IT professionals launch new education website

A group of young IT professionals has launched a new software-based website intending to enhance the quality of the education system and to enrich campus life in an innovative way."(http://www.backyard.in) is an online educational cum social networking service like Facebook. It will help everyone in an educational institution — including the principal, administrators, faculties and students — in enhancing the quality of education and the software will tie the whole college in a logical thread," Sarathi Sabyasachi Sahoo, the leader of the group,...

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Education standards dropping in India despite funding: Survey

NEW DELHI: Standards of education in rural India have declined almost every year since 2009 despite huge government investments, one of the organizers of a major new study said on Thursday.The annual survey by Indian education research group Pratham showed that the proportion of children aged about 10 who are able to perform a basic reading task dropped from 52.8 per cent in 2009 to 47 per cent in 2013.Rukmini Banerji from Pratham said although the latest 2013 figures were little changed from 2012, the drop in standards over the longer period...

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8-point plan to improve education

The new district superintendent of education (DSE) in Gumla has directed all area officers and block education extension officers to ensure implementation of an eight-point plan for quality education in government primary and middle schools.The eight-point plan lays down strict guidelines for teachers. Teachers will have to reach school by 9.30 am and will leave after 4pm.Classes will start from 10.10am and teachers have to prepare lesson plan.Special classes on Hindi, English, Mathematics and Science will be taken four days a week while Hindi...

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Centre mulls $3 billion fund for Muslims' education

The Centre on Saturday said it will soon announce a special fund to the tune of $3 billion for uplift of the Muslim people by providing infrastructure, mainly for education."We need infrastructure. Indian Muslims need education and for that we need infrastructure. Currently we lack in infrastructure," Union minister for minority affairs K Rahman Khan said here."We are working on to create a fund of $2-3 billion, which will be around Rs 10,000-15,000 crore. Even if only one per cent of Indian...

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Imparting sex education tough for govt school teachers

Striking harmony between the traditional cultural values and the need of the hour regarding comprehensive sexual and reproductive health education is proving to be a tough task for the teachers at the government schools, who have to overcome their own inhibitions before talking to the students. An assessment spanning over a year, was done by a Delhi-based organisation MAMTA, of the teachers' participation and delivering comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) through Adolescent Education Programme in as many as 10 government schools in the district....

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Intl Meet on Transnational Education from Tomorrow

An international meet on transnational education will be organised here from January 3 to 5. Chief Minister Oommen Chandy will inaugurate the meet to be organised by the Kerala State Higher Educational Council (KSHEC).Education Minister P K Abdu Rabb and University of Delhi Vice-Chancellor Dinesh Singh will be among those present at the inauguration.Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor will release the first issue of KSHEC journal ‘Higher Education for the future’, KSHEC executive vice-chairman T P Sreenivasan said.The...

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Bihar to Britain: a unique journey for Dame Asha Khemka

From the small, sleepy town of Sitamarhi in Bihar, it has been a unique journey for Asha Khemka, a Nottinghamshire-based educationist who arrived in this country with her family in 1978 without any English language skills and went on to change the lives of thousands of British students.Awarded often for her work in the field of education, Khemka was last night honoured with one of Britain’s top civilian awards, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, which is the female equivalent of knighthood. She was awarded the OBE (Order of the...

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