Push for Education Yields Little for Indiaâs Poor
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India faces the difficulty of educating its children in public schools that have sunk to spectacularly low levels.
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India's most ambitious scheme to reduce poverty has disappointing results in its first year, studies suggest.
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GAYA, India -- Gearing up for the final push to wipe out polio, India has run into a hurdle in an eastern state, where poor, conservative communities are refusing to give polio drops to children because they distrust the medicine and its distributors.
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Most of the 11 million students in IndiaÃÂs 18,000 colleges and universities receive starkly inferior training, heavy on obedience and light on useful job skills.
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Commonwealth ministers have set guidelines for rich nations recruiting teachers from poorer counterparts.
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Disadvantaged children lagging a full year behind before they start school.
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Microsoft has trained 200,000 teachers in India on the use of computers, ahead of its original target to train 80,000 teachers in the country during the five-year period ending December this year, it said.The company introduced the program, called project Shiksha, in 2003 with the objective of&#160;raising the computer literacy of Indian teachers and students&#160;in government-run schools. The 200,000 teachers trained so far have in turn trained about 10 million students, a spokeswoman for Microsoft India said on Monday.The moves by Microsoft to offer free or subsidized software in India have however come in for criticism from the Free Software Foundation, which compared Microsoft&#39;s philanthropy to that of a cigarette manufacturer handing out free samples of cigarettes to students.The communist-run state of Kerala in south India is actively&#160;promoting open-source software&#160;in schools, but most other states and the federal government are beneficiaries of Microsoft&#39;s programs.Microsoft works with state governments to help teachers use its technology in school administrations and also to include it in their curriculum and teaching methods, she said. While the state governments provide the classrooms, Microsoft provides the hardware and software, and a team of trainers for the teachers.Although the company has reached its training target, it&#39;s not stopping the program yet. It did not say how many more teachers and students it plans to cover under the program, though.The company has introduced low-cost, starter editions of its Vista operating system, as well as local language versions of its Office suite to target both the academic and e-governance markets.&#160;
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Heads say England's school funding means pupils in disadvantaged areas are missing out.
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Corporations have made India a laboratory for extending modern technological conveniences to the worldâs poor.
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Children from poor familes say fear of debt deterred them from university
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An essential class of workers, garbage collectors in Indiaâs capital are among the cityâs poorest and most marginalized groups.
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Low education standards have led to a vast shortage of qualified workers.
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From Brazil to Pakistan, some of the world's poorest children will peer across the digital divide this month -- reading electronic books, shooting digital video, creating music and chatting with classmates online.
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BANGALORE, India: India was set to launch its first satellite to be used exclusively for education which will connect classrooms in remote parts of the country, the space agency said.
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For decades, India focused on its domestic economy and grew more slowly. But all that is starting to change.
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Government education policies are failing to remedy the shortage of skilled workers, a business chief is to say.
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The country's students are up in arms about a new government educational quota policy. But is merit all that counts in such a rigidly divided country?