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 …
Creating basic infrastructure in schools was the most important goal of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), the government's most ambitious scheme to provide education to all children in the 6-14 age group. Reports, however, point out that the government has a long way to go as a vast number of …
Many a student nightmare originates in chemistry labs. Titration is one of them. It may be a big word but it's a simple process to detect a solution's potency. It requires sucking in acid through a pipette (a thin glass tube) to measure it. A measured amount of a solution …
KOLKATA, Feb. 11: The department of Radiophysics and Electronics of Calcutta University will function as a networking centre of University Grant Commission (UGC) in Physical Science. The decision was taken at a meeting of the UGC held in New Delhi last week. UGC will provide Rs 5 crore in five …
Jadavpur University (JU) has once again topped among 11 private and state engineering institutions of Bengal in implementing projects under the World Bank-sponsored Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (Tequip). JU's engineering and technology faculty, following an appraisal of the performance of the 11 institutes, has scored 916 out of 950. …
A Mobile Learning Centre under the 'Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan' was flagged off by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit in New Delhi on Sunday. NEW DELHI: Two "chalta phirta schools' or mobile learning centres equipped with computers, televisions, learning kits and books were launched by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit at her residence …
Policy initiatives by the administration have put the resource-rich East Godavari district on the road to all-round development. Considered the rice granary of India, East Godavari district has always been in the forefront of all-round economic development, setting itself as a role model for several districts not just in Andhra …
Corporate social responsibility, once a do-gooding sideshow, is now seen as mainstream. But as yet too few companies are doing it well, says Daniel Franklin (interviewed here) IN THE lobby at the London headquarters of Marks & Spencer, one of Britain's leading retailers, the words scroll relentlessly across a giant …
Education is a basic human right. Yet across the world there are vast disparities in education based on wealth, gender, location, language and other markers for disadvantage. These disparities threaten to undermine efforts to achieve the six Education for All (EFA) goals agreed by over 160 governments in 2000. Failure …
The paper presents the socioeconomic profile of the people around proposed mining areas of Mahanadi Coalfields Limited at Talcher and Ib valley coal mine areas to generate base line data for future intervention. The Quality Of Life (QOL) has also been indexed in a 0-10 point scale based on some …
This Report comes on the heels of the landmark Second Session of the Conference of State Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption in Bali, Indonesia, which is aiding countries in the implementation of their anti-corruption efforts. The United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC) is the first legally binding, …
The Chhattisgarh government has decided not to involve school teachers in extra duties other than teaching. The decision comes as a response to the education department's proposal to free about 160,000 government school teachers from additional burdens such as health campaigns, census surveys, relief work during calamities and preparation of …
