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• Taking 'manic Mondays' to a new level: A day in the life of a Rio public school teacher
• Brazil faces more than just World Cup construction pressure
• Double shifts and lousy hours: Are Brazil's schools holding it back?
• China taps tech training to tackle labor market mismatch

Taking 'manic Mondays' to a new level: A day in the life of a Rio public school teacher Posted: 08 Jun 2014 05:00 AM PDT Bruno Moreira is a geography teacher at two public schools in separate Rio de Janeiro state municipalities.

Brazil faces more than just World Cup construction pressure Posted: 08 Jun 2014 05:00 AM PDT Just as Brazil scrambles to finish preparations for the World Cup soccer tournament, construction crews in Rio de Janeiro are under pressure to meet another tight deadline: building 177 new public schools by 2015. The project targets two shortcomings in Brazil's education system: short school days and a severe lack of space. The short school days are a "huge issue," says Barbara Bruns, a World Bank economist who wrote a book on education in Brazil. Rio de Janeiro aims to have 35 percent of its students in eight-hour schools by 2016, and all students in full-day classes by 2020.

Double shifts and lousy hours: Are Brazil's schools holding it back? Posted: 08 Jun 2014 05:00 AM PDT Some teachers, just done with five morning classes, are dashing off to repeat the effort in afternoon shifts at other public schools. Though it's an upper-middle-income country on par with Turkey, the quality of its primary schools ranks below the likes of impoverished Madagascar and Haiti. Brazil has a highly educated upper class and boasts some of the best public universities in Latin America. Indeed, many teachers and politicians have long held the view that all Brazilians didn't need or weren't entitled to an education, says Barbara Bruns, an education economist at the World Bank.

China taps tech training to tackle labor market mismatch Posted: 07 Jun 2014 07:26 PM PDT By Li Hui and Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - China is waking up to a potentially damaging mismatch in its labor market. A record 7.27 million graduates - equivalent to the entire population of Hong Kong - will enter the job market this year; Yet many of these university and college students are ill-equipped to fill those jobs, prompting the government to look at how it can overhaul the higher education system to bridge the gap. While most liberal arts students are still looking for work after graduating this summer, 22-year-old Li Xidong is preparing to start a job as an electrician that he landed well before finishing three years of training at a small vocational school.

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