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Education Policy
- India is a story of gains and gaps: UNICEF Representative
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Aug 07, 2013
Louis-Georges Arsenault, UNICEF India Representative, in an interview with OneWorld South Asia, strongly states child marriage is a big impediment to women's true empowerment. Excerpts from the interview.
[Child marriage] [South Asia] [Children with disabilities] [Child mortality] [India] [Education Policy] [UNICEF] [Child protection] [Education For All] [Child Rights] - Literacy can help fight poverty: United Nations
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Sep 09, 2013
By promoting literacy, we can help millions of people write their own chapter of opportunity in their lives, said Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary-General.
[South Asia] [Literacy] [Education Policy] [Children] [Education] [Education For All] - Tertiary Education in Small States: Planning in the context of globalisation
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Oct 01, 2013
The book outlines some of the strategies, such as regional and international partnerships and the use of information technology for spreading tertiary education.
[UNESCO] [Education Policy] [Education For All] - Addressing India’s skills challenges
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Apr 28, 2008
The ILO and Ministry of Labour and Employment will hold a national consultation on the development of training policy in India during February 20-21 at the capital. This meeting is expected to lay out a roadmap towards developing an employment policy that adresses India's skills challenges.
[Education Policy] - India needs to redefine education strategy: President
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Mar 20, 2013
"The education sector is today confronted by problems relating to both quantity and quality,” said Pranab Mukherjee, the Indian President.
[India] [Education Policy] [Education For All] [Education] [South Asia] - Extremists are afraid of books and pens: Malala
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Jul 15, 2013
At UN, Malala Yousafzai rallied youth to stand up for universal education.
[UN] [Children] [Education Policy] [Malala Yousafzai] [Ban Ki-moon] [UNESCO] - End of poverty possible in our generation: report
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Jan 11, 2013
We seem to be finally gaining on absolute poverty, the report by an NGO asserts, even as we near the 2015 deadline of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
[Clean energy] [Child Rights] [Education] [Health and Nutrition] [Education Policy] [Education For All] [Health MDGs] [Health] [Girl education] [Millennium Development Goals] - India could emerge as skill capital: Vice-President Ansari
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Apr 10, 2013
Skill development is a stupendous challenge, but at the same time offers great opportunity too, said M Hamid Ansari, the Vice-President of India.
[South Asia] [Education] [Education Policy] [India] - Accelerating progress on education
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Jan 08, 2009
Whilst basic education rights are universally recognised, ways of achieving them are highly contextualised. UNICEF’s Developing Rights-Based Education SWAps in South Asia: From Evidence to Action supports creative thinking and suggests how sector-wide approaches can be an instrument to build an inclusive and equitable education system.
[Children] [Education Policy] [South Asia] [Education] - For many girls, ICT is a boring career: study
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Oct 15, 2012
In its endeavour to encourage girls to embrace technology, International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has launched the Tech Needs Girls Prize.
[Development] [Digital divide] [Digital tools] [IT industry] [ICT] [Gender] [Education Policy] - Rural marathon held to promote girls' education in India
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Sep 02, 2014
The marathon Aao Sath Chale (Come, let us walk together), saw participation of more than 1000 sports loving and spirited people.
[Indian Girls] [Education Policy] [Education For All] - Institutionalisation of facilities needed: Disabled students
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Mar 28, 2014
Disabled students from various institutes have called for concrete steps for building a more enabling environment.
[Disability] [South Asia] [Education Policy] [India] - Education in 21st century must be inclusive: Karan Singh
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Sep 29, 2014
Breakthroughs in communication technology have given us immense possibilities in this regard,” says Indian Parliamentarian Dr Karan Singh.
[Education Policy] [Education For All] - ICTs in education: South Asia has a long way to go
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Feb 11, 2013
Intel and UNESCO come together for a South Asia Ministerial Forum that discusses ICTs in education and has invited perspectives from all South Asian countries.
[Education] [Education Policy] [ICTs] [Intel] [CSR] [UNESCO] - Promoting education during emergencies
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Dec 31, 2009
UNICEF’s publication Education in Emergencies in South Asia underlines that schools and other learning spaces are vitally important for all children during disasters and emergencies. Providing individual case studies, it suggests strategies for reducing vulnerabilities and increased enrolment in schools.
[Disasters] [Education Policy] [Rights] [Education] [Children] [South Asia] - Freeing education of financial constraints in South Asia
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May 10, 2010
Education budgeting in Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka, discusses how economic and financial constraints in South Asia have forced governments to adopt cautious policies on public expenditure, especially in education. This work presents diverse experiences of how budgetary procedures are organised and implemented.
[Investments] [Education] [United Nations] [South Asia] [Education Policy] - India needs a productive and committed workforce: Tine Staermose
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Oct 04, 2013
"We are not putting the business-as-usual lens on technical advice for India”, says Tine Staermose, ILO Decent Work Technical Support Team for South Asia and Country Director for India in an interview with UNIC.
[Education] [South Asia] [Education Policy] [Child Rights] [India] [Children] - Tripura is now the most literate state in India
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Sep 10, 2013
Tripura jumped to first position among the states of the country in literacy from the 12th position in the 2001 census.
[Education] [Education Policy] [South Asia] [Literacy] - Access to secondary education still a challenge for girls: UN
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Mar 07, 2012
Access to secondary education still remains a challenge for girls, especially in parts of Africa and Asia, according to a recent gender atlas by UNESCO. The atlas highlights the differences in education between girls and boys in terms of access, participation and progression.
[Africa] [Asia] [Gender] [Education Policy] [United Nations] [Education] - Millions of kids still out of school in Malala’s Pakistan
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Jul 29, 2013
According to a report, out of 120 countries in the world, Pakistan has the second largest number of children out of school (after Nigeria).
[Child Rights] [South Asia] [Education] [Education For All] [Malala Yousafzai] [Education Policy] [Children] - Indian govt to formulate new education policy
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Jul 31, 2014
"The government proposes to formulate a new policy aimed at meeting the challenges posed by lack of quality and research,” said Smriti Irani, India’s HRD minister.
[India] [Education Policy] [Education For All] - Change education pattern for sustainable development: UNESCO chief
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Nov 16, 2012
Irina Bokova, Director General of UNESCO, talks to Ashok Kumar of OneWorld South Asia, at the launch of the UNESCO Chair at TERI University in New Delhi. Bokova explains how the gap between the knowledge and decision making is a big bottleneck in the path towards sustainable development globally.
[Environment] [Education] [India] [United Nations] [Pakistan] [UNESCO] [Education For All] [Irina Bokova] [Bangladesh] [Sustainable Development] [Gender] [Women empowerment] [Education Policy] [sustainability] - UNFPA to launch videos on life- skills education in India
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Aug 01, 2013
The training videos for tutors are intended to improve the quality of teaching and learning.
[Education For All] [Education Policy] [Children] [India] [South Asia] - Nothing more frustrating than being unemployable: Tharoor
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Aug 02, 2013
India’s demographic dividend could turn into a demographic disaster, if millions of young people are not trained to be employable, cautions Shashi Tharoor.
[Education For All] [UNFPA] [Education Policy] [Children] [India] [India school syllabus] [NIOS] [India youth] [India Teachers] [South Asia] - Experts want best practices for systemic reform in India
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Apr 12, 2013
In a three day conference on ‘Transforming Schools for Quality Education’, experts are deliberating on improving the quality of education in India based on the learning’s drawn from best practices.
[Save the Children] [India] [Education] [Education Policy] [South Asia] - Adhocism will ruin Indian school education: Apex court
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May 20, 2013
“We spoil the entire education system by appointing ad-hoc teachers who do not have proper qualification," a two-judge bench of India's Supreme Court said today.
[India] [Education For All] [South Asia] [Education Policy] - Teachers need to be sensitised towards disabled: Indian Minister
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Jan 03, 2014
India’s Minister for Social Justice & Empowerment, Kumari Selja, talks to Ashok Kumar of OneWorld South Asia, at the 15th NCPEDP - Shell Helen Keller Awards-2013 in New Delhi.
[Education Policy] [Teacher Training] [UN] [Kumar Selja] [Disability] [India] [South Asia] [Kumari Selja] - Govt ended discrimination against rural students: SL Prez
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Sep 04, 2014
‘Mahindodaya’ is school development programme which is working to to end discrimination against rural students in the education field.
[Education For All] [Education Policy] [Education for All] [South Asia] [Sri Lanka] - Poor quality education holding back South Asia: report
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Jul 03, 2014
While the South region has made tremendous gains in expanding access to schooling over the past decade, a new report by the World Bank says that poor quality education is holding the region back.
[South Asia] [Education Policy] [Education for All] [India] [Education For All] - High dropout rate in schools a matter of concern: Indian PM
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Feb 06, 2013
The Right to Education needs to be fully utilised so that the country can reap the benefits of its demographic dividend, said the Indian Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh.
[Children] [Manmohan Singh] [Education Policy] [Indian Prime Minister] [Education For All]
