Full coverage: Education

25.04.2008 With BBC World Trust launching its most ambitious project 'English in ActionÂ’, Bangladeshis will soon be able to learn the global language through television and mobiles. This will help all sections of society acquire English language skills and increase their prospects in the job market.

25.04.2008 With BBC World Trust launching its most ambitious project called ‘English in Action’, Bangladeshis will soon be able to learn a truly global language on television and mobiles. This will help all sections of society acquire English language skills and increase their prospects in the job market.

24.04.2008 WASHINGTON, Apr 24 (OneWorld) - Recording artist Shakira and UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown joined forces this week with millions of students and teachers around the globe calling for redoubled efforts to allow children to attend school.

24.04.2008 Even as UNESCOÂ’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 nationally sponsored Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan. Exclusion and discrimination remain core challenges as millions of children remain outside its fold, is the verdict.

23.04.2008 UNESCOÂ’s Global Monitoring Report: Education for All by 2015? Will we make it? provides a mid-term assessment of where the world stands on its commitment to provide basic education for all. The report stresses on the need to make education more inclusive through adequately financed and targeted measures.

23.04.2008 UNESCOÂ’s month-long online discussion on the theme of inclusive education is currently on. A DVD related to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is also being launched today at its headquarters as part of series of events marking the Global Action Week 2008.

22.04.2008

22.04.2008 Through the stories of the Rabban and Karana families, Adam Doster relates the immense difficulties facing Iraqi refugees -- including the few who manage to receive asylum in the United States.

22.04.2008 Last week policymakers from South Asia gathered at Bangladeshi capital to discuss social protection strategies for children on health and basic education. Government representatives, international NGOs, researchers and experts shared initiatives and identified methods to secure the future of children.

21.04.2008 Meski diperintahkan UU Kehutanan 1999, PP Perlindungan Hutan 2004, maupun Qanun Kehutanan 14/2002 agar menetapkan Hutan Adat Aceh, tapi Pemda NAD hingga kini belum melaksanakannya

21.04.2008 A community radio show by college students in Chennai in southern India is bringing alive characters from neighbouring slums to help women deal with issues of health and education. The use of local Tamil dialect is just one of the ways to reach out to its audience in the slums.

20.04.2008 Kehidupan korban pelanggaran HAM pun sangat memprihatinkan. Mereka pun rata-rata bekerja sebagai buruh. Saat ini masih banyak anak-anak dari korban pelanggaran HAM yang putus sekolah karena penghasilan orangtuanya sebagai buruh tidak mencukupi. Karena itu, anak-anak mereka berhak atas pendidikan yang layak, kesehatan, tempat tinggal yang layak, yang semuanya harus diberikan pemerintah secara gratis.

18.04.2008 NEW YORK, Apr 18 (OneWorld) - A nonprofit environmental group is calling on one of the country's largest textbook publishers to correct a school book that it says contains a discussion of global warming "so biased and misleading it would humble a tobacco industry PR man."

18.04.2008 Etelä-Sudanin koulujen penkeille odotetaan tänä vuonna 1,3 miljoonaa lasta, kun vuonna 2005 vastaava luku oli 340 000. Sisällissodasta pitkään kärsineen maan koulutustilanne paranee muun muassa YK:n tukeman Go to School -aloitteen ansiosta, joka polkaistiin käyntiin vuonna 2006.

16.04.2008 Project Gutenberg (PG), an online source of books is a unique initiative to combine traditional printing with digital technology. Gregory Newby, the CEO, PG and Michael Hart, the founder-editor of the project highlight their new ventures and overall management of e-Books.

13.04.2008

11.04.2008 In a landmark judgment, IndiaÂ’s Supreme Court has upheld the law that provides reservation in admissions in central government educational institutions to backward castes. With this the share of reserved seats will be close to 50%. However, the affluent sections from the disadvantaged groups will not be able to gain the preferential treatment.

11.04.2008 An Indian IT giant NIIT and Confederation of Indian Industries will together create information communication technology infrastructure in Africa to foster software talent in the continent. As per an agreement, the former will provide high quality educational resources and the latter will facilitate internship with Indian industry.

11.04.2008 Using Edu-tainment for Distance Education in Community Work is a guide to creating distance education radio, TV and internet programmes in the Edu-tainment format. Clear and concise, the book is a valuable resource for NGOs, donors, programme managers, writers and producers working in developing countries.

11.04.2008 Perun kouluissa podetaan kovaa pulaa pätevistä opettajista. Opettajantutkinnon suorittaneille järjestettiin hiljattain kokeet yli 20 000 avoimen viran täyttämiseksi. Kokeen läpäisi kuitenkin vain 151 hakijaa.