India Schools

If I have two apples from the same tree — the same color, same ripeness, same size, same taste, and same nutrition — “choice” between them is meaningless. Public education, all growing out of the same government “tree” and mandated to be equal, is nonetheless being subjected to “choice.” Why? Because public schools are not equal and interchangeable like the apples, but directly reflect the socioeconomic inequalities of our larger society — and so are, themselves, unequal.

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School “choice” is a copout

India’s proposed “super regulator” for higher education, which will oversee universities as well as institutes of technical, legal and medical education, will not operate under the human resource development (HRD) ministry, minister Kapil Sibal has said. The clarification is expected to ease the concerns of the health and family welfare ministry and the law ministry, which have been worried that the new regulator would transfer their control over institutes of legal and medical education to the HRD ministry.

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NCHER will be an independent body: Sibal

India’s historic right to education law has placed the future of the country’s Kendriya Vidyalayas and other central schools under a cloud of uncertainty, leaving the government divided on whether to retain their unique character. Sections of the human resource development ministry want the current mandate of these schools to be wound up, while others argue that they must be allowed to continue, top government sources have told The Telegraph.

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Central school debate

The human resource development ministry is likely to stick to a performance-grading scheme that links promotions of university teachers to their ratings by students and peers, a plan teacher unions across the country have opposed. HRD minister Kapil Sibal is learnt to have accepted the proposed grading scheme at a meeting with the University Grants Commission today. But teacher unions are expected to protest any move to ram through the scheme.

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Students’ grade for teachers? HRD nods- Sibal accepts scheme of peer-and-pupil review of classroom performance

India is setting up a $150-million corpus using funds from the World Bank, European Union and the UK government’s Department for International Development to hatch innovative strategies to universalise secondary education. Called the National Innovation Fund, the corpus will provide financial support to out-of-the-box projects for which budgetary funds cannot be used because of the risk of failure, top government officials have told The Telegraph. “Think of the fund like a means to discover secondary education’s ‘switch hit’,” a senior official said, referring to cricketer Kevin Pietersen’s path-breaking shot where a batsman switches his bat grip at the last minute to outfox the fielding side.

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$150m fund for out-of-box innovations

It is difficult to ignore the spicing up that India’s education sector is undergoing. Ubiquitous private coaching centers, front-page ads inviting franchise expansion of schools, and landmark reforms allowing foreign universities to enter India all underscore the changing face of a sector that could best be characterized as lackluster just a few years ago, especially for private entrepreneurs and profit-mongers

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The Privatization of Indian Education

The Webb School (Bell Buckle, TN) art teacher Mike Quinn brought his friend and Middle Tennessee State classmate, Wayne White, to campus as part of Webb’s Fine Arts Week and the school’s 140th anniversary .

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Artist Wayne White Creates at The Webb School

In looking back at the boarding school campus video tours that I shot over the last academic year, I found segments from each that offer quick, tight insights into why my guides genuinely value their schools. We pulled snippets from each in case you missed them when they were originally published. First up, Tabor Academy

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Why is Tabor Academy a good place to go to school?

An example for all alumni, St. Michaels University School (Victoria BC, Canada) Alumnus Hugh McGillivray has thus far donated $1.4-million and: “hopes to fund as many as 100 scholarships within 10 years. He’s also trying to raise money to build a $50-million endowment at the school.” ( Boarding School Grad Gives Back to His Alma Mater , CTV) McGillivray is moved to such support by the fond memories of his St.

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Canada’s St. Michaels University School Alumnus Funds Financial Aid

The RTE Act has important implications for the overall approach and implementation strategies of SSA, and it is necessary to harmonize the SSA vision, strategies and norms with the RTE mandate. In this context the Department of School Education and Literacy set up a Committee under the Chairpersonship of Shri Anil Bordia, former Education Secretary, Government of India, to suggest follow up action on SSA vis-à-vis the RTE Act

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Report of the Bordia Committee in implementation of the RTE Act, 2009 and the resultant revamp of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan

Abstract: This paper presents an overview of the contemporary issues and challenges of Indian higher education, and looks in particular at ways in which potential foreign participants can legitimately play a role in the sector.

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Higher Education in India: Contemporary Issues and Opportunities for Foreign Participation

Sweden has had the free school system that the UK Conservative party are advocating for some 15 years now. And during this time a number of serious problems have become evident that mean urgent reform is now necessary

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Don’t trust the Conservative education policy – they want to implement our Swedish failures

NEW DELHI: Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday told private schools in capital not to hike fee without approval of the Parent Teacher Associations (PTAs) as directed by the state education department. Making it clear that government would not reverse its position on the issue, she told a delegation of the private schools that it may consider revising the guideline for the academic session 2011-12, sources said

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Dikshit tells private schools not to hike fee

Government has abolished MPs’ quota in admission to the Kendriya Vidyalayas after enactment of the Right to Education Act that reserves 25 per cent seats in the school for local students. Replying to supplementaries during Question Hour, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said the MPs could earlier nominate two students from certain sections of society to KVs. Under the Right to Education Act, 25 per cent seats in Kendriya Vidyalaya have been reserved for civil category — for people in 3-km radius of the school, he said

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After RTE, no quota for MPs in Kendriya Vidyalayas: Sibal

The funding pattern between the Centre and the state for implementing Right To Education Act should be referred to the National Development Council headed by the Prime Minister, a Parliamentary panel has suggested. The Parliamentary committee on HRD in its 221st report has said the states will not be able to meet their share for Right To Education (RTE) Act

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‘Right to Education funding be referred to National Development Council’

A recent study showed that students from day and boarding schools are more prepared for further education. They also seem to achieve a greater career development than students who studied in public schools. The Association of Boarding Schools surveyed over 2700 high school students and adults in different points in their lives to learn about their experiences.

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Benefits of boarding school

Here’s a little bit more about New Hampton School ’s renewable energy commitment mentioned in the previous post about TABS’s collection of boarding school Earth Day stories and initiatives. New Hampton, working with Plymouth Area Renewable Energy Initiative (PAREI) modeled the solar installation on the school’s Veazey dormitory on a New England Barn raising. Student and community volunteers worked together installing panels and plumbing that would begin providing students hot water just a couple of days after installation

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New Hampton School Puts Commitment into Practice: Installs Solar Water Heater on Dorm

Boarding schools have long kept environmental practices at the fore of student and faculty minds. The sound practices and philosophies of a respectful environmental outlook make for good teaching, conservative consumption, and, in the case of many boarding schools , ways to connect and understand rural school settings. Bluntly, for large residential operations, conservation keeps the bills down

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TABS Collects Boarding School Earth Day Stories

Never underestimate the importance and power of food in a boarding school . Good food and plenty of it, instantly puts faculty and students at ease and affirms important commitments. Some boarding school kitchens have been practicing international culinary arts for years- keeping Asian and South American comfort foods available for students

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Good Eats at Northfield Mount Hermon!

We wrote about Hawaii Preparatory Academy ’s Energy Lab last October ( Hawaii Preparatory Academy to Become Home to Energy Lab ) and we’re pleased to see that it’s become a reality just in time to coincide with Earth Day 2010. HPA invited Dr

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Renowned Climate Expert Dr. Jorgen Randers Helps Dedicate Hawaii Preparatory’s Energy Lab