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SHANGHAI nike air max 2017 kpu womens uk , March 18 (Xinhua) -- Shanghai's education authority has begun drafting a program to recruit math teachers from the city's schools to teach in the UK at the invitation of the UK Department of Education, according to sources with the city's education committee on Tuesday.

The invitation came earlier this month after British parliamentary under-secretary of state for education and childcare, Elizabeth Truss, made a visit to Shanghai for a first-hand look at math classes and teaching methods in February.

A Shanghai education official, who declined to be named, said on Tuesday that the municipal education committee is researching details in order to finalize program planning in April. The details include teachers' salaries, recruitment requirements and the terms of the guest teaching.

Shanghai topped the 2012 international PISA tables for math nike air max 2017 kpu uk , while England was ranked in 26th place. The top five were all Asian jurisdictions, with 15-year-olds in Shanghai judged to be three years ahead of their peers in math.

Truss's trip was part of the UK government's math improvement program.

Truss led a group of education experts to attend three lessons in Shanghai -- one in a primary school and the other two in two middle schools.

Truss and other members of the delegation said they were impressed by the children's fast arithmetic skills and the lively classroom atmosphere.

Wu Guolin, principal of the Shanghai Jianpingxi Middle School, one of the schools that Truss visited, said math teachers from China would bring changes to the UK teaching mode, as Chinese schools focus on applied mathematics in basic education.

He said Chinese schools have borrowed a lot of Western teaching methods, and would continue to do so nike air max 2017 grey womens uk sale , as Western teaching gives students more freedom in autonomous thinking.

While visiting Shanghai Fushan Foreign Languages Primary School, Truss observed a grade three junior math class playing 24, an arithmetical card game. Zheng Rujie, math teacher at the school, said the card game is like ""thinking gymnastics"" for the students and is a good way to practise the arithmetics required in the teaching curriculum.

Shi Huixin, principal of Shanghai Fushan Zhengda Foreign Languages Primary School, said class teaching is just part of the work for Chinese math teachers. Teachers also correct students' homework and prepare teaching plans.

""While correcting students' papers nike air max 2017 grey womens uk , teachers can check students' mathematical thinking and explain to them when problems are found,"" he said.

Liu Zhongtao, a student from Fudan Middle School, was among the students to take the 2012 international PISA test. He said he finished the two-and-a-half-hour exam with one hour to spare.

Tang Shengchang, head of the Shanghai Comparative Study on the International Course in Basic Education, said in addition to the teaching standards, Chinese students' high performance in math is a result of the social environment.

He explained that in China nike air max 2017 grey uk , math scores are often used to determine the intelligence and learning capabilities of a student from primary school enrollment to elite higher-learning institution recruitment.

""Both teachers and students feel the pressure from the social environment that math performance is important,"" he said.

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KABUL, March 20 (Xinhua) -- Amid tight security, war-weary Afghans celebrated Nawroz or the New Year 1395 in the Persian calendar, on March 20 across the militancy-plagued nation, by praying for lasting peace.

The huge celebration saw the participation of thousands of people from all walks of life, and was held at the Mazar-e-Sakhi shrine in the northern Mazar-e-Sharif city where Afghan government Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah and other officials collectively prayed for an end to war and return to lasting peace in their homeland.

"I am congratulating the nation this New Year and wishing the year of 1395 will be a year of peace nike air max 2017 green womens uk sale , unity and prosperity in Afghanistan," Abdullah said in his address to the audience.

Nawroz is a public holiday and Afghans throughout the country mark the day by holding meetings, recitations of the holy Quran, planting saplings and arranging entertainment programs including concerts, wrestling and the national sport Buzkashi (goat grabbing).

Private and state-run radio and television channels by airing a variety of entertainment programs, including stage shows, musicals nike air max 2017 green womens uk , and screening serials and movies to mark Nawroz, also keep the citizens happy.

Nawroz is celebrated in Persian speaking countries including Afghanistan, Iran, Tajikistan and also parts of Pakistan.

Last year, the year of 1394, was a challenging year for Afghanistan, as the country experienced a sharp increase in militancy nike air max 2017 green uk , as security and the economy both deteriorated.

To escape insecurity, poverty and unemployment, more than 250,000 Afghans, according to the Afghan Ministry for Refugees and Repatriation Affairs, had left the country with the hope of settling in European countries, over the past year.

Speaking to the audience in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif nike air max 2017 flyknit womens uk sale , the governor of Balkh province, Atta Mohammad Noor, predicted more fighting in the new year, warning that Afghanistan would witness more conflicts in spring this year.

However, governor Noor pointed out, "We want peace and the Afghan people are praying to have lasting peace this year."

The Afghan government, in spite of hectic efforts backed by the international community nike air max 2017 flyknit womens uk , has failed to bring the Taliban to the negotiating table and help bring an end to the decades of violence and overall mayhem in the country.

"The protracted war has devoured whatever we had. We are fed up with the lingering conflict and today I am praying for the end of war and wishing to witness a return to lasting peace in Afghanistan this year," a taxi driver, Ahmad Nawed, 37, told Xinhua.

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