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Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Panama: In Latin America and the Caribbean there are approximately 117 million boys, girls and adolescents in the preschool, primary and basic secondary education age groups. However, 6.5 million of them do not attend school and 15.6 million attend school carrying the burden of failure and inequality expressed in either a two- or more-year lag behind the normal age for their school gra...
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Mauritius: Rwanda today won a prestigious Commonwealth Education Good Practice Award for its work on fast tracking Nine Year Basic Education (9YBE).
Emmanuel Muvunyi, Deputy Director General of the Rwanda Education Board, received the award at the opening ceremony of the 18th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers, held in Mauritius on Wednesday.<...
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
London: Volunteers participating in the Galaxy Zoo project have been helping scientists gain new insights by classifying galaxies seen in hundreds of thousands of telescope images as spiral or elliptical. Along the way they’ve also stumbled across odd-looking galaxies which resemble each letter of the alphabet.
The international team behind Galaxy Zoo, inc...
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Washington: NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have signed two cooperative agreements to advance air traffic management benefiting airline passengers and citizens of both nations. The agreements were signed Tuesday at a Berlin Air Show ceremony by NASA's Associate Administrator for Aeronautics Research Dr. Jaiwon Shin and DLR's Executive Board Member for Aeronautical Re...
Monday, September 10, 2012
The creation of the Office of the Vice Provost for Online Learning – part of the larger Stanford Online initiative – signals both a restructuring of the university and its dedication to ensuring pedagogical agility and rigor in the face of global, economic and social transformations.
BY STANFORD REPORT STAFF
Stanford Un...
Monday, September 10, 2012
East Lansing: Michigan State University today announced a new master's degree program in business analytics to help prepare students for the jobs of the future. IBM (NYSE: IBM) is assisting the program with its analytics software and support for experiential projects where students will apply analytics to real-world business problems. The degree includes coursework in the Broad Col...
Saturday, September 08, 2012
Rome: Highlighting the importance of accompanying transformations in the Arab region through strong education systems, the Director-General and the Education Minister of the United Arab Emirates signed an agreement on 7 September 2012 that renewed the Regional Centre for Educational Planning’s special relationship with UNESCO. Based in Sharjah, this Centre under the auspices...
Saturday, September 08, 2012
Bangkok: The Director-General commended Thailand for its leadership of the global educational agenda upon her arrival in the country on 8 September for a visit during which she will open the Asia-Pacific Ministerial Forum on ICT in Education and participate in International Literacy Day celebrations.
In the course of an interview, she highlighted that the...
Saturday, September 08, 2012
Paris: UNESCO participated in the 2nd Freedom Online Conference held in Kenya on 6 and 7 September 2012. The event follows the inaugural conference hosted in the Netherlands in December 2011, which launched a multi-country alliance for Internet freedom.
UNESCO has been actively engaged with the Freedom Online Coalition which currently has 17 member countries fro...
Saturday, September 08, 2012
Paris: Your ideas for the 2013 WSIS+10 review event count: join online discussions to jointly prepare the first WSIS+10 review event, which will bring together governments, civil society, the private sector and international organizations to discuss key knowledge societies topics. The event will also review WSIS developments, discuss current and future knowledge society trends and formulate p...
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 Odisha Government appointed OAS M.R. Patnaik as director of Tourism (Orissa)
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Report by IED bureau, Bhubaneswar: Odisha Government on Saturday effected minor reshuffle in administration level. The state government remove IFS HS Upadhya from directorate of Tourism and appointed senior OAS Manoranjan Patnaik as new d ..
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25,000 students appear for NEST who are seeking admission to NISER (Orissa)
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Bhubaneswar: Around 25,000 students on Saturday appeared for the National Entrance Screening Test (NEST) at 56 centres in 42 cities in the country. The results will be announced on June 17. The test is compulsory for students seeking admi ..
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Summer Camp organised at The Millennium School, Noida (Delhi)
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Report by Santanu Ganguly, Noida: It is that time of the year again when children sit at home wondering how to spend their days. Seeking to ensure that children spend their time constructively, The Millennium School, Noida has organised a ..
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Odisha Government to set up 1000 hostels for ST, SC students (Orissa)
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Report by India Education bureau, Bhubaneswar: The state government has set a target of building 1000 hostels for students of Scheduled tribes and castes across the state in the current financial year. This was decided at a high level mee ..
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Conference of Ministers and Secretaries of States and Union Territories in-Charge of Sports & Youth Affairs Concludes in New Delhi (Delhi)
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New Delhi: The two day conference of Ministers of States/UTs in charge of Youth Affairs and Sports concluded here today. The Conference was chaired by Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Youth Affairs and Sport, Shri Jitendra ..
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HRD Ministry approved setting up of Block Institutes of Teachers Education in 196 districts
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Report by India Education bureau, New Delhi: The HRD Ministry has approved setting up of Block Institutes of Teachers Education in 196 districts during the current Five Year Plan. These institutes will be opened in SC/ST/Minority concentr ..
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NIELIT, Srinagar will contribute to the growth of J&K, Dr. Killi Kruparani
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Report by India Education bureau, New Delhi: Union Minister, Dr. Killi Kruparani, has inaugurated the Lecture Blocks and Research & Development Lab of National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT) at Srinagar. ..
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We Must Assimilate Tagore's Belief That 'Wealth Is Not A Precondition Of Wisdom', Says President
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Report by India Education bureau, Shimla: The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated the Tagore Centre for the study of culture and civilization and delivered the first Rabindranath Tagore Memorial Lecture at Indian Institu ..
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Union Cabinet approved classifying Malayalam as a 'Classical Language'
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Report by India Education bureau, New Delhi: The Union Cabinet today approved classifying Malayalam as a ‘Classical Language’ subject to the outcome of Writ Petition No. 18810 of 2008 (R. Gandhi Vs UOI & Ors) in the ..
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President promulgates Ordinance amending the Indian Medical Council Act 1956
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New Delhi: The President of India promulgated an Ordinance on 21st May 21013 amending the Indian Medical Council Act 1956. The Government had to promulgate the Ordinance as the Indian Medical Council (Amendment) Bill 2013 which was introd ..
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