Digumarti Bhaskara Rao
57 books
India is committed to provide education for all and the new national policy on education is the guiding soul in that process. The union government along with state governments has taken up a good number of steps to improve the status of universalisation of elementary education, to expand secondary education, to enrich higher education, to enhance the efficiency of technical and vocational education, to elevate adult education programmes and to popularise open ...
The population of the world of today is faced by a challenge that could threaten even its survival in the near future because of biological weapons and warfare. Biological weapons are not difficult to produce, relatively easy to hide, and, in the hands of unscrupulous desperate terrorists, could cause incredible damage to large populations anywhere in the world. The use of biological weapons in war and/or otherwise as a means of mass distruction may lead to ...
Cultural identity and family values are largely passed on to new generations by women, but their access to information and education is limited in many parts of the world. Under this circumstance, UNESCO commissioned a study to make a comparative analysis of women as educators in the family, in the school, in the community and in the public life in the nine high population countries—Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria and ...
Man from time immemorial has been striving hard to make his life happy and avoid suffering. But a look at human existence does show that man is always exposed to suffering, physical or mental or spiritual. The general spirit that runs through all orthodox schools is that the genesis of human suffering lies in man’s ignorance concerning the true nature of the self. No other thinker was as sensitive as Buddha to the fact of dukkha and it is this sensitivity to ...
Millennium Summit of the United Nations was held from 6 to 8 September 2000 at the United Nations Head Quarters, New York. The millennium summit, the largest-ever gathering of world leaders—heads of State or Government or their representatives – addressed a host of issues under the official theme ‘The United Nations in the 21 Century’. In this book, details of the millennium summit, Secretary-General’s millennium report, plenary, closing statements and ...
Administration is a comprehensive effort to direct, guide and integrate associating human strivings which are focussed towards some specific ends or aims. Educational administration enables the right pupils to receive the right education from the right teachers. It is absolutely necessary to evolve an efficient system of educational administration as millions of children being educated in schools. Considering the merits and limitations of the present day school ...
Job satisfaction is a primary requisite for any successful teaching learning process. It is a complex phenomenon involving various personal, institutional and social aspects. If the teachers attain adequate job satisfaction, they will be in a position to fulfill the educational objectives and national goals. Identifying the importance of job satisfaction in the life and career of teachers, a study was undertaken to identify the job satisfaction of secondary ...
Government of Andhra Pradesh has introduced the non-detention system, a system of automatic promotion, at the school level realising that education is best imparted in an atmosphere of free progress where the incentive and urge to improve spring from within the educational process rather than from the terror of examinations and detentions. Under this system, the students will be automatically promoted to the next class provided they put in a stipulated percentage ...
A great emphasis is placed, now-a-days, on achievement right from the beginning of formal education. Achievement is a paramount importance, particularly in the present socio-economic and cultural contexts. It is a task-oriented behaviour that allows the individual’s performance to be evaluated according to some internally or externally imposed criterion that involves some standard of excellence. Many teachers face several problems in teaching. These problems ...
European countries have different educational set-ups and varied teacher education programmes. As much literature is not available on education and teachers of European countries to the people of order to give all information in nutshell about the European education, the present status and the strategies that are in action to enhance the quality of education and the status and the strategies that are inaction to enhance the quality of education and the status and ...
All human individuals are equal in dignity and rights. The fulfillment of duties by each individual is a prerequisite to the rights of all. Rights and duties are interrelated in every social and political activity of individuals. While rights exalt individual liberty, duties express the dignity of that liberty. International human rights law has been dynamically developed since the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The number of states ...
Everyone needs energy in different forms to bad life luxuriously. The existing energy sources, except, some forms of renewable energy, may not last for a long time. Energy security, hence, has become a part of all human activities. This book on energy security deals with energy and geopolitics, global energy perspectives and trends, regional energy demands and supply options, environmentally secure energy options and technologies, power generation technologies ...