| Promises
renewed on National Education Day
Manjula Pooja Shroff, Daily News
& Analysis, November 14, 2010
November 11 is celebrated as the Indian
National Education Day as it marks the contributions
made by the first education minister, Maulana Azad,
of free India. It is only befitting that the ministry
of HRD made renewed promises on this day at an international
conference in New Delhi.A confluence of 20 countries
including Bulgaria, Thailand, Singapore, Brunei, foreign
participation of 15 presidents from various universities
across USA, 20 United Kingdom delegates headed by their
minister of education and a team of 17 Canadians, formed
a tally of nearly 130 foreign delegates of the 700 participants
from across India.
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India, UK for mutual recognition of professional degrees
Prashant K. Nanda, Mint, November
12, 2010
India and the UK on Friday decided
to work towards recognising each other’s professional
degrees in management and engineering and significantly
increase the flow of students from the UK to India.
David Willetts, UK minister for universities and sciences,
said while over 40,000 Indian students are pursuing
education in his country, India only hosts around 500
British students.“There is a huge gap and we want
this to increase student flow both for education and
summer placement,” Willets said after a meeting
with human resource development minister Kapil Sibal.
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Rural kids
voice their disappointment over lack of schools in their
vicinity
The Times of India, November
15, 2010
On the occasion of Children’s
Day, five representatives from different parts of the
state spoke at a children’s press conference organised
by Child Rights and You (CRY) on how education is inaccessible
due to the distance, sometimes as great as 10 km one
way between their villages and the nearest school. Under
the Right to Education Act, it is mandatory that there
is a school operating at a distance of every 1 km.
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D.C. offers lesson in Charter Schools 101
Stephanie McCrummen, Washington Post,
November 15, 2010
The next crop of would-be D.C. charter
school operators gathered in a gray conference room
on 14th Street one night last week, more than 30 hopeful
men and women, each with his or her own pitch. ”Hello,”
began one woman. “I am a founder of Believe Charter
School. We believe every child in D.C. has the right
to a high-quality, first-class education.” “Hi,”
another woman began, offering her idea. “I’m
soft-spoken. Sorry. I believe it’s important to
prepare kids adequately and empower them.”
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| Top state
schools to expand under Coalition plan
Graeme Paton, The Telegraph,
November 15, 2010
The best primaries and secondaries
will be able to take more pupils – while unpopular
schools see numbers fall – as part of Coalition
proposals to boost standards and cut bureaucracy. An
education White Paper published next week will set out
plans to switch to a “national funding formula”
for all state schools. Schools will receive roughly
the same amount for each pupil in a move that will reduce
the amount of power wielded by local authorities over
education budgets.
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In India, the World’s Largest School Lunch Program
Nilanjana Bhowmick, Time, November
5, 2010
Narasimha Das is on his way to feed
169,379 hungry children. A devotee of Lord Krishna,
Das oversees operations in an industrial-sized kitchen
in the Hindu religious town of Vrindaban, around three
hours drive outside New Delhi. As he reaches work, the
pebbles on the facility’s driveway crunch softly
in the semi-darkness of a nippy October morning.It’s
only 3 a.m., but the kitchen, run by the Akshaya Patra
Foundation, already exudes the warm fragrance of freshly
baked chapatti. Thirty men in overalls and mouth and
hair guards silently labor over tons of wheat flour
and dough. They have less than five hours to make tens
of thousands of rounds of Indian flatbread to be loaded
onto the heat-insulated, dust-free delivery vans and
transported to 1,516 schools in and around Vrindaban..
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CAG heat on 25 city schools for fee hike
Ritika Chopra, India Today,
November 14, 2010
Parents protesting against the sudden
hike in tuition fee across private schools in Delhi
on account of the Sixth Pay Commission have been vindicated.
A tell-all audit report of 25 unaided schools submitted
recently by the Comptroller Audit General of India (CAG)
corroborates the gnawing suspicion among parents that
the fee hike was indeed unjustified.According to the
report – that was submitted to the Chief Minister,
Chief Secretary, Principal Secretary of Education and
the Lieutenant Governor in the first week of November
– several sought- after institutions should not
have footed the bill of salary arrears to the parents
as they had adequate reserve funds to pay the increased
remuneration of teachers..
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| Computers
help win back students in rural TN
The Times of India, November
12, 2010
In Tamil Nadu’s rural pockets,
a small group of teachers are helping make a difference
in schools with the use of computers. Students in these
areas are motivated to remain in school due to technology,
say five teachers who are regional winners of Microsoft’s
India Innovative Educators’ Forum 2010. Computers
have helped stem the drop-out rate in their schools,
they add.“When I joined as a primary school teacher
in 2005, there were only four students at my school
and we had no electricity. The government had passed
orders for the school to be closed due to its poor strength.
I underwent training with Microsoft for 12 days in 2006
supported by Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and bought a laptop
at personal expense for use in the classroom. The strength
went up to 23 in 2008 and is 19 now
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Research Paper
School Choice in Dayton, Ohio After Two Years:
An Evaluation of the Parents Advancing Choice in Education
Scholarship Program
Martin R. West, Paul E. Peterson and David E. Campbell
ABSTRACT: In the spring of 1998, Parents
Advancing Choice in Education (PACE), a privately funded
non-profit corporation, offered low-income parents within
the Dayton metropolitan area an opportunity to apply
for a scholarship to help defray the costs of sending
their child to private schools in Dayton and other parts
of Montgomery County, Ohio. All students from low-income
families entering a grade between kindergarten and twelfth
grade were eligible. PACE offered scholarships to 515
students who were in public schools at the time and
250 students who were already enrolled in private schools.
This evaluation examines the program’s impact
after two years on those students in grades 2-9 who
had been attending public schools prior to receiving
a scholarship.
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Global Education Statistics
Distribution of aid to basic education by levels
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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
Social Audit in School Education
Thursday, 18 November 2010 | 6:30 -
8:00 PM
Casuarina Hall, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India
For more details click
here
School Choice National Conference
2010
18 December 2010, 9 am - 6 pm
The Theatre, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India
To read more click here
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
Support Children's Right to
Education of Choice!
DONATE
For more details on how to support, log on to www.schoolchoice.in
or email us at [email protected]
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