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44 mn students to enter higher education in next 10
years
Prashant K. Nanda, Mint, November
20, 2010
India’s higher education enrolment
will move up to 44 million from the current 14 million
in a decade, the Central government said on Friday,
underlining that private players, distance education
and foreign education providers will play key roles
in ensuring this growth. Human resource development
(HRD) minister Kapil Sibal said at the Hindustan Times
Leadership Summit that the Central government looks
to add 30 million more students at this level by 2020.
“Industry does not create (human) wealth, it translates
ideas into wealth. Higher education will create this
human wealth.”He said, when “we speak of
adding 30 million more to the higher education, it means
1,000 more universities. Government cannot do everything.
We need the private sector, foreign education providers,
expansion of distance learning and enlarging the online
format of learning”.
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Experts raise concerns over new curriculum in CBSE schools
Indian Express, November 20, 2010
The new system of CCE is a new grading
system, introduced by CBSE in 2009, in which students
are assessed periodically and regularly. Orienting the
students, changing parents’ predisposition, adapting
books to the change and training teachers under the
new system were some of the challenges that were raised
by heads of various educational institutions in the
capital.“Previously, the board exams for the 10th
standard used to prepare students for what to expect
during their 12th board exams. This was used as a bench
mark, now that the exams have been done away with, a
lot of students and parents are apprehensive,”
said noted career counselor Pervin Malhotra
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Charter schools have given New Orleans a fresh start
in education
Holly Hacker, The Dallas Morning News,
November 21, 2010
When Hurricane Katrina struck five
years ago, it displaced families and destroyed schools.
And the storm unwittingly provided a chance to reinvent
public education in a failing school district. Between
classes at Sophie B. Wright Charter School, principal
Sharon Clark talks to students about a dance. The Uptown
New Orleans school became a charter before Hurricane
Katrina and has made measurable progress.So was launched
the nation’s biggest charter school experiment.Today,
70 percent of New Orleans public school students attend
a charter school. No other city comes close. (Dallas’
rate is 10 percent and growing.) So educators, lawmakers
and researchers are watching for results.
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Gove promises teachers the right to inspire pupils
Richard Garner, The Independent,
November 21, 2010
Plans to sweep away a “culture
of compliance” in schools and replace it with
more freedom for teachers to teach what they want will
be unveiled by the Secretary of State for Education,
Michael Gove, this week. He is promoting the changes
to encourage more inspirational teaching.The White Paper
outlining the Government’s vision for the future
of state schools will be unveiled on Wednesday. One
of its main components will be a review of how the national
curriculum operates.
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Teaching for America
Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times,
November 20, 2010
One-quarter of U.S. high school students
drop out or fail to graduate on time. Almost one million
students leave our schools for the streets each year.
… One of the more unusual and sobering press conferences
I participated in last year was the release of a report
by a group of top retired generals and admirals. Here
was the stunning conclusion of their report: 75 percent
of young Americans, between the ages of 17 to 24, are
unable to enlist in the military today because they
have failed to graduate from high school, have a criminal
record, or are physically unfit.” America’s
youth are now tied for ninth in the world in college
attainment.
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India needs
to develop skills to deliver on demographic dividend
Divya Guha, Mint, November
16, 2010
India has the lowest education indicators among the
Group of 20 countries and the world’s largest
number of illiterates. At the same time, about 12 million
people need to join the workforce every year. Moreover,
500 million skilled people will be needed in the country
by 2022. How India could improve education and skills
development to deliver on this demographic dividend
was debated at the World Economic Forum’s India
Economic Summit on Tuesday.Most policymakers, while
being aware of India’s skills, don’t entirely
agree over which system or model of education suits
a country that is as diverse and poorly connected as
India.
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Now, HRD wants to keep tabs on grads
The Times of India, November
19, 2010
A country getting younger has decided
to map its youth population. From who’s in college
and who’s been left out and why, to which student
earned a scholarship, to which candidate graduated from
where, a kind of pan-India census would plot the lives
and performance of all those attached to the higher
education sector.The human resource development ministry,
which has projected a gross enrolment ratio (GER) in
the country’s universities to 30% by 2020, is
drawing up modalities of conducting the all-India survey
in higher education institutes and research labs of
the country .
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| India: The
fight for disabled children’s right to education
Andrew Chambers, The Guardian,
November 22, 2010
The World Bank estimates that about
20% of the world’s poorest people are disabled.
Poverty causes disability through inadequate access
to medical treatment and vaccinations, and exposure
to unsanitary and unsafe living and working conditions.
Children with disabilities in India rarely progress
beyond primary education, with school enrolment less
than 10% in many areas. This then reinforces social
alienation and leads to very limited employment opportunities,
causing more poverty.
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Research Paper
Does performance related pay for teachers improve
student performance? Some evidence from India
Geeta Gandhi Kingdon and Francis Teala
ABSTRACT: In this paper data from a
school survey in India is used to ask whether there
is evidence for the payment of performance related pay
and whether such pay structures do impact on student
achievement. It is shown that—after controlling
for student ability, parental background and the resources
available—private schools get significantly better
academic results by relating pay to achievement; government
schools do not. We discuss possible interpretations
of this result.
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Global Education Statistics
Distribution of aid to basic education by levels
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RTE Coalition
To initiate and continue the discussion
amongst concerned groups and individuals on the issue
of right of education and monitor the implementation
of the RTE Act, an RTE Coalition has been formed. Join
the coalition to make universal elementary education
a reality in India. Log on to www.righttoeducation.in
for more information.
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SCHOOL CHOICE NATIONAL
CONFERENCE 2010
Saturday, 18 December 2010, 9 am - 6 pm
The Theatre, India Habitat Centre,
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