Full Coverage: Education

31.05.2006 Education Minister Lt Gen (r) Javed Ashraf Qazi has said 45 percent of students dropped out before completing their primary education, and there were a number of factors behind this high rate. We are giving salaries lower than domestic servantsÂ’ to teachers. What can you expect them to deliver? What results can matriculate 3rd division teachers produce?

31.05.2006 If you're like most parents of teenagers, your kids spend quite a bit of time after school tapping away at the computer. Well, here's a tip: They're probably not doing homework.

30.05.2006 The Central Board of Secondary Education would introduce scholarships for girl students and a slew of reforms from the coming year to make the examination more stress-free and help students perform better.

30.05.2006 A group of students from the "Metodi Mitevski Brico" high school from Delcevo, won the prestigious Platinum Prize Award for best web-site at the Doors to Diplomacy 2006 award competition, organized by the US State Department. The students won this years award in a strong competition of 306 projects from 46 states in the world.

30.05.2006 Of the 680 million children of primary school age in developing countries, 103 million do not attend school, with 57 percent of these children girls and 74 percent living in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. More than 1/3rd of girls in South Asia never receive a formal education; adult women there have the lowest literacy rate in the world.

30.05.2006 The Government of A.P issued the much-awaited DSC (District Selection Committee)-2006 notification for recruitment of as many as 20,193 teachers to strengthen and stabilise the school system in the State at the primary level.

29.05.2006 The weaknesses in the education system and the concurrent challenges of poverty and fears mean that children are not performing well in school.

29.05.2006 University of Arts, Belgrade, Serbia (UNESCO Chair in Cultural policy and Management) and L'Université Lyon - Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Grenoble (Université Pierre Mendès-France) announce the start of the Masters Programme in Cultural Policy and Management (Interculturalism and Mediation in the Balkans)

29.05.2006 Technical education institutions in Rajasthan will adopt nearby villages from the next academic session to promote self-employment among the youth and women by imparting vocational education to them.

29.05.2006 The number of students from Dalit communities has decreased drastically in primary schools in Amargadi municipality after the suspension of FfE programme. Dadheldhura District Education Office announced the suspension of Food for education programme on March 16.

27.05.2006 A residential school for girls, in the shadow of the peak of Nanda Devi, has been graduating confident young women from the girls of Kumaon hills. Run as per the ideas of Nai Taleem of Gandhiji, Lakshmi Ashram was set up by Sarlaben – a friend and follower of Gandhiji – in ~1964.

27.05.2006 Most government programmes fail despite heavy investment, thanks to the hasty decisions made in introducing new programmes. Similar is the case of Inclusive Education (IE) classes in Dadeldhura district meant to provide education to the disadvantaged groups and disabled children.

26.05.2006 The underdevelopment of rapidly “developing India” is quite evident as various human development indicators reflect that we have not been able to guarantee basic development rights to the citizens of India even after five decades of independence.

26.05.2006 According to the Denied a Future? 2001-2006: The Right to Education for Roma Children in B&H survey, published by Save the Children UK in April 2006, there are still Roma communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina in which not a single child is included in the elementary education.

26.05.2006 The country has achieved significant progress in some development activities and the trend of advancement would continue in future, said M Moniruzzaman Mia, commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).

26.05.2006 Majority of Chandigarh's school teachers are not comfortable talking on HIV/AIDS and sexual and reproductive health to students and 60 per cent of the city's adolescents have problems related to sex, according to a Panjab University study.

26.05.2006 Any system of education should aim at a balanced growth of the individual and insist on both knowledge and wisdom, Governor Surjit Singh Barnala said.He also mention that the kind of education provided to the youth was determined overwhelmingly by the kind of men and women recruited as teachers.

25.05.2006 Vinod Raina, a member of the Central Advisory Board for Education, and activist of the Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti, Madhya Pradesh, said that if the government had kept its very first promise in the CMP of allocating 6 per cent of the GDP for education, then no one would have murmured a word of protest over its proposed reservation for OBCs.

25.05.2006 In a massive raid in an industrial unit in the congested Sarai Kale Khan of South Delhi, Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA) with the help of police rescued 39 children working in exploitative conditions.

25.05.2006 Sri Lankan judge Christopher Gregory Weeramantry, former Vice-president of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague, was awarded on Wednesday the UNESCO annual prize for peace education, the UN's culture and science organisation said.