| HRD ministry
to get Rs. 2.31 lakh crore to implement RTE Act: Pranab
The Hindu, August 8, 2010
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on
Sunday said the Human Resource Development Ministry
would be allocated Rs. 2.31 lakh crore over the next
three years to set up infrastructure for implementing
the Right to Education (RTE) Act. “The Human Resource
Development Minister has said that Rs. 2,31,000 crore
will be required for implementing RTE in the next three
years for setting up schools, appointment of teachers
and building of infrastructure. I said that the money
will be provided,” Mr. Mukherjee said at a seminar
here.
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Foreign degrees, right here?
C. Jayanthi, The Hindu, August
8, 2010
Dreaming of acquiring a foreign degree
right here in India, and not spending thousands of dollars
travelling overseas? You might have your way soon. Kapil
Sibal, Union Minister of Human Resource Development,
has recently introduced the Foreign Educational Institutions
(Regulation of Entry and Operations) Bill, 2010, in
Parliament in order to allow foreign universities to
operate in the country. He said: “I do not expect
Harvard and Stanford universities to set up shop here
(but others will).”
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RTE wins, 874 children get school entry
Indian Express, August 6, 2010
Four months after the Right to Education
(RTE) Act came into force, guaranteeing every child
up to 14 years of age free and compulsory education,
the Delhi High Court on Thursday delivered its first
landmark ruling by according the relief to 874 children,
350 of them differently abled. Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw
allowed the petition of advocate Ashok Aggarwal of NGO
Social Jurist and directed the Delhi government and
its schools to admit these children, mostly belonging
to lower strata of the society, preferably in schools
located in their neighbourhood and in accordance with
the RTE Act provisions without delay.
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Senator to Review Accreditation of For-Profit Colleges
New York Times, August 4, 2010
As part of the expanding Congressional
scrutiny of for-profit colleges, Senator Tom Harkin
announced at a hearing on Wednesday that he plans to
examine their accreditation process. The hearing featured
a report by theGovernment Accountability Office, whose
investigators found deceptive practices or fraud atthe
15 for-profit colleges they visited, including two University
of Phoenix campuses, two Kaplan Colleges, and a Corinthian
Colleges institution.
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Muslim organisations planning to set up education board
Daily News & Analysis, August
8, 2010
In a bid to improve the standard of
education and to provide better educational opportunities
to their youth, Muslim organisations in the country
have taken an initiative to set up a separate board
on the lines on ISC and CBSE. "It has been decided
to set up a Muslim Education Board on the lines of ISC
and CBSE boards which will give affiliation to religious
and non-religious educational institutions in the country,"
member of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board Maulana
Khalid Rashid Firangi Mahali told PTI.
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India has a long way to go in education: PM
Sify Finance, August 3, 2010
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday
said India has a 'long way to go' in spreading literacy,
adding that paucity of funds will not be allowed to
hamper the spread of education in the country.
'We still have a very long way to go (in spreading education),'
Manmohan Singh said, referring to 'significant gains'
India has made in the field. 'According to UNESCO's
Global Monitoring Report 2006, out of 771 million illiterates
in the world, 268 million are estimated to be residing
in our country, which accounts for nearly one-third
of the world's non-literates,' he said.
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Learning through engaging methods
Mahalakshmi, The Financial Express,
August 9, 2010
Children are growing up in a world continuously besieged
by visual stimuli coming from devices such as television,
videos and more recently, laptops, cameras, smartphones
and a plethora of touchscreen devices. Although this
exposure is marred by complaints from parents and adults
in general, the fact is that adoption of video technologies
is becoming a necessary teaching methodology to raise
academic standards of students. In India too, where
the utilisation of technology to improve the existing
methodologies in the education ecosystem is still minimal,
the academic community is realising the value of IT
to explain complex concepts to their students.
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| Shortage
of 1.2 million teachers in India: Kapil Sibal
The Times of India, August 5, 2010
There is a shortage of 1.2 million
teachers in India and states must speed up the recruitment
process to bridge the gap, human resource development
minister Kapil Sibal said on Friday."We have a
shortage of 1.2 million teachers. In some states there
is an enormous backlog from last several years. In Bihar
about 100,696 posts are vacant," Sibal told the
Rajya Sabha during question hour.
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Research Paper
The progress of school education in India
Geeta Gandhi Kingdon
ABSTRACT: This paper provides an overview
of school education in India. First, it places India’s
educational achievements in international perspective,
particularly against countries with which it is now
increasingly compared, especially China. Second, the
paper examines schooling access in terms of enrolment
and school attendance rates, and schooling quality in
terms of literacy rates, learning achievement levels,
school resources, and teacher inputs. Third, the paper
investigates the role of private schooling in India,
examining the extent of growth of private schooling
and surveying evidence on the relative effectiveness
and unit costs of private and public schools. Last,
the paper discusses some major public education initiatives.
The concluding section suggests a future research agenda
and appeals for rigorous evaluation of the impacts and
costs of the numerous existing educational interventions,
in order to learn about their relative cost-effectiveness
for evidence-based policy-making.
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Picture of the Month
The Druk Pema school just outside Leh town, featured
in the film 3 Idiots, was washed away after two cloudbursts
led to flash floods and mudslides in the region
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RTE Coalition
To initiate
and continue the discussion amongst concerned groups
and individuals on the issue of right of education and
monitor the implementation of the RTE Act, an RTE Coalition
has been formed. Join the coalition to make universal
elementary education a reality in India. Log on to www.righttoeducation.in
for more information. |
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2010
Fisher International Memorial Award
James Tooley’s “The
Beautiful Tree” bags 2010 Fisher International
Memorial Award.
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| SCHOOL VOUCHERS FOR
GIRLS
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