On the eve of the World Intellectual Property Rights Day, an Intellectual Property cum Science and Technology Club was inaugurated at Rayat and Bahra Institute of Engineering and Bio-Technology, Sahauran, on Tuesday. The club aims to spread awareness among the masses about the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). The club has been established in association with Punjab State Council for Science and Technology.

Sarvashiksha Abhiyan would be made more effective by tightening it up further. Principal Secretary School Education Shri M.M. Upadhyaya visited the Rajya Shiksha Kendra today.. He also issued instructions for chalking out a strategy for improvement in various activities and implementing the same.

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Renu Khator became the first woman of Indian origin to be appointed the president of the University of Houston, USA, and the chancellor of the UH system early this year. She will head a system which is considered one of North America's biggest with a faculty of 3,000-plus and over 50,000 students. On a recent visit to India, she talked to Meenakshi Kumar about the differences between American and Indian education system: You studied in India before moving to the US? What major difference do you find between the Indian and American education systems?

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi on Wednesday said no child will be denied admission in primary schools run by it due to non-submission of birth certificate. Provisional admission is being granted to every child seeking admission in primary schools after accepting an affidavit by the guardian, subject to submission of birth certificate later on, civic body officials said.

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The Delhi government's apathy towards thousands of children studying under testing conditions in over 200 schools run directly or aided by it came in for severe criticism from the Supreme Court on Tuesday.

ASSERTING that every child has the right to education and that the parents failing to send their wards to schools should be sent to jail, School Education Minister Vasant Purke said the state government would enact a legislation on 'right to education' and introduce sex education from standard ninth from the ensuing academic year.

UNICEF's post-tsunami three-year Re-Building with Children Recovery Plan, is fast nearing completion. Responding to a request of the Education Ministry, UNICEF committed to building 21 schools islandwide, to replace facilities damaged or destroyed by the tsunami.