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...
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More than 10 million new teachers needed to fill education goals, UN warns
The United Nations marked World teachers’ Day today with top officials calling on governments to make up a projected deficit of over 10 million teachers by 2015 and stressing the crucial role teachers play in recovery from natural disasters and conflict. “Without sufficient numbers of well-trained and professionally motivated teachers, we risk falling short of the promise made 10 years ago at the World Education Forum to the world’s children and...
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...
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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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