Full Coverage: Education

30.11.2005 Starting with next school year, the pupils in Montenegro elementary schools will be introduced to a new subject in the Curriculum, called “Healthy lifestyles”. This initiative was launched by Montenegrin organisation for combating HIV/AIDS – CAZAS. Yesterday, CAZAS representatives announced the completion of the first phase of the project “Healthy lifestyles against drug abuse”.

30.11.2005 The absence of information technology is not limited to rural schools alone. The analysis, presented in the National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA), said that overall, the percentage of computers at primary schools is as low as 3.95.

29.11.2005 The 2005 Human Development Report paints a bleak picture of the progress made toward those aims six years into the campaign. Among the highlights: The report says the goals for poverty, universal education and child mortality will all be missed in 10 years if current trends continue.

29.11.2005 As a part of its ongoing campaign to impart sex education to the adolescents, the Population Education Cell (PEC) of SCERT has taken up interaction session with parents and other professionals of all walks of life.

29.11.2005 The first women's university of south Punjab formally has started functioning, initially with four disciplines, at the Government College for Women in Multan. In a ceremony held at the girl's college, the university formally launched its post-graduate academic activities for women.

29.11.2005 Empowerment basically means to be able to do things on your own. Education is the basic pre-requisite of doing things on your own terms.An educated country has the best chance of thriving. If people are aware of their rights and duties, they can help in nation-building. Education is actually a way of living. India should provide free education to each and every child. Mr Shammi Kapoor addresses these issue in The Indian Express.

28.11.2005 The world is set to miss its target of getting as many girls as boys into schools by the end of this year, the UN childrenÂ’s fund (Unicef) said on Friday. In a new study, Unicef said that efforts to achieve gender parity in primary education were off track, despite progress in many nations.

28.11.2005 The right to education bill that will be tabled sometime in the coming year, has the potential to bring about a significant transformation in elementary education in India.It attempts to make effective a child’s right to free and compulsory education by focussing on the state’s obligation to provide schools of “equitable” quality.

28.11.2005 Bangladesh govt planning to introduce 'unified education system' at the secondary level.The system that intends to replace the existing compartmentalized methods of education---- students are allowed to take up science, commerce and humanities subjects at class nine--- with an unified education system at the secondary level from the next academic year.

26.11.2005 The world has failed in an important step towards achieving educational equality for girls this year: 46 countries will not meet international goals for gender parity in schools set for 2005.

25.11.2005 A report prepared by the International Research Foundation for Open Learning (IRFOL) for the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) reflects on the existing approaches to learner support, with a particular focus on lower income countries, and gives examples of how such support is provided in a wide range of circumstances.

25.11.2005 Globalization changed the apologetic manner of the state. Government officers attended seminars, generally organized by NGOs, and declared unabashedly that the government could not do everything and that the private sector must step in to help. . The reality, however, was that expenditure on education was around two per cent of Pakistan?

25.11.2005 Children staged skits to highlight miseries of child beggars and working street children, urging their parents to take care of their offspring by admitting them to the Centre for Street Children to make them useful citizens. The function was arranged by Terre des Hommes (TDH), a Switzerland-based NGO, at the Centre for Street Children here on Tuesday, to observe the ChildrenÂ’s Rights Day.

25.11.2005 State Governments as well as the student community are only hoping that it will become possible for the Union Government and Members of Parliament to enact the Bill meant to regulate private professional colleges — the Private Professional Educational Institutions (Regulation of Admission and Fixation of Fee) Bill, 2005. Mr V. Jayanth addresses issue on the bill in The Hindu.

25.11.2005 The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has announced a set of new initiatives to bring in 'transparency, accessibility, accountability, quality and equity' in the functioning of the institute.

24.11.2005 South Asian tsunami caused widespread destruction and loss of lives and livelihood in the coastal areas of Tamilnadu and Pondichery last winter. OneWorld South Asia and Plan International brought its integrated media training to the east coast region of the Indian Peninsula to train children and youth on using various media to voice their communityÂ’s concerns.

24.11.2005 The World Trade Organisation (WTO) completed 10 years in January 2005 and is getting ready for its sixth Ministerial conference in Hong Kong in December. It is important to discuss strengthen and weakness of different sector before making commitment. The emergence of education services under GATS and the emergence of private providers of education- domestic as well as foreign, in particular, have necessitated clear policy guidelines and regulations.

24.11.2005 The inaugural ceremony of the 19-22 November, 2005 International Council for open and Distance Education (ICDE) International conference was held in the historical place-the Jawahar Lal Nehru Memorial Museum and Library. Prof Dikshit expressed his satisfaction on the role played by distance education and said that information technology has made it possible to provide best education to the remotest part of the countryAuditorium.

24.11.2005 Maoists have closed down another community school. The Maoists locked Rana Bhuwaneshwari Higher Secondary School in Khadgabhanjyang VDC-5, Nuwakot, along with some other schools in Gaganbhanjyang VDC of the district.

24.11.2005 A tripartite agreement for providing mid-day meals to 20,000 school children in Chittaurgarh district of Rajasthan has been signed between the State Government, Hyderabad-based Nandi Foundation and the Hindustan Zinc Limited (HZL). The students in primary schools will be served with hot and nutritious food every afternoon under the scheme.