Full Coverage: Education

30.11.2007

29.11.2007 Hundreds of Muslim women from across India, along with academics, social experts and parliamentarians, addressed social, livelihood, legal and religious issues of the community at the first annual convention of Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA) in Delhi. The campaign also called for the implementation of the 2006 Justice Sachar Committee report for better education and employment facilities.

29.11.2007 Universal Library project has now digitised more than 1.5 million published books in 20 different languages of the world and continues to scan thousands more daily. All these books in Chinese, English, Arabic, Telugu, etc. are now available on internet – free of cost.

23.11.2007 The United Nations has officially launched 2008 as the International Year of Sanitation to highlight the need for global investments in sanitation. About 42,000 people die every week from diseases caused by poor drinking water and the lack of toilets, while also being denied dignity, privacy, and in case of women – safety too.

22.11.2007 In an innovative way to address several issues plaguing higher education, the lecture videos and course material of the seven prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology and the Banglore-based Indian Institute of Science will soon be made available online to the students and faculty members.

21.11.2007 The Vanasthali Rural Development Centre (VRDC) in Pune was started with a simple thought: to train rural women to enable them start balwadis or nurseries in their villages. Years later, activist Nirmala Purandare's dream has heralded a social revolution with the training of barefoot teachers in the Indian state of Maharashtra.

16.11.2007 A two-day Sub-Regional Conference in support of Global Literacy organised by the UNESCO will be held from November 29 at New Delhi. The First Ladies of 10 countries — Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Maldives, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan — have been invited to attend.

15.11.2007 Eight children representing ‘Nine is Mine’ campaign met chairperson of the National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights in New Delhi on Children’s Day in India. They sought her support for demand from government to invest 9% of the GDP on health and education.

14.11.2007 On the eve of ChildrenÂ’s Day in India, a petition signed by 300,001 children was submitted to the government, demanding 9% of the Gross Domestic Product to be invested in education and health.

14.11.2007 The recent visit by the Queen of Netherlands to a school for slum children, run by Delhi based NGO Deepalaya, brought cheer to young lives. The children shared their experiences and talents on personal cleanliness and healthy living with the royal visitor.

14.11.2007 Mobile television will soon be a reality in India. It will open up opportunities for government to enhance services to citizens ranging from education to healthcare to safety and security, apart from providing business users with latest information on stock market and entertainment to the masses.

14.11.2007 The Indian government will collect data on more than half a million villages over the next six months to help ensure better development. Even after 60 years of Independence, there is a dearth of information on the real condition of villages where more than 70% of the population lives.

13.11.2007 Kehitysmaiden lapsille suunnattu tietokone löytää tiensä vielä tämän vuoden puolella myös Peruun, Meksikoon, Etiopiaan, Ruandaan, Haitiin ja Intiaan. Käyttöönoton lähestyessä alkuperäinen sadan dollarin kannettava on hinnaltaan jo lähes kaksinkertainen.

13.11.2007 The second Internet Governance Forum that opened at Rio de Janeiro discussed ways to use the Internet for development, among other critical issues. The four-day event is being promoted by the United Nations and will be attended by over thousand participants from the governments, private sector, NGOs, academics and the technical communities.

12.11.2007 Give One Get One (G1G1) campaign starting this week hopes to boost orders by providing an incentive to people in more prosperous countries. For every laptop donated for a child, the donor would get one in return. The campaign is backed by Google, Intel, eBay, News Corp and Advance Micro Devices.

08.11.2007 An international conference is being organised by Deshkal Society in the Indian capital New Delhi from 14-16 December. The conference will discuss new frameworks through comparative study of teaching and learning experiences in plural societies in the context of school education.

07.11.2007 Tamil Nadu State Government in India has made school text books available online. Readers can access the text books on the government website.

05.11.2007 Jesuit presence in Afghanistan is helping speed up this war-ravaged countryÂ’s development process while also building understanding and faith between Indians and Afghans.