The report presents a mixed picture. Over the past 25 years, there have been notable improvements in child well-being in the group of countries examined in this report: steady decline in child mortality, overall reduction in adolescent suicide and increase in school completion rates. But the last five years have …
India among the first few countries in the world to implement a broad-based counter-cyclic policy package to respond to the negative fallout of the global slowdown. The Advance Estimates for Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth for 2009-10 pegged at 7.2 per cent. The final figure expected to be higher when …
New Delhi: The notification on the Right to Education is likely to be issued soon as most of preparatory work that has delayed it is nearly over. Even the Planning Commission has promised a big outlay for RTE that would kickstart the historic legislation. The HRD ministry had demanded Rs …
The authors explore how school policies influence the environmental impacts of school commutes. The research is motivated by increased interest in school choice policies (in part because of the U.S.
NARAYAN BARETH JAIPUR There is not a single house in the village which has not sent its girls to study in schools Though girls are often asked to stay home instead of enrolling in school, a village called Dungero Ki Tala in the border district of Barmer has shown the …
With the Budget 2010-11 preparations in full swing, there is a growing realisation within the Manmohan Singh government that its flagship programmes, including the much-touted Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) are performing much below par with the ministries concerned in some cases not …
The notification of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 depends on how soon an acceptable formula for sharing the financial burden between the centre and states is worked out and the model rules are drafted. The committee formulating the model rules could learn from states …
THE group of ministers headed by agriculture minister Sharad Pawar has cleared the proposed legislation to make accreditation mandatory for institutes and to set up education tribunals to adjudicate on all education-related disputes. A third bill to check malpractice in education institutes was not taken up because defence minsiter A …
Punjab, HP miss bus in phase 1; Haryana gets lone project Punjab and Himachal Pradesh have failed to make it to the first list of 19 states chosen by the government to start adult literacy classes under the all-new Sakshar Bharat Mission, which the Prime Minister launched in September last. …
The "Annual Status of Education Report (ASER)-2009" has revealed that the standard of school education was not up to the mark in rural India and claimed that 50 per cent of children in these areas were at least three-grade level behind where they need to be. The report, prepared by …
WITH 96% children of rural India in the age group 6-14 now enrolled in schools, the government appears to have beaten the odds in the numbers game. However, providing quality education to them remains dismal. The Annual Status of Education Report 2009 brought out by a network of civil society …
Mahim Pratap Singh Chhatarpur/Bhopal: While Bundelkhand is usually referred to as a grossly under-developed region of Madhya Pradesh, a village in Chhattarpur district might just qualify as
Gokul Chandrasekar | ENS SECOND generation victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy are in town to urge Anna University to return the Rs 5 lakh sponsorship obtained from Dow Chemicals, the company that presently owns the Union Carbide factory that caused the gas disaster in 1984. "Accepting Dow's sponsorship will …
With Bihar reeling under severe cold conditions, the state human resource development (HRD) department on Tuesday ordered closure of all government schools in the state till January 15. The Patna administration in a separate directive issued on Tuesday ordered closure of all government and private schools of the district till …
The Maoists have been at the helm of the movement in Lalgarh right from its inception. Even as they organised the resistance to state repression, they put in place, at a rudimentary level, an alternative programme of development based on the people
New Delhi: The Centre on Tuesday informed the Supreme Court that the Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act to provide free and compulsory education to children in the age group of 6 to 14 will be enforced in April/May after the Rules were put in place. Solicitor General Gopal …
