Right to education
to remain curtailed after July 5 too
DNA, Jun 15, 2011
Right to education (RTE) in Karnataka is likely to
remain circumscribed even after July 5, the day fixed
by the state government to implement the RTE Act. The
implementation is certain to run into a plethora of
problems as the state is waiting for a response from
the Centre on sharing the financial burden of enforcing
the law.
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Weakest primary
schools to get new management under Gove plan
The Guardian, June 15, 2011
The 200 weakest primary schools in England will be
placed under new management by the beginning of the
next school year, the education secretary Michael Gove
will say on Thursday.
It is the most direct interference in primary schools
by a government that has, so far, been mainly focused
on intervention on secondary schools.
Gove will announce the weakest 200 primary schools
will become academies in 2012. He is to target those
schools that have, for five years, fallen below the
government’s “minimum floor standard”
(less than 60% of the children reaching a basic level
in English and Maths at 11, and where children make
below-average progress between seven and 11).
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| 90% surge
but big demand-supply gap
Times of India, June 19, 2011
India’s higher education setup is fast turning
into a tragedy wrapped in a farce. Nothing exemplifies
this better than the desperate, nail-biting race to
get admitted to Delhi University, one of the jewels
in its crown. Even as available seats are stagnating,
the number of applicants with sky-high marks is jumping
up every year.
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| IITs may
be losing their relevance
Times of India, June 16, 2011
The IITs have completed 50 years and have helped build
India. They were set up for producing high quality technical
human capital for India and have met their objectives.
But, as is the character with such institutions, they
have not changed with the times and are not providing
India with what she now needs.
They have remained largely teaching institutions, as
they were set up, not transforming into research based,
innovation driven agents of change for the India that
is now emerging.
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Seats go vacant
but tech schools boom
The Telegraph, June 20, 2011
The growth rate of engineering colleges in India appears
undeterred by the huge seat vacancies witnessed last
year.
One hundred new tech institutes recently received approval
from technical education regulator AICTE. By the end
of this month, another 200 are expected to be cleared
to offer courses from the 2011-12 academic session.
The All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE)
had received applications for 1,062 proposed institutions
that sought to start courses in engineering, management,
pharmacy and architecture from this year.
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RTE escape
route: 2 public schools show zero admission in nursery
Times of India, June 20, 2011
In what appears to be a desperate attempt to escape
liabilities following the implementation of Right to
Education (RTE), two public schools of the city have
shown zero admission in nursery classes.
This came to light during scrutiny of annual reports
of admissions submitted by schools by the office of
district education officer here. Surprised over the
act, the DEO has put records of all schools under scanner.
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| Teachers must
think internet-first
The Guardian, June 20, 2011
Last week, the CBI pressed the government to apply
the same rigour to tackling long-term unemployment as
it has shown to reducing the deficit. The scale of the
challenge certainly warrants such a focus. In the UK,
2.46 million people are unemployed; 5 million people
of working age are on benefits and 2 million children
live in households where nobody works. These statistics
carry a huge economic and social cost: for society and
government, for families and for the individual.
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| The free schools
set to open in 2011
BBC, June 20, 2011
Eight free schools have cleared their final hurdles
to open this September under the government's flagship
policy of allowing parents, teachers and other groups
to propose their own schools.
Other free schools are in the pipeline and could also
be cleared to open this September.
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Research:
Evaluating public per-student subsidies to low-cost
private schools : regression-discontinuity evidence
from Pakistan
By: Felipe Barrera-Osorio
and Dhushyanth Raju
This study estimates the causal effects
of a public per-student subsidy program targeted at
low-cost private schools in Pakistan on student enrollment
and schooling inputs. Program entry is ultimately conditional
on achieving a minimum stipulated student pass rate
(cutoff) in a standardized academic test. This mechanism
for treatment assignment allows the application of regression-discontinuity
(RD) methods to estimate program impacts at the cutoff.
Data on two rounds of entry test takers (phase 3 and
phase 4) are used. Modeling the entry process of phase-4
test takers as a sharp RD design, the authors find evidence
of large positive impacts on the number of students,
teachers, classrooms, and blackboards. Modeling the
entry process of phase-3 test takers as a partially-fuzzy
RD design given treatment crossovers, they do not find
evidence of significant program impacts on outcomes
of interest. The latter finding is likely due to weak
identification arising from a small jump in the probability
of treatment at the cutoff.
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| The
Joseph P Overton Fellowship for
Education Policy
Centre for Civil Society and School Choice Campaign
launch a year-long program that provides a dynamic platform
to track developments within the education sector in
India. Working independently at the state-level, Overton
Fellows will focus their research and analyses on the
implementation of the Right to Education Act in each
of the 29 states across the country. The Fellowship
program is aimed at motivated young individuals with
an interest in policy and advocacy. The Fellows will
be selected on the basis of their academic achievements,
leadership skills and expressed motivation to work in
the policy sphere.
For more information, click here.
RTE BLOG:
What is the future of private aided schools in Rajasthan?
The new rural education services rule
in the state of Rajasthan has left private aided schools
in a difficult situation and future of thousands of
the students at stake. The Rajasthan Voluntary Rural
Education Service Rules (RVRESR), 2010 offers teachers
in private aided schools, the option of joining state-run
educational institutions in rural areas and avail of
most of the government teachers’ incentives.
Click here
to read more.
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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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Poll
Will government schools
benefit through Public Private Partnerships?
To vote 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.
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