The Economic Times Thursday, October 14, 2004| Updated at 01:26 hrs UK seems ready to go quite a distance in shoring up its educational equations with India. This is quite evident with the recent £200-m grant to bolster India’s Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA).
The SSA has been incorporated in the Constitution to ensure eight years of elementary education for every child. UK’s minister of schools, David Miliband, has also thrown open the doors to foster partnerships between Indian and British schools. This move has been initiated across Delhi, Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal to begin with. “The £200-m funding is a completely fresh grant towards backing up the SSA and will spread over four years. We have also opened a global educational gateway on the internet to trigger tie-ups between the UK and international schools. We would like India as a strategic partner in this global exercise,” Mr Miliband said. He was interacting with the media in Kolkata on Friday. The purpose of going the whole hog to build bridges between the school education systems of India and the UK are largely two-fold. The first is to create the platform so that both countries have access to each other’s knowledge base. This could help infuse the necessary improvements in the two systems. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> *************************************************************************** Berdikusi dg Santun & Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality & Shared Destiny. www.ppi-india.uni.cc *************************************************************************** __________________________________________________________________________ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
