Full Coverage: Children

28.07.2006 The document makes recommendations for improving access to primary education of good quality for all children, especially the poorest. It compiles the outcomes of the several expertsÂ’ meeting on Primary Education for All Children.

28.07.2006 Following the governmentÂ’s decision to throw out the Right to Education Bill and pass the responsibility on to the states, activists and educationists are planning a peopleÂ’s campaign for a common school system, and a nationwide protest on the eve of Independence Day, when thousands of volunteers will court arrest.

27.07.2006 Twenty-five percent of teachers were absent from school, and only about half were teaching, during unannounced visits to a nationally representative sample of government primary schools in India. Absence rates varied from 15 percent in Maharashtra to 42 percent in Jharkhand, with higher rates concentrated in the poorer states.

26.07.2006 The UN has called for greater efforts to protect nearly 250,000 boys who are exploited as child soldiers and tens of thousands of girls who are subject to sexual violence in war zones across the world.

24.07.2006 A survey on infrastructure in elementary education in India, carried out by the National Institute of Education Planning and Administration (NIEPA), found that 13,857 schools in Madhya Pradesh do not have a school building. Two decades after the launch of a nationwide initiative to ensure that government-run schools have more classrooms and teachers, over 100,000, or nearly 10% of the countryÂ’s elementary schools, have only one classroom.

24.07.2006 The study, undertaken by the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) and supported by the National AIDS Control Organisation and the United Nations Development Programme, has found that not only enrolment of children from HIV households is lower than those from non-HIV households but also the dropout rates are higher and attendance is lower.

24.07.2006 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told the private sector that it has to contribute more than just investment in spreading education.The private institutions should have the freedom to play a proper role in providing education. But, the private sector should contribute more than investment in the field, he said, addressing the platinum jubilee celebrations of the Vidya Bhavan Trust.

19.07.2006 Six rounds into the talks on KosovoÂ’s future in Vienna, it seems that children and children rightsÂ’ issues were not and are not likely to be put onto the agenda of the Kosovo Status Talks. Save the Children reminds and urges the international community not to neglect children and education during the negotiations.

19.07.2006 Save the Children in SEE reminded the International community and the policymakers from the two negotiation teams and urged them not to forget and neglect the children in the current Kosovo Status talks.

19.07.2006 While the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act - if it is effectively implemented - is likely to have many positive consequences, one of the potential benefits that has been inadequately recognised is how it may improve the welfare of around 60 million children.

19.07.2006 The stand off between education officials and Intermediate Teachers Association continued on the fourth consecutive day. Normal working in the Education department remained affected and the employees continued boycott of their duties to mount pressure on the district administration to arrest the accused teachers for manhandling the joint director.

18.07.2006 Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) a indian name of Universalisation of primary education (UEE) has been conceived as a government of India national educational movement to achieve the target of UEE among all children. Distance education with the advent of digital technologies, has become an alternate or supplement to the conventional education

18.07.2006 Parents cribbing about their kids resorting to junk food is common today. But there are more than 50 million children in the country who fail to secure proper meals every single day, something that India needs to ponder upon very seriously. According to a recent UN report, 10 children die from malnutrition in the developing countries every minute. About three quarters of the undernourished children come from just 10 countries of which 57 million are from India and 8 million each in Bangladesh and Pakistan.

17.07.2006 The Velikimali organization from Pancevo invites all organization that work with children with disabilities, or are interested to development programmes for support of this population, to join them as partners in the implementation of Network for promotion of rights of children with disabilities in Serbia, which includes creation of strong and effective services for disabled children in the local communities.

17.07.2006 The two-day Model United Nations Session 2006 on 'Quality Education and Millennium Development Goals' ended in the city with a call for working together to attain the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

17.07.2006 Indians must rid themselves of the traditional mindset that all higher education, especially professional education should be affordable to all,” said Symbiosis International Education Centre Founder-Chancellor S B Mujumdar, at a conference on ‘Autonomy in Higher Education — Regulatory and Legal Issues’ organised by Delhi-based Education Promotion Society for India (EPSI).

14.07.2006 What's important Sending 17 crore children to school or vote-bank politics? The latter, obviously. While it's ready to pour funds in higher educational institutions to see that quota implemented, the Centre is giving a quiet burial to the Right to Education Bill citing lack of funds.

10.07.2006 The funds under various schemes of Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry are not being used to educationally empower SC/ ST students.The scheme of Coaching & Allied for SC/ ST students so that they can get through competitive examinations is the worst affected.

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04.07.2006 Bednets, vaccines, hygiene, hydration... the list of low-cost interventions to save lives is tremendous.