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Comprehensive policy required for health, education services 05/28/2007 This article articulates the need for funders and aid donors to rework their polices on long-term commitments for supporting national plans on health and education as the services are not getting delivered properly. Read more Related: [Education] [Health] [Governance] [MDGs] Image: Need for a strong delivery mechanism © Internews Network, Inc.

Entry age to nursery class- No controversy please 02/20/2007 The problem lies altogether with the incorrect understanding of the concept of pre-primary education. It is submitted that pre-primary education is in fact not a formal education as is commonly understood but is only a play way education. It is well known fact that the children are sent to play way schools as early as of two years of age and the same is gaining ground. Read more Related: [Development] [Children] [Education] [Governance] [MDGs] Image: Bambini afghani - da Save the Children

Universalising Basic Services 02/14/2007 The state of California in the United States has for a while been the standard bearer of policy measures that reduce state responsibility in critical areas that were typically the responsibility of public provision earlier. The privatisation of electricity utilities was one infamous example, in which California led the world and ended up providing a textbook case of how not to privatise power distribution. Read more Related: [MDGs] [Development] [Education] [Poverty] [Health] Image: One man's queue is another's experience © Peter Till / Resurgence

Education preserving elitism in India ? 02/06/2007 Delhi’s (and India’s) public schools are actually private schools. Getting access there is no less a achievement than tackling the IIT’s JEE. Perhaps no where is this more true than in the Nation’s capital , where even getting your child into a kindergarten class is so nightmarish that they are governed by court directives and the admissions process is monitored by the Delhi High Court. Read more Related: [Development] [Children] [Education] [International Cooperation] [Globalization] [Governance] [MDGs] Image: © Amnesty International

Assessing early childhood care and education 02/01/2007 The first Education for All (EFA) goal calls for ?expanding and improving comprehensive early childhood care and education (ECCE), especially for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children?. Enrolment in ECCE programmes has tripled since 1970, but access remains limited in most developing countries. Children most exposed to malnutrition and preventable diseases are least likely to have access. Read more Related: [Development] [Children] [Education] [MDGs] Image: Da Save The Children

Contracting out does not work in the social sector: Madhav Chavan 01/22/2007 PRATHAM’S goal is to ensure that ‘every child is in school -- and is learning well’. Over the last nine years, the NGO claims to have reached out to a million children. Though local governments, citizens and local corporates assist it in its endeavours, the ICICI Bank is performing a lead role. For the second consecutive year the NGO has come out with Annual Status of Education Report (ASER). Rajiv Tikoo of The Financial Express interviews founder trustee Madhav Chavan. Excerpts Read more Related: [Development] [Education] [Human Rights] [Governance] [MDGs] Image: Bringing sustainable development into the classroom © World Bank

Merit matters in getting into university, not into primary school:André Béteille 01/18/2007 The pursuit of equality has been a major objective in planning for education in independent India. The commitment to equality of opportunity was emphasized both by the commission on university education set up under S. Radhakrishnan shortly after independence and the education commission of 1964-66 under D.S. Kothari. Read more Related: [Development] [Education] [Human Rights] [Governance] [MDGs]

Liberalisation will not remove caste prejudice 01/16/2007 Nicholas B. Dirks, Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and History and Vice President Arts and Sciences of Columbia University, New York, was in Mumbai this month to enhance the profile of a university that counts Dr. B. R. Ambedkar as one of its distinguished alumni. Professor Dirks, whose work on caste in India under British rule is well respected, express his view in The Hindu about caste, politics and the scandals of empire. Read more Related: [Development] [Capacity Building] [Poverty] [Social Exclusion] [MDGs] Image: grains of hope? © Greenpeace UK

children go to school, but do they learn? 01/08/2007 The Annual state of education report 2006-realased by planning commission chairperson, Montek Singh Ahluwalia-says little has improved in public school. The report also says children whose mothers are not educated are more likely to drop out from school and their learning ability is less. The report surveyed 3.18 lakh households across 90 percent districts in the economy Read more Related: [Development] [Children] [Education] [Economy] [MDGs]

Independence of the judiciary is there for the good of the people 12/11/2006 Canada's first woman Chief Justice,Beverley McLachlin, speaks softly but robustly on the institution of the judiciary and its place in a democratic set-up. Excerpts from an interview during her recent visit to India. Read more Related: [MDGs] [International Cooperation] [Freedom of Expression]

Higher education is a problem... if the economy is to grow at 9 % 12/04/2006 Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman the Planning Commission, Government of India, speaks with Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief of Indian Express on performance of present government plan. Read more Related: [Development] [Children] [Education] [Economy] [Governance] Image: Montek Singh Ahluwalia,

Crass inequality on display in our schools 11/06/2006 P. Sainath in his article "Shangri La and sub-Saharan Africa" address the crass inequality on display in our schools runs across all spheres of India's brave new world and he says the schools only mirror this larger reality. Read more Related: [India] [Development] [Children] [Education] [MDGs]

What should be the govt role in education? 10/31/2006 Some leading educationists believe that the role of government in the field of education should be minimal. Others believe that it should deepen its role in providing free and compulsory education to each citizen of the country. They say that education should also be common for rich and poor so that inequality in society is reduced. Read more Related: [Development] [Education]

Education for All: a distant dream for socially disadvantaged children 10/30/2006 The Education for All goals focus on the need to provide learning opportunities at every stage in life, from infancy to adulthood. With only nine years remaining before 2015 – the target year for achieving these goals, progress is being made in reducing the number of primary school-age children who are not enrolled in school still distant dream for many children especially from socially disadvantaged households reveals the recent report published by UNESCO “Education for All: Global Monitoring Report 2007 Read more Related: [Children] [Education] [United Nations] [MDGs]

Child labour ban begins with no rehab plan in place 10/23/2006 Even though local authorities have been asked to prepare to accommodate thousands of Indian children expected to be freed from their jobs by raids conducted on homes and restaurants, activists say scant attention has been paid to how they will be rehabilitated. Read more Related: [Development] [Children] [Education] [MDGs] Image: Child Labour

Destroying the right to education 10/10/2006 In all the often heated debates about the strategy of development for India, there is one issue on which there seems to be consensus among all - the need to provide universal and good quality education at the school level to all our children. Read more Related: [Development] [Education] [International Cooperation] [MDGs]

Time to ban all forms of child labour 10/10/2006 The additional curbs on child labour in specified hazardous occupations come into effect today. This is a welcome step but far from adequate. Ultimately, all forms of labour are hazardous to the well being of children says Madhura Swaminathan. Read more Related: [India] [Development] [Children] [Labor]

Childhood in a globalizing World 10/03/2006 The acceptance of childhood as a protected and privileged period of life was simultaneous to the rise of the modern welfare state, and predates by several decades the discourse of globalisation. However, the ubiquitous tools of globalisation, such as the internet and tourism have currently induced a weakening of the welfare state and dissolution of earlier existing “protective” barriers wherein the teacher and the learning system mediated between the child and the outer world. Read more Related: [Development] [Children] [Education] [MDGs] Image: Children write on a blackboard

Child Domestic Labour 10/03/2006 Child Domestic Labour remains on the fringes of child labour, far from the glare of international action… a hidden phenomenon. Child domestic labour is a widespread and growing global phenomenon that traps as many as ten million children or more - mostly girls - in hidden forms of exploitation, often involving abuse, health risks and violence. Read more Related: [Development] [Education] [Labor] [United Nations] [MDGs]

From Banning to Moving Ahead 09/27/2006 Indian civil society organised a consultation to address the situations arising from the recent notification declaring ban on employment of children in domestic work, eateries and dabhas. The report provides a guideline map for the stakeholder to take effective measures for restoration and rehabilitation of working children. Read more Related: [Development] [Education] [MDGs]

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