Label literacy

Late click-off

Bridging the gap

Superstars lend a voice

Learning games

Educational tools need not be the prerogative of the privileged

A clean act

Edusat will educate

But how?

Getting started

Blind about Braille

It's time something was done about the lack of Braille texts in India

Sorry state

First stock-taking of science in India paints a gloomy

Better education links to good heart health

The study explored the association between education and wealth on one hand and cardiovascular diseases and mortality due to them on the other

Why simply legalising abortion is not enough

Governments need to pay equal attention to the safety of abortions, sex education and counselling, and varied problems faced by new borns of …

Joy of learning can be a pain

Children fell victim to organisational inefficiency and indifference at the National Joy of Learning Festival held recently in the Capital

Learning to think green

The variety of institutions are responding to the demands of environmental education made imperative by a generation familiar with eco-degradation

Counting on origami

The Japanese art of folding paper into decorative shapes empowers tribals with the knowledge of mathematics

Literacy on the move

A programme to provide education to the nomadic Gujjars is showing encouraging results and also checking their exploitation

Books teach green the fun way

Much useful and reasonably priced reading material for children, focussing on environmental issues, is available now.

Teaching children they will inherit the earth

In Nepal, camps for making children more environmentally conscious are proving increasingly popular. And in many families it's the …

Learning Sanskrit on computers

A software programme project that will be a boon to those who want to learn Sanskrit is threatened by a lack of funds.

Straight from the puppet's mouth

Why should it matter if messages are effectively conveyed through tales, songs and plays rather than from the mouths of scientists bogged down in …

Letter of advice

Denying education to women may erode fundamental human solidarity, affecting social cohesion, says a United Nations report

From Adam to ape

God, says the Kansas State Board of Education in the US, created the world in seven says. Evolution therefore doesn't exist. A new curriculum …

Website review: http://earthtrends.wri.org/

A must-bookmark site for anyone interested in environmental and development issues. It offers up-to-date facts and figures as well as analyses of …

4 ways that artificial intelligence can help students

These tools can help create fully customised lessons for each individual

Secondary education can reduce child marriage by 66%: UNICEF

Secondary education stronger, more consistent protection against child marriage than primary school education