India

 Education must boost unity, end superstition

Learning in the present social context should lay more stress on inculcating social and ethical values that would bring Indians closer to each other.

Publication Date: 
14/04/1993
Brahm P Gupta
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Children, Technology, Education, India
India

 Building self reliance in children of the street

Butterflies, a non government organisation, is helping street children to organise themselves and operate a restaurant in the Capital's main bus terminus.

Publication Date: 
14/03/1993
Shailendra Kumar
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Development, Pavement Dwellers, Children, Education, NGO, India, Delhi
Industry

 Replacing the parent

IN THE latest round of the unending debate on the effects of television on children, a British report states middle-class primary school beginners are unable. to read because they cannot

Publication Date: 
14/03/1993
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Children, Video, TV, Education, United Kingdom (UK)
Environment

 Not all can throb to the music of mathematics

MATHEMATICS is a language whose beauty can be appreciated only by those who know it. Consider Euler's famous relationship, ei = -1 (check with original). While mathematicians would find it a

Publication Date: 
30/01/1993
Bibek Debroy
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Science, Education
India

 The merit factor

THE SUPREME Court, in its judgement on the controversial Mandal Commission recommendations, upholds "merit" as the preferable yardstick for admission and recruitment to the scientific and technical

Publication Date: 
30/12/1992
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Education, Public Participation, India, Delhi
Biodiversity

 Teaching people green rights

Many groups across the country are working to educate the people on the importance of the laws that govern people's rights to natural resources.

Publication Date: 
30/12/1992
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Displacement, Rehabilitation, Education, Human Rights
India

 Novel approach to primary education catches on

New instruction methods have resulted in efficient primary schools in rural Andhra Pradesh, posing a challenge to the approaches adopted by the government.

Publication Date: 
14/12/1992
C Lakshmana Rao
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Rural Habitat, Children, Education, India, Andhra Pradesh
India

 Children of the earth, worshippers of nature

Rigoberta Menchu, a Guatemalan human rights activist and peasant leader, was awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize. Menchu was witness to the massacre of her entire family at the hands of the Guatemalan army. In this excerpt from her testimony, Menchu des

Publication Date: 
29/11/1992
Rigoberta Menchu
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Children, Education, Human Rights, South America
Environment

 Who will help her learn?

Merely providing schools is not enough to educate the more than 197.34 million illiterate women in India. Far too often, girls have to drop out of school to help their overworked mothers. But female literacy is crucial to a nation"s development and ensuri

Publication Date: 
14/11/1992
Anil Agarwal
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Rural Habitat, Women, Children, Education, CSE
India

 Literacy as a yardstick of social health

THE LITERACY level of a country both reflects and influences its economic and social status. It also has a close bearing with a country's population growth rate. In India, the Kerala example shows

Publication Date: 
Saturday, November 14, 1992
Down to Earth
Tags:
Women, Economic Development, Education, India, Kerala, Nagaland, Statistics

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