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Education City

Education City, based In Doha the capital of Qatar, spreads across 14 square kilometers of the area. It was a project started by Qatar foundation of Education with the aim and desire of making an educational complex that would be considered as centre of educational brilliance in Doha. The city comprises of schools, research centers and world class universities for higher education.

Education City isn’t only comprised of the local schools and colleges of Doha, as five of the leading Universities of America also have their branch campuses set up in Education city. The universities include Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar that was established there in 1998 that offers graduate degree based on 4 years curriculum in the fields of Fine Arts, Fashion Designing, Interior Designing and Communication Designing. In 2001, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar was established that provides a two year Pre-Medical Program followed by a four year Medical Program that ultimately leads to the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Also in 2001, Academic Bridge Program was established as well in the Education City that trains and prepares secondary school graduates for admission in degree programs and acts as a foundation course. Later in 2003 Texas A&M University was grounded in Qatar offering the under-grad degrees in the field of electrical, chemical, petroleum and mechanical engineering.

Since 2007 the university has also been offering masters degree programs in engineering as well. Carnegie Mellon University came to Qatar in 2004 offering an under-grad degree for the studies of business, computer science and information systems. Georgetown University School of Foreign Service was set up in 2005 in Qatar, providing the students with bachelor’s degree in Foreign Service in four- year’s program. And in near future, in the year 2008, Northwestern University also announces of establishing campus in Education City, offering degrees in the field of Journalism and Communication.

Education City also features a learning centre that mainly focuses average potential students that faced some difficulties and problems in academically, and helps them continue reading

Education and Stone Age

The History of Education goes way back when Adam set his foot on this earth and passed his knowledge on to the generation followed by him. Education thus in Simple words is passing of already discovered knowledge to another generation. Education as a science cannot also be separated from the educational traditions that existed before. Knowledge was actually the natural outcome of an individual while fighting the battle of survival and the transfer of this understanding to the newcomers originated the phenomenon of Education in general. The transfer of knowledge gradually evolved into distinct cultures and oral language was developed into Symbols as well as pictures to further enhance the process of handing over.

When cultures began to extend their knowledge beyond the basic skills of communicating, trading, gathering food, religious practices, etc, formal education, and schooling, eventually followed.

Education and religion:

Initially the most popular mode of education in various regions of the world was religion. The religious priests not only taught religion but also the principles of writing, the sciences, mathematics, and architecture. The regions like Egypt, India and China are popular for the propagation of education through religious scholars. The basis of formal education were really strong in religions like Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Jewish. All of the religions incorporated their sacred worship places as a mode of extending their knowledge and learning about the realities of life.

Education in Greece and Rome

Romans and Greek serves as one of the origin of formal education as the ancient Greeks’ education focused on the study of philosophy. The Romans, on the other hand, were preoccupied with war, conquest, politics, and civil administration. The renowned names in the Greek philosophy include legends like Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. The main focus of these philosophers in the beginning was grammar, logic, and rhetoric, subjects that eventually formed the core of the liberal arts. Later The Greek philosopher Socrates wanted to discover and teach universal principles of truth, beauty, and goodness. Socrates believed that true knowledge existed within everyone and continue reading

Forms of Domestic Violence and Development of

Women through Education

 

                                                                                          

INTRODUCTION

            However much a mother may love her children, it is all but impossible for her to provide high-quality child care if she herself is poor and oppressed, illiterate and uninformed, anemic and unhealthy, has five or six other children, lives in a slum or shanty, has neither clean water nor safe sanitation, and if she is without the necessary support either from health services, or from her society, or from the father of her childen.

                                                          - Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, “The Asian Enigma”

            Women constitute almost half of the population in the world. But the hegemonic masculine ideology made them suffer a lot as they were denied equal opportunities in different parts of the world. The rise of feminist ideas has, however, led to the tremendous improvement of women’s condition through out the world in recent times. Access to education has been one of the most pressing demands of theses women’s rights movements. Women’s education in India has also been a major preoccupation of both the government and civil society as educated women can play a very important role in the development of the country.     

·                     India has world’s largest number of professionally qualified women.

·                     India has largest population of working women in the world.

·                     India has more number of doctors, surgeons, scientists, professors than the US.

What is Domestic Violence?

            Domestic violence is controlling behaviour and includes all kinds of physical, sexual, economic, continue reading