Full Coverage: Education

31.01.2007 Between November 22 and December 15, 2006, the Youth Information Agency (OIA) and the Creative Development Foundation (FKR) organized a campaign for collection of support letters for establishment of computerization budget for B&H system of education.

26.01.2007 from WorldChanging:
A carbon emissions calculator designed to help fellow students learn about their school's energy use and calculate its carbon footprint.

25.01.2007 From Africa to Asia, activists are reiterating that violence against women remains a threat to the HIV/AIDS fight, and that without governments addressing the matter, winning the war against the disease will be an uphill task.

22.01.2007 PRATHAM’S goal is to ensure that ‘every child is in school -- and is learning well’. Over the last nine years, the NGO claims to have reached out to a million children. Though local governments, citizens and local corporates assist it in its endeavours, the ICICI Bank is performing a lead role. For the second consecutive year the NGO has come out with Annual Status of Education Report (ASER). Rajiv Tikoo of The Financial Express interviews founder trustee Madhav Chavan. Excerpts

22.01.2007 Primary education remains a major problem according to the government and civil society groups now say mother illiteracy remains the key to the problem.
It is the key finding of Pratham - a civil society group actively associated with the government's education policy.

19.01.2007 The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, announced an aid of £200 million for the state-run Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan for universal elementary education.India's objective, which is that every single child has education, and the determination to achieve that by 2010, which is the next three years.

18.01.2007 Metamorphosis Foundation organises OpenOffice.org training for representatives of local self-government units in Republic of Macedonia. The training is held in Riviera Hotel in Ohrid, from 15 to 20 January, 2007. About 100 employees in 25 Macedonian municipalities will be trained during the six day training.

18.01.2007 On the eve of the coming Parliamentary Elections in Serbia (scheduled for January 21), Save the Children UK-Serbia invited all political parties to present publicly their plans of action in the area of legislation, policy and practice in the field of education and social welfare, in order to provide the children in Serbia to enjoy their guaranteed rights.

18.01.2007 The pursuit of equality has been a major objective in planning for education in independent India. The commitment to equality of opportunity was emphasized both by the commission on university education set up under S. Radhakrishnan shortly after independence and the education commission of 1964-66 under D.S. Kothari.

17.01.2007 from Rabett Run blog:
Apparently, anyone who knows anything about climate change is anti-American but the kids have a clue; they are open... so when do they take their stupid pills and turn into adults? asks Eli Rabett.

16.01.2007 The Legislative Parliament unanimously ratified the Interim Constitution, 2007 of Nepal tonight. Earlier in the day the House of Representatives (HoR) unanimously promulgated the draft of the Interim Constitution. All 185 Members of the Parliament (MPs), who were present at the last session of the HoR, voted for the Interim Constitution.

15.01.2007 The CESI Association called met on January 11, 2007, to present its concern over the decision of the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports to approve the use of the experimental curriculum in health education prepared by the GROZD Association, in ten schools in Croatia. The GROZD programme awaits the approval by the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare.

15.01.2007 Admitting that the higher education system needs comprehensive reforms, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh said that the National Knowledge Commission should travel across the country with useful ideas to build a consensus.

15.01.2007 A day after the Report to the Nation 2006 was presented to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the National Knowledge Commission chairperson Sam Pitroda said that the public sector telecom major BSNL could be sold and the proceeds invested in education.

15.01.2007 A year after the first Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) showed a thumbs down to the claims of Sarva Shiksha AbhiyanÂ’s claims, there seems to be some improvement now.

12.01.2007 A group of Roma children, returned to Serbia from the countries of the EU, with the help of urban culture, decided to change the prevailing stereotypes about the Roma as thieves, street-sweepers and loiterers.

12.01.2007 The NetNovinar - Centre for Investigative Journalism (founded by the Centre for Investigative Journalism, Zagreb and the Mediacentre Sarajevo), in cooperation with the E-Net Centre from Sarajevo, announces the competition for enrolment of the fifth class of the “Investigative Journalism Programme: Stories on Organized Crime”. Application Deadline expires on January 20, 2007.

11.01.2007 United Nations monitors will begin counting weapons and soldiers of the Maoist army in camps across Nepal next week, and activists are concerned that the needs of women and children there could be overlooked

10.01.2007 Recognising the link between education and high priority social issues, a White Paper obtained by Dawn, states that only through education can a society achieve awareness, sensitisation and clarity of conception that can help cure it of the evils that retard its growth.

09.01.2007 With the Pakistan government considering the possibility of implementing the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) policy with help from the United Arab Emirates a debate rages whether the UAE would like to buy laptops that may be more than its budget. Fouad Riaz Bajwa in Pakistan analyses the OLPC policy.