-The Times of India BHOPAL: Now, under-privileged children would not get admissions in private CBSE-affiliated schools in Bhopal under the Right to Education (RTE) Act. In a shocker, more than 70% in the state capital have submitted their minority certificates to district education Confusion still prevails over reserved seats under the Right to Education (RTE) Act as 45 out of 63 CBSE-affiliated schools in the city have submitted minority certificates. Besides, they...
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School rejects admission under RTE, in writing -Garima Prasher
-The Times of India BANGALORE: When Samuel Joseph (name changed), a parent, went to the Indian Public School in Sultanpalya on Monday to get his five-year-old daughter admitted under the Right to Education Act (RTE), this is what he was told by the headmaster. "First go and ask the government to pay me the remaining reimbursement amount and deposit it with the BEO. Then come to me for admission." Blame it on...
More »The Riddles of Ashis Nandy by Vijay Prashad
-Counterpunch.org “The rearing and guiding of a civilization must depend upon its intellectual class.” BR Ambedkar, Ranade, Gandhi and Jinnah, 1943, Delhi. I. Arrest. States are clumsy with their enormous power. When it suits the modern state, it uses it immense apparatus to constraint those who make claims upon it or who say things that denigrate this or that section of society. A college professor in West Bengal draws a cartoon of...
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...
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...
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