Education

Late click off

The information technology (IT) revolution has finally reached Afghanistan. The country's first batch of IT students recently graduated from Kabul University with industry-standard certificates in

Publication Date:

14/05/2003

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20030515

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0

Tags:

Education, Afghanistan, Computers

India

NCERT textbook: An excercise in multi culturalism

The new National Council of Educational Research and Training ncert textbook on mathematics for class 1 is a welcome change from the earlier dull version. The layout is more attractive and multicoloured illustrations abound. But there is a major drawbac

Publication Date:

29/04/2003

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Education, India

Air Pollution

Back to school

The Afghanistan government and UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund) will begin a new training programme for teachers before the new school year begins next month. Four million Afghan children are

Publication Date:

14/03/2003

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20030315

pp:

0

Tags:

Development, Women, Education, Governance, Afghanistan

India

Buttressing the Raj

What were The Royal Indian Engineering College grads really up to? A history...

Publication Date:

27/02/2003

Author(s): Christopher Hill, Arjun Mandaiker

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Architecture, Information, Education, India

India

Learning games

Educational tools need not be the prerogative of the privileged

Publication Date:

14/01/2003

Author(s): Vibha Varshney

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20030115

pp:

0

Tags:

Technology, Research, Education, Delhi

India

Down in the doldrums

The state of India's science research

Publication Date:

30/12/2002

Author(s): T V Jayan

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20021231

pp:

0

Tags:

Research, Information, Education, China, South Korea, Brazil, India

India

Facilitating farmers

http://www.echoupal.com Harnessing technology for the Indian farmer. That is what this unique web-based initiative of ITC's International Business Division wishes to do. Combining a broad set of

Publication Date:

29/11/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Farmers, Information, Education, India, Internet

Biodiversity

Drumming it in

Should local communities pay for Western notions of global benefit ?

Publication Date:

14/11/2002

Author(s): Anju Sharma

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20021115

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Education, Global, Biodiversity

Agriculture

Protecting the nation's patents

V K GUPTA , director, National Institute of Science Communication NISCOM , tells VIBHA VARSHNEY how they set about building the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library TKDL . Gupta is hopeful that TKDL will vastly reduce recurrence of patent fiascos of

Publication Date:

30/10/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20021031

pp:

0

Tags:

Traditional Knowledge, Patents, Information, Education, United States Of America (US)

India