Education News – Newsletter for January 12, 2011

Mexico curbs junk food sales in schools

Mexico City, Jan 12 (IANS/EFE) Mexico has asked its all private and government schools to limit sales of junk food to protect children from being overweight or obese.

About 30 percent of children and 70 percent of adults in Mexico are overweight.
The law does not ban sales of junk food in schools, but it …. Original article on Gaea Times at  : Mexico curbs junk food sales in schools.

How Wikipedia wooed and won the world

BERLIN – An encyclopedia that anybody can help to write – whether a pupil or a professor? Encyclopedia entries which are updated from one minute to the next? And all of that financed by reader donations?

Ten years ago when online companies vanished almost as quickly as they appeared, nobody thought that a reliable encyclopedia … Read more >>.

Court stays transparency panel’s order on school data

NEW DELHI – The Delhi High Court has stayed a Central Information Commission (CIC) order directing the Delhi government to make public the admission criteria for poor children followed by private schools in the last three years.

The court also stayed the CIC order to put on the government website details about the annual income …. Source  : Court stays transparency panel’s order on school data.

44 deemed universities facing closure get apex court breather

NEW DELHI – In a temporary relief to 44 deemed universities that were facing the prospect of derecognition, the Supreme Court Tuesday asked the central government to offer them another opportunity to remove deficiencies in infrastructure.

The apex court bench of Justice Dalveer Bhandari and Justice Deepak Verma passed the order after recording a statement …. Source  : 44 deemed universities facing closure get apex court breather.

Extended vacation may eat into Delhi students’ weekends

NEW DELHI – An extended winter vacation may have spelt good news for Delhi’s school kids, but not for long. Running short on time to finish their syllabi, schools are planning extra classes which will most likely eat into the much-cherished weekends.

The biting cold forced the Delhi government to re-extend vacations in all public …. Source  : Extended vacation may eat into Delhi students’ weekends.