Education is the main event that can happen in cities.

It's the concept of the city, the design of the city, that's also important, too. And also, how to teach the children.

In cities, 80 percent of kids go to college.

Education is more possible in the cities, and that changes the world.

Academy for Mobilizing Rural Urban through Education

The issue however remains that the quality of education generally available to girls in rural areas is not at a par as yet with that provided in urban or private schools (most of which are also in urban areas).

Pre school education is the responsibility of the municipality and falls under the jurisdiction of social care.

EMPLOYED URBAN POPULATION BY MAIN OCCUPATIONAL GROUP AND LEVEL OF EDUCATION, 1995 PROF TECH

There is greater use of cultural institutions in cities, a result of easier access to them and a higher average level of education of city dwellers.

Moreover, it foresees other differentiations, not previously addressed, such as a rural urban binomial for Basic and Middle Education, Technical High School, Youth and Adult Education, Special Education and Indigenous Education.

The gross enrolment rate at the primary level of urban females was 87 while that of rural females was 52.

The gross enrolment rate for middle level was 68 while that for rural females was 21.

Approximately two thirds of the educationally backward (65 per cent) are to be found in urban areas, with 35 per cent in the countryside.

AVERAGE NUMBER OF YEARS OF EDUCATION BY SEX, AGE GROUP, GEOGRAPHICAL AREA, REGION AND DEGREE OF URBANIZATION Diff. M W

Many of them, especially those residing in urban areas, will continue to acquire education.

One of the biggest problems in education is the high rate of repetition that observed in all levels and types of education it affects all provinces without exception it assumes homogeneous characteristics in the agricultural and urban environment it has a dimension of gender, that is, more in female students than in males.

There are differences between agricultural and urban zones in respect to the degree of educational achievement the ratio of the population without any level of education is lesser in the urban areas than in the agricultural ones.

Mostly women in urban areas and those who are educated make use of these services.

In future, subjects such as urbanization, education, economic growth and population spread should be studied.

In addition it appears that occupational and educational counselling is available to all citizens in Greenland, that the counselling is free of charge, and that it is provided by municipal labour market offices, municipal or regional vocational guidance officers, institutions of primary and lower secondary education and institutions of vocational training.

Generally rural areas do not have higher education facilities of the quality that are available in urban areas.

Preschool education is not regulated by organic law and exists only in certain urban centres.

However, in urban areas the private education was of a high standard (93.1 per cent graduation rate in June 1994).

Conditions for integration in urban life and the job market are improved by attendance at primary school, and even more so, by vocational training.

They maintain that urban areas are quite well served, but rural areas are not. They explained that, in areas where a school exists, coverage has been expanded through the Ministry of Education 2,500 teaching posts have been allocated to 277 municipalities and teachers are selected on the basis of a competitive examination by a body composed of representatives of the Ministry, other teachers, parents, the private sector involved in education and the municipality concerned.

While education is improving in urban areas, children in the countryside are facing a decline in educational quality, because better teachers find their way to the cities. Moreover, given the income disparities between cities and rural areas, their education is more expensive than it is for urban families.

Although all laws on education give an equal opportunity for schooling to male and female children, it is a fact that there exists a difference in education in rural and urban areas.

Child mortality is closely linked to the mother's educational level and to the area in which she lives (urban or rural).

However on account of a number of reasons education indicators for rural women lag behind men and urban women.

Over the last 20 years these standards have been rising among men in urban areas, and more so among women, (table 10.1).

Despite the progress made by women in education, there are differences by sex and by rural or urban location in the quality of the available education.

This is the responsibility of the Ministry of Education, state and municipal departments for education, education professionals and the community.

Ms. Akşit (Turkey) said that in order to empower women and to narrow the gender gap, the Government had set up community centres in about 30 cities, family resources centres in about 20 cities and, in about 10 cities, special educational centres for women which offered basic education in human rights and also vocational training.

145. The representative noted that traditional practices had affected rural women more than urban educated women.

The Ministry of Education does not keep separate gender statistics for rural areas and urban areas.

402. The level of contraceptive use is directly linked to women apos s levels of education and urbanization.

The Government had also undertaken a basic education project to address the needs of working children in urban areas.

Head of the city's board of education, I believe.

The Law On Education, effective at present, prescribes that education at the state and municipal educational establishments is in the state language.

The parents' concern for the moral of the girls that could be changed in the urban areas also had an influence on the continuation of education.

The first issue was access to mother tongue education, and a recommendation was made to open at least one school with multilingual education in each city in provinces where the community was mixed.

At the moment, financing is the responsibility of the municipality budgets, so that the fate of pre school education depends on the material and financial situation of the individual municipalities.

Education in different language may be acquired at private educational establishments, as well as the state and municipal educational establishments where programmes of minority education are implemented, i.e., where education can be acquired bilingually.

In addition, as for co launch of the Shanghai Taipei City Forum, Chiu said urban communications and benign interactions across the Straits could help enhance understanding, and boost development of urban economy, education, culture and tourism.

Almost a half of the male and female employed population has secondary education a third of urban workers have some level of primary education, and about a fifth (17 per cent of men and 21 per cent of women) have post secondary education (table 11.25).