Full Coverage: Education

31.10.2006 The Government of Croatia announced last weekend that all employees receiving salaries from the State Budget will have to pass, over the coming two or three years, the ECDL Programme (European Computer Driving Licence). ECDL is internationally recognized computer literacy standard, designed under the “Leonardo da Vinci” Programme, implemented by the European Commission.

31.10.2006 Some leading educationists believe that the role of government in the field of education should be minimal. Others believe that it should deepen its role in providing free and compulsory education to each citizen of the country. They say that education should also be common for rich and poor so that inequality in society is reduced.

31.10.2006 New IT revolution has just started in India, with the government embarking upon an ambitious project to connect all the schools, colleges and universities and provide an Internet enabled computer connection to each teacher in the country.

30.10.2006 The Education for All goals focus on the need to provide learning opportunities at every stage in life, from infancy to adulthood. With only nine years remaining before 2015 – the target year for achieving these goals, progress is being made in reducing the number of primary school-age children who are not enrolled in school still distant dream for many children especially from socially disadvantaged households reveals the recent report published by UNESCO “Education for All: Global Monitoring Report 2007

30.10.2006 The Sachar Committee report, which explored the socio-economic and educational condition of Indian Muslims, had chilling figures to display multiple disadvantages they face, particularly in higher education.

26.10.2006 The Ministry of Education has taken steps to set up teacher villages (Guru Gammane) in 25 selected areas in the country next year, as a solution to the teacher shortage in schools in areas with less infrastructure facilities. The Ministry has allocated a total of Rs. 125 million for the project, with each fully equipped village costing over five million rupees, Minister of Education Susil Premajayantha told the media.

26.10.2006 Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France, announces a Call for Papers for the UNTELE 2007 Conference, to be held March 29-31, 2007. The principal theme of the up-coming UNTELE 2007 conference is Cross-cultural communication, global networking and second language acquisition

25.10.2006 The Montenegrin T-Com announced that it will secure free ADSL internet for all elementary and secondary schools in Montenegro for the next five years. The company sees this as a contribution to the process of increasing computer literacy among the population of Montenegro.

25.10.2006 “The Key is in Your Hands”, a documentary film for the education of the Roma was announced the greatest achievement in television journalism by the UN System in Macedonia, under the framework of the International Week of Fight against Poverty.

24.10.2006 MJAFT Movement organized a roundtable discussion on October 19, with participation of deans and rectors of public universities, to discuss the problematic issues that universities are recently facing, one of which is the issue of the draft Law on Education.

24.10.2006 Distinguished scholar V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai has taken over as Vice-Chancellor of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU).

24.10.2006 In recent years, the use and impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on teaching and learning has increased tremendously. They provide new perspectives and opportunities for expanding traditional educational processes and systems. Increasingly, ICT enhanced Non-Formal Educational (NFE) modules are being channelled through community access centres, such as community radio, telecentres, Community Multi-media Centres (CMCs).

24.10.2006 University Grants Commission (UGC) member and Director of the Chennai-based Indian Centre for Research and Development of Community Education (ICRDCE) Xavier Alphonse has said the UGC would soon bring out a document on `Indian Community College System' to address the issues of poverty and of the rural population

24.10.2006 The first comprehensive global study by the United Nations on "Violence Against Children" says around 275 million children worldwide face domestic violence within the "safe" confines of their homes. The study, which look at the the South Asia regional context — finds that India as the country with the “largest number of working children in the world.”

23.10.2006 Even though local authorities have been asked to prepare to accommodate thousands of Indian children expected to be freed from their jobs by raids conducted on homes and restaurants, activists say scant attention has been paid to how they will be rehabilitated.

20.10.2006 The TrainersÂ’ Forum (TREF), association of trainers and consultants for the non-profit sector in Croatia opens a public competition for the position of programme coordinator (20 hours weekly) in Zagreb.

19.10.2006 Centre for Women Studies announces the opening of enrolment for the new Women Studies programme. The enrolments term starts on October 19 and will end on October 27, 2006. Candidates will be received between 17:00 and 20:00 hours, every weekday, at the Centre for Women Studies in Zagreb (Berislaviceva 12).

19.10.2006 The Green ForumZeleni forum, a network of Croatian environmental associations, announces a public competition for education of lawyers and law students (in their senior years) on environmental law.

19.10.2006 The Bihar government is eagerly waiting to know whether the norms on nursery admission as brought into place in New Delhi, would apply to the states as well. For, the norms put down by a Delhi High Court-appointed committee headed by Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) chairman Ashok Ganguly spell out a selection system which is completely in conflict with the Common School System adopted by Bihar which believes in equal access to education.

18.10.2006 Almost 1,200,000 children listed in Maharashtra’s education department records are ‘missing’ from the classroom, a check by education inspectors has revealed. This means that in 2005-2006 alone the state squandered over Rs 725 crore on elementary schooling for children who either never existed or had long passed out of school.