Full Coverage: Children

27.03.2007 The STOP to RISKY SEX EDUCATION civic coalition organizes the “Sex Education Week” that started yesterday, March 26 and will last until Saturday, March 31.

23.03.2007 As fighting between Tamil rebels and Sri Lankan forces escalate into open war the losers are civilians, particularly some 200,000 refugees cramped into camps set up in eastern Batticaloa district.

23.03.2007 Go to any school you consider good, enter Class II, and write these words on the blackboard in neat letters: 'When you read this, stand up'. Children will read the words aloud, but nobody will stand up. Why? Because, by the end of Grade I, reading has already been dissociated from meaning.

22.03.2007 Anyone who knows even a little bit about school education in India knows that it is largely about exclusion. Only a tiny minority of children in our country get anything resembling a decent schooling - the rest are either excluded altogether, or provided very poor quality education with weak infrastructure and inadequate pedagogic attention, which in turn encourages high rates of dropout.

22.03.2007 The Delhi High Court gave its approval of the Delhi government's suggestions to take over all municipality-run schools in a move to bring about qualitative improvement in teaching in those schools.A division bench of Chief Justice M.K. Sarma and Justice Sanjiv Khanna directed the government to take a formal decision in this regard and submit a plan-of-action by March 28.

19.03.2007 After more than four years of sitting on the fence on the issue of pesticide residues in carbonated soft drinks, the government has finally taken a stand. But will it follow through on its promise to put in place mandatory food safety norms?

19.03.2007 It is difficult to figure out what exactly the UPA government wants. On the one hand, from the declaration of the National Common Minimum Programme onwards, the government has declared that it will make education a major thrust area, that it will increase public spending on education to at least 6 per cent of GDP and take measures to make India a ''knowledge-based'' society and economy.

15.03.2007 Sangath Society, a Goa-based CSO working with mental health issues, has come up with the concept of ‘resource rooms’ for children with learning disabilities, within their normal schools, where they can be given special attention. The concept is currently being pilot-tested in three schools in the state

14.03.2007 A Division Bench of Delhi High Court headed by the Hon'ble Chief Justice asked the Government of Delhi to respond to Social Jurist PIL highlighting that large number of out of school children between the age group of 6 to 14 years are denied admission by government schools on unjustified grounds, like, overcrowded classrooms, absence of drinking water, absence of functional toilet blocks, expiry of date of admission etc.

12.03.2007 The “Albania Reads” program’s primary objective is to promote reading. On March 7, The Teachers’ Day, this project was officially launched at the “Emin Duraku” elementary school in Tirana. Representatives from UNICEF and the Mjaft! Foundation (the philanthropic branch of Mjaft! Movement) donated more than one hundred books to this school’s library.

09.03.2007 Information and communication technologies (ICT) have effectively revolutionized our society. In the era of globalisation, technology has dramatically penetrated into every area of society and, every aspect of social and cultural lives. But, teaching, and the world of education more generally have not taken the advantage of these changes. We have largely failed to capitalize on the potential of new technologies, and particularly digital technology as a learning tool

09.03.2007 A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and the Federal Education Directorate for a $3.4 million three-year programme to strengthen teachersÂ’ education in Pakistan.Funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the programme will establish a new framework for teachersÂ’ accreditation and management in basic education.

06.03.2007 with almost 100,000 people in impoverished Nepal living with the HIV virus that causes AIDS, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today launched an awareness and prevention kit aimed at halting the spread of the disease, particularly among the under 40 age group, which are the most at risk.

05.03.2007 The Children's Human Rights Centre of Albania - CRCA announced on March 2 that it has started the work on the preparation of the new Convention on the Rights of the Child Shadow Report. The Report will be prepared in cooperation with the Albanian Coalition for Preparation of Alternative Reports, network of major national NGO's in Albania established in 2006.

02.03.2007 Services like schooling, housing and nutrition have the largest claim (Rs 83,950.69 crore) on total plan allocation in IndiaÂ’s latest budget. Together with energy and transport, the social sector accounts for nearly 75% of the total allocation of Rs 319,992 crore.