Full Coverage: Education

31.01.2006 Sandra Pernar, Deputy President of GONG association received the Council of Europe Award for its “First Time Voter” Project, yesterday in Strassbourg. “First Time Voter” is a project implemented by GONG for six years in a row, at Croatian secondary schools. Over 100,000 high-school students have participated in the projects.

31.01.2006 ICT professionals in New Zealand will soon be able to upgrade their business qualifications while they work, thanks to a postgraduate certificate approved by the Tertiary Education Commission.

31.01.2006 A reputable organization is seeking an Educational Content Coordinator to be based in Lusaka, Zambia. The incumbent will report to the Programme Manager. The Educational Content Coordinator will be responsible for managing the Educational Support Network (ESNET) project designed to supplement educational teaching materials with identified secondary schools in Zambia.

31.01.2006 Mina Swaminathan has been trying for over a year now to get the 120 agricultural universities in India introduce a short 18-hour module on gender issues in agriculture and rural livelihood, but without success. She says that the entire agricultural bureaucracy is gender insensitive.

30.01.2006 University Grants Commission (UGC) has created a task force for setting up a National Qualification Framework (NQF) for standardising knowledge and skills of various programmes in different universities and institutions. NQF is a set of principles and guidelines by which the learner's acquired knowledge and skills are registered, enabling the conferring of national recognition.

30.01.2006 To keep pace with the rapid changes in the field of education, the Ministry of HRD is planning to constitute a National Commission for Higher Education. The Commission will keep track of the changes private players becoming a major force, enrollment figures doubling in the next few years, and only 10 per cent students being able to take a graduation degree

30.01.2006 Senior ministers of the Indian government told a group of international investors that India was committed to more reforms in the education sector to ensure that there was no shortage of skilled manpower to sustain an annual growth rate of over 8 per cent in the coming years

27.01.2006 An OECD report shows that children in New Zealand have a high level of access to information communications technology at school. The report “Are Students Ready for a Technology-Rich World” rated New Zealand secondary school students fifth out of 41 countries for access to ICT such as computers and the Internet.

25.01.2006 United Nations ChildrenÂ’s Fund (UNICEF) has said that they do not support the involvement of children in anything which could lead to violence and has advised against the involvement of children in such events

25.01.2006 In yet another case of midday meals causing food poisoning, 160 students reportedly fell ill in a primary school in Alampur village of Azmargarh block. Fifteen of the children are reported to be in a serious condition.According to reports, the children started vomiting soon after eating the khichdi that was served. The school, in Sagri tehsil of Azamgarh district, has a total of 206 students.

25.01.2006 While the State government is committed to achieve Universalisation of Elementary Education (UEE) by 2010 under the Millennium Development Goals, over 51,000 primary teacher posts are lying vacant.Sarva Sikhya Abhijan (SSA) was launched on a nation-wide scale in 2003-04 to provide useful and quality education to all the children in the 6-14 years age group by 2010.

25.01.2006 Sex education should be an integral part of every individual from birth to death irrespective of age as it deals with various aspects of human development including the thinking pattern and behaviour of an individual, said well known gynaecologist Dr Padmini Prasad

24.01.2006 Al Santoli recently returned from a peace mediation trip to the Philippines' Sulu province, one of the country's poorest and home to two prominent armed movements. His photo reports shows that building peace is not just about negotiating with armed groups; the faces of smiling youngsters are everywhere.

24.01.2006 The Prime Minister of Ireland, Bertie Ahern, on Tuesday launched the operations in India of the Global e-School and Communities Initiative, a multilaterally funded organisation that supports enhancing the reach and quality of education by deploying Information and Communication technologies.

23.01.2006 The most recent statistics available for the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) reveal that the proportion of the local population that cannot read or write increased by more than 10 percent, to 54.9 percent in 2003, from 43.8 percent in 2002.

23.01.2006 Remarkable growth in a small number of emerging Asian economies, led by China, is challenging the leadership of North America, Europe and Japan in research and development (R&D), according to the newly published UNESCO Science Report 2005.

21.01.2006 The Delhi High Court stayed the operation of a circular issued by Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) in October, 2005, which made it mandatory for all affiliated schools in the country to provide free education to every single girl child of a parent from Class VI onwards.

20.01.2006 The Ombudspersons of the B&H Federation, Vera Jovanovic, Esad Muhibic and Branka Raguz, reccomended the Federal Ministry of ducation and all cantonal education ministries in the Federation to secure free access to primary healthcare to all university and high school students, a right guaranteed by the federal Law on Healthcare.

20.01.2006 The Prime Minister of Ireland, Bertie Ahern, on Tuesday launched the operations in India of the Global e-School and Communities Initiative, a multilaterally funded organisation that supports enhancing the reach and quality of education by deploying Information and Communication technologies.

19.01.2006 Great variations apart, elementary education in rural India has taken firm root, but the quality leaves a lot to be desired.This is the essence of Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) prepared by Pratham and released by Planning Commission deputy chairperson Montek Singh Ahluwalia.