Knowledge is life with wings - Khalil Gibran
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Access to Education
Access to quality education in rural areas has been consistently neglected. Many governments either lack the political will or the capacity to meet the educational needs of the huge numbers of rural people who remain outside the mainstream education system.Today in many parts of the world, growing up in a rural region often means growing up without a decent education. School attendance is generally low and drop-out high, with girls, mountain populations and ethnic minorities losing out most.
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LITERACY? YES. BUT WHEN?
If efforts to teach the millions of illiterates to read and write are to succeed, some questions must be answered.
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EDUCATION FOR WAR OR FOR PEACE
Schools are no longer just places where youngsters acquire an education. They are increasingly called on to turn out responsible and tolerant citizens.
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The mother-tongue dilemma
Studies show that we learn better in our mother tongue. But then it has to be taught in school, which is not the case of all minority languages. More convinced than ever of the value of multilingualism, certain countries are trying to promote learning in a number of languages. However, the political and economic obstacles are enormous.
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A football game on Kovalam beach in Kerala, India
Cricket might be the most popular sport, but an increasing number of European football matches are now shown across India. These boys near Kovalum play out their own cup final.Cricket might be the most popular sport, but an increasing number of European football matches are now shown across India. These boys near Kovalum play out their own cup final. Picture Copyright: BBC Website
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A little propaganda does no harm. Yeah right!
the following news item has some untruths like the number of people who voted. It says 45% as against 50 something percent who voted. This is an attempt at explaining to the domestic chinese audience about the pitfalls of democracy, especially a tongue-in-cheek suggestion that even tthe elites are disconted by the whole election process. It uses left wing experts from one of the many NGO think tanks in New Delhi. Actually I have never heard of this one. It is strange at the length to which the chinese will go to preserve their own authoritarian system.
News Analysis: Why Indian elite losing faith
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-05/12/content_1463714.htm
by Jiang Yaping
NEW DELHI, May 11 (Xinhuanet) -- With the total voter turnout in the elections in New Delhi constituency being only 45 percent, experts here see it as a decline of faith in the voting system, especially among the elite.
In the constituencies of New Delhi and South Delhi, the turnout was moderate with about 45 and 46 percent voters casting their votes in the Lok Sabha (lower house of parliament) polls, held on Monday.
It shows that elite people are losing faith in the system, as said Navin Surapaneni of Center for Media Studies in New Delhi on Tuesday.
On the moderate turnout in New Delhi constituency, he said, as 63 percent voters in the constituency are government employees, the moderate turnout could be because they might have used a three-day off from their offices for a vacation.
The absence of 55 percent voters also reflects erosion of faithof the people in the democratic system. "They simply do not trust any political leader irrespective of any party he/she belongs to,"Surapaneni said, adding that most voters are lower class people with less education or illiterate.
Discarding the temperature, which sore to a maximum of 41 degree Celsius, having a role in the moderate turnout, a well-known psychologist Dr Sameer Parikh said that generally heat does not hold voters from casting their votes but it could slightly affect people in the upper literate class.
Low or moderate turnout reduces the margin of victory and generally favors the party in power, whereas high turnout generally goes against the party in power as the anti-incumbency wave brings more voters to the polling booths because they want a change in the government, Parikh said.
Low turnout is also witnessed when people think that nothing would change even if they use their vote, Parikh said.
In some cases, some voters even use their veto power at the polling booths. Reports said many voters in south Delhi and Noida constituencies exercised their "refusing to vote" power by showingthe voter slip and identity card, signing on the register, gettingthe indelible ink and then informing the presiding officer that they do not want to vote.
Till Monday, this year's general elections have finally ended in all 543 constituencies in five phases which beganon April 20.
Counting of votes and results are expected on Thursday. Enditem
11.5.04
Kids art about the future 'information society'
How children view the impending knowledge society? This painting by a child from Myanmar shows how children percieve this issue.
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Indias Marathon election has finally ended.
It seems the wait for results is nearly over, but what about the new government, since polls predict a tight race between contenders: BJP and Cong-I
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