Category: Education
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How technology can help girl education in India
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Can hackathons make education more accessible for girls in India? While India takes pride in its IITs and IIMs, a large number of girls quietly drop out from education school-level onwards. Want to change that? Here’s your chance with ‘Hack4Her’ – a unique hackathon organised by Women’s Education Project India,…
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Key Does ‘Big Sell’ for More Indian Students
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The Prime Minister is doing the “big sell†for more foreign students to prop up under-funded public education and private education businesses, says New Zealand First. “Unsuspecting students from overseas are being used. “Prime Minister John Key met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Washington and couldn’t help himself marketing…
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Indian performers to visit schools
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From Mumbai to Morrinsville – top Indian performers will visit New Zealand schools for public Diwali festivals and will also take to the road and visit schools in Tauranga and Waikato. Folk-dance group Mudra Creation, from Mumbai, and a puppet troupe led by master puppeteer Mahipat Kavi, from Gujarat, are…
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Indian students in US launch website on Lok Sabha elections
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The ‘FiveFortyFive.com’ is a “single-subject website” focusing on the Indian general elections founded by six Columbia journalism school students.
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In case of quake, drop, cover, hold
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The morning after a magnitude 7 earthquake rocked New Zealand, the country has launched a new website to make New Zealand earthquake hazard information easier to find. Civil Defence Minister Chris Tremain says last night’s earthquake was “a timely reminder for New Zealanders to be earthquake prepared,” while the ministry…
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Admissions to Indian institutes for NRI kids open soon
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Admissions process will soon begin for NRI children keen to pursue undergraduate studies in India for the academic year 2012-13. Indian government runs a special scheme -Â Direct Admission of Students Abroad (DASA), Â for undergraduate courses in engineering for foreign nationals and persons of Indian origin (PIOs), non-resident Indians (NRIs). These…
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Mayor’s fund open for community grants
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Money raised by the inaugural Auckland Mayoress’ Charity Gala Ball will soon be available to groups working with young Aucklanders as applications for grants are now open. The ball, hosted by Mayor Len Brown and Mayoress Shan Inglis last November, raised $170,000 towards the Mayoress’ Fund for Youth, an independent…
