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Austin, TX (ZPRYME NEWS) – 05/09/08 - The United States at present is in a state of recession and there is an all-time confidence crisis among Americans who blame the economic downturn on the government officials, particularly the Republicans.

According to the opinion of an editor columnist of New York Times, Paul Krugman, in a report in 14 April 2008 on “Crisis of Confidence”, a survey conducted by the University of Michigan Survey Research Center on the economic perceptions of Americans, which started in the early 1950’s, the latest sentiment index of Americans showed that a large number of Americans are more pessimistic than twenty five years ago with the situation of the economy. It stated in a Pew report, that the percentage of Americans who said that they are better off now is at its lowest percentage in the last forty-four years. This poll surprises most people because the economy has been worse. The unemployment rate is at 5.1 percent and although it is on a rise, it is still relatively low in terms of historical standards. However, the economic attitude of people is poorer now than during 1992 when the unemployment rate was at 7.5 percent.

Austin, TX (ZPRYME NEWS) – 04/08/08 - The education system of the Philippines, which went through series of revolutionary transformations and developments brought about by changes in structure of government and leadership, is a system which continues to struggle to provide education to the broadest masses and to hone educated work force to achieve its economic and social maturity.

Austin, TX (ZPRYME NEWS) – 04/09/08 - Columbia's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science are doing their experimentations by using the internet. This is called remote experimentation. In the study Virtual Laboratories and Real-Time Experiments in Engineering Education stated that “The increasing number of students, the constant or decreasing amount of allocated resources, the demand for more flexible class schedules and the changing life style are forcing universities to find an alternative to traditional on-campus classes. Distance education has been around for some time.” Even if remote experimentation has been around for some time, it’s full potential has not been explored by many sectors.

Austin, TX - (ZPRYME NEWS) – 04/08/08 -The education system of Vietnam, which was once an instrument to impart the communist thought of Marx and Lenin to prepare its citizen for a Communist society, is a system that has gone through recent reforms to make its system of education more relevant to its social and economic needs.

Austin, TX (ZPRYME NEWS) – 04/08/08 - Japan has one of the premier benchmarks of education and one of the highest literacy percentages worldwide. It has been estimated that 93% of children go into high school and almost all of them graduate. Japan also has one of the high ranking university enrollment rates globally at more than 40% in 2000 carrying out an enormous number of state and private universities. This is according to Japan Guide. The Americans restructured the Japanese education system, subsequent to the Second World War, which consists of six years of elementary school, each three years of junior and senior high school and four years of university or two years of junior college. As The Educational System of Japan: Case Study Findings, June 1998 stated, today, 95 percent of Japanese students are enrolled in pre-school program, either kindergarten or day-care (Peak, 1992; Tobin, Wu and Davidson, 1989). Students then spend 6 years in elementary school (sho gakko), 3 years in junior high school (chu gakko ), and 3 years in high school (ko to gakko).