Full Coverage: Education

31.10.2005 Multinational and Indian seed companies are paying Indian farmers who are producing their cotton seed almost 40%- too little to enable them to hire adults for the local minimum wage of Rs.52 (€1,-) instead of children. The companies are multinationals like Bayer, Monsanto and Syngenta but also Indian companies like Nuziveedu Seeds, Raasi Seeds and Ankur Seeds.

31.10.2005 Nearly two years after the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) took up the question in Geneva, the international community is yet to arrive at a consensus on creating a framework to manage the Internet. All countries today recognise the fundamental and growing role of the Internet as a facilitator of governance, commerce, and communication. An editorial in The Hindu addresses this question.

31.10.2005

© Academy for Educational Development

The report provides an assessment of how much progress countriesÂ’ have made toward achieving the goal of universal primary education by 2015, which is part of the U.N. Millennium Development Goals. Using new projection methodologies and educational trends to forecast when 70 developing countries are likely to achieve universal primary education.

31.10.2005 LAHORE: The federal government is all set to introduce a law making it mandatory for private schools and educational institutions to register with it (the government), government officials said. The proposed legislation, which was prepared after lengthy consultations and consensus with various stakeholders and existing laws for the registering private schools and educational institutions, was forwarded to the federal cabinet for final approval, officials added

31.10.2005 The UNICEF has supported the Ministry of Education in assessing the immediate needs of the children. UNICEFÂ’s priority is to get children back to school as quickly as possible to help them cope with the trauma.

27.10.2005 Over ninety professionals from the Albanian judicial system attended a seminar on juvenile justice issues organized by the OSCE Presence in Albania and the country's School of Magistrates.

27.10.2005 At least 600 000 schools in Africa will be connected to one another via a satellite network in a bid to help schools produce maths and science whiz kids.

27.10.2005 POKHARA: Participants, at an interaction organised by the Resource Development Centre Nepal on Wednesday, said that conflict was creating hurdles in attaining millennium development goals in the country. As long as there is stability in Nepal, goals cannot be achieved, they said. Associate professor Dr Lekhnath Bhattarai presented a report which said as long as conflicts, instability, corruption and inequality exist, MDGs will never be achieved.

27.10.2005 The Delhi High Court directed the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) to respond to a bunch of petitions seeking deletion of certain "objectionable portions" in the history books for classes VIII, XI and XII published by the Council.

26.10.2005 Shezai Rrokaj, the Chancellor of Tirana University, announced that, for this academic year, the part-time admissions criteria will be based on the high school grades of the candidates. In his opinion, the average high-school grade is a more significant in the education of the youth than the actual entry exams.

26.10.2005 The Union Government is encouraging e-learning particularly to benefit the people in rural areas, Director of Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) R. Rajalakshmi said.

26.10.2005 Research on information literacy in China and Indonesia started in September 2005, conducted by the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC) with funding from UNESCOÂ’s Information for All Programme (IFAP).

25.10.2005 The Youth Education Forum, under the auspices of its “Anti-Corruption in Higher Education” programme, will organize the Republic-Do it Yourself happening, tomorrow, October 26, at the Youth Cultural Centre Skopje.

25.10.2005 More that a year passed since the term in office of Dragoljub Mirjanic expired, and Banja Luka University still hasnÂ’t elected a new Chancellor. The optimistic expectations shared by the Chairman of the University Council, Jovo Stojcic, and the representatives of the Students Organization that a new Chancellor would be elected by the start of October and the new academic year, did not materialize.

25.10.2005 National workshop on exploring the use of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the Teaching of English-
Challenges and Opportunities (Sponsored by the University Grants Commission) 24-25 November,2005 at the Mahatma Gandhi College,Trivandrum, Kerala, India.

25.10.2005 Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator Helen Coonan of Australia announced that Australia and India last week signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Delhi to aid cooperative development of information and communications technology (ICT) industries.

25.10.2005 The Azim Premji Foundation held a meet - National Learning Conference on Autonomous and Accountable Teacher for Quality Education - in the south Indian city of Bangalore. The conference discussed the role of the teacher in the present education scenario. OneWorld South Asia also contributed a paper - Role of Teacher in Enhancing Learning Achievement of Child & Emphasis on Teacher Skill Development, Knowledge Building and ICT - which was authored by Nilay Ranjan and Naimur Rahman.

25.10.2005 Surrey's local authorities training officers,UK, including Tandridge District Council, Surrey County Council and Surrey e-Partnership have recently won an award for the best e-learning production on a low budget in the first ever national e-learning awards.

24.10.2005 As part of the UNESCO “Strengthening ICT in Schools and SchoolNet in ASEAN Setting” project, a training session was recently provided for teachers which aimed to assist them in learning to facilitate telecollaboration (sharing knowledge through the internet) with their students, and how this enhances teaching and learning.

24.10.2005 The government of India is seriously thinking of asking all private schools in India to reserve 25 per cent seats for poor children. The draft committee on Right to Education Bill 2005 feels that without the participation of private institutions, it is impossible to achieve universalisation of education.