-The Indian Express New Delhi: Stating that denying out-of-school children admission constitutes a "clear cut deprivation of their right to education", Directorate of Education has ordered schools to enrol all such children. A fact sheet released by the Delhi Right to Education Forum has revealed that only 70 per cent of Delhi's children go to school, against the national figure of 94.5 per cent and 100 per cent for states such as...

-The Indian Express New Delhi: Spelling relief to children of migrants seeking admission under the Economically Weaker Section quota, Directorate of Education (DoE) has amended the definition of "children belonging to weaker section". It scrapped the minimum three-year residency period that was mandated for seeking admission under the quota in Delhi schools. The Department issued a notification to all private-unaided schools in the capital acting on a High Court order last month. Coming...

-The Indian Express New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday issued notice to the Delhi government and CAG on a PIL alleging that private unaided schools in Delhi had been submitting incorrect data on enrolment and receipt of fee. The special bench of Justice BD Ahmad and Justice Sidharth Mridul, which has been monitoring the issue of fee in private unaided schools in Delhi, issued notice to the Department of Education,...

-The Telegraph New Delhi: Nearly three of every four students shortlisted for the Indian Institutes of Technology this year come from two of the country's 29 school boards, an analysis of the results has shown. The results have confirmed a long-standing suspicion: distribution of students who made it to the elite tech schools is not uniform across the two national and 27 state boards. The analysis has shown that of the nearly...

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Over half the kids described by the government as "children with special needs" or CWSN are not in school. In response to an RTI filed by lawyer-activist Khagesh Jha, of the 20,759 CWSN identified across the dozen school districts, 11,463 are out-of-school. Northeast district is the worst-performing in this regard, with 1,820 CWSN out of school, followed by the south district with 1,543 children. But...