Of the 1 crore children in the age group of 14-18 years who currently pursue secondary education, 16 lakh are doing it through open schooling system In a step aimed at enhancing the acceptability of open schooling system, the government is considering framing a policy which will enable regular schools adapt distance education programme. “A national policy will be evolved under which regular schools will embrace distance education. This will make distance...
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Right to education kicks in on April 1
After more than six months wait, HRD minister Kapil Sibal on Friday signed the file for the notification of the Right to Education Act, 2009, in the next few days and its implementation from April 1. Delay in working out the finances and funding pattern between the Centre and states were the reasons given by HRD ministry for sitting on the notification. But the funding pattern is yet to be...
More »If You Pay Them Peanuts...by Gautam Sahni
Matriculate Trained Teachers, who make up 87% of school teachers in India, get Rs 775 in UP Rs 892 in Assam and Rs 1,507 per month in Punjab. Even in the most highly rated schools, the average salary is Rs. 7,225 p.m. Nearly 200,000 teachers in Bihar draw a salary less than that of a peon in the government. Teachers with post graduate degrees teaching primary to higher secondary levels, draw...
More »Passed by House in Aug, right to education yet to be law by Akshaya Mukul
The Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act was billed to be a giant leap towards universalization of education in India. However, it has acquired the dubious distinction of being the only fundamental right that exists just on paper. More than seven years after the Constitution was amended in 2002 to make free and compulsory education to children in the age group of 6-14 a fundamental right and over four...
More »GoM to consider 2 bills on educational reforms by Aarti Dhar
The first meeting of the Group of Ministers (GoM) to consider two bills on educational reforms will be held on January 6. The GoM, chaired by Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, will consider the bills — one to provide for establishment of educational tribunals and another to provide for prohibition and punishment for adoption of unfair practices in technical educational institutions and universities. The Educational Tribunals Bill and the Prohibition of...
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