PAKISTAN As the chairman of National Foods Limited, Abdul Majeed was interested in the idea of providing his unschooled staff with basic primary education. He thought that if the staff was educated, it would have a positive impact on the quality of the company’s products.  

PAKISTAN Pakistan Coalition for Education and Initiative of Society for Access to Quality Education (SAQE) organised a consultation on "Education for all: Role of Media" here on Tuesday. The purpose of the meeting was to create a strong liaison between media and civil society to bridge the gaps for the progression and enactment of article 25-A after the 18th constitutional amendment.  

PAKISTAN Speakers at a consultation on “Education for All: the Role of Media” urged the provincial governments to initiate legislation for implementation of Article 25-A, ensuring access of children to free education. The consultation was arranged by the Pakistan Coalition for Education (PCE) and the Intermedia Pakistan on Tuesday.  

INDIA Amidst celebrations of martyr Sukhdev''s birth anniversary on Tuesday at his co-martyr Bhagat Singh''s village, a shocking fact that nullifies their martyrdom flies in the face of the government - 80 out of 220 students in the government schools at Bhagat Singh''s village Khatkhat Kalan did not even have two uniforms and stationary.  

INDIA Armed with mobile phones and projectors, teachers in 150 anganwadis in Gujarat are all set to impart health and hygiene education to hundreds of kids while improving their teaching skills, activists said Tuesday. NGO Sesame Workshop India and Metlife Foundation have come together for the initiative, and for the first time, would be using technology in the pilot project with an eye on spreading it across the country.  

INDIA The event aims at addressing the rights of girl children and promoting education for girls hailing from underprivileged sections of the society. Talking about the initiative Anchita Ghatak Secretary of Parichiti said: “Most people are attracted to films and we thought the film festival would be an interesting way to reach out to sections of the public. This is an opportunity to focus on different aspects of girlhood.”  

INDIA Dinesh Mandal, an illiterate villager from Bihar, came to India''s capital city nearly three decades ago with a dream – to make sure that, unlike him, his son Umesh would get a proper education. To make that possible, Mandal took up work in a home in the heart of Delhi, in an area built by the colonial British and popularly known after its chief planner and architect Edwin Lutyens.  

SRI LANKA The word education is derived from the Latin word ''Educare''. The Latin word ''Educare'' means ''to lead out'' or ''bring forth'' which indicates that through education students'' knowledge, understanding and aptitude are nurtured.  

BANGLADESH Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina Tuesday called upon the teachers not to punish the students physically or mentally and groom them up with affection and love. "I would like to request you to groom the students up with affection and love and don''t make any physical and mental torture on them," she told the inaugural function of the grand rally of the government secondary teachers at Residential Model College here, reports BSS.  

AFGHANISTAN The Afghan educational system, woeful as it is, is dominated by  government-funded schools that serve multiple villages and account for 95 percent of enrollment. An  “intervention” by USAID and Catholic Relief Services to support village-based schools in northwest Afghanistan, staffed by relatively well educated teachers without the usual credentials, resulted in huge enrollment increases and better test scores, with disproportionately large gains by girls.