Though this year’s budget proposals for education sector look like paying a closer attention than usual to this game changer sector and shifting focus on youth, in the ultimate analysis, education sector continues to remain a neglected priority for the government in this budget too Referring to the challenges of ambitions on growth, employment and social justice spelt in this …
In the coming month of April, Rajasthan Government in collaboration with GEMS Education, an international private education group of Indian origin operating several K-12 schools, brings to Jaipur the Festival of Education—a first of its kind multi-event conglomeration around education anywhere in India by a state and in the process hoping to project Rajasthan as an education destination Projected as …
Though proposals related to education sector are well-intentioned and to some extent transformative, yet the thrust on core education as the fuel for knowledge economy appears missing in the union budget for 2016-17 At least part of the narrative around Government budget in the last few years has moved to the ‘unspent’ allocations and though no correction is in sight …
While the government is investing heavily to develop new IIMs and IITs in the country, it is imperative to analyze the need for the future and instead invest on setting up futuristic Institutions of Data Science in the country that would stand valid for at least next 30 years says Dr. Kamaljit Singh Anand, a distinguished Fellow of IIM Ahmadabad who …
Vertical split between SSA and ‘education departments’ may have ‘mutated’ gradual downfall in the last 15 years. Narrative around Government School System must also change to save government schools. Delhi’s AAP Govt is silently & sincerely working to improve its schools, which among several things recently included remedial regular school for class IX students in winter vacation of ‘poor’ performance’ …
On December 2, 2015, Delhi Govt ploughed through the 42-year old ‘tough’ and historic Delhi Education Act of 1973 and passed two amendment bills to align the school education law with ‘ground realities.’ The day didn’t stop there. AAP government dared the wisdom of ‘no detention policy’ of the RTE Act and through a third bill took a lead to …
