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Quality Of Basic Education

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Events > All Events The Quality of Basic Education in Southeast Asia ADBI-ADB-ISEAS HYBRID CONFERENCE About the Conference Quality education is critical for countries to build their human resource, support future economic growth and realize long-term development. Consequently, many governments have been investing heavily in education as part of their strategy to promote future competitiveness. Despite the encouraging trends in public education investments and school completion in Southeast Asian countries, however, the learning outcomes gap remains significant. Countries in the region have been spending on education for decades, with public education expenditure ranging from 2% to 7% of GDP. Although this sustained public investment has contribut...
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First Picture Of Milky Way Monster

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Science Advertisement Black hole: First picture of Milky Way monster Jonathan Amos Science correspondent @BBCAmos on Twitter Published 12 May Media caption, Ziri Younsi: "We affectionately term it a doughnut in the collaboration" This is the gargantuan black hole that lives at the centre of our galaxy, pictured for the very first time. Known as Sagittarius A*, the object is a staggering four million times the mass of our Sun. What you see is a central dark region where the hole resides, circled by the light coming from super-heated gas accelerated by immense gravitational forces. For scale, the ring has diameter of about 60 million km (40 million miles). To put that in context, Mercury, the innermost planet in our Solar System, orbits between roughly 40 million km and 70 million km from the Sun (or between 25 million miles and 45 million miles). Advertisement Fortunately, this monster is a long, long way away - some 26,000 light-years in the distance - so there's ...
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How Did 20,000 Chinese Migrants Made The US Railroads

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Building the Transcontinental Railroad: How 20,000 Chinese Immigrants Made It Happen Lesley Kennedy Updated: Apr 28, 2022 Original: May 10, 2019 Bettmann Archive/Getty Images At first railroad companies were reluctant to hire Chinese workers, but the immigrants soon proved to be vital. They toiled through back-breaking labor during both frigid winters and blazing summers. Hundreds died from explosions, landslides, accidents and disease. And even though they made major contributions to the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad , these 15,000 to 20,000 Chinese immigrants have been largely ignored by history. Looking back, historians say, the Chinese, who began arriving in the United States in significant numbers during the California Gold Rush of 1848-1855, were deemed too weak for the dangerous, strenuous job of building the railroad east from California. Hilton Obenzinger, associate director of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford University, says...
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