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January 2008: Happy New Year to one and all
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While people were still in the New Year party mood the many |
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Tara-Thon for Tarayana
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A run along the lateral road from Kanglung to Thimphu has been organized
(21st December 2007 to 24th January 2008) |
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English Curriculum Classes PP – IV Orientation Workshop
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English Curriculum Classes PP – IV Orientation Workshop began from 5th December and concluded on 14th December at Paro. (December 2007) |
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Workshop on Gender Awareness
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(25th November to 7th December 2007)Dr. Mary Lou Stirling, Gender Specialist for the SSEB Project conducted |
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Renaissance College, University of New Brunswick (UNB) Visitors
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Dr. Pierre Zundel, Dean and Mr. Jonathan Foster, Experiential Education. |
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
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November 2007: A two-person team from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) paid a short visit to the CCO during the first week of November. They were covering a program on Bhutan at this historic juncture of the 100th year of Monarchy and the threshold of democracy in Bhutan. |
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CCO Coordinator’s Delhi visit:
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The Coordinator was invited to the South Asia Regional Conference on Quality Education for All as an advisory committee member. The three-day conference (24 – 26 October), funded by the World Bank and the Department for International Development, deliberated on the key issues and strategies to achieve quality education for all. Academics, policy makers and other stakeholders from the South Asia region were invited for this conference.
While in Delhi the Coordinator also met with the officials from the Canadian High Commission. |
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Former Canadian Foreign Minister visits Bhutan:
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(October 2007) It was a rare honor and opportunity for the CCO staff to meet Former |
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Two graduates from University of New Brunswick with MCS degrees
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September 2007: Two Masters’ students, Ms. Sonam Wangmo and Ms. Mani Pelmo, ear-marked for teaching at Sherubtse College under the CIDA funded SSEB Project have completed their Masters’ in Computer Science and are now teaching in the College.
One of them has successfully launched the Electronic Education Resource Centre (e-ERC) system, developed by her as a thesis for her Masters’ degree at the University of New Brunswick, Canada. This system will help teachers download and exchange educational resources to enhance their classroom teaching and can be accessed from www.sherubtse.edu.bt |
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On Board to Canada!
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August 2007: Twenty new students (Six graduates; thirteen undergraduates and one High school diploma) have left for Canada to study in various programs.
Altogether there are over Bhutanese 40 students studying in different Canadian universities at present. |
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Health Guidebook Donation
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The CCO, in collaboration with the School Health Program, donated a health guidebook, Where There is No Doctor by David Werner, Carol Thuman and Jane Maxwell to all the schools (484) in Bhutan. This has been adapted for Bhutan by Mr.Tenzin. It is an extremely helpful guide in detecting symptoms and treating a wide range of common ailments, family planning and childbirth details. Although it encourages helpful home remedies it cautions against harmful home remedies and some modern medicines.
The book has been highly appreciated by all the schools, which received it. It is particularly useful in places with no medical facilities nearby. |
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CCO wishes good luck to a staff member
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July 2007: N. B. Chhetri, IT & Special Projects Officer, left CCO to pursue a Masters degree in Delhi, India. All our good wishes are with him in all his future endeavors. CCO and the English Curriculum workshops will miss him sorely! |
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Bhutan, Canada and Democracy
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A reflection of the article by Mr. Peter Adams, former MP, Leberal Party, 1993-2006,Peterborough, Ontario: (Source: National Assembly of Bhutan)
Please click National Assembly of Bhutan |
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DUT Program at College of Science and Technology, Rinchending
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A 10-day Diploma of University Teaching (DUT) program
for the college lecturers and teachers got over at the
College of Science and Technology in Rinchending
on January 03, 07. |
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World Bank Executive Director, For Canada Visit
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Mr. Marcel Masse, The World Bank, Executive Director for Canada,
Ireland and eleven Caribbean countries is visiting Bhutan from
September 23, to October 04, 2006. |
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Six Educator at UNB for Work attachment
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Six Educators, two from higher secondary schools,
two from the Samtse College of Education, SCE (erstwhile NIE) and two from Sherubtse College left for UNB to participate in a professional development program, which is a short-term one-semester work attachment. |
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CCO supports subscription of Bhutan Observer to Schools in Bhutan.
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The Canadian Cooperation Office (CCO) has
supported all the government schools by
subscribing Bhutan Observer newspaper for a period of six months. |
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A Letter from Canada
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Source: Bhutan Observer: Friday 28 July 2006, Issue
Sir,
It has been 13 days since I left Bhutan, where I had lived and worked
for two months as a student intern at NRTl, Lobesa. |
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Canadian Cooperation Office
P.O. Box 201, Thimphu:
PABX :00-975-2-322109,IELTS 00975-2-332615,
Fax 00975-2-332614
Email: canada@druknet.bt, cco@druknet.bt
last update: 14 June 2004
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Thimphu Bhutan
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