| Private schools
are money spinning ventures: Supreme Court
Sify, 24 February 2011
The Supreme Court Thursday said private schools were
money- spinning enterprises and asked them to wake up
to their corporate-social responsibility by educating
poor children. The apex court bench of Chief Justice
S.H. Kapadia, Justice K.S. Panicker Radhakrishnan and
Justice Swatanter Kumar said this on a petition by the
Society for Unaided Private Schools of Rajasthan.
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Himachal students
to get hardship allowance for walking to school
Indian Express, 23 February 2011
353 primary schools with low attendance
to be shut, others will be merged with schools that
have more strength. Students of nearly 353 primary schools
in Himachal with an attendance of less than 10 students
for the last couple of years will get a special hardship
allowance of Rs 600 per annum as compensation from the
government for walking to the next nearest school. These
low attendance primary schools distributed evenly across
all districts will be closed down from the next academic
session beginning in April 2011.
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| Keeping them
in or pushing them out?
Mint, February 22, 2011
Children of assorted ages are jumping
around in excitement at their fast-growing hamlet of
thatched houses around a brick kiln outside the far-flung
Mumbai suburb of Vasai. Till last year, an extra hut
was made to house a school these children attended for
the six months while their parents worked at the brick
kilns.
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| Budget 2011:
Education on a high on allocation boost
Money Control, February 28, 2011
India plans to raise its expenditure
in the education sector by about a quarter to Rs 520.6
billion (USD 11.50 billion) in the next financial year,
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Monday in
his budget speech, reinforcing the country’s push
to create a skilled workforce to keep up with fast-paced
growth.
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| Youths can
give India an image makeover, says Kapil Sibal
DNA, February 26, 2011
Asserting that the country needed an
image make-over, HRD minister Kapil Sibal on Saturday
said that youths should strive to change the perception
of India being “a nation of holidays to one of
people who enjoy work”.
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HRD Ministry
constitutes committe for National Vocational Education
Qualifications Framework
NetIndian, February 26, 2011
The Union Ministry of Human Resource
Development (HRD) has constituted a Group of State Ministers
for recommending a National Vocational Education Qualifications
Framework (NVEQF) and preparing a roadmap for its implementation.
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| Teacher layoff
policies a lesson in union survival
Washington Post, February 21, 2011
It looks increasingly likely that organized
labor will manage to cheat death in Wisconsin. But where
does that leave unions? Merely near death, that’s
where. Only 7 percent of private-sector workers are
unionized, down from about 25 percent in the 1970s.
Public-sector unions are doing better, but a movement
restricted to public employees is one that has lost
its soul. I’m not going to join the chorus of
pundits dismissing the need for public-sector unions
– there is no reason a group of janitors at city
hall should not be able to join together and demand
better wages and working conditions – but they’re
clearly less necessary than private-sector unions.
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State seeks
to regulate pre-primary education
Hindustan Times, February 27, 2011
If all goes according to plan, the
state government will soon be able to put an end to
the “unaccountable practices” of school
managements for admission to pre-primary classes. This
means that there will be checks on collection of capitation
fee, which is described as voluntary donations by parents,
and screening of children.
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Research
Paper
Acquisition of computing literacy on shared public computers:
Children and the “hole in the wall”
ABSTRACT: Earlier work, often referred
to as the “hole in the wall” experiments,
has shown that groups of children can learn to use public
computers on their own. This paper presents the method
and results of an experiment conducted to investigate
whether such unsupervised group learning in shared public
spaces is universal. The experiment was conducted with
“hole
in the wall” (minimally invasive education, or
MIE) computers in 17 locations in rural India. Focus
groups in each location were tested for computer literacy
for 9 months.
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| ENABLE
– ARK & CCS’s School Access and Voucher
Programme
ARK’s work in Delhi has identified
many communities where children are facing multiple
social and economic challenges which put them at great
risk of being excluded, dropping out or never attending
school. To address this need ARK has partnered with
Centre for Civil Society (CCS)
to implement ENABLE (Ensure Access to Better Learning
Experiences), a school access and
voucher programme for underprivileged children in Shahdara.Read
more
Interview
with Baela Raza Jamil
Baela Raza Jamil, Coordinator of South
Asian Forum for Education Development , talks about
the role of communities in ensuring quality education
and the experience of Pakistan with public private partnerships
and vouchers.
Click here
for the video
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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! Magazine
The second issue of Student First! Magazine is out.
The theme for this issue is Public Private Partnerships
in Education.
For more click 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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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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