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Child Laborers Want Education

October 28th, 2010 | by banu | Tags: child laborers, childrens, Compulsory Education Act, Diwali greetings, education, monsoon session., NCE, NGO, parliamentarians, Right of children, Right to education, RTE, Schools for India, schoolsforindia, Sonia Gandhi, Sushma Swaraj, UPA, Usha Verma | Comment |

A group of former child laborers on Wednesday sent Diwali greetings to United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj, adding that parliamentarians should take up the issue of education. They said children like them had their hopes pinned on MPs for effective implementation of ...

Guest Teachers’ Selection at Haryana

October 26th, 2010 | by banu | Tags: appointments, childrens, DEOs, department officials, educational qualifications, Faridabad district, Government schools, guest teachers, Haryana, provision of faculty, school education, Schools for India, schoolsforindia | Comment |

Haryana's school education department on Monday announced that it has started scrutinizing irregularities in guest teacher selections. An education department spokesman said that cases have come to light in Faridabad district where selections were made without following due procedure and some appointments were made in 2008 when a total ban on ...

Education via Mobile

October 22nd, 2010 | by banu | Tags: Abdulla Hashim, Abu Dhabi University, Android phone, BlackBerry, Blackboard Mobile Learn, cell phones, iPad, iPhone, m-education system, students, UAE, United Arab Emirates | Comment |

Students of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will soon be able to access study material and other relevant contents through their cell phones with the launch of the new m-education system. Etisalat announced on Thursday that it has collaborated with Blackboard Inc., a technology-enabled education service provider, to start m-education in ...

Neighborhood Libraries and Reading Rooms to be introduced for Schools

October 18th, 2010 | by banu | Tags: academicians, authors, book policy, children's books, e-books, HRD, I&B, Kapil Sibal, publishers, Round Table, stakeholders, Task Force, Union Minister | Comment |

Union Minister for Human Resource Development (HRD) Kapil Sibal has mooted that there will be a neighborhood book policy in the country. According to Sibal, the aim should be that in the manner of neighborhood schools, there should be neighborhood libraries and reading rooms. He gave this suggestion to the Task ...

Special Kitchen for Haryana Schools

October 12th, 2010 | by banu | Tags: childrens, Education Minister, Geeta Bhukkal, Government schools, Haryana, hygienic food, primary schools, Schools for India, schoolsforindia, special kitchens | Comment |

Government schools in Haryana will now have special kitchens to prepare mid-day meals for students, Education Minister Geeta Bhukkal said here on Sunday. "Instructions have been issued to prepare mid-day meal at the same place for the primary and upper primary schools being run in the same campus," said the minister. "Special ...

The Girl Effect

October 5th, 2010 | by sarnya | Tags: education, girl education, girl efect, Schools, Schools for India, schoolsforindia, women literacy | Comment |

Look at the world around you. Unemployment, racism, injustice, epidemics, poverty etc. etc. Have you ever thought felt sorry for this? Have you ever thought how we can fight against all this? This video has the answer to this question. A small deed has the power to make the whole scene ...

Prime Minister Speech at AIIMS

October 4th, 2010 | by banu | Tags: 38th convocation, academic session, AIIMS, health care, health professionals, India, Manmohan Singh, medical colleges, Prime Minister, public expenditure, Right to education, Schools for India, schoolsforindia | Comment |

Stating that India needs more health professionals, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday said that a scheme has been approved which would help add nearly 5,000 post-graduate seats. "India needs many more health professionals, of different categories, to fill the huge shortfall in the health workforce," the prime minister said, addressing ...

MCD School Student Left Out of CWG

October 1st, 2010 | by banu | Tags: Commonwealth Games, Delhi, Delhi Public School, Mahendra Nagpal, MCD, Municipal Corporation of Delhi, Queen's Baton Relay, Schools for India, schoolsforindia, students, students from MCD | Comment |

Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) leaders have alleged that students from MCD schools have been left out of the Commonwealth Games fervor and celebration. According to MCD officials, none of the students from MCD schools have been invited to be a part of the cultural programmes of the Commonwealth Games. Also, ...

Child Survival Program

September 30th, 2010 | by banu | Tags: AMU, Child Survival, children, Department of Pediatrics, M. Ashraf Malik, malnutrition, Prof. S. Manazir, S. Abrar Hasan, sub-Saharan Africa, UNICEF | Comment |

The Child Survival Program was held recently at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU). The function was supported by the UNICEF and the National rural Health Mission and organized by the Department of Pediatrics of AMU. AMU Registrar V.K. Abdul Jaleel was the chief guest at the occasion. The guests of honor ...

Technology Adoption in Education

September 28th, 2010 | by banu | Tags: cheapest Laptop, education sector, IIT, Intel India, Meghalaya, Praveen Vishakantaiah, Schools for India, schoolsforindia, Shillong, Technology, technology adoption | 1 Comment |

"Technology-adoption in the education sector is vital for its growth. The effort to build the world's cheapest laptop for the students is a step in the right direction," said by Intel India president Praveen Vishakantaiah. The world cheapest Laptop developed by students of India's two leading technology institutes - Indian ...