Saying ‘no’ to politics

The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, has a brand-new student body and it has nothing to do with politics. Christened ?Student Voice?, it is all set to make its presence felt in the JNU campus. Mohd Hafeezur Rahman, a student of the School of Languages who is pursuing his PhD in Persian, is the brain behind this outfit. In a politically-aware campus like JNU where all student bodies owe allegiance to one party or the other, this is a laudable attempt to create a neutral pressure group.

Computers for all

What happens when two giants of the IT world ? Intel and NIIT ? put their heads together to improve the quality of education in Indian schools? Well, for starters, it means more computer-assisted education for school students. The two companies have signed an MOU to integrate information and communications technology in schools, across all classes. They plan to double the number of schools benefiting from computer-assisted education to 80,000 by 2010.