Categories for Education Watch
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School Fees During COVID-19: CBSE & State Board Schools Entitled To Collect 70 & 60 Per cent Tuition Fee Respectively
While noting that “no bias or any sort of partiality or unfairness can be imputed on the part of the State Government as it has tried to strike the balance between the schools’ management and the parents”, the Rajasthan High... View Article
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Distance Education Are We Moving Forward?
The problems in reforms agenda in the higher education sector have seen a snowballing effect due to various bills pending in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. The new team at the HRD is slow but steady. However, it faces... View Article
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Elementary Education in India Quality Or Quantity?
The ninth E9 Ministerial Review Meeting, which took place in New Delhi in November, was held among nine of the world’s most populous developing nations: Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria and Pakistan. The result of the meeting... View Article
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Education in Moral Values A Fresh Look Required
Will the winds of freshness and change really blow in the MHRD? Some hope has indeed been generated by the new minister, particularly the manner in which the successor to Kapil Sibal began his tenure. M Pallam Raju has walked... View Article
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Educating To Combat Corruption
It is impossible to combat corruption without beginning a massive cleansing drive in the system of education from schools to higher education. One often recalls a sentence from the National Policy of Education 1986/92, which says it all: no people... View Article
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Commerce Of Teacher Education
In the 21st century, the path to progress and development of every country invariably passes through the corridors of its elementary schools. No nation can afford to neglect its education and hence, all of its schools. No nation genuinely interested... View Article
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No Takers For Poor Quality Professional Education
Every official discussion in seminars and conferences on education policies and implementation invariably begins with sermons on the need for enhancing quality. Government documents invariably project great efforts made in this direction at every stage of teaching and learning. Improvement... View Article
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Transparency In Examinations
Governments invariably talk of their serious commitment to bringing in total transparency in every walk of governance but, in reality, seldom project shows keenness on putting it to practice. The manner in which the Right to Information Act (RTI) is... View Article
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Education In India Future Aspects Of Skill Developments
The new awakening of humanism and humanisation all over the world has in fact enlarged the scope of applying principles of human resource management in organizations. One of the most significant developments in the field of organisation in recent times... View Article
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Teachers’ Eligibility Test Confounding The Confusion
Now is the turn of the teachers. The lobby that held sway over the education policies, programmes and institutions for over thirty years before 1998 regained its lost paradise in May 2004. It claims great success in educational reforms in... View Article