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HC notice to Centre, KVS on PIL for free education under RTE

8 May, 2013

Economics Times

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court today asked the Centre to make its stand clear on a  PIL seeking a direction to Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan for its “failure” to provide totally free education to students of Class I-VIII under the Right to Education Act.

Issuing notice to the Ministry of Human Resource Development and also to the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS), a bench of Chief Justice D Murugesan and Justice Jayant Nath sought response by May 15.

NIIT launches ‘Cloud Campus’ to create new-age skills

The Indian Education Review

08 May 2013

NIIT Limited has launched ‘Cloud Campus’ by making available new-age skills, to students across the country. Through this, NIIT aims to offer over 100 courses across 300 locations by the end of 2013, thus enabling coverage of over 500,000 students by 2014.

NIIT will offer training programs in IT, Banking, Global Finance, Management, Digital and Social Media Marketing, through Cloud Campus with innovative learning features.

Haryana decides to shut down institutes violating norms
India Education Review.com
07 May 2013
In a move to control the number of technical education institutions, Haryana government has decided to shut down those not fulfilling the norms.
RTE may replace old education acts in state

Hindustan Times  Mumbai,

May 08, 2013

Sayli Udas Mankikar,
To avoid confusion and duplicity in the implementation of Right to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009, the Maharashtra education department has proposed to scrap the existing laws related to primary education like the Primary Education Act in the state and completely replace it with the RTE.

CBSE adds weightage of 20 marks to ASL

The TImes of India

Apr 29, 2013,

Abhishek Choudhari

30-Apr-2013 :  NAGPUR: As per the curriculum document 2015 for Secondary School (Volume I), a weightage of 20 marks has been added for assessing Speaking and Listening Skills (ASL) in Std IX and X in the following courses of English in the Summative Assessment – I and Summative Assessment – II.

CBSE may offer health education next year

ET Bureau May 7, 2013

NEW DELHI: A new independent subject on ‘health’ may be introduced as part of school education under the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), according to a senior health ministry official. ‘Health Education’ is likely to be taught between class 4 and class 10.

At 3 lakh, UP faces largest teacher shortage in India

6 May, 2013

Isha Jain

The Economics Times

LUCKNOW: The  Uttar Pradesh government has made English a compulsory subject from Class I onwards, but it has failed to ensure adequate number of trained English teachers in its schools.

According to  Ashok Ganguly, former chairman of the Central Board of Secondary Education, only 2-2.5% teachers (primary and secondary) across the state can teach or communicate in English.

Village schools ‘outperforming those in inner-city areas’

The Telegraph

Graema Paton Education Editor

07 May 2013

Children attending village schools in Britain are outperforming their inner-city
peers despite a clear “urban advantage” elsewhere in the western world,
according to international research.

The UK is among only five countries worldwide to record better results in the countryside compared with those seen in large towns and cities, it emerged.

A study by the Organisation for Economic Development and Co-operation (OECD) found an “urban advantage” in almost every nation.

Education dept clueless over lost Nagpur RTE bills

Times of India

30 April, 2013

Those schools in Nagpur district, which submitted bills for admissions given under the Right To Education Act (RTE) last year to education department for reimbursement, may have to wait longer. The reason: no one in the state’s education department has any idea where those bills are! The Nagpur branch claims to have delivered the bills on March 15 at its headquarters in Pune, while the latter claims complete ignorance.

A student-friendly learning approach

Deccan Herald

30 April, 2013

Thankfully, classroom teaching has moved on from linear approach to a self-exploratory approach, writes N N Prahallada.

For long, teacher-led child education is in existence where takes the responsibility for the learning environment. A child is completely dependent on the teachers’ knowledge and expertise. The idea of the child as a blank canvas or blank page was and is prevalent.

The Charter Schools Debate

Urbanomics

2 Feb, 2013

Student learning outcomes achievement is arguably the toughest of development challenges. Experience from developing and developed world show that even when schools have good infrastructure, teachers are in place, teaching and learning materials are provided, and both teachers and students attend class regularly, teaching does not automatically translate into learning. Successful pilot experiments of the transactions in the black-box called classroom has proved near impossible to replicate on scale.

Using evidence for better policy: The case of primary education in India

Ideas for India

18 March, 2013

While India has achieved considerable success in increasing primary school enrollment and improving input-based measures of school quality over the past 10 years, learning outcomes continue to be abysmally low. This column synthesizes over a decade of research on the challenge of converting increased spending into improved education outcomes and highlights key policy implications

Open access: Four ways it could enhance academic freedom

Guardian

22 April, 2013

The power of funding alone should not be enough to override academic freedom, argues Curt Rice, nor does open access automatically skew the world of scholarship.

Performance-related pay in schools ‘may fuel exam fraud’

Telegraph

26 April, 2013

A new system of performance-related pay in schools risks fueling a rise in fraud as teachers attempt to falsify pupils’ results to win salary rises, lawyers warned today.

Teachers could be tempted to “over-egg” children’s work to prove they are doing a good job, it was claimed.

The proposals will also lead to major employment disputes within schools as teachers lodge official discrimination claims after failing to receive higher pay.

Colleges Adapt Online Courses to Ease Burden

New York Times

29 April, 2013

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Dazzled by the potential of free online college classes, educators are now turning to the gritty task of harnessing online materials to meet the toughest challenges in American higher education: giving more students access to college, and helping them graduate on time.