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From Bihar to a madrasa in Karnataka
Deccan Herald, October 27,
2010
The Karnataka Commission for Protection
of Child Rights (KCPCR) found 23 children, who had travelled
hundreds of kilometres from Bihar’s West Champaran
district to the City, for education. Suspecting child
trafficking, Yeshwantpur railway rural police took in
the children, all boys aged between 4 and 13 years and
from West Champaran district of Bihar when they landed
at the Yeshwantpur Railway station in the morning. Haroon
Rasheed, a cleric at the Madrasa Arabia Ameena, who
along with his family accompanied the children to the
City, said the children were students of the madrasa.
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To counter China, India needs innovation varsities:
Yale chief
Anubhuti Vishnoi, Indian Express,
October 29, 2010
Yale president Richard Levin on Thursday
said that while China had worked on a “dramatic
scale of advancement” in the education sector
in the last decade, India has only now begun to work
on that path. Speaking to The Indian Express after signing
an MoU to launch the “India-Yale University Leadership
Programme” with IIT Kanpur and IIM Kozhikode,
Levin said India’s answer to China’s investment
in high quality education was innovation.“Making
the advancement that China has made…that’s
expensive. China has put in a lot of money in higher
education… China has singled out 10 per cent of
its national universities towards disproportionate investment
in order to make them globally competitive,” Levin
said.
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| Top schools
can expand to meet demand
Christopher Hope, The Telegraph,
November 1, 2010
Under plans being drawn up by Michael Gove, the Education
Secretary, primary and secondary schools will be freed
from limits imposed by councils and be able to take
on more students. Top-performing schools will be allowed
to accept a greater number of students, and gain tens
of thousands of pounds extra funding. Successful schools
are likely to get bigger, as more pupils flood in, while
poor-performing schools could see numbers decline sharply
and be forced to close.Complex admissions procedures
will also be simplified to make them less bureaucratic
and easier to understand for parents..
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| Vocation
at school
Indian Express, November 1,
2010
Speaking at the 8th pan-IIT conference
last week, Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal dropped a
hint on how to tackle this problem by highlighting the
need for a comprehensive skill development programme
and a Vocational Education Qualification Framework;
the latter would help enable students to opt for a vocation
as early as in standard VIII under the CBSE system.
That would, in turn, enable school leavers to be directly
employed as skilled workers by the secondary sector
— mainly manufacturing, but also construction.The
challenge of creating jobs is a daunting one: agriculture
continues to over-employ people who need to be absorbed
into either industry or services. Many jobs have indeed
been created in the broad category of white collar services
over the last two decades.
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| HRD ministry
signs MoU with UIDAI
The Economic Times, October
27, 2010
Recognising the efficacy of the ‘Aadhaar’
unique identification number in delivering education
based programmes, the HRD Ministry today signed an MoU
with the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI).
The proposed MoU would be helpful in tracking student’s
mobility by creating an electronic registry of all students,
right from primary and elementary level through secondary
and higher education, as also between the institutions.“Besides,
it will also be useful in bringing efficiency in the
mid-day meal scheme,” HRD Minister Kapil Sibal
said.
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| Teachers
work harder for the children of pushy parents, study
finds
Tim Ross, The Telegraph, October
29, 2010
Reading bedtime stories, helping with
homework and regularly attending parents’ evenings
all encourage children – and their teachers –
to put in extra effort, the study by Leicester and Leeds
Universities suggested. In fact, the level of parental
involvement has a greater impact on a pupil’s
eventual grades than the efforts of either the school
or the child themselves, the researchers said.Education
experts have long known that parents with “sharp
elbows” are more likely to get their children
places at the best schools and to play the system to
their advantage..
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| Bengal drafts
own rules for effective Right to Education
Shiv Sahay Singh, Indian Express,
October 27, 2010
To implement the Right to Education
Act — providing free and compulsory education
to all children between the age group of 6 to 14, the
state government has framed its own set of rules. The
Indian Express has accessed the copy of the 38-page
draft, which the government has sent to various stakeholders.
According to the draft, local bodies like panchayats
and municipalities will identify children and enroll
them in schools. It also talks of setting up more schools
in consultation with the state School Education department.“The
local authority shall maintain records of all children
in its jurisdiction — from birth till a child
attains the age of 14 — through household surveys.
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Charter students double in a decade
Matt Carroll, Boston Globe,
November 1, 2010
The number of children in Massachusetts
charter schools has more than doubled over the past
decade as parents, worried about the quality of their
children’s education, have increasingly sought
alternatives to traditional public schools. Charter
school enrollment climbed to 27,484 this year, up from
12,518 in 2000, according to data from the state Department
of Elementary and Secondary Education. The Globe examined
enrollment trends in more than 380 school districts
across the state.
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Research Paper
The Long Walk to School: International Education Goals
in Historical Perspective
Michael A. Clemens
ABSTRACT:
Raising school enrollment, like economic development
in general, takes a long time. This is partly because,
as a mountain of empirical evidence now shows, economic
conditions and slowly-changing parental education levels
determine children’s school enrollment to a greater
degree than education policy interventions. A succession
of international meetings has nevertheless adopted a
litany of utopian international goals for universal
school enrollment and gender parity in education based
on the idea that a correct education policy backed by
sufficient cash could achieve the goals in short order.
The latest of these, the Millennium Development Goals,
call for universal primary schooling and full gender
parity by 2015. This work quantifies how long it has
taken countries rich and poor to make the transition
towards high enrollments and gender parity.
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Picture
of the Week
School children in Chennai riding on the footbaord
while going to school
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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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Student First! Dialogue Series
Social Audit in School Education
18 November, 2010
6:30 pm -8:00 pm
India Habitat Centre, Delhi
For
more information
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SCHOOL CHOICE NATIONAL CONFERENCE
2010
Saturday, 18 December 2010
The Theatre, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India
For more details click here |
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| SCHOOL VOUCHERS FOR
GIRLS
400 girl children from poor families
of North East Delhi receive school vouchers for a period
of 4 years.
For details visit website
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Support Children's Right to Education of Choice!
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