Full Coverage: Children

30.05.2006 The Central Board of Secondary Education would introduce scholarships for girl students and a slew of reforms from the coming year to make the examination more stress-free and help students perform better.

30.05.2006 Of the 680 million children of primary school age in developing countries, 103 million do not attend school, with 57 percent of these children girls and 74 percent living in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. More than 1/3rd of girls in South Asia never receive a formal education; adult women there have the lowest literacy rate in the world.

30.05.2006 The Government of A.P issued the much-awaited DSC (District Selection Committee)-2006 notification for recruitment of as many as 20,193 teachers to strengthen and stabilise the school system in the State at the primary level.

29.05.2006 Technical education institutions in Rajasthan will adopt nearby villages from the next academic session to promote self-employment among the youth and women by imparting vocational education to them.

29.05.2006 Indians are clinging on to the age-old gospel that ‘Good sons take care of aged parents’. They have little choice in a country where social security is nearly non-existent.

29.05.2006 The number of students from Dalit communities has decreased drastically in primary schools in Amargadi municipality after the suspension of FfE programme. Dadheldhura District Education Office announced the suspension of Food for education programme on March 16.

27.05.2006 Most government programmes fail despite heavy investment, thanks to the hasty decisions made in introducing new programmes. Similar is the case of Inclusive Education (IE) classes in Dadeldhura district meant to provide education to the disadvantaged groups and disabled children.

26.05.2006 The Forum Syd non-governmental organization will mark, on Sunday, May 28, the International Day of Different Cultures at the City Park in Skooje. The motto of the celebration, which the organization also celebrates as the “Forum Syd Day”, is The Rainbow is a Multitude of Colours.

26.05.2006 The underdevelopment of rapidly “developing India” is quite evident as various human development indicators reflect that we have not been able to guarantee basic development rights to the citizens of India even after five decades of independence.

26.05.2006 According to the Denied a Future? 2001-2006: The Right to Education for Roma Children in B&H survey, published by Save the Children UK in April 2006, there are still Roma communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina in which not a single child is included in the elementary education.

26.05.2006 The World Food Programme organised a walk global walk in 118 countries to deliver a strong message that child hunger has no place in the world and and citizens working together can root it out. Funds from the campaign will be used for helping pregnant women as well as school-going children.

25.05.2006 With about 60 million underweight children, India lagged far behind other countries with similar economic growth in reducing malnutrition, a World Bank report has said

25.05.2006 Vinod Raina, a member of the Central Advisory Board for Education, and activist of the Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti, Madhya Pradesh, said that if the government had kept its very first promise in the CMP of allocating 6 per cent of the GDP for education, then no one would have murmured a word of protest over its proposed reservation for OBCs.

25.05.2006 In a massive raid in an industrial unit in the congested Sarai Kale Khan of South Delhi, Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA) with the help of police rescued 39 children working in exploitative conditions.

22.05.2006 The Union Human Resource Development Ministry has dropped its move to impose 25 per cent reservation for children from the weaker sections in unaided schools at the elementary level.

19.05.2006 Sri Lankan children in areas most affected by recent clashes are paying a high price for the escalating tension in the island. Thousands of children are still displaced from their homes following the recent violence in Trincomalee District, in which six children were killed and others injured or severely traumatized.

17.05.2006 Breaking the cycle of hunger and poverty in Nepal and meeting the goal of halving the number of chronically under-nourished by 2015 seems an elusive task, said Jean Pierre de Margerie, representative of the World Food Programme Nepal (WFPN).

17.05.2006 In May 2006 SBMA launched its first Rural Knowledge Centre (RKC) at Saliayana, Gairsain. This centre uses office computer and has a v-sat connectivity and offers services for the community.

16.05.2006 Providing proper nutrition for children below five years is a national responsibility and an obligation of the Government, as it is essential to provide an intelligent future generation, said Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry Additional Secretary Dr. Nihal Jayathilake.

16.05.2006 The Concerned for Working Children has evolved a code of conduct for the Indian media in consultation with kids. The principles aim at outlining childrenÂ’s rights-based standards so that they, as citizens, are creators of media in society.