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
Anju Sharma
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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
Rakesh Kalshian
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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
Down to Earth
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
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Tags:
Education, India, Computers
India

 Value addition

A Pune teacher develops a calculator made out of cardboard for as little as Rs 15, which can even handle mindbending logarithms.

Publication Date: 
14/03/1994
Amit Mitra
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Children, Education, India
Economy

 Death of a king

A street play in Delhi urges people to stop poaching.

Publication Date: 
27/02/1994
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Poaching, Education, Delhi
Environment

 Menageries with messages

Zoos have evolved from being mere sources of entertainment to educational centres.

Publication Date: 
27/02/1994
Rita Anand
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Zoos, Education
India

 Doctoring reservation policy

Confusing admissions rules afflict India's premier medical institute.

Publication Date: 
14/02/1994
Rimjhim Jain, Sudeep Mukhia
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Tags:
Health Care, Education, India
India

 Learning Sanskrit on computers

A software programme project that will be a boon to those who want to learn Sanskrit is threatened by a lack of funds.

Publication Date: 
14/02/1994
Rimjhim Jain
Down to Earth
Tags:
Education, India, Computers
India

 Targeting Delhi

The National Literacy Mission (NLM) plans to lead Delhi's 2.48 million illiterates "from darkness into light". Besides reading and writing, the mission will focus on sex education, AIDS awareness,

Publication Date: 
14/02/1994
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Tags:
Education, India, Delhi

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