Full Coverage: Children

30.10.2006 The Education for All goals focus on the need to provide learning opportunities at every stage in life, from infancy to adulthood. With only nine years remaining before 2015 – the target year for achieving these goals, progress is being made in reducing the number of primary school-age children who are not enrolled in school still distant dream for many children especially from socially disadvantaged households reveals the recent report published by UNESCO “Education for All: Global Monitoring Report 2007

27.10.2006 LIFE for the Sahariya tribal people in Madhya Pradesh (India) is an unending struggle against hunger, malnutrition, disease and, above all, neglect. In tribal villages, children continue to slide into the dark folds of hunger, and disappear, reflects Annie Zaidi.

26.10.2006 The Ministry of Education has taken steps to set up teacher villages (Guru Gammane) in 25 selected areas in the country next year, as a solution to the teacher shortage in schools in areas with less infrastructure facilities. The Ministry has allocated a total of Rs. 125 million for the project, with each fully equipped village costing over five million rupees, Minister of Education Susil Premajayantha told the media.

26.10.2006 Several major national Albanian children rights organisations promoted, on October 24, 2006, the establishment of a new Coalition against Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation of Children in Albania. The Coalition which will be known under the acronym ACTSEC has been accepted as an associate group of ECPAT International.

24.10.2006 In recent years, the use and impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on teaching and learning has increased tremendously. They provide new perspectives and opportunities for expanding traditional educational processes and systems. Increasingly, ICT enhanced Non-Formal Educational (NFE) modules are being channelled through community access centres, such as community radio, telecentres, Community Multi-media Centres (CMCs).

24.10.2006 University Grants Commission (UGC) member and Director of the Chennai-based Indian Centre for Research and Development of Community Education (ICRDCE) Xavier Alphonse has said the UGC would soon bring out a document on `Indian Community College System' to address the issues of poverty and of the rural population

24.10.2006 The first comprehensive global study by the United Nations on "Violence Against Children" says around 275 million children worldwide face domestic violence within the "safe" confines of their homes. The study, which look at the the South Asia regional context — finds that India as the country with the “largest number of working children in the world.”

23.10.2006 The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) will open a office by the end of this year, having in mind Serbia’s problems with age structure of the population and the “brain-drain” issue.

23.10.2006 Even though local authorities have been asked to prepare to accommodate thousands of Indian children expected to be freed from their jobs by raids conducted on homes and restaurants, activists say scant attention has been paid to how they will be rehabilitated.

23.10.2006 As many as child labourers have been identified in the district since the District Child Labour Project Society started functioning in 2001. Of them, 89 have been rehabilitated, according to U. Chandravathi, Director of the District Child Labour Project Society.

20.10.2006 The ban on employing children in restaurants, roadside eateries, hotels, and tea shops or as domestic labour, announced by the Government in August, has recently come into effect. Those who violate the ban will be fined and also face a prison term up to two years. This is a welcome move focussing on areas where child labour is rampant and where the exploitation of children is shockingly high.

20.10.2006 A report released by a US-based group says South Asia continues to face "critical" levels of hunger.

19.10.2006 The Bihar government is eagerly waiting to know whether the norms on nursery admission as brought into place in New Delhi, would apply to the states as well. For, the norms put down by a Delhi High Court-appointed committee headed by Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) chairman Ashok Ganguly spell out a selection system which is completely in conflict with the Common School System adopted by Bihar which believes in equal access to education.

18.10.2006 Almost 1,200,000 children listed in Maharashtra’s education department records are ‘missing’ from the classroom, a check by education inspectors has revealed. This means that in 2005-2006 alone the state squandered over Rs 725 crore on elementary schooling for children who either never existed or had long passed out of school.

17.10.2006 The VESTA association from Tuzla started the implementation of its “Campaign for respect of Rights of Children and Women through the K.R.I.K. (Campaign Development and Implementation Coordinator)” project. The project aims to secure the establishment of an advocacy platform for the rights of vulnerable groups of citizens and raise the public awareness in B&H about their needs.

17.10.2006 Generally speaking, ‘quality’ as a concept in education has eluded an acceptable definition. Some scholars have taken a bypass that defining quality is not particularly important and useful. Some have taken to poetic refuge, ‘as beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder, quality lies in the eyes of the customer’. Also like beauty is inherent in the object of the ‘beholding eyes’, quality is also ‘inherent in the product’

16.10.2006 Udruženje VESTA iz Tuzle je počelo realizaciju projekta "Kampanja za poštivanje prava djece i žena u BiH putem mreže K.R.I.K (Koordinatora za Razvoj i Implementaciju Kampanja)". Cilj projekta je obezbjeđivanje platforme za zagovaranje prava osjetljivih grupa građana i podizanje svijesti javnosti o njihovim potrebama u Bosni i Hercegovini.

16.10.2006 There are some good tidings for the Union Human Resource Development Ministry from its flagship enterprise, the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), to universalise elementary education.

13.10.2006 As education sector funders develop new patterns of collaboration they are re-directing support to education ministries or national budgets. Donor focus on formal primary education has been at the expense of support to adult literacy and other out-of-school programmes.

13.10.2006 In the Asia-Pacific region, girls' labour, official and unofficial, continues to constitute a major obstacle to accelerating progress towards achieving gender parity and equality in primary and secondary education by 2015. This policy brief summarises the causes and consequences of girls' child labour on their educational opportunities and describes some of the instruments and strategies in place to reduce girls' labour.