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BLOG // KUMAR ANAND
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Head Sir
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On
the occasion of Teachers’ Day, allow me to share the story of Head Sir
(as he is fondly called by his students, past and present),
founder-principal of a low-fee private school in a remote town of
Bihar, and his ordeal while trying to get government recognition for
his school.
Head
Sir started out as an educational entrepreneur – or edupreneur – in
early 1990s by tutoring three kids of the same family at their home. He
was dedicated to his job and keen to make a name for himself. He used
to devote long hours to make sure that students under his care do
better. His hard work started to bear fruit when he started getting
requests from more and more parents who were desperate to find a good
teacher for their kids.
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FULL STORY >>
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VIDEO // AAJ TAK, SEPTEMBER 2014
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PM Narendra Modi's Independence Day Speech
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On
5 September, Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered the Teachers' Day
speech from New Delhi's Manekshaw Auditorium. It was telecast live by
TV channels across India. Modi also spoke to children about various
issues surrounding education in the country.
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VIDEOS
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RESEARCH // CENTRE FOR CIVIL SOCIETY, SEPTEMBER 2014
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RTE And Budget Private Schools: What Would Gandhi Think?
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James
Tooley's research is a journey into the history of Indian education,
drawing comparisons between the shutting down of indigenous schools
then, on Macaulay's recommendations, and the closure of budget private
schools today under the RTE, for being “not good enough”. He explores
the well-intentioned policies, and their faulty premises - that people
cannot be trusted to make judgements about what is better or worse for
their own children; and suggests that we take a leaf out of Gandhi’s
book and resist the closures, to win our educational independence.
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FULL STORY >>
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OPINION
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DID YOU KNOW?
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FEATURED
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Does The Govt Have Enough Confidence In Its Own Schools?
Why
do govt officials and teachers send their own children to private
schools? Are the state schools really so incapable that they can't
educate children of their own staff?
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25% Of Govt/Aided Upper Primary Schools Violate RTE Act
They
don't meet the requirement for at least 220 working days in a school
year (as reported in 2011-12 Flash Statistics by District
Information System for Education)
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SOS: Save 300,000 Budget Private Schools
Special Report by Autar Nehru, Aruna Ravikumar and Nadia Lewis, Education World: The Human Development Magazine, August 2014
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POLLS AND DISCUSSIONS
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THE RTE NEWSREEL
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All-India // Times of India // 8 September 2014
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Threat Of Closure
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Budget
private schools, which serve children from low-income families, face a
threat of closure under the right to education (RTE) act 2010.
According to a National Independent Schools Alliance report, since
2011, 19,414 schools have been shut or issued notices in 17 sates,
affecting about 3,494,520 students. The RTE act requires private
schools to fulfil norms related to infrastructure and teachers'
salaries in order to be recognised.
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All-India // The CSR Journal // 8 September 2014 |
Right To Education In India: Undermining Its Own Objectives
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In
April 2010, India passed the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory
Education Act, a landmark legislation aimed at universal enrolment of
students between the ages of 6-14 in schools. But despite enrolment
figures in schools seeing a significant upward trend since the Act was
passed (96.7% in 2013);student performance has seen a downward spiral,
both in public and private schools, according to ASER Reports.
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New Delhi // Daiji World // 6 September 2014
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Education Sector In Northeast Undergoing Major Transformation
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New
Delhi, Sep 6 (IANS): National Award winner Khagendra Nath Chetia
Phukan, who has spent 40 years teaching in some of the most remote
parts of Assam and its bordering areas, has seen the education sector
in the region undergoing major development.
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All-India // The Indian Express // 5 September 2014
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India Needs More Competent Teachers: President Pranab Mukherjee
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Noting
that India faces a big challenge to improve the quality of teaching and
learning outcomes in schools, President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday said
the nation needs more competent and willing teachers to achieve these
objectives. Teachers should imbibe in students the values of tolerance,
secularism and inclusiveness to make the world a safer and better place
to live in, he said addressing the National Teachers Awards function
here coinciding with Teachers’ Day.
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New Delhi // The Hindu // 5 September 2014
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Teachers' Day: Kasturba Vidyalaya teachers, support staff protest 'raw deal'
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DELHI, SEPT 5: As Prime Minister Narendra Modi went live on Teacher’s
Day, connecting with children throughout the country with the aid of
television screens, a sizeable section of teachers from several States
stood out in the rain in the Capital, protesting against the pittance
paid to them as salaries. Hundreds of male, female ‘day-time’ teachers
and support staff of the over 3,500 Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas -
the backbone of the Government’s flagship Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan - held
a dharna at Jantar Mantar protesting the lowering of the honorarium
from Rs. 7,200/month to Rs. 5,000/month.
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