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RTE implementation in state improper: survey
Indian Express, November 29, 2010
A month-long campaign in the rural
areas to raise awareness about the Right to Education
(RTE) Act has revealed high drop-out rates and dilapidated
educational infrastructure across several districts.
The activists have now charged the state government
for not forming a commission to implement the Central
law. They have said nine others states have already
formed a commission, and even where consultations are
being organised, it remains “secretive”
and “unknown”.On Sunday, activists of the
Buniyadi Adhikar Andolan Gujarat (BAAG) and Child Rights
and You (CRY) presented to journalists videos and documents
they had shot and collected from 133 villages in six
talukas.
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Govt no to schools testing kids,parents profiling in
admission
Economic Times, November 25,
2010
Amid confusion among schools about
admission norms upto Class I, Government has made it
clear that children or parents should not be subjected
to “testing and interview” and there should
be no profiling based on education qualification of
parents. Though the fresh guidelines issued under the
Right to Education Act state that the admissions will
be based on ‘random selection’, it allows
schools to frame their own admission policy to categorise
students “on rational, reasonable and just basis”.The
clarification comes after several unaided and aided
schools sought clarification on procedure to be followed
for admission as section 13(1) of the Right to Education
Act states no school or person shall subject the child
or his/her parents to any “screening procedure”.
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The GOP’s Education Dilemma
Diane Ravitch, Wall Street Journal,
November 28, 2010
Now that Republicans have regained
control of the House of Representatives, they must take
a stand in the battle for control of American education.
The issue today is between those who want to federalize
education policy and those who want to maintain state
and local control of the public schools. Historically,
the GOP has always been the party of local control,
and for most of the 20th century Republicans opposed
almost every effort by Democrats to expand the power
of the federal government over the nation’s public
classrooms.In 1965, when Congress passed the Elementary
and Secondary Education Act, Republicans worried that
it was the start of intrusive federal mandates. In time,
though, they accepted that there is a legitimate federal
role in providing extra funding for needy students,
ensuring educational opportunity for children with disabilities,
protecting students’ civil rights, gathering accurate
data, and sponsoring research.
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Skilling India
The Economic Times, November
29, 2010
We welcome the initiative a number
of companies are increasingly taking to train new entrants
to the labour force in skills, some of which ET has
covered last week. This is entirely appropriate, and
superior to the notion, gaining popularity in important
circles, that we should make skill formation a key element
of the formal education system. The objective of education
should be retained as development of the innate human
potential of the young, its moulding to a specific skill
being a later specialisation or an incidental part of
the formal curriculum.India has done reasonably well
in the information technology industry without all formal
education programmes seeking to churn out IT workers.
That only about 15% of those coming out of the education
system are employable is a problem, true; but this owes
more to the quality of the education system and less
to a specific skill deficit.
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Bengal rejects text watchdog plan
Basant Kumar Mohanty, The Telegraph,
November 29, 2010
Bengal is among three states that have
opposed a human resource development ministry proposal
to set up a national watchdog to monitor school textbooks
adopted by education boards. The other two dissenting
states are Gujarat and Orissa. Fourteen states and Union
territories have supported the idea, though. The ministry
had sought the opinion of the states and the Union territories
on the proposal to set up a National Textbook Council
(NTC) that would monitor the quality of textbooks adopted
by different school boards. The proposed council would
see that textbooks do not carry undesirable content
and are in sync with the secular values enshrined in
the Constitution. The proposal was mooted in 2005 by
a committee of the Central Advisory Board of Education,
an advisory council that has all state education ministers
as its members.
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Headteachers
launch protest as Michael Gove takes axe to school sports
budget
Toby Helm, The Guardian, November
28, 2010
Headteachers will launch a national
revolt today against plans to cut school sport as Michael
Gove comes under intense pressure from inside and outside
government to rethink his plans. Sixty headteachers
from across England have expressed their outrage at
his decision to end the entire £162m budget for
School Sport Partnerships (SSPs) in a hard-hitting letter
to the Observer. Their intervention comes as the head
of the Canadian Olympic Committee also raises his concerns
in a letter to Gove, arguing that with the 2012 London
games approaching, it was vital that the SSPs should
be kept in place.The heads, many in charge of specialist
sports colleges, which use the funds to provide coaches
and expert help to other schools in their areas, decided
to act after the Observer highlighted the effects of
the cuts last weekend.
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Parliamentary panel cautions govt on new IITs
The Times of India, November
26, 2010
A Parliamentary panel today cautioned
the Centre that mere declaration of certain institutes
as institutions of national importance will only be
a quantitative achievement and the new IITs may not
be able to match the established standards in near future.
The observation was made by the Parliamentary Standing
Committee on Human Resources Development in its report
tabled in the Rajya Sabha on the Institutes of Technology
Act, 1961, which is aimed at declaring certain institutes
of technology to be institutions of national importance.In
the report, the committee said that the government had
constituted an expert committee to identify certain
academic institutions which had the potential for being
upgraded to the level of IITs and the institute of technology,
Banaras Hindu University (BHU) had been recommended
for the purpose.
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| Non-government
schools better at providing a ladder of opportunity
for all
Kevin Donnelley, Australian Conservative,
November 28, 2010
As the saying goes, never let the truth
get in the way of a good story. One of the myths spread
by Catholic and independent school critics is that because
such schools only serve wealthy and privileged students
they don’t deserve government funding. A second
myth is that a student’s socioeconomic background
is the most influential factor determining educational
success or failure. Put simply, working class and migrant
students, through no fault of their own, fail to perform
as well academically as students from wealthy homes
with well-qualified parents.It’s not only long
time critics, like the Australian Education Union and
Canberra-based Trevor Cobbold, that use such myths to
attack funding to Catholic and independent schools.
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Research Paper
Dr. Ravinder Rena, Factors Affecting the Enrollment
and the Retention of Students at Primary Education in
Andhra Pradesh – A Village Level Study
Essays in Education, Vol. 22, pp. 102-112, Fall 2007
ABSTRACT:
There is an imperative need to change the education
pattern to achieve universal primary education in India.
Even after 60 years of Independence, India faces obstacles
in providing Education For All. This study was conducted
in a primary school of Errabelly village of Karimnager
district of Andhra Pradesh, India. The study revealed
that children dropped out of school so as to assist
in household and agricultural activities. It also reveals
that the dropout rate of girls is more than that of
boys. The study recommended that budgetary allocations
should be increased so as to encourage the primary school
participation and provide some form of financial assistance
to the students.
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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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CONFERENCE 2010
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