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- Schooling language at fault, says report
- A report released by Minority Rights Group International says millions of poor indigenous and minority children in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan are ...
- No education for all in India
- Even as UNESCO’s latest report pans India for lagging behind in the race for achieving education for all by 2015, experts gathered in the capital weigh up the ...
- Education must to end child labour
- Celebrating June 12 as the World Day Against Child Labour, a Delhi-based NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan drew attention to the global call for education to end all ...
- Barefoot teachers usher in change
- 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 ...
- Making villages child-labour free
- Child friendly villages or the Bal Mitra Gram, an initiative of the Delhi based NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan, have helped children take charge of development ...
- Indian children make rights manifesto for elections
- As India gets on election mode, children from various parts of the country assembled at the capital to produce a manifesto demanding protection of their basic ...
- The green house of earth bags
- Architects in western India have devised a novel way to construct inexpensive and eco-friendly homes using earth bags, barbed wire and bamboo sheets. Having ...
- Where the mind is without fear
- Plan's new report, Learn without fear is an extension of the global campaign to end violence in schools where millions of children are subjected ...
- Rise in disability affects education in Afghanistan
- Over years landmine blasts have left hundreds of thousands of children disabled in Afghanistan. Lack of resources and political will have prevented an ...
- India’s disabled most excluded from education: World Bank
- Lack of disabled-friendly infrastructure and tardy approach towards an inclusive education system forces India’s disabled children stay out of school. A World ...
- Opening a constructive doorstep for children
- While parents construct buildings, children learn to count numbers and read alphabets in this western Indian city of Pune. The Doorstep School initiative is ...
- Drought forcing children drop out of school
- In northern Afghanistan, a considerable drop in school attendance has been noticed. Although no precise numbers are available, a number of children are ...
- Reaching out to the excluded
- Save the Children’s new publication: Making schools inclusive – How change can happen is about the role of nongovernmental organisations in ...
- India clears right to education bill
- Six years after an amendment was made in the Indian Constitution, the union cabinet cleared the Right to Education Bill. It is now soon to be tabled in ...
- Sketching for social change
- Pioneered in India by World Comics Finland, grassroots comics is fast emerging as an important tool for spreading messages on issues like family planning, ...
- Afghan government fights war with development
- Amidst the fear of Taliban and insurgent fighting, the government is seeking people's help in fighting illiteracy. A school functioning in the southern region ...
- Getting girls to village schools
- The Mahila Shikshan Kendras (MSKs), running in nine states in India, have brought a change in attitudes among young village girls. These centres provide ...
- UN helps young girls get decent education
- In Humla district, one of the poorest places in Nepal, young girls are valued more as labourers for augmenting the family income than sent to schools. But now ...
- Tackling inequities in education
- Despite the efforts to improve access to education, inequalities are still entrenched around the globe, notes UNESCO’s latest Education For All Global ...
- Ford Foundation fellowships 2009
- The Ford Foundation invites applications latest by November 15, 2008 for its International Fellowships Programme 2009 seeking to build a new ...
- Indian village Stands Up to Take Action
- In the fringes of the capital of India resides a small village without any basic facilities. Tired of unkept promises by political leaders it decided to Stand ...
- Amnesty rally calls for safe schools for girls
- Hundreds of students, teachers and activists marched in a recent nationwide rally in India organised by the human rights body to demand access to safe ...
- Spend more on education, Indian students tell government
- The United Nations Millennium Campaign's global Stand Up and Take Action programme this year enthused many in India to come together and demand action on MDGs. ...
- One laptop per child benefits Nepal
- With their little green laptops, students in Nepal now find their English and Math lessons more interactive. Facilitated by Open Learning Nepal with support ...
- Sugar schools
- A special effort is being made in western India to ensure that children of migrant sugarcane workers don’t miss out on basic education. Makeshift schools have ...
- IT initative to expand digital literacy in western India
- In a move to fulfill the manpower needs of a thriving software industry in the state, a public limited company plans to set up 1,000 IT Gyan Kendras in western ...
- Preparing the canvas for literate India
- Artistes from all over India came together for an exhibition titled Anantaa – the eternal legends. The four day exhibition in New Delhi was hosted by ...
- Young Afghans learn amidst conflict
- For the young boys and girls of Afghanistan, it has always been a war zone. However, an NGO run by a local doctor in the country’s eastern region has changed ...
- Building an inclusive knowledge society
- UNESCO supported publication, Mapping media education policies in the world, gives a comprehensive view on the subject. It stresses on the ...
- Demystifying science through toys
- Arvind Gupta, based in western India, is a qualified engineer who quit a lucrative MNC job to make toys out of scrap to help students understand the basic ...
