Posts : education

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

Courses offered by NIOS

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.

English as social leveller

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.

Refreshing evolution

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

The immense cost of Socialism

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.