innovative practices

26.12.2006 For activist Nirmala Purandare, training barefoot teachers in Maharashtra does not stop at education. It’s an attempt to usher in a social revolution

08.11.2006 For 20 years, Dr PK Sarkar has been publishing bulletins and magazines to provide doctors and patients unbiased and objective information on drugs and rational therapy. His journals are fiercely independent, even if that means a hand-to-mouth existence

08.06.2006 Asha works with many schools that attempt to provide quality holistic education to children from poor economic backgrounds. These schools come under a special category called Alternative Education schools (Alt-ed schools) because they seek to explore different alternatives in education.

27.05.2006 A residential school for girls, in the shadow of the peak of Nanda Devi, has been graduating confident young women from the girls of Kumaon hills. Run as per the ideas of Nai Taleem of Gandhiji, Lakshmi Ashram was set up by Sarlaben – a friend and follower of Gandhiji – in ~1964.

01.05.2006 Doon School is known as the alma mater of many a celebrity and counted among the best residential schools of the country but villagers of Fatehgram will remember its students and teachers for entirely different reasons.

20.04.2006 This innovative project, jointly launched by Salesians Society and Navjeevan Trust with the active support of the Chandigarh Administration.

05.04.2006 Around a thousand schoolchildren availed themselves of the first chance to respond to the letter “From India with love” at the Qadhafi Stadium on Tuesday. Six to thirteen year old children from 13 Lahore schools entered the stadium carrying placards with slogans like “Forget the past, remember the present and work for future,” and “Let’s be friends for life,”.

04.04.2006 The small village of Salevara in Chattisgarh might not have an English teacher in its only school but that has not stopped the enterprising locals from learning the language as they have employed a device to overcome this shortcoming.

03.11.2005 These children of poor families, residing in Katasala village of Agartala, are the first of the last three generations to attend school regularly. The school authorities had assigned the students of different classes to carry out a literacy campaign, in the localities where they reside, as part of golden jubilee celebrations of the school and to submit reports of their achievements......

20.10.2005 The formulation of the Baljyothi project (working in 800 urban slums of Hyderabad and Secunderabad) in Andhra Pradesh along with other efforts such as the M.V. Foundation’s reject the official definition of child labour and endorse the view that all children out of school are child labourers.

14.10.2005 Given the inexplicable neglect of elementary education and particularly education of the girl child? In post-independence India for which the nation is paying a heavy price, the road to gender parity is likely to prove long and arduous

06.10.2005 NIIT experience shows that without any adult support children got to the grips with the technology, even with their limited understanding of English. Sugata Mitra, chairman, NIIT say that "Groups of children given adequate digital resources can meet the objectives of primary education on their own - most of the objectives."

13.09.2005 The Pardada Pardadi Educational Society (PPES) runs an educational program in India (Anoopshahar) for the rural girl child from economically and socially subordinate classes. The education practices provide girls with an employment opportunity and confidence to pursue other careers.

10.08.2005 Akanksha began as an idea to give slum children time and space to simply be kids, to laugh and play. It has evolved into a unique learning environment that not only provides opportunities for them to gain employment but also in the process teaches tolerance and a broader view of the world. Jemma Purdey reports.

09.08.2005 Community participation in the karnataka rural schools improved the quality

08.08.2005 Once the most innovative woman chief executive in Indian industry, Shukla Bose founder CEO of the Parikrma Humanity Foundation, Bangalore has established several English medium primary schools for slum children which offfer the hope of a break with the inegalitarian school system of the past century