Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 73
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Code Context


        trigger_error($message, E_USER_DEPRECATED);

    }
$message = 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 73
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php.'
$stackFrame = (int) 1
$trace = [
	(int) 0 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ServerRequest.php',
		'line' => (int) 2421,
		'function' => 'deprecationWarning',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead.'
		]
	],
	(int) 1 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
		'line' => (int) 73,
		'function' => 'offsetGet',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'catslug'
		]
	],
	(int) 2 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Controller/Controller.php',
		'line' => (int) 610,
		'function' => 'printArticle',
		'class' => 'App\Controller\ArtileDetailController',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 3 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 120,
		'function' => 'invokeAction',
		'class' => 'Cake\Controller\Controller',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 4 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 94,
		'function' => '_invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 5 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/BaseApplication.php',
		'line' => (int) 235,
		'function' => 'dispatch',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 6 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\BaseApplication',
		'object' => object(App\Application) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 7 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 162,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 8 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 9 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 88,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 10 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 11 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 96,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 12 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 13 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 51,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 14 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Server.php',
		'line' => (int) 98,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\MiddlewareQueue) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 15 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/webroot/index.php',
		'line' => (int) 39,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Server',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Server) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	]
]
$frame = [
	'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
	'line' => (int) 73,
	'function' => 'offsetGet',
	'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
	'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {
		trustProxy => false
		[protected] params => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] data => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] query => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] cookies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _environment => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] url => 'latest-news-updates/room-for-improvement-bindu-shajan-perappadan-22331/print'
		[protected] base => ''
		[protected] webroot => '/'
		[protected] here => '/latest-news-updates/room-for-improvement-bindu-shajan-perappadan-22331/print'
		[protected] trustedProxies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _input => null
		[protected] _detectors => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _detectorCache => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] stream => object(Zend\Diactoros\PhpInputStream) {}
		[protected] uri => object(Zend\Diactoros\Uri) {}
		[protected] session => object(Cake\Http\Session) {}
		[protected] attributes => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] emulatedAttributes => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] uploadedFiles => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] protocol => null
		[protected] requestTarget => null
		[private] deprecatedProperties => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	},
	'type' => '->',
	'args' => [
		(int) 0 => 'catslug'
	]
]
deprecationWarning - CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311
Cake\Http\ServerRequest::offsetGet() - CORE/src/Http/ServerRequest.php, line 2421
App\Controller\ArtileDetailController::printArticle() - APP/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line 73
Cake\Controller\Controller::invokeAction() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 610
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 120
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51
Cake\Http\Server::run() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 98

Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 74
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Code Context


        trigger_error($message, E_USER_DEPRECATED);

    }
$message = 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 74
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php.'
$stackFrame = (int) 1
$trace = [
	(int) 0 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ServerRequest.php',
		'line' => (int) 2421,
		'function' => 'deprecationWarning',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead.'
		]
	],
	(int) 1 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
		'line' => (int) 74,
		'function' => 'offsetGet',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'artileslug'
		]
	],
	(int) 2 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Controller/Controller.php',
		'line' => (int) 610,
		'function' => 'printArticle',
		'class' => 'App\Controller\ArtileDetailController',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 3 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 120,
		'function' => 'invokeAction',
		'class' => 'Cake\Controller\Controller',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 4 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 94,
		'function' => '_invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 5 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/BaseApplication.php',
		'line' => (int) 235,
		'function' => 'dispatch',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 6 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\BaseApplication',
		'object' => object(App\Application) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 7 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 162,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 8 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 9 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 88,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 10 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 11 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 96,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 12 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 13 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 51,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 14 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Server.php',
		'line' => (int) 98,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\MiddlewareQueue) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 15 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/webroot/index.php',
		'line' => (int) 39,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Server',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Server) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	]
]
$frame = [
	'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
	'line' => (int) 74,
	'function' => 'offsetGet',
	'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
	'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {
		trustProxy => false
		[protected] params => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] data => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] query => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] cookies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _environment => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] url => 'latest-news-updates/room-for-improvement-bindu-shajan-perappadan-22331/print'
		[protected] base => ''
		[protected] webroot => '/'
		[protected] here => '/latest-news-updates/room-for-improvement-bindu-shajan-perappadan-22331/print'
		[protected] trustedProxies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _input => null
		[protected] _detectors => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _detectorCache => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] stream => object(Zend\Diactoros\PhpInputStream) {}
		[protected] uri => object(Zend\Diactoros\Uri) {}
		[protected] session => object(Cake\Http\Session) {}
		[protected] attributes => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] emulatedAttributes => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] uploadedFiles => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] protocol => null
		[protected] requestTarget => null
		[private] deprecatedProperties => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	},
	'type' => '->',
	'args' => [
		(int) 0 => 'artileslug'
	]
]
deprecationWarning - CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311
Cake\Http\ServerRequest::offsetGet() - CORE/src/Http/ServerRequest.php, line 2421
App\Controller\ArtileDetailController::printArticle() - APP/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line 74
Cake\Controller\Controller::invokeAction() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 610
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 120
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51
Cake\Http\Server::run() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 98

Warning (512): Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853 [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48]
Code Context
            if (Configure::read('debug')) {

                trigger_error($message, E_USER_WARNING);

            } else {
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr68232e079b583-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr68232e079b583-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr68232e079b583-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr68232e079b583-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr68232e079b583-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr68232e079b583-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr68232e079b583-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr68232e079b583-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr68232e079b583-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 22181,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Room for improvement -Bindu Shajan Perappadan&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
-The Hindu
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;There is no linkage between decentralisation of school governance and quality inclusive education, reveals a recent study&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Delhi: &lt;/em&gt;Inequity and very low per capita expenditure on teachers are the major reasons behind the crisis faced by school education currently, two recently released study reports have identified. They have further pointed out that it is the combination of a good head teacher and a good team of teachers that is the ultimate formula of a well-managed, sensitive and engaged school.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The two studies on school management and teacher cadre management, conducted by non-government outfit Save the Children, have looked into how schools can be made better and how the quality of teachers needs to be treated as a serious issue.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The study on &amp;lsquo;School Management for Quality Inclusive Education&#039; reveals that although there is some improvement towards making schools more inclusive, there is was no substantive evidence of linkages between different levels/layers of decentralisation and how it facilitates quality inclusive education.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Making a difference&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The most important aspect that the study highlighted was that even where the overall education mechanism does not provide for true decentralisation, a motivated and highly committed head of the school can and does make a big difference.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;No academic support&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
According to Prof. R. Govinda, Vice-Chancellor of National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), Delhi: &amp;quot;The study has highlighted that while school level committees have been created in almost all the States, they are involved mainly in supervision of civil works, mid-day meals, monitoring enrolment and attendance of children, mobilising resources for school supplies to the study; committees in a few States also monitor the attendance and regularity of teachers but they are not involved in academic monitoring or providing academic support to schools.&amp;quot;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
He added that the study has shown that the biggest crisis facing school education in India is inequity. &amp;quot;Like the caste system, we have divided schools into so many layers that it is affecting quality of education in a big way. Exclusive zones don&#039;t really create quality. A very low per capita expenditure on teachers is another major concern that is yet to be addressed.&amp;quot;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Sense of ownership&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
Save the Children&#039;s director of programmes, Latha Caleb, said: &amp;quot;There is a need to build mechanisms to synergise collective sense of ownership of a school besides increased decentralised community mobilisation efforts to improve enrolment. We must prioritise quality inclusive education as a desired outcome of decentralised school governance.&amp;quot;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The study has highlighted that the pro-active involvement of community and a highly motivated head master could bring a change in the education system.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The literature also points to the need for synergy between all three - head master, parents and community and the panchayat or the local self governance institutions. Where the three came together, the school governance improved.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The studies were published under the European Union funded project &amp;quot;Exchange of International Best Practices Leading to Innovation in Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan&amp;quot;. 
&lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Hindu, 14 August, 2013, http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/room-for-improvement/article5019446.ece?homepage=true&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;room-for-improvement-bindu-shajan-perappadan-22331&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 22331,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 22181,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Room for improvement -Bindu Shajan Perappadan&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;Right to Education,RTE,teachers,Schools,education,decentralisation&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;
-The Hindu


&amp;nbsp;


&amp;nbsp;


There is no linkage between decentralisation of school governance and quality inclusive education, reveals a recent study


Delhi: Inequity and very low per capita expenditure on teachers are the major reasons behind the crisis faced by school education currently, two...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;-The Hindu&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;There is no linkage between decentralisation of school governance and quality inclusive education, reveals a recent study&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Delhi: &lt;/em&gt;Inequity and very low per capita expenditure on teachers are the major reasons behind the crisis faced by school education currently, two recently released study reports have identified. They have further pointed out that it is the combination of a good head teacher and a good team of teachers that is the ultimate formula of a well-managed, sensitive and engaged school.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The two studies on school management and teacher cadre management, conducted by non-government outfit Save the Children, have looked into how schools can be made better and how the quality of teachers needs to be treated as a serious issue.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The study on &amp;lsquo;School Management for Quality Inclusive Education&#039; reveals that although there is some improvement towards making schools more inclusive, there is was no substantive evidence of linkages between different levels/layers of decentralisation and how it facilitates quality inclusive education.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Making a difference&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The most important aspect that the study highlighted was that even where the overall education mechanism does not provide for true decentralisation, a motivated and highly committed head of the school can and does make a big difference.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;No academic support&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;According to Prof. R. Govinda, Vice-Chancellor of National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), Delhi: &amp;quot;The study has highlighted that while school level committees have been created in almost all the States, they are involved mainly in supervision of civil works, mid-day meals, monitoring enrolment and attendance of children, mobilising resources for school supplies to the study; committees in a few States also monitor the attendance and regularity of teachers but they are not involved in academic monitoring or providing academic support to schools.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;He added that the study has shown that the biggest crisis facing school education in India is inequity. &amp;quot;Like the caste system, we have divided schools into so many layers that it is affecting quality of education in a big way. Exclusive zones don&#039;t really create quality. A very low per capita expenditure on teachers is another major concern that is yet to be addressed.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Sense of ownership&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Save the Children&#039;s director of programmes, Latha Caleb, said: &amp;quot;There is a need to build mechanisms to synergise collective sense of ownership of a school besides increased decentralised community mobilisation efforts to improve enrolment. We must prioritise quality inclusive education as a desired outcome of decentralised school governance.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The study has highlighted that the pro-active involvement of community and a highly motivated head master could bring a change in the education system.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The literature also points to the need for synergy between all three - head master, parents and community and the panchayat or the local self governance institutions. Where the three came together, the school governance improved.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The studies were published under the European Union funded project &amp;quot;Exchange of International Best Practices Leading to Innovation in Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan&amp;quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 22181,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Room for improvement -Bindu Shajan Perappadan&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
-The Hindu
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;There is no linkage between decentralisation of school governance and quality inclusive education, reveals a recent study&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Delhi: &lt;/em&gt;Inequity and very low per capita expenditure on teachers are the major reasons behind the crisis faced by school education currently, two recently released study reports have identified. They have further pointed out that it is the combination of a good head teacher and a good team of teachers that is the ultimate formula of a well-managed, sensitive and engaged school.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The two studies on school management and teacher cadre management, conducted by non-government outfit Save the Children, have looked into how schools can be made better and how the quality of teachers needs to be treated as a serious issue.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The study on &amp;lsquo;School Management for Quality Inclusive Education&#039; reveals that although there is some improvement towards making schools more inclusive, there is was no substantive evidence of linkages between different levels/layers of decentralisation and how it facilitates quality inclusive education.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Making a difference&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The most important aspect that the study highlighted was that even where the overall education mechanism does not provide for true decentralisation, a motivated and highly committed head of the school can and does make a big difference.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;No academic support&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
According to Prof. R. Govinda, Vice-Chancellor of National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), Delhi: &amp;quot;The study has highlighted that while school level committees have been created in almost all the States, they are involved mainly in supervision of civil works, mid-day meals, monitoring enrolment and attendance of children, mobilising resources for school supplies to the study; committees in a few States also monitor the attendance and regularity of teachers but they are not involved in academic monitoring or providing academic support to schools.&amp;quot;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
He added that the study has shown that the biggest crisis facing school education in India is inequity. &amp;quot;Like the caste system, we have divided schools into so many layers that it is affecting quality of education in a big way. Exclusive zones don&#039;t really create quality. A very low per capita expenditure on teachers is another major concern that is yet to be addressed.&amp;quot;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Sense of ownership&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
Save the Children&#039;s director of programmes, Latha Caleb, said: &amp;quot;There is a need to build mechanisms to synergise collective sense of ownership of a school besides increased decentralised community mobilisation efforts to improve enrolment. We must prioritise quality inclusive education as a desired outcome of decentralised school governance.&amp;quot;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The study has highlighted that the pro-active involvement of community and a highly motivated head master could bring a change in the education system.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The literature also points to the need for synergy between all three - head master, parents and community and the panchayat or the local self governance institutions. Where the three came together, the school governance improved.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The studies were published under the European Union funded project &amp;quot;Exchange of International Best Practices Leading to Innovation in Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan&amp;quot;. 
&lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Hindu, 14 August, 2013, http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/room-for-improvement/article5019446.ece?homepage=true&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;room-for-improvement-bindu-shajan-perappadan-22331&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 22331,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 4 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 5 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 22181
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Room for improvement -Bindu Shajan Perappadan&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;Right to Education,RTE,teachers,Schools,education,decentralisation&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;
-The Hindu


&amp;nbsp;


&amp;nbsp;


There is no linkage between decentralisation of school governance and quality inclusive education, reveals a recent study


Delhi: Inequity and very low per capita expenditure on teachers are the major reasons behind the crisis faced by school education currently, two...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;-The Hindu&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;There is no linkage between decentralisation of school governance and quality inclusive education, reveals a recent study&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Delhi: &lt;/em&gt;Inequity and very low per capita expenditure on teachers are the major reasons behind the crisis faced by school education currently, two recently released study reports have identified. They have further pointed out that it is the combination of a good head teacher and a good team of teachers that is the ultimate formula of a well-managed, sensitive and engaged school.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The two studies on school management and teacher cadre management, conducted by non-government outfit Save the Children, have looked into how schools can be made better and how the quality of teachers needs to be treated as a serious issue.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The study on &amp;lsquo;School Management for Quality Inclusive Education&#039; reveals that although there is some improvement towards making schools more inclusive, there is was no substantive evidence of linkages between different levels/layers of decentralisation and how it facilitates quality inclusive education.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Making a difference&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The most important aspect that the study highlighted was that even where the overall education mechanism does not provide for true decentralisation, a motivated and highly committed head of the school can and does make a big difference.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;No academic support&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;According to Prof. R. Govinda, Vice-Chancellor of National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), Delhi: &amp;quot;The study has highlighted that while school level committees have been created in almost all the States, they are involved mainly in supervision of civil works, mid-day meals, monitoring enrolment and attendance of children, mobilising resources for school supplies to the study; committees in a few States also monitor the attendance and regularity of teachers but they are not involved in academic monitoring or providing academic support to schools.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;He added that the study has shown that the biggest crisis facing school education in India is inequity. &amp;quot;Like the caste system, we have divided schools into so many layers that it is affecting quality of education in a big way. Exclusive zones don&#039;t really create quality. A very low per capita expenditure on teachers is another major concern that is yet to be addressed.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Sense of ownership&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Save the Children&#039;s director of programmes, Latha Caleb, said: &amp;quot;There is a need to build mechanisms to synergise collective sense of ownership of a school besides increased decentralised community mobilisation efforts to improve enrolment. We must prioritise quality inclusive education as a desired outcome of decentralised school governance.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The study has highlighted that the pro-active involvement of community and a highly motivated head master could bring a change in the education system.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The literature also points to the need for synergy between all three - head master, parents and community and the panchayat or the local self governance institutions. Where the three came together, the school governance improved.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The studies were published under the European Union funded project &amp;quot;Exchange of International Best Practices Leading to Innovation in Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan&amp;quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/room-for-improvement-bindu-shajan-perappadan-22331.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Room for improvement -Bindu Shajan Perappadan | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="
-The Hindu


&nbsp;


&nbsp;


There is no linkage between decentralisation of school governance and quality inclusive education, reveals a recent study


Delhi: Inequity and very low per capita expenditure on teachers are the major reasons behind the crisis faced by school education currently, two..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>Room for improvement -Bindu Shajan Perappadan</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <div align="justify">-The Hindu</div><p align="justify">&nbsp;</p><p align="justify">&nbsp;</p><p align="justify"><em>There is no linkage between decentralisation of school governance and quality inclusive education, reveals a recent study</em></p><p align="justify"><em>Delhi: </em>Inequity and very low per capita expenditure on teachers are the major reasons behind the crisis faced by school education currently, two recently released study reports have identified. They have further pointed out that it is the combination of a good head teacher and a good team of teachers that is the ultimate formula of a well-managed, sensitive and engaged school.</p><p align="justify">The two studies on school management and teacher cadre management, conducted by non-government outfit Save the Children, have looked into how schools can be made better and how the quality of teachers needs to be treated as a serious issue.</p><p align="justify">The study on &lsquo;School Management for Quality Inclusive Education' reveals that although there is some improvement towards making schools more inclusive, there is was no substantive evidence of linkages between different levels/layers of decentralisation and how it facilitates quality inclusive education.</p><p align="justify"><em>Making a difference</em></p><p align="justify">The most important aspect that the study highlighted was that even where the overall education mechanism does not provide for true decentralisation, a motivated and highly committed head of the school can and does make a big difference.</p><p align="justify"><em>No academic support</em></p><p align="justify">According to Prof. R. Govinda, Vice-Chancellor of National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), Delhi: &quot;The study has highlighted that while school level committees have been created in almost all the States, they are involved mainly in supervision of civil works, mid-day meals, monitoring enrolment and attendance of children, mobilising resources for school supplies to the study; committees in a few States also monitor the attendance and regularity of teachers but they are not involved in academic monitoring or providing academic support to schools.&quot;</p><p align="justify">He added that the study has shown that the biggest crisis facing school education in India is inequity. &quot;Like the caste system, we have divided schools into so many layers that it is affecting quality of education in a big way. Exclusive zones don't really create quality. A very low per capita expenditure on teachers is another major concern that is yet to be addressed.&quot;</p><p align="justify"><em>&quot;Sense of ownership&quot;</em></p><p align="justify">Save the Children's director of programmes, Latha Caleb, said: &quot;There is a need to build mechanisms to synergise collective sense of ownership of a school besides increased decentralised community mobilisation efforts to improve enrolment. We must prioritise quality inclusive education as a desired outcome of decentralised school governance.&quot;</p><p align="justify">The study has highlighted that the pro-active involvement of community and a highly motivated head master could bring a change in the education system.</p><p align="justify">The literature also points to the need for synergy between all three - head master, parents and community and the panchayat or the local self governance institutions. Where the three came together, the school governance improved.</p><p align="justify">The studies were published under the European Union funded project &quot;Exchange of International Best Practices Leading to Innovation in Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan&quot;. </p>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$maxBufferLength = (int) 8192
$file = '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php'
$line = (int) 853
$message = 'Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853'
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148]
Code Context
            $response->getStatusCode(),

            ($reasonPhrase ? ' ' . $reasonPhrase : '')

        ));
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr68232e079b583-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr68232e079b583-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr68232e079b583-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr68232e079b583-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr68232e079b583-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr68232e079b583-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr68232e079b583-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr68232e079b583-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr68232e079b583-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 22181,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Room for improvement -Bindu Shajan Perappadan&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
-The Hindu
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;There is no linkage between decentralisation of school governance and quality inclusive education, reveals a recent study&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Delhi: &lt;/em&gt;Inequity and very low per capita expenditure on teachers are the major reasons behind the crisis faced by school education currently, two recently released study reports have identified. They have further pointed out that it is the combination of a good head teacher and a good team of teachers that is the ultimate formula of a well-managed, sensitive and engaged school.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The two studies on school management and teacher cadre management, conducted by non-government outfit Save the Children, have looked into how schools can be made better and how the quality of teachers needs to be treated as a serious issue.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The study on &amp;lsquo;School Management for Quality Inclusive Education&#039; reveals that although there is some improvement towards making schools more inclusive, there is was no substantive evidence of linkages between different levels/layers of decentralisation and how it facilitates quality inclusive education.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Making a difference&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The most important aspect that the study highlighted was that even where the overall education mechanism does not provide for true decentralisation, a motivated and highly committed head of the school can and does make a big difference.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;No academic support&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
According to Prof. R. Govinda, Vice-Chancellor of National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), Delhi: &amp;quot;The study has highlighted that while school level committees have been created in almost all the States, they are involved mainly in supervision of civil works, mid-day meals, monitoring enrolment and attendance of children, mobilising resources for school supplies to the study; committees in a few States also monitor the attendance and regularity of teachers but they are not involved in academic monitoring or providing academic support to schools.&amp;quot;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
He added that the study has shown that the biggest crisis facing school education in India is inequity. &amp;quot;Like the caste system, we have divided schools into so many layers that it is affecting quality of education in a big way. Exclusive zones don&#039;t really create quality. A very low per capita expenditure on teachers is another major concern that is yet to be addressed.&amp;quot;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Sense of ownership&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
Save the Children&#039;s director of programmes, Latha Caleb, said: &amp;quot;There is a need to build mechanisms to synergise collective sense of ownership of a school besides increased decentralised community mobilisation efforts to improve enrolment. We must prioritise quality inclusive education as a desired outcome of decentralised school governance.&amp;quot;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The study has highlighted that the pro-active involvement of community and a highly motivated head master could bring a change in the education system.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The literature also points to the need for synergy between all three - head master, parents and community and the panchayat or the local self governance institutions. Where the three came together, the school governance improved.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The studies were published under the European Union funded project &amp;quot;Exchange of International Best Practices Leading to Innovation in Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan&amp;quot;. 
&lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Hindu, 14 August, 2013, http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/room-for-improvement/article5019446.ece?homepage=true&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;room-for-improvement-bindu-shajan-perappadan-22331&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 22331,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 22181,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Room for improvement -Bindu Shajan Perappadan&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;Right to Education,RTE,teachers,Schools,education,decentralisation&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;
-The Hindu


&amp;nbsp;


&amp;nbsp;


There is no linkage between decentralisation of school governance and quality inclusive education, reveals a recent study


Delhi: Inequity and very low per capita expenditure on teachers are the major reasons behind the crisis faced by school education currently, two...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;-The Hindu&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;There is no linkage between decentralisation of school governance and quality inclusive education, reveals a recent study&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Delhi: &lt;/em&gt;Inequity and very low per capita expenditure on teachers are the major reasons behind the crisis faced by school education currently, two recently released study reports have identified. They have further pointed out that it is the combination of a good head teacher and a good team of teachers that is the ultimate formula of a well-managed, sensitive and engaged school.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The two studies on school management and teacher cadre management, conducted by non-government outfit Save the Children, have looked into how schools can be made better and how the quality of teachers needs to be treated as a serious issue.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The study on &amp;lsquo;School Management for Quality Inclusive Education&#039; reveals that although there is some improvement towards making schools more inclusive, there is was no substantive evidence of linkages between different levels/layers of decentralisation and how it facilitates quality inclusive education.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Making a difference&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The most important aspect that the study highlighted was that even where the overall education mechanism does not provide for true decentralisation, a motivated and highly committed head of the school can and does make a big difference.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;No academic support&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;According to Prof. R. Govinda, Vice-Chancellor of National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), Delhi: &amp;quot;The study has highlighted that while school level committees have been created in almost all the States, they are involved mainly in supervision of civil works, mid-day meals, monitoring enrolment and attendance of children, mobilising resources for school supplies to the study; committees in a few States also monitor the attendance and regularity of teachers but they are not involved in academic monitoring or providing academic support to schools.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;He added that the study has shown that the biggest crisis facing school education in India is inequity. &amp;quot;Like the caste system, we have divided schools into so many layers that it is affecting quality of education in a big way. Exclusive zones don&#039;t really create quality. A very low per capita expenditure on teachers is another major concern that is yet to be addressed.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Sense of ownership&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Save the Children&#039;s director of programmes, Latha Caleb, said: &amp;quot;There is a need to build mechanisms to synergise collective sense of ownership of a school besides increased decentralised community mobilisation efforts to improve enrolment. We must prioritise quality inclusive education as a desired outcome of decentralised school governance.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The study has highlighted that the pro-active involvement of community and a highly motivated head master could bring a change in the education system.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The literature also points to the need for synergy between all three - head master, parents and community and the panchayat or the local self governance institutions. Where the three came together, the school governance improved.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The studies were published under the European Union funded project &amp;quot;Exchange of International Best Practices Leading to Innovation in Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan&amp;quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 22181,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Room for improvement -Bindu Shajan Perappadan&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
-The Hindu
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;There is no linkage between decentralisation of school governance and quality inclusive education, reveals a recent study&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Delhi: &lt;/em&gt;Inequity and very low per capita expenditure on teachers are the major reasons behind the crisis faced by school education currently, two recently released study reports have identified. They have further pointed out that it is the combination of a good head teacher and a good team of teachers that is the ultimate formula of a well-managed, sensitive and engaged school.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The two studies on school management and teacher cadre management, conducted by non-government outfit Save the Children, have looked into how schools can be made better and how the quality of teachers needs to be treated as a serious issue.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The study on &amp;lsquo;School Management for Quality Inclusive Education&#039; reveals that although there is some improvement towards making schools more inclusive, there is was no substantive evidence of linkages between different levels/layers of decentralisation and how it facilitates quality inclusive education.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Making a difference&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The most important aspect that the study highlighted was that even where the overall education mechanism does not provide for true decentralisation, a motivated and highly committed head of the school can and does make a big difference.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;No academic support&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
According to Prof. R. Govinda, Vice-Chancellor of National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), Delhi: &amp;quot;The study has highlighted that while school level committees have been created in almost all the States, they are involved mainly in supervision of civil works, mid-day meals, monitoring enrolment and attendance of children, mobilising resources for school supplies to the study; committees in a few States also monitor the attendance and regularity of teachers but they are not involved in academic monitoring or providing academic support to schools.&amp;quot;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
He added that the study has shown that the biggest crisis facing school education in India is inequity. &amp;quot;Like the caste system, we have divided schools into so many layers that it is affecting quality of education in a big way. Exclusive zones don&#039;t really create quality. A very low per capita expenditure on teachers is another major concern that is yet to be addressed.&amp;quot;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Sense of ownership&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
Save the Children&#039;s director of programmes, Latha Caleb, said: &amp;quot;There is a need to build mechanisms to synergise collective sense of ownership of a school besides increased decentralised community mobilisation efforts to improve enrolment. We must prioritise quality inclusive education as a desired outcome of decentralised school governance.&amp;quot;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The study has highlighted that the pro-active involvement of community and a highly motivated head master could bring a change in the education system.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The literature also points to the need for synergy between all three - head master, parents and community and the panchayat or the local self governance institutions. Where the three came together, the school governance improved.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The studies were published under the European Union funded project &amp;quot;Exchange of International Best Practices Leading to Innovation in Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan&amp;quot;. 
&lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Hindu, 14 August, 2013, http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/room-for-improvement/article5019446.ece?homepage=true&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;room-for-improvement-bindu-shajan-perappadan-22331&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 22331,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 4 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 5 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 22181
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Room for improvement -Bindu Shajan Perappadan&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;Right to Education,RTE,teachers,Schools,education,decentralisation&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;
-The Hindu


&amp;nbsp;


&amp;nbsp;


There is no linkage between decentralisation of school governance and quality inclusive education, reveals a recent study


Delhi: Inequity and very low per capita expenditure on teachers are the major reasons behind the crisis faced by school education currently, two...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;-The Hindu&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;There is no linkage between decentralisation of school governance and quality inclusive education, reveals a recent study&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Delhi: &lt;/em&gt;Inequity and very low per capita expenditure on teachers are the major reasons behind the crisis faced by school education currently, two recently released study reports have identified. They have further pointed out that it is the combination of a good head teacher and a good team of teachers that is the ultimate formula of a well-managed, sensitive and engaged school.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The two studies on school management and teacher cadre management, conducted by non-government outfit Save the Children, have looked into how schools can be made better and how the quality of teachers needs to be treated as a serious issue.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The study on &amp;lsquo;School Management for Quality Inclusive Education&#039; reveals that although there is some improvement towards making schools more inclusive, there is was no substantive evidence of linkages between different levels/layers of decentralisation and how it facilitates quality inclusive education.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Making a difference&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The most important aspect that the study highlighted was that even where the overall education mechanism does not provide for true decentralisation, a motivated and highly committed head of the school can and does make a big difference.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;No academic support&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;According to Prof. R. Govinda, Vice-Chancellor of National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), Delhi: &amp;quot;The study has highlighted that while school level committees have been created in almost all the States, they are involved mainly in supervision of civil works, mid-day meals, monitoring enrolment and attendance of children, mobilising resources for school supplies to the study; committees in a few States also monitor the attendance and regularity of teachers but they are not involved in academic monitoring or providing academic support to schools.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;He added that the study has shown that the biggest crisis facing school education in India is inequity. &amp;quot;Like the caste system, we have divided schools into so many layers that it is affecting quality of education in a big way. Exclusive zones don&#039;t really create quality. A very low per capita expenditure on teachers is another major concern that is yet to be addressed.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Sense of ownership&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Save the Children&#039;s director of programmes, Latha Caleb, said: &amp;quot;There is a need to build mechanisms to synergise collective sense of ownership of a school besides increased decentralised community mobilisation efforts to improve enrolment. We must prioritise quality inclusive education as a desired outcome of decentralised school governance.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The study has highlighted that the pro-active involvement of community and a highly motivated head master could bring a change in the education system.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The literature also points to the need for synergy between all three - head master, parents and community and the panchayat or the local self governance institutions. Where the three came together, the school governance improved.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The studies were published under the European Union funded project &amp;quot;Exchange of International Best Practices Leading to Innovation in Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan&amp;quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/room-for-improvement-bindu-shajan-perappadan-22331.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Room for improvement -Bindu Shajan Perappadan | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="
-The Hindu


&nbsp;


&nbsp;


There is no linkage between decentralisation of school governance and quality inclusive education, reveals a recent study


Delhi: Inequity and very low per capita expenditure on teachers are the major reasons behind the crisis faced by school education currently, two..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>Room for improvement -Bindu Shajan Perappadan</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <div align="justify">-The Hindu</div><p align="justify">&nbsp;</p><p align="justify">&nbsp;</p><p align="justify"><em>There is no linkage between decentralisation of school governance and quality inclusive education, reveals a recent study</em></p><p align="justify"><em>Delhi: </em>Inequity and very low per capita expenditure on teachers are the major reasons behind the crisis faced by school education currently, two recently released study reports have identified. They have further pointed out that it is the combination of a good head teacher and a good team of teachers that is the ultimate formula of a well-managed, sensitive and engaged school.</p><p align="justify">The two studies on school management and teacher cadre management, conducted by non-government outfit Save the Children, have looked into how schools can be made better and how the quality of teachers needs to be treated as a serious issue.</p><p align="justify">The study on &lsquo;School Management for Quality Inclusive Education' reveals that although there is some improvement towards making schools more inclusive, there is was no substantive evidence of linkages between different levels/layers of decentralisation and how it facilitates quality inclusive education.</p><p align="justify"><em>Making a difference</em></p><p align="justify">The most important aspect that the study highlighted was that even where the overall education mechanism does not provide for true decentralisation, a motivated and highly committed head of the school can and does make a big difference.</p><p align="justify"><em>No academic support</em></p><p align="justify">According to Prof. R. Govinda, Vice-Chancellor of National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), Delhi: &quot;The study has highlighted that while school level committees have been created in almost all the States, they are involved mainly in supervision of civil works, mid-day meals, monitoring enrolment and attendance of children, mobilising resources for school supplies to the study; committees in a few States also monitor the attendance and regularity of teachers but they are not involved in academic monitoring or providing academic support to schools.&quot;</p><p align="justify">He added that the study has shown that the biggest crisis facing school education in India is inequity. &quot;Like the caste system, we have divided schools into so many layers that it is affecting quality of education in a big way. Exclusive zones don't really create quality. A very low per capita expenditure on teachers is another major concern that is yet to be addressed.&quot;</p><p align="justify"><em>&quot;Sense of ownership&quot;</em></p><p align="justify">Save the Children's director of programmes, Latha Caleb, said: &quot;There is a need to build mechanisms to synergise collective sense of ownership of a school besides increased decentralised community mobilisation efforts to improve enrolment. We must prioritise quality inclusive education as a desired outcome of decentralised school governance.&quot;</p><p align="justify">The study has highlighted that the pro-active involvement of community and a highly motivated head master could bring a change in the education system.</p><p align="justify">The literature also points to the need for synergy between all three - head master, parents and community and the panchayat or the local self governance institutions. Where the three came together, the school governance improved.</p><p align="justify">The studies were published under the European Union funded project &quot;Exchange of International Best Practices Leading to Innovation in Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan&quot;. </p>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$reasonPhrase = 'OK'
header - [internal], line ??
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emitStatusLine() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 54
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181]
Code Context
                    $value

                ), $first);

                $first = false;
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr68232e079b583-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr68232e079b583-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr68232e079b583-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr68232e079b583-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr68232e079b583-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr68232e079b583-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr68232e079b583-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr68232e079b583-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr68232e079b583-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 22181,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Room for improvement -Bindu Shajan Perappadan&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
-The Hindu
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;There is no linkage between decentralisation of school governance and quality inclusive education, reveals a recent study&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Delhi: &lt;/em&gt;Inequity and very low per capita expenditure on teachers are the major reasons behind the crisis faced by school education currently, two recently released study reports have identified. They have further pointed out that it is the combination of a good head teacher and a good team of teachers that is the ultimate formula of a well-managed, sensitive and engaged school.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The two studies on school management and teacher cadre management, conducted by non-government outfit Save the Children, have looked into how schools can be made better and how the quality of teachers needs to be treated as a serious issue.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The study on &amp;lsquo;School Management for Quality Inclusive Education&#039; reveals that although there is some improvement towards making schools more inclusive, there is was no substantive evidence of linkages between different levels/layers of decentralisation and how it facilitates quality inclusive education.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Making a difference&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The most important aspect that the study highlighted was that even where the overall education mechanism does not provide for true decentralisation, a motivated and highly committed head of the school can and does make a big difference.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;No academic support&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
According to Prof. R. Govinda, Vice-Chancellor of National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), Delhi: &amp;quot;The study has highlighted that while school level committees have been created in almost all the States, they are involved mainly in supervision of civil works, mid-day meals, monitoring enrolment and attendance of children, mobilising resources for school supplies to the study; committees in a few States also monitor the attendance and regularity of teachers but they are not involved in academic monitoring or providing academic support to schools.&amp;quot;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
He added that the study has shown that the biggest crisis facing school education in India is inequity. &amp;quot;Like the caste system, we have divided schools into so many layers that it is affecting quality of education in a big way. Exclusive zones don&#039;t really create quality. A very low per capita expenditure on teachers is another major concern that is yet to be addressed.&amp;quot;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Sense of ownership&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
Save the Children&#039;s director of programmes, Latha Caleb, said: &amp;quot;There is a need to build mechanisms to synergise collective sense of ownership of a school besides increased decentralised community mobilisation efforts to improve enrolment. We must prioritise quality inclusive education as a desired outcome of decentralised school governance.&amp;quot;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The study has highlighted that the pro-active involvement of community and a highly motivated head master could bring a change in the education system.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The literature also points to the need for synergy between all three - head master, parents and community and the panchayat or the local self governance institutions. Where the three came together, the school governance improved.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The studies were published under the European Union funded project &amp;quot;Exchange of International Best Practices Leading to Innovation in Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan&amp;quot;. 
&lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Hindu, 14 August, 2013, http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/room-for-improvement/article5019446.ece?homepage=true&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;room-for-improvement-bindu-shajan-perappadan-22331&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 22331,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 22181,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Room for improvement -Bindu Shajan Perappadan&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;Right to Education,RTE,teachers,Schools,education,decentralisation&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;
-The Hindu


&amp;nbsp;


&amp;nbsp;


There is no linkage between decentralisation of school governance and quality inclusive education, reveals a recent study


Delhi: Inequity and very low per capita expenditure on teachers are the major reasons behind the crisis faced by school education currently, two...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;-The Hindu&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;There is no linkage between decentralisation of school governance and quality inclusive education, reveals a recent study&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Delhi: &lt;/em&gt;Inequity and very low per capita expenditure on teachers are the major reasons behind the crisis faced by school education currently, two recently released study reports have identified. They have further pointed out that it is the combination of a good head teacher and a good team of teachers that is the ultimate formula of a well-managed, sensitive and engaged school.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The two studies on school management and teacher cadre management, conducted by non-government outfit Save the Children, have looked into how schools can be made better and how the quality of teachers needs to be treated as a serious issue.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The study on &amp;lsquo;School Management for Quality Inclusive Education&#039; reveals that although there is some improvement towards making schools more inclusive, there is was no substantive evidence of linkages between different levels/layers of decentralisation and how it facilitates quality inclusive education.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Making a difference&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The most important aspect that the study highlighted was that even where the overall education mechanism does not provide for true decentralisation, a motivated and highly committed head of the school can and does make a big difference.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;No academic support&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;According to Prof. R. Govinda, Vice-Chancellor of National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), Delhi: &amp;quot;The study has highlighted that while school level committees have been created in almost all the States, they are involved mainly in supervision of civil works, mid-day meals, monitoring enrolment and attendance of children, mobilising resources for school supplies to the study; committees in a few States also monitor the attendance and regularity of teachers but they are not involved in academic monitoring or providing academic support to schools.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;He added that the study has shown that the biggest crisis facing school education in India is inequity. &amp;quot;Like the caste system, we have divided schools into so many layers that it is affecting quality of education in a big way. Exclusive zones don&#039;t really create quality. A very low per capita expenditure on teachers is another major concern that is yet to be addressed.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Sense of ownership&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Save the Children&#039;s director of programmes, Latha Caleb, said: &amp;quot;There is a need to build mechanisms to synergise collective sense of ownership of a school besides increased decentralised community mobilisation efforts to improve enrolment. We must prioritise quality inclusive education as a desired outcome of decentralised school governance.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The study has highlighted that the pro-active involvement of community and a highly motivated head master could bring a change in the education system.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The literature also points to the need for synergy between all three - head master, parents and community and the panchayat or the local self governance institutions. Where the three came together, the school governance improved.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The studies were published under the European Union funded project &amp;quot;Exchange of International Best Practices Leading to Innovation in Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan&amp;quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 22181,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Room for improvement -Bindu Shajan Perappadan&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
-The Hindu
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;There is no linkage between decentralisation of school governance and quality inclusive education, reveals a recent study&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Delhi: &lt;/em&gt;Inequity and very low per capita expenditure on teachers are the major reasons behind the crisis faced by school education currently, two recently released study reports have identified. They have further pointed out that it is the combination of a good head teacher and a good team of teachers that is the ultimate formula of a well-managed, sensitive and engaged school.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The two studies on school management and teacher cadre management, conducted by non-government outfit Save the Children, have looked into how schools can be made better and how the quality of teachers needs to be treated as a serious issue.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The study on &amp;lsquo;School Management for Quality Inclusive Education&#039; reveals that although there is some improvement towards making schools more inclusive, there is was no substantive evidence of linkages between different levels/layers of decentralisation and how it facilitates quality inclusive education.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Making a difference&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The most important aspect that the study highlighted was that even where the overall education mechanism does not provide for true decentralisation, a motivated and highly committed head of the school can and does make a big difference.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;No academic support&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
According to Prof. R. Govinda, Vice-Chancellor of National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), Delhi: &amp;quot;The study has highlighted that while school level committees have been created in almost all the States, they are involved mainly in supervision of civil works, mid-day meals, monitoring enrolment and attendance of children, mobilising resources for school supplies to the study; committees in a few States also monitor the attendance and regularity of teachers but they are not involved in academic monitoring or providing academic support to schools.&amp;quot;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
He added that the study has shown that the biggest crisis facing school education in India is inequity. &amp;quot;Like the caste system, we have divided schools into so many layers that it is affecting quality of education in a big way. Exclusive zones don&#039;t really create quality. A very low per capita expenditure on teachers is another major concern that is yet to be addressed.&amp;quot;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Sense of ownership&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
Save the Children&#039;s director of programmes, Latha Caleb, said: &amp;quot;There is a need to build mechanisms to synergise collective sense of ownership of a school besides increased decentralised community mobilisation efforts to improve enrolment. We must prioritise quality inclusive education as a desired outcome of decentralised school governance.&amp;quot;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The study has highlighted that the pro-active involvement of community and a highly motivated head master could bring a change in the education system.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The literature also points to the need for synergy between all three - head master, parents and community and the panchayat or the local self governance institutions. Where the three came together, the school governance improved.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The studies were published under the European Union funded project &amp;quot;Exchange of International Best Practices Leading to Innovation in Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan&amp;quot;. 
&lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Hindu, 14 August, 2013, http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/room-for-improvement/article5019446.ece?homepage=true&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;room-for-improvement-bindu-shajan-perappadan-22331&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 22331,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 4 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 5 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 22181
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Room for improvement -Bindu Shajan Perappadan&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;Right to Education,RTE,teachers,Schools,education,decentralisation&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;
-The Hindu


&amp;nbsp;


&amp;nbsp;


There is no linkage between decentralisation of school governance and quality inclusive education, reveals a recent study


Delhi: Inequity and very low per capita expenditure on teachers are the major reasons behind the crisis faced by school education currently, two...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;-The Hindu&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;There is no linkage between decentralisation of school governance and quality inclusive education, reveals a recent study&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Delhi: &lt;/em&gt;Inequity and very low per capita expenditure on teachers are the major reasons behind the crisis faced by school education currently, two recently released study reports have identified. They have further pointed out that it is the combination of a good head teacher and a good team of teachers that is the ultimate formula of a well-managed, sensitive and engaged school.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The two studies on school management and teacher cadre management, conducted by non-government outfit Save the Children, have looked into how schools can be made better and how the quality of teachers needs to be treated as a serious issue.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The study on &amp;lsquo;School Management for Quality Inclusive Education&#039; reveals that although there is some improvement towards making schools more inclusive, there is was no substantive evidence of linkages between different levels/layers of decentralisation and how it facilitates quality inclusive education.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Making a difference&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The most important aspect that the study highlighted was that even where the overall education mechanism does not provide for true decentralisation, a motivated and highly committed head of the school can and does make a big difference.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;No academic support&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;According to Prof. R. Govinda, Vice-Chancellor of National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), Delhi: &amp;quot;The study has highlighted that while school level committees have been created in almost all the States, they are involved mainly in supervision of civil works, mid-day meals, monitoring enrolment and attendance of children, mobilising resources for school supplies to the study; committees in a few States also monitor the attendance and regularity of teachers but they are not involved in academic monitoring or providing academic support to schools.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;He added that the study has shown that the biggest crisis facing school education in India is inequity. &amp;quot;Like the caste system, we have divided schools into so many layers that it is affecting quality of education in a big way. Exclusive zones don&#039;t really create quality. A very low per capita expenditure on teachers is another major concern that is yet to be addressed.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Sense of ownership&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Save the Children&#039;s director of programmes, Latha Caleb, said: &amp;quot;There is a need to build mechanisms to synergise collective sense of ownership of a school besides increased decentralised community mobilisation efforts to improve enrolment. We must prioritise quality inclusive education as a desired outcome of decentralised school governance.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The study has highlighted that the pro-active involvement of community and a highly motivated head master could bring a change in the education system.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The literature also points to the need for synergy between all three - head master, parents and community and the panchayat or the local self governance institutions. Where the three came together, the school governance improved.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The studies were published under the European Union funded project &amp;quot;Exchange of International Best Practices Leading to Innovation in Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan&amp;quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/room-for-improvement-bindu-shajan-perappadan-22331.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Room for improvement -Bindu Shajan Perappadan | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="
-The Hindu


&nbsp;


&nbsp;


There is no linkage between decentralisation of school governance and quality inclusive education, reveals a recent study


Delhi: Inequity and very low per capita expenditure on teachers are the major reasons behind the crisis faced by school education currently, two..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>Room for improvement -Bindu Shajan Perappadan</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <div align="justify">-The Hindu</div><p align="justify">&nbsp;</p><p align="justify">&nbsp;</p><p align="justify"><em>There is no linkage between decentralisation of school governance and quality inclusive education, reveals a recent study</em></p><p align="justify"><em>Delhi: </em>Inequity and very low per capita expenditure on teachers are the major reasons behind the crisis faced by school education currently, two recently released study reports have identified. They have further pointed out that it is the combination of a good head teacher and a good team of teachers that is the ultimate formula of a well-managed, sensitive and engaged school.</p><p align="justify">The two studies on school management and teacher cadre management, conducted by non-government outfit Save the Children, have looked into how schools can be made better and how the quality of teachers needs to be treated as a serious issue.</p><p align="justify">The study on &lsquo;School Management for Quality Inclusive Education' reveals that although there is some improvement towards making schools more inclusive, there is was no substantive evidence of linkages between different levels/layers of decentralisation and how it facilitates quality inclusive education.</p><p align="justify"><em>Making a difference</em></p><p align="justify">The most important aspect that the study highlighted was that even where the overall education mechanism does not provide for true decentralisation, a motivated and highly committed head of the school can and does make a big difference.</p><p align="justify"><em>No academic support</em></p><p align="justify">According to Prof. R. Govinda, Vice-Chancellor of National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), Delhi: &quot;The study has highlighted that while school level committees have been created in almost all the States, they are involved mainly in supervision of civil works, mid-day meals, monitoring enrolment and attendance of children, mobilising resources for school supplies to the study; committees in a few States also monitor the attendance and regularity of teachers but they are not involved in academic monitoring or providing academic support to schools.&quot;</p><p align="justify">He added that the study has shown that the biggest crisis facing school education in India is inequity. &quot;Like the caste system, we have divided schools into so many layers that it is affecting quality of education in a big way. Exclusive zones don't really create quality. A very low per capita expenditure on teachers is another major concern that is yet to be addressed.&quot;</p><p align="justify"><em>&quot;Sense of ownership&quot;</em></p><p align="justify">Save the Children's director of programmes, Latha Caleb, said: &quot;There is a need to build mechanisms to synergise collective sense of ownership of a school besides increased decentralised community mobilisation efforts to improve enrolment. We must prioritise quality inclusive education as a desired outcome of decentralised school governance.&quot;</p><p align="justify">The study has highlighted that the pro-active involvement of community and a highly motivated head master could bring a change in the education system.</p><p align="justify">The literature also points to the need for synergy between all three - head master, parents and community and the panchayat or the local self governance institutions. Where the three came together, the school governance improved.</p><p align="justify">The studies were published under the European Union funded project &quot;Exchange of International Best Practices Leading to Innovation in Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan&quot;. </p>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$cookies = []
$values = [
	(int) 0 => 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
]
$name = 'Content-Type'
$first = true
$value = 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
header - [internal], line ??
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emitHeaders() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 55
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

<head>

    <link rel="canonical" href="<?php echo Configure::read('SITE_URL'); ?><?php echo $urlPrefix;?><?php echo $article_current->category->slug; ?>/<?php echo $article_current->seo_url; ?>.html"/>

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>

$viewFile = '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp'
$dataForView = [
	'article_current' => object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		'id' => (int) 22181,
		'title' => 'Room for improvement -Bindu Shajan Perappadan',
		'subheading' => '',
		'description' => '<div align="justify">
-The Hindu
</div>
<p align="justify">
&nbsp;
</p>
<p align="justify">
&nbsp;
</p>
<p align="justify">
<em>There is no linkage between decentralisation of school governance and quality inclusive education, reveals a recent study</em>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<em>Delhi: </em>Inequity and very low per capita expenditure on teachers are the major reasons behind the crisis faced by school education currently, two recently released study reports have identified. They have further pointed out that it is the combination of a good head teacher and a good team of teachers that is the ultimate formula of a well-managed, sensitive and engaged school.
</p>
<p align="justify">
The two studies on school management and teacher cadre management, conducted by non-government outfit Save the Children, have looked into how schools can be made better and how the quality of teachers needs to be treated as a serious issue.
</p>
<p align="justify">
The study on &lsquo;School Management for Quality Inclusive Education' reveals that although there is some improvement towards making schools more inclusive, there is was no substantive evidence of linkages between different levels/layers of decentralisation and how it facilitates quality inclusive education.
</p>
<p align="justify">
<em>Making a difference</em>
</p>
<p align="justify">
The most important aspect that the study highlighted was that even where the overall education mechanism does not provide for true decentralisation, a motivated and highly committed head of the school can and does make a big difference.
</p>
<p align="justify">
<em>No academic support</em>
</p>
<p align="justify">
According to Prof. R. Govinda, Vice-Chancellor of National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), Delhi: &quot;The study has highlighted that while school level committees have been created in almost all the States, they are involved mainly in supervision of civil works, mid-day meals, monitoring enrolment and attendance of children, mobilising resources for school supplies to the study; committees in a few States also monitor the attendance and regularity of teachers but they are not involved in academic monitoring or providing academic support to schools.&quot;
</p>
<p align="justify">
He added that the study has shown that the biggest crisis facing school education in India is inequity. &quot;Like the caste system, we have divided schools into so many layers that it is affecting quality of education in a big way. Exclusive zones don't really create quality. A very low per capita expenditure on teachers is another major concern that is yet to be addressed.&quot;
</p>
<p align="justify">
<em>&quot;Sense of ownership&quot;</em>
</p>
<p align="justify">
Save the Children's director of programmes, Latha Caleb, said: &quot;There is a need to build mechanisms to synergise collective sense of ownership of a school besides increased decentralised community mobilisation efforts to improve enrolment. We must prioritise quality inclusive education as a desired outcome of decentralised school governance.&quot;
</p>
<p align="justify">
The study has highlighted that the pro-active involvement of community and a highly motivated head master could bring a change in the education system.
</p>
<p align="justify">
The literature also points to the need for synergy between all three - head master, parents and community and the panchayat or the local self governance institutions. Where the three came together, the school governance improved.
</p>
<p align="justify">
The studies were published under the European Union funded project &quot;Exchange of International Best Practices Leading to Innovation in Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan&quot;. 
</p>',
		'credit_writer' => 'The Hindu, 14 August, 2013, http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/room-for-improvement/article5019446.ece?homepage=true',
		'article_img' => '',
		'article_img_thumb' => '',
		'status' => (int) 1,
		'show_on_home' => (int) 1,
		'lang' => 'EN',
		'category_id' => (int) 16,
		'tag_keyword' => '',
		'seo_url' => 'room-for-improvement-bindu-shajan-perappadan-22331',
		'meta_title' => null,
		'meta_keywords' => null,
		'meta_description' => null,
		'noindex' => (int) 0,
		'publish_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		'most_visit_section_id' => null,
		'article_big_img' => null,
		'liveid' => (int) 22331,
		'created' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		'modified' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		'edate' => '',
		'tags' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		'category' => object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		'[new]' => false,
		'[accessible]' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		'[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[hasErrors]' => false,
		'[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[repository]' => 'Articles'
	
	},
	'articleid' => (int) 22181,
	'metaTitle' => 'LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Room for improvement -Bindu Shajan Perappadan',
	'metaKeywords' => 'Right to Education,RTE,teachers,Schools,education,decentralisation',
	'metaDesc' => '
-The Hindu


&nbsp;


&nbsp;


There is no linkage between decentralisation of school governance and quality inclusive education, reveals a recent study


Delhi: Inequity and very low per capita expenditure on teachers are the major reasons behind the crisis faced by school education currently, two...',
	'disp' => '<div align="justify">-The Hindu</div><p align="justify">&nbsp;</p><p align="justify">&nbsp;</p><p align="justify"><em>There is no linkage between decentralisation of school governance and quality inclusive education, reveals a recent study</em></p><p align="justify"><em>Delhi: </em>Inequity and very low per capita expenditure on teachers are the major reasons behind the crisis faced by school education currently, two recently released study reports have identified. They have further pointed out that it is the combination of a good head teacher and a good team of teachers that is the ultimate formula of a well-managed, sensitive and engaged school.</p><p align="justify">The two studies on school management and teacher cadre management, conducted by non-government outfit Save the Children, have looked into how schools can be made better and how the quality of teachers needs to be treated as a serious issue.</p><p align="justify">The study on &lsquo;School Management for Quality Inclusive Education' reveals that although there is some improvement towards making schools more inclusive, there is was no substantive evidence of linkages between different levels/layers of decentralisation and how it facilitates quality inclusive education.</p><p align="justify"><em>Making a difference</em></p><p align="justify">The most important aspect that the study highlighted was that even where the overall education mechanism does not provide for true decentralisation, a motivated and highly committed head of the school can and does make a big difference.</p><p align="justify"><em>No academic support</em></p><p align="justify">According to Prof. R. Govinda, Vice-Chancellor of National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), Delhi: &quot;The study has highlighted that while school level committees have been created in almost all the States, they are involved mainly in supervision of civil works, mid-day meals, monitoring enrolment and attendance of children, mobilising resources for school supplies to the study; committees in a few States also monitor the attendance and regularity of teachers but they are not involved in academic monitoring or providing academic support to schools.&quot;</p><p align="justify">He added that the study has shown that the biggest crisis facing school education in India is inequity. &quot;Like the caste system, we have divided schools into so many layers that it is affecting quality of education in a big way. Exclusive zones don't really create quality. A very low per capita expenditure on teachers is another major concern that is yet to be addressed.&quot;</p><p align="justify"><em>&quot;Sense of ownership&quot;</em></p><p align="justify">Save the Children's director of programmes, Latha Caleb, said: &quot;There is a need to build mechanisms to synergise collective sense of ownership of a school besides increased decentralised community mobilisation efforts to improve enrolment. We must prioritise quality inclusive education as a desired outcome of decentralised school governance.&quot;</p><p align="justify">The study has highlighted that the pro-active involvement of community and a highly motivated head master could bring a change in the education system.</p><p align="justify">The literature also points to the need for synergy between all three - head master, parents and community and the panchayat or the local self governance institutions. Where the three came together, the school governance improved.</p><p align="justify">The studies were published under the European Union funded project &quot;Exchange of International Best Practices Leading to Innovation in Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan&quot;. </p>',
	'lang' => 'English',
	'SITE_URL' => 'https://im4change.in/',
	'site_title' => 'im4change',
	'adminprix' => 'admin'
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	'id' => (int) 22181,
	'title' => 'Room for improvement -Bindu Shajan Perappadan',
	'subheading' => '',
	'description' => '<div align="justify">
-The Hindu
</div>
<p align="justify">
&nbsp;
</p>
<p align="justify">
&nbsp;
</p>
<p align="justify">
<em>There is no linkage between decentralisation of school governance and quality inclusive education, reveals a recent study</em>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<em>Delhi: </em>Inequity and very low per capita expenditure on teachers are the major reasons behind the crisis faced by school education currently, two recently released study reports have identified. They have further pointed out that it is the combination of a good head teacher and a good team of teachers that is the ultimate formula of a well-managed, sensitive and engaged school.
</p>
<p align="justify">
The two studies on school management and teacher cadre management, conducted by non-government outfit Save the Children, have looked into how schools can be made better and how the quality of teachers needs to be treated as a serious issue.
</p>
<p align="justify">
The study on &lsquo;School Management for Quality Inclusive Education' reveals that although there is some improvement towards making schools more inclusive, there is was no substantive evidence of linkages between different levels/layers of decentralisation and how it facilitates quality inclusive education.
</p>
<p align="justify">
<em>Making a difference</em>
</p>
<p align="justify">
The most important aspect that the study highlighted was that even where the overall education mechanism does not provide for true decentralisation, a motivated and highly committed head of the school can and does make a big difference.
</p>
<p align="justify">
<em>No academic support</em>
</p>
<p align="justify">
According to Prof. R. Govinda, Vice-Chancellor of National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), Delhi: &quot;The study has highlighted that while school level committees have been created in almost all the States, they are involved mainly in supervision of civil works, mid-day meals, monitoring enrolment and attendance of children, mobilising resources for school supplies to the study; committees in a few States also monitor the attendance and regularity of teachers but they are not involved in academic monitoring or providing academic support to schools.&quot;
</p>
<p align="justify">
He added that the study has shown that the biggest crisis facing school education in India is inequity. &quot;Like the caste system, we have divided schools into so many layers that it is affecting quality of education in a big way. Exclusive zones don't really create quality. A very low per capita expenditure on teachers is another major concern that is yet to be addressed.&quot;
</p>
<p align="justify">
<em>&quot;Sense of ownership&quot;</em>
</p>
<p align="justify">
Save the Children's director of programmes, Latha Caleb, said: &quot;There is a need to build mechanisms to synergise collective sense of ownership of a school besides increased decentralised community mobilisation efforts to improve enrolment. We must prioritise quality inclusive education as a desired outcome of decentralised school governance.&quot;
</p>
<p align="justify">
The study has highlighted that the pro-active involvement of community and a highly motivated head master could bring a change in the education system.
</p>
<p align="justify">
The literature also points to the need for synergy between all three - head master, parents and community and the panchayat or the local self governance institutions. Where the three came together, the school governance improved.
</p>
<p align="justify">
The studies were published under the European Union funded project &quot;Exchange of International Best Practices Leading to Innovation in Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan&quot;. 
</p>',
	'credit_writer' => 'The Hindu, 14 August, 2013, http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/room-for-improvement/article5019446.ece?homepage=true',
	'article_img' => '',
	'article_img_thumb' => '',
	'status' => (int) 1,
	'show_on_home' => (int) 1,
	'lang' => 'EN',
	'category_id' => (int) 16,
	'tag_keyword' => '',
	'seo_url' => 'room-for-improvement-bindu-shajan-perappadan-22331',
	'meta_title' => null,
	'meta_keywords' => null,
	'meta_description' => null,
	'noindex' => (int) 0,
	'publish_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	'most_visit_section_id' => null,
	'article_big_img' => null,
	'liveid' => (int) 22331,
	'created' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	'modified' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	'edate' => '',
	'tags' => [
		(int) 0 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 4 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 5 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	'category' => object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	'[new]' => false,
	'[accessible]' => [
		'*' => true,
		'id' => false
	],
	'[dirty]' => [],
	'[original]' => [],
	'[virtual]' => [],
	'[hasErrors]' => false,
	'[errors]' => [],
	'[invalid]' => [],
	'[repository]' => 'Articles'

}
$articleid = (int) 22181
$metaTitle = 'LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Room for improvement -Bindu Shajan Perappadan'
$metaKeywords = 'Right to Education,RTE,teachers,Schools,education,decentralisation'
$metaDesc = '
-The Hindu


&nbsp;


&nbsp;


There is no linkage between decentralisation of school governance and quality inclusive education, reveals a recent study


Delhi: Inequity and very low per capita expenditure on teachers are the major reasons behind the crisis faced by school education currently, two...'
$disp = '<div align="justify">-The Hindu</div><p align="justify">&nbsp;</p><p align="justify">&nbsp;</p><p align="justify"><em>There is no linkage between decentralisation of school governance and quality inclusive education, reveals a recent study</em></p><p align="justify"><em>Delhi: </em>Inequity and very low per capita expenditure on teachers are the major reasons behind the crisis faced by school education currently, two recently released study reports have identified. They have further pointed out that it is the combination of a good head teacher and a good team of teachers that is the ultimate formula of a well-managed, sensitive and engaged school.</p><p align="justify">The two studies on school management and teacher cadre management, conducted by non-government outfit Save the Children, have looked into how schools can be made better and how the quality of teachers needs to be treated as a serious issue.</p><p align="justify">The study on &lsquo;School Management for Quality Inclusive Education' reveals that although there is some improvement towards making schools more inclusive, there is was no substantive evidence of linkages between different levels/layers of decentralisation and how it facilitates quality inclusive education.</p><p align="justify"><em>Making a difference</em></p><p align="justify">The most important aspect that the study highlighted was that even where the overall education mechanism does not provide for true decentralisation, a motivated and highly committed head of the school can and does make a big difference.</p><p align="justify"><em>No academic support</em></p><p align="justify">According to Prof. R. Govinda, Vice-Chancellor of National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), Delhi: &quot;The study has highlighted that while school level committees have been created in almost all the States, they are involved mainly in supervision of civil works, mid-day meals, monitoring enrolment and attendance of children, mobilising resources for school supplies to the study; committees in a few States also monitor the attendance and regularity of teachers but they are not involved in academic monitoring or providing academic support to schools.&quot;</p><p align="justify">He added that the study has shown that the biggest crisis facing school education in India is inequity. &quot;Like the caste system, we have divided schools into so many layers that it is affecting quality of education in a big way. Exclusive zones don't really create quality. A very low per capita expenditure on teachers is another major concern that is yet to be addressed.&quot;</p><p align="justify"><em>&quot;Sense of ownership&quot;</em></p><p align="justify">Save the Children's director of programmes, Latha Caleb, said: &quot;There is a need to build mechanisms to synergise collective sense of ownership of a school besides increased decentralised community mobilisation efforts to improve enrolment. We must prioritise quality inclusive education as a desired outcome of decentralised school governance.&quot;</p><p align="justify">The study has highlighted that the pro-active involvement of community and a highly motivated head master could bring a change in the education system.</p><p align="justify">The literature also points to the need for synergy between all three - head master, parents and community and the panchayat or the local self governance institutions. Where the three came together, the school governance improved.</p><p align="justify">The studies were published under the European Union funded project &quot;Exchange of International Best Practices Leading to Innovation in Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan&quot;. </p>'
$lang = 'English'
$SITE_URL = 'https://im4change.in/'
$site_title = 'im4change'
$adminprix = 'admin'

include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51

Room for improvement -Bindu Shajan Perappadan

-The Hindu     There is no linkage between decentralisation of school governance and quality inclusive education, reveals a recent study Delhi: Inequity and very low per capita expenditure on teachers are the major reasons behind the crisis faced by school education currently, two recently released study reports have identified. They have further pointed out that it is the combination of a good head teacher and a good team of teachers that is the ultimate formula of a well-managed, sensitive and engaged school. The two studies on school management and teacher cadre management, conducted by non-government outfit Save the Children, have looked into how schools can be made better and how the quality of teachers needs to be treated as a serious issue. The study on ‘School Management for Quality Inclusive Education' reveals that although there is some improvement towards making schools more inclusive, there is was no substantive evidence of linkages between different levels/layers of decentralisation and how it facilitates quality inclusive education. Making a difference The most important aspect that the study highlighted was that even where the overall education mechanism does not provide for true decentralisation, a motivated and highly committed head of the school can and does make a big difference. No academic support According to Prof. R. Govinda, Vice-Chancellor of National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), Delhi: "The study has highlighted that while school level committees have been created in almost all the States, they are involved mainly in supervision of civil works, mid-day meals, monitoring enrolment and attendance of children, mobilising resources for school supplies to the study; committees in a few States also monitor the attendance and regularity of teachers but they are not involved in academic monitoring or providing academic support to schools." He added that the study has shown that the biggest crisis facing school education in India is inequity. "Like the caste system, we have divided schools into so many layers that it is affecting quality of education in a big way. Exclusive zones don't really create quality. A very low per capita expenditure on teachers is another major concern that is yet to be addressed." "Sense of ownership" Save the Children's director of programmes, Latha Caleb, said: "There is a need to build mechanisms to synergise collective sense of ownership of a school besides increased decentralised community mobilisation efforts to improve enrolment. We must prioritise quality inclusive education as a desired outcome of decentralised school governance." The study has highlighted that the pro-active involvement of community and a highly motivated head master could bring a change in the education system. The literature also points to the need for synergy between all three - head master, parents and community and the panchayat or the local self governance institutions. Where the three came together, the school governance improved. The studies were published under the European Union funded project "Exchange of International Best Practices Leading to Innovation in Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan".