| UK for deepening
cooperation with India in education sector
Economic Times, January 6, 2011
The United Kingdon plans to deepen
cooperation with India in the field of education , which
offers “great opportunities” to boost bilateral
economic ties, a top British official said here on Saturday.
“Education offers a big opportunity for greater
cooperation between the UK and India, beyond the traditional
cooperation,” Simon Fraser, the new head of the
British Foreign Office said.
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| Now, rating
for B-schools
Kalpana Pathak & Rajesh Bhayani,
Business Standard, January 10, 2011
As credit rating agencies get ready
to grade business schools, the jury is out on whether
the process will be of much use. In December 2010, Mumbai-based
Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS)
received an A*** grading by credit rating agency Crisil.
The institute is now all set to adorn it. “We
will tell the world about it. Its already on our website
and now all our advertisements would carry this. We
have already communicated it to all our stakeholders.
It has reassured that we are on the right track,”
said Rajan Saxena, Vice Chancellor, NMIMS University.
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| No Entry
Indian Express, January 10,
2011
This is the season of angst in Delhi
for parents who begin the arduous process of applying
for primary school admissions this month. The competition
for the miniscule number of seats is so stiff, and for
parents the anxiety so overwhelming, that I’m
surprised a TV network hasn’t come up with a reality
show on it yet. It’s bound to generate fantastic
TRPs considering the ready audience of frustrated parents.
Simply, the slots available at nursery level have not
kept pace with our numbers, giving schools across India
too much power. The Delhi government may prohibit profiling
of children on the basis of their parents professions
and education, but schools pretty much choose who they
please.
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| Pennsylvania
leaders push plan for school vouchers
Jodi Weigand, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review,
January 9, 2011
This week Pennsylvanians will get a
look at a plan to use state money to give low-income
families alternatives to public school. State Sens.
Jeffrey Piccola, R-Dauphin, chairman of the Senate Education
Committee, and Anthony Williams, D-Philadelphia, will
release their proposal for a tuition voucher system
mid-week. Parents could use the money to send their
child to a public, parochial or private school of their
choice.
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| Teachers in
Kerala to get laptops, netbooks at subsidised rates
The Hindu, January 8, 2011
In response to persistent demands from
school teachers in Kerala, the ‘IT@School’
programme has readied a scheme for making available
laptops and netbooks at subsidised rates for up to 50,000
teachers. “Under this scheme laptops will be available
for Rs. 17,770 and netbooks for Rs. 11,450. This is
37 per cent and 36 per cent respectively, less than
the current market prices for these machines”,
Executive Director of the ‘IT@School’ Anvar
Sadath said.
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| India’s
higher education spend to hit Rs 150k-cr
Amit Bapna & Sruthi Radhakrishnan,
The Economic Times, January 4, 2011
In school, most children sport a morose
look and a sense of gloom prevails when the mathematics
teacher starts talking numbers, scribbling furiously
on the black board. Class tests, homework with sums,
additions and subtractions, numbers and percentile follows
a student, right from school till graduation. After
all, in India, it’s numbers that makes or breaks
a career choice. But numbers also brings a smile on
faces. Well, ask the schools, colleges, coaching classes
and peripherals in the education space in India. And
the sum with all its multiplications, we are talking
about, will definitely warm the cockles of anyone making
a living out of teaching students.
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| Enter, the
education professionals
Saritha Rai, Indian Express,
January 9, 2011
Sandwiched between the tall dazzle
of Wipro’s steel-and-glass offices on Sarjapur
Road in Bangalore, and its chairman Azim Hasham Premji’s
tucked-away-from-prying-eyes expansive private residence,
stands a modest two-storeyed building. Against the backdrop
of thick woods, surrounded by falling leaves, the diminutive
building paints a rather dreamy picture. The style is
exposed brick, tile and green-blue glass. A small sign
at the gate announces the Azim Premji Foundation. This
is the operational headquarters of Azim Premji University,
India’s very first education university—a
grand, not-for-profit institution whose ambition is
to revolutionise India’s education system.
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| Is Law School
a Losing Game?
David Segal, New York Times,
January 8, 2011
If there is ever a class in how to
remain calm while trapped beneath $250,000 in loans,
Michael Wallerstein ought to teach it. Here he is, sitting
one afternoon at a restaurant on the Upper East Side
of Manhattan, a tall, sandy-haired, 27-year-old radiating
a kind of surfer-dude serenity. His secret, if that’s
the right word, is to pretty much ignore all the calls
and letters that he receives every day from the dozen
or so creditors now hounding him for cash.
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| Research Paper
Do Scholarships Help Students Continue Their Education?
ABSTRACT: Providing children with a
quality education is a priority of policymakers and
education experts around the world. Creating a successful
education system requires more than good teachers and
the right infrastructure. Children must be encouraged
to stay in school long enough to benefit from the offerings.
Making this happen is a critical step in education reform.
A variety of research questions remain unanswered, however.
Can scholarships help students extend their education
beyond primary school in low income countries? Should
payments be made directly to the children or to their
parents? Is there an optimal scholarship amount? And
do boys and girls need the same encouragement?
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Photo
of the Month
Kapil Sibal, Union Minister for Human Resource Development
at inaugural session of the ninth Pravasi Bhartiya
Divas at New Delhi
Student First! Magazine
The second issue of Student First!
Magazine is out. The theme for this issue is Public
Private Partnerships in Education.
Read it here
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Skill Vouchers -
Global Experiences and Lessons for India
Leah Verghese and Parth J Shah
A study of the role that skill vouchers can play in
catalysing demand for quality skill development services.
This study examines global experiences with skill vouchers
and draws lessons for India from these experiences.
For more click here
Reservation in Private Schools
under the Right to Education Act: Model for Implementation
Shekhar Mittal and Parth J Shah
Through this document the Centre for Civil Society
seeks to highlight the lacunae in the current framework
for 25% reservation for weaker and disadvantaged groups
in unaided private schools and seeks to provide inputs
on effective implementation of the same.
For more click 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 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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