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Since
2008, Student First! has been a source of information on new
developments and overall updates in the education sector. To take the
newsletter closer to the core philosophy of the School Choice Campaign
and to make it more relevant for our readers, we are bringing the focus
of this newsletter back to Choice in Education. From the next issue
onward you can expect more of blogs, op-eds, and research reports
related to Choice in Education and less of overall updates from
education sector in Students First!. The newsletter will now go out
with the name Students First and will be published every alternate
Tuesday.
BLOG // NSIKAN AKPAN
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What Will Malala's Nobel Peace Prize Mean For Girls' Education?
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When
Malala Yousafzai found out last Friday that she'd won the Nobel Peace
Prize, along with Indian activist Kailash Satyarthi, the 17-year-old
Pakistani girl didn't celebrate immediately. Instead she returned to a
chemistry class at her high school in Birmingham, England. It was a
fitting reaction by someone who's risked her life for the right to be
educated.
At the age of 11, Yousafzai, the daughter of a school principal, became
a blogger for the BBC and documented the growing influence of the
Taliban, who wanted to ban girls' education and were blowing up schools
and closing others down in her home of Swat, in northern Pakistan.
In October 2012, a Taliban gunman stormed her school bus and shot her
in the head as she sat with her friends — targeting her for her
outspoken advocacy of girls' education.
Yousafzai
survived, made an astonishing recovery and settled with her family in
England after receiving medical treatment there. She published a
memoir, I Am Malala, and started the Malala Fund, which supports girls'
education around the world. She marked her 16th birthday with a speech
at the United Nations. And she has continued to attend school.
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FULL STORY >>
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VIDEO // GIRL EFFECT, 2010
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The Girl Effect: The Clock Is Ticking
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The
girl effect is about leveraging the unique potential of adolescent
girls to end poverty for themselves, their families, their communities,
their countries and the world.
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VIDEOS
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RESEARCH // KARTHIK MURALIDHARAN & NISHITH PRAKASH, 2013
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Cycling To School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment For Girls In India
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Reducing
gender gaps in school enrollment has been one of the most important
goals for international education policy over the past decade, and has
been enshrined as one of the United Nation's Millennium Development
Goals. While considerable progress has been made in reducing gender
gaps in primary schooling, there continue to be significant gaps in
secondary schooling, with a noticeable increase in adolescent years. It
is therefore of substantial policy interest to identify cost-effective
and scalable strategies for increasing secondary school enrollment and
completion rates for girls in developing countries.
Policies to improve female education attainment in developing countries
have focused on both increasing the immediate benefits of schooling to
families as well as on reducing the costs of attending school. The most
prominent category of demand-side interventions have been conditional
cash transfers (CCT's) to households for keeping girls enrolled in
school. Several well-identified studies of CCT programs have found a
positive impact on girls' school enrollment and attainment (Fiszbein
and Schady 2009).
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FULL STORY >>
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OPINION
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DID YOU KNOW?
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FEATURED
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Can school vouchers for girls significantly increase attendance and continued enrollment of girls in schools?
Research
suggests school vouchers have the potential to empower and enable
disadvantaged groups, such as girls, to avail quality educational
opportunities. It transfers the burden of cost of education from the
parents and gives more choice from the perspective of quality education.
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If India enrolled 1% more girls in secondary school, India's GDP would rise by $5.5 billion
Educated women are more empowered and better able to
demand their rights, as well as having healthier, more
economically-secure families. By educating girls, we reduce poverty,
improve maternal and child health, prevent HIV, and raise living
standards for everyone.
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6th Annual School Choice National Conference
19 December 2014, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
The
central theme for SCNC this year is Freedom in Education. Through
discussions at the conference we will highlight different dimensions of
freedom in education, understand models and explore the future of
freedom and choice in education in India
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POLLS AND DISCUSSIONS
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DYKs
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THE RTE NEWSREEL
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Centre // Zee News // 21 October, 2014
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Spend Less On Arms, More On Schools: Nobel Laureate Satyarthi
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NEW
DELHI: Countries around the world should cut their defence budgets and
invest in education if child labour is to be eradicated, said Nobel
laureate Kailash Satyarthi. The 60-year-old was awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize this month with Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan for their struggle
against the oppression of children.
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Centre // Zee News // 22 October, 2014
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All India Survey On Higher Education 2014-15 Launched
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NEW DELHI: The
Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry on Wednesday launched the
All-India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) 2014-15, an annual,
web-based, pan-India exercise on the status of higher education in the
country. The annual survey collects data on several parameters,
including student enrollment, examination results, education finance
and infrastructure.
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International // The Express Tribune // 23 October, 2014
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Bad Budgeting: Only 5% Of Education Budget Spent On Development
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PESHAWAR:
The abysmal state of education in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) is reflected
in the fact that a mere 5% of the budget is spent on the sector’s
development projects, while an astonishing 95% goes into staff
salaries. Released at a local hotel on Thursday, a study by the Centre
for Governance and Public Accountability (CGPA) states the amount spent
on development was nowhere near enough for effective primary and
secondary education.
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International // The Express Tribune // 24 October, 2014
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Malala Urges Pakistan, India To Spend On Children's Education
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ISLAMABAD:
Seventeen-year-old Nobel Peace prize winner Malala Yousafzai on Friday
urged Pakistan and India to spend on children’s education while putting
aside their differences. In an interview to state broadcaster PTV along
with her father and mother in the United Kingdom, she invited both the
Prime Minister of Pakistan and India yet again to attend the award
ceremony of Nobel Peace Prize to be held in December. Malala said that
she will spend her share of the $1.1 million prize money on educational
projects in Pakistan, and set up a high quality school in Pakistan.
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Delhi // Hindustan Times // 28 October, 2014
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Delhi: Refused Uniforms, EWS Students Boycott School
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students belonging to the economically-weaker section at Rohini’s Vidya
Bharati School have decided to skip classes till the school provides
them with winter uniforms, mandatory under the Right to Education Act.
The children decided against rejoining classes after the Diwali break
since the school turned away students without winter uniforms last year
after failing to provide it to them.
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