-Outlook The sorts of corruption that matter are a purview of privileged “An intellectual man can be a good man but he may easily be a rogue. Similarly an intellectual class may be a band of high-souled persons, ready to help, ready to emancipate erring humanity, or it may easily be a gang of crooks or a body of advocates of narrow clique from which it draws its support.” —B.R....
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Pillorying of Ashis Nandy: His critics need hearing aids -Shiv Visvanathan
-First Post The Jaipur literary festival is almost notorious for creating storms in a teacup. To its credit though, if offers a different flavor of literary tea every year. Last year, it was a variant of the Rushdie phenomenon, where a group of aspiring litterateurs read out passages from the Satanic Verses and then succumbed to political correctness. This year, the controversy came in a session chaired by Urvashi Butalia, publisher Zubaan, where...
More »RTE does not apply to nursery admission: Tharoor
-IANS Minister of State for human resource development Shashi Tharoor Friday said the right to education (RTE) does not apply to nursery admissions. "The RTE doesn't apply to nursery admissions as the law specifies eight years of compulsory schooling from the age of six to 14. Nursery children are younger than that," Tharoor said at a programme organised by television channel Headlines Today. "As a social mechanism, a school's admission policy...
More »RTE quota: Govt fritters away time-Puja Pednekar
-DNA Mumbai: Even as the deadline nears for the implementation of the Right to Education Act on March 31, schools have not yet begun admissions for the 25% quota seats. Reason? They are waiting for the RTE notification for 2013-14, which has been pending for the last three months. Realising that they have to wait for a fresh notification for admissions to 25% quota for 2013-14, the education department withdrew the common timetable...
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-The Hindu The Ministry of Human Resource Development recently informed Parliament, that 12 States in the country could not meet the demand for professionally qualified teachers. Moreover, there are more than 8.7 lakh teachers in the country who do not have the necessary training to perform their role. It comes as no surprise, therefore, that the independent annual study by theASER Centre into schooling outcomes in rural India has found a...
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