-The Hindu Business Line Although literacy levels are improving, there’s not enough learning happening. This calls for urgent attention This year, marks the 50th year of International Literacy Day. In 1966, UNESCO declared September 8 as International Literacy Day to “mobilize the international community and to promote literacy as an instrument to empower individuals, communities and societies”. At Independence in 1947, India had a literacy rate of 12 per cent, which stands today...

-PTI Chennai: Madras High Court has temporarily restrained a School in Kancheepuram district from making it mandatory for students to have the lunch and snacks provided by the institution for a fee. It issued notices to the Union HRD ministry, CBSE and Hiranandani Upscale School and posted the case for further hearing to September 29. The order was issued by Justice M. Sathyanarayan recently on a petition by Bharathi Rajendran. "Going through the materials...

-PTI Mumbai: Voicing concern over death of 17,000 persons due to malnutrition in tribal areas of Maharashtra in the last one year, the Bombay High Court today asked the state government to take immediate steps to tackle it and submit details of central grants received for tribal welfare. A division bench of Justices V M Kanade and Swapna Joshi was hearing a bunch of PILs regarding malnutrition among children in Melghat region...

-The Indian Express The clause lists cases where users are exempted from copyright infringement and includes teachers and students “in the course of the activities of an educational institution”. Copyright is not absolute and nor should it be, according to the Delhi High Court. Last week, the court ruled against five prominent academic publishing houses including Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and Taylor & Francis, allowing Rameshwari Photocopy Services (based in...

-PTI Mumbai: The Centre will make a slew of provisions for Divyang students in the upcoming education policy and has already asked Schools to provide adequate facilities to them, HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Saturday. “We will make a lot of provisions for Divyang students across the country in our upcoming new education policy. We have asked the management of Schools to provide ramps in buildings, make available separate toilets for...