Meet Bakkar

Egyptian cartoon hero cleans up the Red Sea

Uruguay's school children gearing up to get their history in place

Panel urges teachers, parents to get their facts straight on evolution

Deschooling environment

Catching them young

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The unaccounted wealth that leaves our shores

The Indian government invests Rs 34 lakh to educate each IIT graduate. It therefore has the moral authority to get him or her to work for the …

Imparting environmental education

What is the best approach to instil in the minds of students a lifelong respect for the environment?

Away from the rat race

Villagers and rural communities, warts and all, can still be places where you can regain your lost spirituality and your moral equilibrium if you …

Children teach elders with play on street

Against the opulent backdrop of the WHO building in the Capital, children of the Anna Nagar slum act out on the street their …

Contacts with young minds

Schoolchildren in Uttar Pradesh delighted themselves collecting leaves and plants for a unique biodiversity competition

Shimla in a shambles

The beautiful resort is fast greying under the onslaught of modernity

For a better tomorrow

There are many in Kerala who just would not have anything to do with the obsolete official education system. They want change, and that, …

An agenda of incoherence

The grossly inadequate education as imparted in our schools has to answer for our general insensitivity towards the environment

A learning experience

NGOs in Bangladesh have made non-formal education a trailblazing success story by employing ingenious teaching methods tailored to the needs of …

A space of their own

A garden for blind persons that explores more than just botanical learning

A gang of ten

A Rajasthan village entrusts anti-malaria campaign to children; they do remarkable work

Schooled in self-rule

What do tribal children living in Nagarhole National Park in Karnataka learn at school? Take pride in what they are, reports NITIN SETHI

Limited democracy

Panchayati raj institutions have not given much justice to Dalits

Focus of reservation lost in protests

Focus of reservation lost in protests

Sub-Saharan Africa shows high growth in student enrollment, but remains 'most illiterate'

The region needs 63 per cent additional teachers to achieve universal education by 2015, says UNESCO report

A headmaster and his students save a forest

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Amartya Sen's collection of essays provides a delicate understanding of contemporary issues that haunt India