Full Coverage: Education

28.04.2006 The current debate about 27% OBC reservation and sufficient access to educational institutions poses various questions to the stakeholders. In terms of access in the higher education till date only 10% of the people in the age group of 18-24 are in the higher education system.

27.04.2006 It's a paradox all right. Thanks to the boom in the IT and electronics sectors, engineering colleges offering these subjects have hordes of students queuing up at their door and companies awaiting graduates with plump paychecks.

26.04.2006 The Albanian Coalition for Children's Education, which includes 10 major child-rights organisations in the country, opened officially in Tirana 25 April 2006 the Campaign "Every child needs a Teacher", which in Albania is organised under the motto "Every child needs a qualified teacher". The campaign in Albania is part of the Global Campaign for Education, which takes place all over the world between 24-30 April and this year it is dedicated to teachers.

26.04.2006 India is on the threshold of overhauling its higher education system for meeting the demands of its booming economy as well as securing a place amongst the knowledge-based economies of the coming era.

26.04.2006 With stress levels among people on the rise and tempers flaring up easily, it is time for 'peace education' in schools and the NCERT is all set to train teachers in conflict resolution techniques and ways to undermine violence and aggression.

26.04.2006 Even as the number of out-of-school children has been brought down to 13.5m over the last four years from a high of 25m, the issue of quality of education still remains to be tackled in its entirety.

26.04.2006 There has been considerable research and development into the use of multimedia in teaching and learning geospatial science. Geospatial science professions like cartography, geomatics and surveying are practiced-based and therefore are heavily reliant upon the application of knowledge to practical situations in the field.

26.04.2006 The Global Action Week under the global campaign for education in the state kicked off with these astounding figures and quite understandably, the topic of the week begining April 24, this year is ‘Every child needs a teacher’.

25.04.2006 Yesterday, the Association of Independent Intellectuals Krug 99, held its regular session in Sarajevo, to duscuss the subject of Pre-School, Elementary and Secondary Education in B&H. Douglas Davidson, Head of OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, provided the introductory remarks.

25.04.2006 Encouraged by the rapid strides in the Information Technology sector, the Andhra Pradesh State Government is chalking out plans to introduce computer education in 10,000 zilla parishad and Government high schools.

25.04.2006 The Global Campaign for Education says that if all children have to be provided with an education, the world needs 15 million more teachers. Right now over 100 million children still are not aware of the possibilities that education offers.

24.04.2006 There are times when a handful of dedicated men and women can work together to stop campaigns of terrorism and to remedy the intractable poverty that leads to massive violence.

24.04.2006 BOB Wang has a new habit during his Metro trip to work daily - reading news on a mobile phone screen.

21.04.2006 25 per cent of the seats in Delhi private schools are reserved for poor students, to be provided free. But this provision is dodged in numerous ways; schools claim ignorance of the law, that they can't find poor students, that poor students have to be educated separately even if admitted, and so on. Deepa A reports.

20.04.2006 This innovative project, jointly launched by Salesians Society and Navjeevan Trust with the active support of the Chandigarh Administration.

20.04.2006 The Dakshina Kannada and Udupi district unit of Jamiyyatul Falah will undertake an education awareness campaign during 2006-07. The organisation set up in 1988, with the objective of undertaking educational programmes, has decided to construct a community hall on its premises in Kankanady for the purpose

20.04.2006 When India gained independence in 1947, the country was supposed to become 100% literate by 1960. Forty-six years down the line, there are still one crore out-of-school children.

19.04.2006 Sarawak will look at alternative means to provide telecommunication facilities to the 280 rural schools in the state, which are yet to have access to the information and communication technology (ICT).

19.04.2006 Ingrid Srinath, Chief Executive of Indian NGO Child Rrights and You (CRY) says that nearly half of the Indian children are malnourished, one-third are out of school and two million will die from utterly preventable causes even though the country is experiencing unprecedented economic growth and has aspirations to global stature.

19.04.2006 ‘Muslims insecure, feel inferior in UP; Rajasthan poor in minority affairs’ reveals the initial findings of the Prime Minister’s High Level Committee, headed by Justice (retd) Rajinder Sachar.