a way
to earn college credits. Students can earn academic credit through the kepler projects
agreement with Southern New Hampshire University in the United State. Mr Bates also
praises Kepler for providing local support and tutoring. But he says a lack of technology
limits the usefulness of such a system in Africa. He says developing countries lack
enough internet service outside major cities.Students may have mobile phone, but usually
with very low bandwidth. Mr Bates says it costs one Americal dollar to watch an eight-
minute YouTube video on a low-cost handset. That is about the same as many Africans
earn in a day Tony Bates says streaming long video lectures would be too expensive for
at least the next five to 10 years. He says using materials designed for mobile devices
may be better. He notes examples like math videos from the Khan Academy and courses
from the Carnegie Mellon Open learning Initiative. He says these materials are designed
for distance learning and are more interactive
- Experimental : /eks,peri'mentl/ : th nghim, thc nghim
- Massive /'msiv/ : To ln, s
- Instructors : /in'strkt/ : Thy gio, ngi hng dn.
- Internship /in't:nip/ : Hc sinh ni tr
- Tuition /tju:'in/ : Tin hc ph
- Praises /preiz/ : Ca ngi, khen ngi, ca tng
- Credits : s tin, lng tin, uy tn, danh ting, danh vng.
- Tutor /'tju:t/ : Gia s
- Handset : My thu pht cm tay
- Lecturs/'lekt/ : Din thuyt, thuyt trnh.
- Initiative /i'niitiv/ : S bt u, s khi u
- Interactive /,intr'ktiv/ : nh hng ln nhau, tc ng qua li.

2. Unicef Appeals for help for syrian schoolchildren

The United Nations Childrens Fund is appealing to international donors to help provide
education money for Syrian schoolchildren. Safe place to learn, teachers and supplies are
all lacking, and almost 2 million young Syrian student have dropped out of school.
Unicef says about 40 precent of students from grades on to nine across the nation no
longer attend formal classes. Unicef spokeswoman Marixie Mericado says about half of
those children are now refugees in lebanon , Jordan. Iraq and Turkey. In the northern city
of Aleppo, for example, only six percent of children of school age are in classrooms. But
the school year there and in other locations began as planned on September 15
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military strike by the United States had caused uncertainty about starting classes. But,
schools opened after a strike appeared less likely. Still, many children who once walked
to school are now taken there by their parents. And other families have simply left the
country. Lebanon now is trying to help about 555,000 school-age Syrian refugee chidren.
Unicef says the lebanese public education system can take care of 300,000 lebanese
children. Unicef is establishing schools for refugee children in buses. In Jordan, Unicef
says about tow-thirds of 150,000 Sysrian school-age children are not in school. In Iraq,
Unicef says nine out of 10 Syrian refugee children are out of school. Inside Syria, Ms
Mercado says, the educational system has been torn apart. Both Unicef and the Syrian
government say about 3000 schools have been damaged or destroyed


- Appealing /'pi:li/ : Van n, cu khn, cm ng , thng tm, lm mi lng
- Fund : /fnd/ : Qy
- Donors /'doun/: Ngi tng, ngi biu, ngi cng.
- Lack /lk/ : S thiu, khng c
- Grade /greid/ : Cp bc, mc , hng, phn loi, lp (hc)
- Refugee /,refju:'di:/ : Ngi lnh nn, ngi t nn.
- Uncertainty /n's:tnti/ : Tnh bt n, khng n nh, khng chc chn.
- Torn /ti/ : Nc mt, l
- Establish /is'tbli/ : Lp, thnh lp, thit lp

3. Syrian University Students Seek Education Overseas

Many Syrians are trying to study overseas while a civil war continues in their country.
Thousands of Syrian university students sought help when they learned there was money
to help them continue their education. Leen al Zaibak is with Jusoor, an organization for
Syrians living overseas. Jusoor joined with the American-based institute of international
Education to create the Syria Consortium for higher Education in Crisis. More than 40
university in the united states and Europe agreed to provide emergency aid to Syrian
students and professors. Each university decides which students to accept. Universites in
the consortium are supporting 70 students right now. One member of the consortium is
American University in Washington. It is supporting a Syrian graduate student and a
faculty member in the universitys school of international Service. Daniela Kaisth is the
vice president of the institute of international Education. She expects there will be aid
opportunities for 600 Syrian students during the next few months. She notes that a former
president of portugal, Jorge Sampaio, launched a schoolarship program called the global
platform 4 Syrian students. He created the program because of Portugals history of
educating Jewish refugee children during world War II. The institute of international
Education also has a scholar Rescue Fund for university professors and researchers in any
country in crisis. This year, the fund found places for 30 Syrian scholars in five countries.
All of the scholarship programs may be found online at iie.org.

- Civil /'sivl/ : Cng dn, thng dn,
Civil right: Quyn cng dn
Civil law: Lut dn s
- Sought - Seek /si:k/ : tm, i tm, mu cu, theo ui, thnh cu
To seek employment : Tm vic lm
To go seeking advice : Tm li khuyn
to seek someone's aid : Yu cu s gip ca ai
- Crisis /'kraisis/ : Cn khng hong
Economy crisis: Cn khng hong kinh t
Political crisis: Khng hong chnh tr
To come to a crisis: bc ngot, n bc quyt nh
- Vice /vais/ : Thi xu, nt xu, thi h tt xu
- Former /'f:m/ : trc c, xa, nguyn
- faculty /'fklti/ : Kh nng, tnh nng, kh nng qun tr, nng lc
faculty of speech : Kh nng ni
faculty of hearing : Kh nng nghe

4. Students Launch Weather Balloons to Study Ozone

Students at St. Louis University have launched weather balloons into the sky above the
city of St.Louis,

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