Education

No kidding

COMMUNICATING with children is no easy task -- writing books for them is even harder. In a conversation with a child, there is scope to answer the hundreds of questions that are asked. But a story

Publication Date:

29/06/1994

Author(s): John Norton

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

3

Issue:

19940630

pp:

0

Tags:

Children, Video, Education

India

Counting on origami

The Japanese art of folding paper into decorative shapes empowers tribals with the knowledge of mathematics

Publication Date:

30/05/1994

Author(s): Rimjhim Jain

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

3

Issue:

19940531

pp:

0

Tags:

Tribals, Education, Japan, India

India

Literacy on the move

A programme to provide education to the nomadic Gujjars is showing encouraging results and also checking their exploitation

Publication Date:

14/05/1994

Author(s): Anju Sharma

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

2

Issue:

19940515

pp:

0

Tags:

Gujjar, Education, India

India

Tongue twisting in easy steps

A software package allows material in unfamiliar Indian languages to be read in 10 others

Publication Date:

14/04/1994

Author(s): Rakesh Kalshian

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Education, India, Computers

India

Knowledge without frontiers

"THE international mobility of students is a massive phenomenon, " says the World Science Report 1993. Out of a total of 61 million students in the world, about 2 per cent (1.2 million) study in

Publication Date:

Wednesday, March 30, 1994

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

Issue:

pp:

Tags:

Education, Statistics

India

Wiz on wheels

School kids in rural Tamil Nadu have, computer education rolling their way. A computer-on-wheels programme,. devised by Anna University in Madras, is teaching three computer languages - Basic, D

Publication Date:

30/03/1994

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Education, India, Computers

India