Full Coverage: Education

31.05.2005 If the Government of B&H Federation and the Middle-Bosnian Canton fail to pay their share of the funds necessary to cover the costs of meals and accommodation by June 1, 500 students at the Sarajevo student dormitories will be forced to start a hunger-strike.

30.05.2005 The Initiative Board for StudentsÂ’ Rights, made of representatives of students from all student dormitories in Skopje starts an initiative for a review of the work and operation of Tenants Councils. The announcement was made at the press conference, held today in Skopje, at the NGO InfoCentre.

30.05.2005 The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), working with the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), has published its strategy for e-learning.

27.05.2005 Uzbekistan's Ferghana Valley, home to more than seven million Uzbeks, has seen it's fair share of ethnic violence and unrest. Mercy Corps programs in this volatile region are facilitating dialogue between local governments and communities, and helping the vulnerable gain life skills and achieve economic independence. Find out about three Uzbek women who are transforming their lives and their communities.

24.05.2005 The new cycle of the “School of Democracy” by the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia, started at the facilities of the Committee in Novi Sad. The programme is dedicated to youth, high school and university students, and youth Ngo activists, and will last till Friday, May 27.

23.05.2005 Transparency International B&H started a new anti-corruption project, “Education Against Corruption”. The pilot-stage of the project will be implemented in the area of Banja Luka by October 2005.

23.05.2005 Swaziland donor agencies are increasingly asking theatre groups to write and perform dramas about hot topics like HIV/AIDS and women's rights. Particularly with HIV/AIDS, donor agencies hope that by providing the message in an entertaining way, they can reach more people about the dangers and spread of the disease.

20.05.2005 “The WorldBank has secured 10 million US Dollars for the programme and reform in higher education it implements in Bosnia and Herzegovina”, announced Dirk Reinermann, the Head of the WB Office in B&H, at the lecture on the role of the WorldBank in the strengthening of youth activism in B&H he gave in Mostar. The lecture was organized by the Nansen Dialogue Centre Mostar.

20.05.2005 Viviane Reding, the Commissioner for Information Society and Media, and Ján Figel’ launched a multi-annual, multi-stakeholder drive to build digital competence at home, school and the workplace at the “Towards a learning society” conference, in Brussels.

20.05.2005 The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), IndiaÂ’s national secondary education administration, plans to resume the second phase of counselling services to the students from May 23 to June 6.

19.05.2005 Education International, which is a global union federation representing over 29 million teachers, says that indigenous education should be strengthened to bring about sustainable development. It should therefore be included in the Edcuation for All campaign.

18.05.2005 A World Economic Forum (WEF) report on gender says Nordic countries have the least ratio in gender gap while the populous Asian countries, including India, have very high gender gaps. The study studied economic participation, economic opportunity, political empowerment, educational attainment and health and well-being of women versus men.

18.05.2005 Almost a third of the polled students in Serbia said that they would bribe somebody if that was the only way for them to pass an exam, shows the latest survey on corruption in higher education, conducted by the Students Union of Serbia SUS.

17.05.2005 Union HRD Minister Arjun Singh today called on the educational institutions in the country to effectively utilise the latest ICT resources to provide high quality education.

17.05.2005 Almost all of the library's 90,000 volumes of the the University of Texas at Austin library will be dispersed to other university collections to clear space for a 24-hour electronic information centres.

16.05.2005 BECTA's recent research on the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of ICT systems in schools has been welcomed by the Open Source Consortium (OSC) and Schoolforge UK.

13.05.2005 The relations Ethiopia has forged with India in the area of information and communication technology (ICT) is helpful to the ongoing capacity building activities, held Tefera Waluwa, Minister of Capacity Buildingof Ethiopia.

13.05.2005 The potential of information and communication technology (ICT) to train and educate communities that have limited or no access to formal education channels will be the focus of an international conference to be opened by UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura at UNESCO Headquarters, and broadcast live on the internet, from 11 to 13 May.

13.05.2005 At beggining of June 2005, the IAESTE International Association for Exchange of Students for Technical Experience will start the summer programme that will bring 45 foreign students to Banja Luka.

13.05.2005 The Community Youth Mapping effort in Egypt--based on a similar program in the U.S.--is teaching students how to collect community data and discover untapped resources in their neighborhood. On-the-ground observations by Shoroke Zedan illustrate how these students are not only learning more about their communities, they are uncovering a wealth of new job opportunities.