Full Coverage: Education

29.05.2007 Angelique Kidjo and World Education will partner together to enable girls to go to secondary school in Mali and Benin. This effort will support 304 girls who have been orphaned by AIDS or whose families are affected by AIDS, are disabled or are extremely poor.

29.05.2007 Girls in Rajasthan, IndiaÂ’s dry western state, lack the fruits of higher education. There is a strong need for a changeover in the attitude of people toward education of girls, feels Jaipur based activist Kalyan Singh Kothari.

28.05.2007 India's Information and Technology Department will provide computer training to children belonging to socially deprived and minority groups. The first initiative has been taken by the city of Chandigarh in association with United Progressive Muslim Front to teach a basic course to the students of Manimajra Madarsa.

28.05.2007 Through the regional Private Sector Development project, paid internship positions are regularly made available in South East Europe and in Western Europe. As they become available, they are announced on the website of Academic Training Association (ATA) and promoted by its partners.

28.05.2007 This article articulates the need for funders and aid donors to rework their polices on long-term commitments for supporting national plans on health and education as the services are not getting delivered properly.

23.05.2007 A unique road show screening films on ‘Girl Stars’ carries stories of success through rural India. Organised by UNICEF, the show will travel through three states – Rajasthan, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh – where the gender gaps in education are glaring.

22.05.2007 In the wake of the October 2005 earthquake in northern Pakistan, UNICEF has constructed transitional shelters to help children continue learning and provide a safe learning environment.

21.05.2007 The Sahariya tribals in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh have defied caste rules by setting up their own school, with help of the UNICEF-backed Saarthi Foundation.

21.05.2007 The Sahariya tribals in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh have defied caste rules by setting up their own school, with help of the UNICEF-backed Saarthi Foundation.

21.05.2007 Shumaila is sitting for her school certificate exam this month. But that does not relieve her from daily chores that include tending to dozen or so head of cattle.

18.05.2007

15.05.2007 AIESEC student association will organize, May 18-21, in Sarajevo, a conference named "Balkan Conference". The primary goal of the project is to connect students from the Balkans area into a single AIESEC network for cooperation, exchange of experiences and planning of future projects, as well as more intensive inclusion of youth in social and economic environment.

11.05.2007 The Memorial University Scholarship Program (RMUSP) offers scholarships for eligible Romani students at the university level. The funds for the first two years of this program were allocated from gold looted by the Nazis during the II World War and held by the Allied Forces.

11.05.2007 Indian NGO Center for Environment Education (CEE) is working to promote awareness and understanding of environmental issues in the country. It has recently introduced a website for children - www.kidsrgreen.org – that allows children to explore and discover environment-related issues.

10.05.2007 Kailash Satyarthi, President, Global Campaign for Education, a movement of Global March Against Child Labour, asserts the need for a massive increase in aid for education. He claims that the World Bank and the European Commission are deluding people on education funding, as was witnessed at the Education Conference held on 2nd May 2007 at Brussels.

10.05.2007 Panos South Asia (PSA) is organising a 5-day South Asian regional 'Online Radio Broadcasting Training Workshop' for media and other communication practitioners, from 19-23 June 2007 at its Media Centre in Kathmandu, Nepal. The workshop aims to leverage the benefits that internet offers to radio and the ways of incorporating it into existing media strategies.

10.05.2007 Teachers from the National Institute for Disabled (NID), Khaling and Drukgyel Higher Secondary School have tied up with Media LT, an NGO spearheading ICT access for the visually impaired in Bhutan. The purpose of the training is to enhance their quality of work through Internet access and computer applications.

09.05.2007 The National Centre for Support for Intellectually Impaired Persons “PORAKA” (Message), promoted yesterday, May 8, promoted the national campaign to promote the equality of intellectually impaired persons in Macedonia. The Campaign is a part of the European “2007 – Year of Equal Opportunities for All” campaign.

09.05.2007 The IUSS Pavia, Institute for Advance Study (Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori) announces the start of the enrolment procedure for two Master Studies: Master in Cooperation and Development and Master in Cooperation and International Economic Integration.

09.05.2007 May 17 marks the inception of Information and Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN agency that works to develop telecommunications networks and services to bridge the digital divide. Following the World Summit on the Information Society, the UN has now declared the same date as World Information Society Day.