Yes they can: connect the goals with rights

World leaders in New York for the MDG summit must reaffirm education as a human right and as a major driver of economic and social development. Christopher Colclough, Elaine Unterhalter and the Right to Education Project Since the turn of the millennium, global access to schooling has expanded substantially: an additional 20% of primary school-age [...]

Parental Education and Child Health – Understanding the Pathways of Impact in Pakistan

By Monazza Aslam and Geeta Kingdon This study investigates the relationship between parental schooling on the one hand, and child health outcomes  (height and weight) and parental health-seeking behaviour (immunisation status of children), on the other. While establishing a correlational link between parental schooling and child health is relatively straightforward, confirming a causal relationship is [...]

Let’s go by the book

By Shailaja Fennell, Hindustan Times, New Delhi, Aug 2010 The HRD ministry, with the private sector, plans to propose new education models. Instead, it should rely on tried and tested blueprints.   WHILE THE INTENTION OF THE GOVERNMENT’S EDUCATION POLICY IS TO PROVIDE EDUCATION THAT IS OF AN ACCEPTABLE QUALITY FOR ALL CHILDREN, THIS DOES NO’T [...]

Delivery blues stalk success of social schemes

By Shailaja Fennell  Inclusive development is much needed in India today. While the Budget states, ‘For the UPA government, inclusive development is an act of faith’, the Economic Survey suggests we should consider ‘a nation’s progress in terms of the progress of its poorest segment’.  The pathway to social transformation was identified in the Finance [...]