Physical access to schooling and socio-cultural difference between children from scheduled tribes and children from the mainstream are factors responsible for tribal children being deprived of basic education, and the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory to Education (RTE) Act, 2009, will not necessarily help the tribal population of the country, reveals a recent study. A study, carried out by S N Tripathi of the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics...
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‘Don’t blame it on RTE... implement it well’ by Meghna Sharma
Remember those days when we woke up at five in the morning to revise the history chapters while longing to go back to bed for some time more. That was the 1990s; today, students don’t have to worry much about examinations thanks to the new policies under RTE. According to the RTE's 'no- fail' policy, students cannot be detained in Std I to VIII. The move was made to ease the...
More »RTE: UP to teach 95,000 out-of-school children by Tarannum Manjul
The state government has decided to create special training centres for out-of-school children as part of implementation of the Right to Education (RTE) Act. The Department of Basic Education has already created the detailed proposal for these centres, which has been duly approved by the Centre. These centres will be providing special training to about 95,000 children, aged between 6 to 14 years, who are not enrolled in schools. Retired teachers...
More »Teacher-student ratio in state fails RTE working
The state government has failed to rationalise teachers in proportion to the number of students in its schools as specified in the Right to Education Act. As a result the release of funds from the Centre to the state is being delayed. The Centre had recently expressed its willingness to release its share of `400 crore to the state to implement the RTE. But the teacher-student ratio in many schools is...
More »ABIDe group to review RTE Act implementation
Agenda for Bengaluru Infrastructure and Development (ABIDe) has formed a working group to review and discuss implementation of the Right To Education (RTE) Act. The working group will initially consist of MP and convener of ABIDe task force, Rajeev Chandrasekhar; managing trustee of Admya Chetana, Tejaswini Ananth Kumar; ABIDe task force member Ashwin Mahesh; and chief mentor, Sikshana foundation, E S Ramamurthy. Few more members will join the group shortly. The working...
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