South Asia | India | Education

200 girls leave school due to lack of toilets

More than 200 girls have discontinued their studies at a government-run residential school (boarding school) in the Indian state of Jharkhand, citing lack of toilets and harassment from local boys. The Kasturba Gandhi Awasiya School was set up to promote education among girls in rural areas. The hostel of the school, where 220 girls were provided accommodation, had just five toilets. The girls say that they often had to heed nature’s call in the open as there weren’t enough facilities for them to use.

South Asia | India | Activism

Once forced to study in secret, this Indian professor inspires a generation of female students

Source: PRI

My mother’s cousin, Rama Arora, is the first and still the only woman to teach at a college in the small desert town of Jaisalmer, India. The fact that it’s a women’s college says a lot about the prospects for females in higher education in many parts of the country. So does Rama’s backstory: She went to incredible lengths to defy the odds and become a professor. Instead of business, Rama studied humanities and got a degree at a women’s college closer to home. She wanted to continue on to a doctorate so she could have a career of her own. But her parents arranged a marriage for h

South Asia | India | Education

Mumbai college to give ‘full-free education’ to meritorious female students

Source: DNAIndia

Ghanshyam Das Jalan Women Degree College of Science & Commerce in suburban Malad in Mumbai, has decided to offer full-year free education to female students who have secured above 90% marks in class 12 Board examination. The college has initiated the "full-free-education" concept to empower women by providing equal opportunity, its administration said.

South Asia | India | Education

With 55 Per Cent Women Graduates, IIM Kozhikode Creates History

Source: NDTV

With the largest ever percentage of women graduates from any top B-school in India, Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode has made history this year. Having studied in a more equal ratio with 55 per cent being women, the honchos of tomorrow feel they have the edge the industry needs. Gita Piramal, a Business Historian and Independent Director at Bajaj Auto, said she believes, "We are having a little mini army which is getting ready and going out and the timing is also perfect because the job market is much better, the economy is beginning to look up. 20 years from now I see major things