Full Coverage: Education

31.03.2006 Effat College ended a two-day symposium yesterday on the subject of utilizing information and communication technologies in a teaching environment.

31.03.2006 After the IITs and IIMs, it is now the turn of foreign educational institutions in India to create a quota for the socially and educationally underprivileged.Indian branches of foreign universities may have to reserve seats for scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and other backward classes (OBCs) in keeping with the 93rd Constitutional Amendment Act.

31.03.2006 ThereÂ’s no harm as long as the needs of the higher education in general and the universities in particular are properly assessed, and the decision is taken in consultation with the UGC.

30.03.2006 African Education Ministers have pledged their support for the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD), formally launched, at the on-going Biennial meeting of the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) in Libreville, Gabon.

29.03.2006 India can offer quality education, as is provided by the IITs, to foreign students and thus earn money. Mr janmejaya sinha express this view in the financial express.

28.03.2006 The E-Learn 2006 is holding a world conference on e-learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education from October 13-17, 2006 in Honolulu, Hawaii.

28.03.2006 UNESCO releases a new report Education Sector Global HIV & AIDS Readiness Survey 2004: Policy Implications for Education and Development on the readiness of the global education sector to mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS.

28.03.2006 As part of its efforts to strengthen Nepal's educational infrastructure, India will provide a grant assistance of USD 300,000 for construction of a campus building in the western district of Tanahun.

28.03.2006 Education was necessary to enlighten women and help them rise up in life, said Surjit Singh Barnala, Governor of Tamil Nadu. I am not against veils or `pardha.' But inhibitions have to be shed," he said. He also mention that "If you educate a man, an individual becomes a literate, but if you educate a woman, her whole family members would become literates. Education is a liberating and democratising force, cutting across barriers of religion, caste and class".

28.03.2006 Information and communication technologies (ICT) have effectively revolutionized our society. In last two decades, technology has dramatically penetrated into every area of society and, every aspect of social and cultural lives. But, teaching, and the world of education more generally have not taken the advantage of these changes especially the south asia region.

27.03.2006 Under the Adult Literacy Campaign launched jointly by the Literate Pakistan Foundation (LPF) and Sui Southern Gas Company Limited (SSGC), a booksÂ’ distribution ceremony was held at the SSGC regional office.

27.03.2006 A recent World Bank survey found that 25% of government primary school teachers in India are absent from work. Only 50% of teachers are actually engaged in the act of teaching while at work, according to researchers.

26.03.2006 Dissatisfied with the country's progress in education and health, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen said on Saturday that privatisation had been brought in prematurely in these two fields.

24.03.2006 The Belgrade School of Security Studies (BSSS), research unit of the Centre for Civil-Military Relations (CCMR) will hold a regional conference entitled “Safer Balkans Network”, to discuss how security studies has been developed in the Western Balkans in the last decade and to explore the current state of academic and non-academic educational programmes in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, and Serbia and Montenegro.

24.03.2006 The IMOR – Interactive Network for Education and Resources started its new Local Self-Government in Your Community project, which aims to involve the youth in the development of their respective local communities.

23.03.2006 13-year-old Renuka, in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, sought the help of police to thwart her parents' attempt to get her married last year. But the girl's education is in jeopardy with her parents firm on getting her married.

23.03.2006 Pakistan is to benefit from accelerated financial and technical assistance under the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural OrganizationÂ’s (UNESCO) new literacy initiative to speed up efforts to realise the Education For All (EFA) goal of a 50 percent improvement in adult literacy levels by 2015.

23.03.2006 over the past few weeks, a crisis has enveloped Tamil Nadu's engineering education sector. And, only after the matter went to the Madras High Court did the Union Ministry for Human Resource Development come into the picture through a counter filed in court.

21.03.2006 Educationists in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh hit upon the idea of a floating school on a boat to draw children who would otherwise be helping parents at work. A perennial problem in rural India is of parents refusing to send their children to school therefore the boat brings the school to the homes of children.

21.03.2006 Pakistan is to build six science and engineering universities over the next ten years so that the "state of the art" universities can train scientists and engineers who can contribute to Pakistan's sustainable development and help move the country away from its dependence on agriculture.