PAKISTAN Speaker Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Karamatullah Khan Wednesday stressed the need to promote women education on war footing. He said any society and country cannot be developed until the education for women is ensured, adding that Pakistan is confronting different problems including terrorism and extremism owing to low literacy rate among womenfolk.  

NEPAL Nepal School Employees’ Union (NSEU) today demanded the implementation of the February 6, 2011 Supreme Court verdict that had directed the government to formulate a law regarding positions, salary and facilities that school employees are entitled to.

PAKISTAN Education is one of the basic factors which play a vital role in the development of a country. Education also combats unemployment, confirms sound foundation of social equity, awareness, tolerance, self esteem and spread of political socialisation and cultural vitality.  

NEPAL Secretary at the Ministry of Education, Kishore Thapa, has disclosed that the Education Act is under amendment in order to reform the education sector. Speaking at an interaction on ‘Protection and promotion of languages for social harmony’, Secretary Thapa said English has put Nepali mother tongues under the shadow with parents and teachers pressing children to learn English at the expense of mother tongue.

NEPAL As the world marks the International Mother Language Day to promote people’s right to get education in their own language, Nepal is yet to grant this right to its citizens, despite constitutional provisions.  

SRI LANKA Soroptimist International is an international volunteer organization for enterprise and expert women who work to enhance the lives of ladies and girls, in local communities and throughout the word. Nearly 100,000 Soroptimists in roughly 120 countries and territories contribute time and monetary support to community-based and international projects benefiting women and girls.  

INDIA The Right to Education Act aims to provide free and compulsory education of good quality to all children between 6 and 14 years of age. Between 2004, when the education cess was imposed, and 2010, when the RTE Act came into force, rural Indian school enrolment increased from about 93.4% to 96% but school attendance has remained low at a national average of 75%.

INDIA An international school signifies a school meant for children not in their host country or children who would like to have an exposure to a diverse international curriculum with practical based learning.  

PAKISTAN As many as 103,365 school going children were administered Hepatitis vaccine during two days of February 20 and 21 in Karachi division.  

INDIA Netscribes (India) Pvt. Ltd., a knowledge consulting solutions company, announces the launch of its report E-Learning Market in India 2012. E-learning market in India is still at a nascent stage and is expected to witness dynamic growth over the next few years. It is an emerging education segment and includes multimedia in private schools, ICT in public schools as well as online education.