Unaided schools in the Capital can now heave a sigh of relief. The confusion following the implementation of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act in Delhi regarding screening at the time of admission has finally been cleared out. While the RTE Act does not allow screening of students at the time of admission, Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said that in order to follow...

New Delhi : Unaided schools in the Capital can now heave a sigh of relief. The confusion following the implementation of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act in Delhi regarding screening at the time of admission has finally been cleared out. While the RTE Act does not allow screening of students at the time of admission, Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said that in...

The human resource development ministry has tweaked eligibility rules for its college and university scholarship programme for poor students to help those from school boards that are stingy with marks. The change, first mooted soon after Kapil Sibal took over the ministry, will come into effect from the coming academic session itself, government officials said today. Students who score over 80 per cent in their Class XII qualifying examinations are...

The Madras High Court has asked the State government to direct district educational authorities to take action against school authorities which start institutions without any affiliation or recognition. Justice K. Venkataraman, who made the observation, pulled up the Educational authorities in Nagapattinam district for not taking action against the Assembly of Jesus Christ Public School, a minority institution, which had been functioning from 2007 without recognition from the State government...