India - Education centres in Haryana for under-privileged sections

Education centres in Haryana for under-privileged sections : HindustanTimes.com

The centres, set up under the ‘Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan’ would educate those children who fail to join schools due to poverty, an official spokesman said on Friday. The children engaged in domestic work, rag-picking activities or employed in small or cottage industries would get vocational as well as elementary education in these centres so that they are able to earn their livelihood, he said

Kenyan Secondary School Candidates Miss Exam Papers

allAfrica.com: Kenya: Shock As Candidates Miss KCSE Exam Papers

In Kenya, students must take examinations to enter into the secondary school system. But this year some students did not receive copies of part of their exam.

In this situation, there is the fact that the government is trying to crack down upon exam cheating with enhanced supervision in specific regions. This is combined with fear that students may be wrongly accused of cheating due to mix-ups by the government, as in this case, where exams were not delivered (for unknown reasons).

"We are worried with the trend of irregularities in the papers this year, it was only recently when there was a nationwide mix up in the Mathematics papers," [Konoin MP Sammy Koech] said.

Norway Grants Save the Children $2.3 Million for Education in Conflict Areas

allAfrica.com: PanAfrica: Africa: Norway Grants Save the Children $2.3 Million for Education in Conflict Areas:

The Norwegian government granted 15 million kroner (US $2.3 million) to international NGO Save the Children to help it implement a 2005-2009 education project in 25 countries around the world, four of them in Africa, an official of the charity said on Monday.

The chair of the International Save the Children Alliance 's Global Challenge Project, Tove Wang, told IRIN from Oslo that in Africa, the first phase of the project would be implemented in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan and Uganda, all adversely affected or recovering from armed conflict.

The project, which is yet to specify the budgets and needs for each country, would include the construction or rehabilitation of schools, teacher training facilities, provision of school materials, supplies and the enhancement of the quality of school curricula.

German Education Failures Linked to Social Background

German Education Failures Linked to Social Background | Germany | Deutsche Welle | 04.11.2005

"The latest PISA educational study results released in Germany Thursday, confirmed what had already been suspected for long: the success of children at school is closely linked to their social status."