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 …
china has promised massive financial aid to Africa. At a two-day meet in Beijing, attended by 35 of the 53 African nations, Chinese president Hu Jintao pledged to double China's aid to Africa from its 2006 level by 2009. Speaking at the conference's opening on November 4, he promised us …
• Washington DC-based Energy Action Coalition is teaming with MTV to encourage US university students to demand their schools get more energy from renewable energy sources. Schools will compete for prizes including "green'-friendly renovations of their student lounges. • Chinese film Sanxia Haoren (Still Life), about the giant Three Gorges …
NP-NSPE, 2006 seeks to address two of the most pressing problems for the majority of children in India, namely, hunger and education by: Improving the nutritional status of children in classes I – V in Government, Local Body and Government aided schools, and EGS and AIE centres; Encouraging poor children, …
While promoting computer literacy and Internet access in developing countries, multinational technology companies are inadvertently contributing to a public health crisis. Several initiatives backed with billions of dollars in new investments, are focused on getting the Internet to one billion new computers in remote villages without access to electricity. Companies …
The problems and the difficulties being faced by the Scheduled Tribes and tribal areas in the country, which are sought to be addressed by the National Tribal Policy 2006, are likely to undergo a change with the passage of time. The issues which are besetting the Scheduled Tribes and the …
The anti-reservation agitation sparked off by Union human resources development minister Arjun Singh's announcement of an increase in reservations in institutions of higher education, including medical colleges, highlighted several issues. If some of these have to do with the overall availability of seats in medical colleges
Global patterns of funding clearly show that medical education remains very much a state-dominated sector. In countries belonging to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
one of the catch-phrases during the anti-reservation agitation was: "A generation awakens'. Actually taken from a popular Bollywood film, the slogan was emblazoned on banners and T-shirts worn by students from elite institutions. Yes, a generation had certainly awakened. Our babalogs who never thought beyond cushy jobs and attendant comforts …
a body representing the world's leading science academies have issued yet another appeal, albeit veiled, warning against teaching an obscurantist theory about the origin of life
