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Over five lakh students
opt out of class X boards
Manash Pratim Gohain, The Times
of India, December 13, 2010
Over five lakh Class X students from
senior secondary schools have decided to opt out of
Class X board exams to be conducted by the Central Board
of Secondary Education (CBSE) in March 2011. This is
the first batch for which the Class X board exam has
been made optional and these students will now sit for
the schoolbased term-end Summative II exam in April
2011 under the Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation
(CCE)..
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| Getting Ahead
in India Means Getting Out of Town
Vir Singh, New York Times,
December 12, 2010
Parth Vaishnav can’t wait to
graduate, but he doesn’t think very much of the
bachelor’s degree he will receive from the University
of Mumbai next summer. And he believes employers won’t
value it, either. He is applying to engineering schools
in the United States, which he has been told offer the
flexibility, diverse courses and hands-on experience
he seeks. “Basically, all of us in my class, we
were pretty disappointed with our systems,” Mr.
Vaishnav said. “In the last three years, we have
learned absolutely nothing. Everything was pretty theoretical.
Courses in the U.S. offer practical experience. In India,
as far as the syllabus goes, you have absolutely no
flexibility.
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| Shanghai students
ranked best in the world at maths and science
Malcolm Moore, The Telegraph,
December 8, 2010
It was the first time that mainland
China has participated in the annual International Student
Assessment (PISA), a survey of almost half-a-million
schoolchildren in more than 70 countries by the Organisation
for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). More
than 5,000 15-year-old students in Shanghai sat the
two-hour PISA exam and surprised experts with their
stellar academic performance, in another sign of China’s
rapid modernisation.The OECD said the result was a “wake-up
call” for the rest of the world, with the UK falling
to 16th place for science, 25th place for reading and
28th place for maths.
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| No lottery
in nursery admissions: Dikshit
The Times of India, December
10, 2010
The Delhi government has ruled out
having a lottery system for nursery admissions this
year. Chief minister Sheila Dikshit said on Thursday
that admitting students through draw of lots –
much talked about in the post Right to Education Act
scenario – was unsustainable both for schools
and parents. While Dikshit invited suggestions by Friday
from schools on admission norms, in all likelihood the
points system will continue with modifications.“The
child’s interest is of paramount concern to us
but at the same time if the lottery gives rise to a
situation where two children of the same parents study
in two schools at two corners of the city, that is hardly
acceptable,” the CM told TOI after a meeting with
all stakeholders at her residence.
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| Riots, fire,
anger at tuition fees protest – and a defining
political moment
Anushka Asthana, The Guardian,
December 12, 2010
Sarah Lucas, a teacher from Hove in
Sussex, watched the images flash onto her television
screen: flames licking up in front of Big Ben; fireworks
bursting in the air; eggs hurled by teenagers; masked
youths charging at police officers. It was Thursday
night, and the news had seeped out into Parliament Square
that the vote in the Commons, which would allow universities
to almost treble tuition fees to £9,000 a year,
had been won. It spread through the thousands of cold
and tired protesters: students, lecturers, schoolchildren,
parents, trade unionists and anarchists.Lucas watched
angrily. Before the election she had worked hard trying
to persuade friends to back the Liberal Democrats. At
26, still paying off student debt, unable to get onto
the housing ladder, she had thought the Lib Dems offered
hope. “I saw them as the party for the young,”
she said. To her, the vote on fees was a broken promise.
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| Parents Can
Seek Transfers From Under-Performing Schools
The Los Angeles Independent,
December 9, 2010
Parents of Los Angeles Unified School
District students interested in transferring their children
out of under-performing schools have until Dec. 17 to
complete the Choices application with the district.
Each year, more than 422,000 LAUSD students are eligible
to transfer out of their low-performing schools through
a mostly unknown federal program called the No Child
Left Behind Public School Choice.
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| Skill development
must to create most vibrant workforce
Pallavi Singh, Economic Times,
December 12, 2010
With India set to house the world’s
largest working population by 2030, the question of
demographic dividend is at the centre of the discourse
in India’s growth story. If more Indians turn
skilled in future they would be employable which in
turn would create savings, investments and ultimately
growth. But if India’s population continues to
rise and the government fails to create a skilled talent
pool, it would lead to a dangerous cocktail.It’s
now estimated that if India’s skilled workforce
continues to rise for another 25 years, the country
could command one of the most vibrant workforces in
the world by 2035, leading savings and investments to
grow as well.
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| Study scheme
for girl students
The Telegraph, December 13,
2010
Dispur today said the state government
was coming up with a special scheme for the girl child
so that she did not have to discontinue education because
of financial problems. Chief minister Tarun Gogoi said
this during the foundation stone laying ceremony of
the office building of Assam State Commission for Women
here this afternoon. “A new scheme will be introduced
for the girl child. It is often seen that girls have
to discontinue their studies owing to acute financial
constraints. With this new scheme coming into action,
not a single girl child will be deprived of their right
to education because of monetary issues,” said
Gogoi.Though he did not elaborate, social welfare minister
Akan Bora said the nitty-gritty of the scheme would
be finalised once the chief minister makes the formal
announcement sometime in January.
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| Research Paper
Governance of Technical Education in India Key Issues,
Principles, and Case Studies
Andreas Blom and Jannette Cheong
ABSTRACT: Tertiary
education, and in particular technical and engineering
education, is critical to ndia’s aspirations of
strengthening its reputation as a major competitive
player in the global knowledge economy. The system is
huge and complex, and there is a consensus that reforms
are imperative. Issues of fair access and affordable
participation in higher education are critical if India
is to empower its people with educational opportunities
that allow individual potential to be fulfilled, and
allow more Indian graduates opportunities for employment
and to compete in an international arena.
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Picture
of the Month
The French President Nicholas Sarkozy said that he
expected a three-fold growth in the number of Indian
students going to France during his recent visit to
India.
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Student First! Magazine
The inaugural issue of Student
First! Magazine is out. Read it here |
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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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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
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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!
DONATE
For more details on how to support, log on to www.schoolchoice.in
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