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ABIDe's working group on Right To Education Act admin123 - 28-SEP-2010
Got a press release from Abide office. Title: "ABIDe forms working group to review implementation of Right To Education Act and make recommendation to Government".
Press Release |
vinod_shankar - 8-APR-2010
The NIOS - National of Open Schooling offers the following courses through various modes. See PPT attachment for all academic courses except vocational courses. |
“Learn your way” awareness campaign surajnair - 3-APR-2010
The students of CSIM, Bangalore, are organizing “Learn your way”, an awareness campaign for encouraging Open Schooling in Bangalore. This is an event |
Carlton Fire - What can we learn? Ravi_D - 24-FEB-2010
Earthquake in Haiti showed us results of bad construction practices. A 5.1 Richter scale quake is a distinct possibility in Bangalore per this study. |
Don’t teach English to your children in Class I murali772 - 31-JAN-2010
Global research shows that children should learn reading and writing in their mother tongue first. Only after they can read fluently at a minimum of 45-60 words per minute can they absorb what they are reading. Such fluency is most easily achieved in the mother tongue. Once that is established, learning a second language becomes much easier. |
murali772 - 20-JAN-2010
The Supreme Court may have touted English as the flagbearer of knowledge economy but the role of the Queen's language as a "social leveller" is witnessing a renewed push for English education among weaker sections. |
murali772 - 30-DEC-2009
For the faint-hearted, young men hitting their backs with a bunch of knives, tied together with a rope, has always been a visual torture if they ever witnessed one. But that has been always a practice for Muslims during Muharram. |
Urban Disaster/Risk Management Workshop, ESG Vasanthkumar Mysoremath - 4-DEC-2009
Environment Support Group invites your participation in a workshop on Fundamentals of Reducing Risk and Managing Urban Disasters |
murali772 - 15-NOV-2009
Growth accelerated with tentative reforms in 1980, and shot up to 9% after reforms deepened in the current decade. How much lower would infant mortality, illiteracy and poverty have been had India commenced reform a decade earlier, and enjoyed correspondingly faster growth and human development? |
Industry of 'poverty-wallahs' exposed murali772 - 15-NOV-2009
More people on the earth have risen out of poverty in the past 25 years than at any other time in human history, and this has happened primarily because of sustained high economic growth in India and China. |