That is why it was so refreshing to be there announcing new business deals, a new direct flight to London and an expansion of educational co-operation.
The Brazilian president, Dilma Rousseff, wants to change the nature of her country's relationship with China by putting more emphasis on science, technological and educational co-operation as well as soy, iron and oil.
At the summit, Mr Chirac will push for more educational co-operation between the EU and Latin America, including more student-exchange schemes and some bilingual-education programmes in Latin American universities.
At Harvard, he is educational co-chair of the Institute for Educational Management (IEM) and is a faculty member in a number of executive education programs for educational leaders and nonprofit administrators.
In the two years before Clara left London for Massachusetts, she was the Educational Co-ordinator for the Twinkle Space Mission and founder of EduTwinkle, the mission's educational program.
But it also demonstrates that the original idea of charter schools -- a sort of educational co-op set up by community groups and overseen by a board of parents and local leaders -- is perhaps a quaint notion that fails to take into account the high cost of real estate in a state like New York.
#Flotus implemented the insanely popular Let's Move! campaign, as well as the Joining Forces military program, Reach Higher educational co-op, and the Let Girls Learn global initiative - all while making #Flotus, a household hashtag.
The Preston Co-operative Network already includes Link, the UK's first educational psychologists' co-operative and the beginnings of a local food co-op.
Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator Royal Docks Community School, London Borough of Newham.
I am an experienced class teacher and special educational needs co-ordinator (Senco).
She said I hadn't prepared anything yet and then berated me for not thinking to observe the special educational needs co-ordinator.
