Full Coverage: Education

30.01.2008

28.01.2008 About 30% of schools in India are without permanent structures, about 14% have no drinking water facility and about 60% have no separate toilets for girls, according to the latest official figures. It is obvious that lack of infrastructure has impact on quality of education.

23.01.2008 A Dalit-centric policy framework can help the disadvantaged community to have a greater say in local and national programmes and their implementation, says a report released this month by the peopleÂ’s campaign Wada Na Todo Abhiyan.

23.01.2008 For parents grappling with poverty, sending kids to school is difficult; for teachers it is hard to keep them at school when they are always hungry. Nepal is faced with a problem of children either not enrolling or dropping out due to widespread hunger.

22.01.2008 An initiative to boost computer literacy in southern IndiaÂ’s Kerala has achieved a new milestone under an ambitious scheme that has provided a software to 15,000 primary school children in their mother tongue. Learning computer skills in oneÂ’s own language greatly enhances the grasping power.

22.01.2008 An initiative to boost computer literacy in Kerala in southern India has achieved a new milestone under an ambitious scheme that provides a software to 15,000 primary school children in their mother tongue. Learning computer skills in oneÂ’s own language will greatly enhance the grasping power of these children.

21.01.2008 A comprehensive data pool on gender issues was launched by the SAARC Secretary General at the inaugural of the recent Sixth South Asian Regional Ministerial Conference by UNIFEM at New Delhi. The Gender Database will provide records on violence against women and trafficking in the South Asia region, and on womenÂ’s health and HIV/AIDS.

20.01.2008 Young children are forced into labour to produce unbaked bricks at nearly 6,000 brick kilns in Pakistan. Despite laws banning forced labour, the country has over 1.7 million bonded labourers, many of them children, says the International Labour Organisation.

17.01.2008 The Socio Economic Development Trust has succeeded in bringing thousands of dropouts in villages of western India back to school. Bal Panchayats or village-level children's organisations have played a prominent role not only in mobilising kids and their parents, but also teachers and officials to be responsive to their needs.

14.01.2008 The designers of the "$100 Laptop" are driving modern technologies to be more accessible and relevant to the vast billions who previously lacked access.

14.01.2008 Critical of its existing policies, the Afghan government is now trying to transform its religious schools by widening their syllabus. The move is seen as an attempt to regain its past historic glory as students will be taught history, geography, science, languages - and computer studies, apart the teachings of Islam.

07.01.2008 Providing free midday meals to all primary school children is one of the most ambitious initiatives in India. Despite the complaints of gaps in delivery and shortfall in supply, the midday meal scheme in Rajasthan has succeeded in improving nutritional status of school going children and enhanced school attendance and enrolment.

03.01.2008 Child soldiers returning to their homes in Nepal face difficulties in rehabilitating themselves, say local NGOs. Fears of torture and abductions by Maoist rebels and government forces continue to haunt these children, who are in dire need of psycho-social support from their communities.