Thursday, March 19, 2009

Indian schools:

India is boarding known for its IT supremacy. It is but natural for this progressive city to have a proper infrastructure in education. A host of top quality boarding schools dot the city. Our country is known for its cosmopolitan culture which is reflected in its educational institutions as well.

Schools in India follow different boards of examination system like CBSE, ICSE, Matriculation, State Board syllabus and so on. There are international schools as well which follow international examination systems like IB, GCSE and so on. There are umpteen numbers of schools in India. They can be broadly classified into private and public schools. Private schools are run by private individuals or trust or convents but usually affiliated to the government. Public schools are entirely run by the government. These include the central schools, the state government schools, and municipality schools.

In most cases the afternoon meal is provided so as to give an incentive to students from the poorer classes who may otherwise have to go and work for a living. In certain states the standard of education in a public school is at par with that of the private schools.

57.world languges:

language spoken internationally, which is learned by many people as a second language. A world language is not only characterized by the number of its speakers (native or second language speakers), but also by its geographical distribution, and its use in international organizations and in diplomatic relations. In this respect, major world languages are dominated by languages of European origin. The historical reason for this is the period of European colonialism. World languages originating with historical colonial empires include English, Spanish, Portuguese and French. The international prominence of Arabic has its historical reason in the medieval Islamic conquests.

Other major languages are not widely used across several continents, but have an international significance as the lingua franca of a historical empire. These include Mandarin Chinese in the Chinese empire, Greek in the Hellenistic world after the conquests of Alexander the Great, Russian in the Russian empire, German in the Holy Roman Empire, Tamil in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore and Hindi following the British Raj which united India.

The major languages of the Indian subcontinent, Hindustani (including all Hindi dialects and Urdu) and Bengali, have numbers of speakers comparable to those of major world languages primarily due to the extreme population growth in the region in recent decades rather than a super-regional use of these languages. Similarly, Japanese has more native speakers than French, but while French is spoken intercontinentally and has a significant portion of second language speakers, the vast majority of Japanese speakers are native Japanese.

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