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Teachers to get lessons on creativity from computer giant
http://www.propoor.org/news/xnews.asp#4 Creativity and problem solving are the key areas that an Indian computer giant has taken upon itself to enlighten teachers on.
Canadian aid for public administration schools
Canada has pledged $4.6 million to support public administration schools in developing countries.
For the Poor, a Right to Education
As a child, his parents were poor. And at the age of five, he had already taken to hawking to augment his family's lean resources. But today, the story is different for Owelle Rochas Okorocha, founder of the Rochas Foundation.
Programme on early childhood development
Reducing the incidence of preventable diseases and ailments linked to poor nutrition will be the focus of a programme launched by the United Nations Children's Fund in partnership with Benin's Health Ministry, to improve early childhood development.
Delivering education in Peru
A great majority of Peruvian children are enrolled in primary school. And yet, many never learn basic skills and almost a quarter of them drop out before the fifth grade. UNICEF, along with the Peruvian Ministry of Education and a local organization called Teatro Vivo, is working to ensure that poor children in Peru have the skills and support they need to stay in school.
Life through the eyes of an Afghan child
Children are the worst sufferers of war and conflict. In war-shattered Afghanistan, they are the most recent vindicators of this belief. An exhibition on child art that opens in Washington this week, brings you life through the eyes of Afghan children.
Success Stories
A story of hope
This is a story of hope. In a poverty-stricken district of Gujarat,India, a voluntary organisation, Ganatar, is offering school and hostel facilities to children whose parents have migrated to nearby cities to earn a livelihood.
Never say die
An eight-year-old boy in Andhra Pradesh, India, has proved to the world that a handicap, as worse as not having hands, cannot prevent him pursuing his studies. But government officials think otherwise. They are refusing to even recognise his disability.
Analysis
Debate over higher education reforms in South Africa
The proposed merger of certain universitites in South Africa, in an attempt to create optimum efficiency, has sparked off a rage of reactions from higher education institutions in the country.
US Mission Report and Annual Report 2002
This report assesses the state of the realisation of the right to education in the United States. Providing a much needed analysis of country-specific challenges in education from a human rights perspective, the report reviews the historical background of free public education in the United States, examines current initiatives surrounding and fiscal allocations for public education and discusses the racial and gender profile of economic exclusion.
Geeta Sharma
Editor, Learning Channel
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