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Paris tries education charm IIT plan on PM dinner table
The Telegraph, December 5,
2010
Six decades after Charles François
Marie Baron, the last French Governor-General in India,
proposed a visionary Francophone university in Puducherry,
President Nicolas Sarkozy is reviving that vision which
was then scuttled by the British. The Governor-General,
whose title changed to Commissaire five days after Independence
and remained in his post till May 1949, envisaged what
Indians would now call IIT and IIM-style campuses with
French characteristics under the umbrella of the university
he proposed.France’s involvement in setting up
a new Indian Institute of Technology in Jaipur —
and not the nuclear liability bill or the ban on Sikh
turbans in French public schools —took up a big
slice of the conversation between Sarkozy and Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh at a “private” dinner
for France’s First Couple at Singh’s residence
tonight.
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Rs 8,800-cr
boost for education
Business Line, December 2,
2010
The Rs 8,846-crore endowment that comes
from Mr Azim Premji’s share transfer to an “irrevocable”
trust will be used to fund various social, not-for-profit
initiatives, including the Azim Premji University. Mr
Azim Premji, Chairman of the Azim Premji Foundation,
on Wednesday announced that he would transfer 2.13 crore
equity shares (an 8.6 per cent stake) of Wipro Ltd held
by certain entities controlled by him to a trust. The
transfer will be effected by December 7. The trust is
controlled by Mr Premji and he will continue to retain
the voting rights of the transferred shares.Commenting
on the development, Mr Karthik Ananth, Director-Market
Expansion, Zinnov Management Consulting, said, “Since
Mr Premji still holds voting rights, the share transfer
has no correlation with the SEBI shareholding norms.
This is more of a charitable act. Globally, people like
Warren Buffett and Bill Gates do such charity.
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| Boost for
engineering colleges in city
Hindustan Times, December 5,
2010
Space-starved Mumbai can now have more engineering
colleges. On Saturday the Union human resources development
minister said that the 2.5 acre land requirement for
engineering institutes in the city will be reduced.
The requirement is set by the All India Council of Technical
Education. There are several institutions in the city
that want to set up engineering institutes but huge
land required is a hindrance. As a result there have
been no new engineering colleges in the city since 2005.Currently
there are 48 engineering colleges affiliated to the
University of Mumbai. Of there 22 are located in south
Mumbai and suburbs. These colleges cater only to 8000
students.
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| CAG slams
25 top Delhi’s private schools
Akshaya Mukul, The Times of India,
December 6, 2010
Delhi’s private schools had complained
that they were reeling under the burden of having to
pay teachers higher salaries recommended by the 6th
Pay Commission. A report by the Comptroller and Auditor
General (CAG), however, said they used the Pay Commission
as an alibi to fatten themselves. In a damning indictment,
the auditor held that 25 elite private schools passed
on the burden of implementing the recommendations of
the 6th Pay Commission to parents, without drawing on
the cash reserves they had accumulated by not implementing
the staff salaries prescribed by the government.
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| Just 5% higher
education schools run by Gujarat government
Bharat Yagnik, The Times of India,
December 5, 2010
It was a point to ponder when R Govinda,
vice-chancellor of National University for Education,
Planning and Administration of the Union human resource
development ministry, said recently at a national conference
held in the city that there are less than five per cent
government secondary and higher secondary schools in
Gujarat. “While over 85 per cent primary schools
are run by the state government, there are less than
five per cent government-run secondary and higher secondary
schools in Gujarat. This scenario is completely different
in other stateswhere the share of government schools
in higher education is much more,” said Govinda.
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| A great Indian
merger
Anurag Behar, Mint, December
1 2010
Slowly but surely, two of the flagship
social programmes of the government of India have become
bigger and have reached more children. Education for
All, or Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan’s (SSA) mission
is quality education for 192 million children across
1.1 million habitations of the country. Today, 98% of
the habitations have a school within 1km. This is some
progress. On the other hand, the Integrated Child Development
Services (ICDS) scheme aims to improve the nutritional
and health status of children in the age-group 0-6 years,
and to lay the foundation for proper psychological,
physical and social development of the child. The mechanism
for this is the “anganwadi” (daycare centre)
in every habitation. The state governments run about
1.4 million suchanganwadis across the country.
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| First step
to RTE: Govt nod soon for school management panels
Indian Express, December 1,
2010
In a signal that the Right to Education
Act may be operational in Gujarat by next year, the
Primary Education Department has decided to form School
Management Committees (SMCs) — a basic requirement
under RTE — and a government resolution on the
same is expected soon. Under the Act, each school should
form an SMC with at least three-fourths of it’s
members drawn from parents or guardians of the students
in that school. The resolution would initiate this process.These
committees would then submit school development plans
for the next three years. The government would, on the
basis of these plans, prepare grants to help implement
the plans.
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| Education
is still a distant dream for for disabled in Karnataka
Daily News & Analysis,
December 4, 2010
As the nation observed the World Disability
Day on Friday, disabled rights’ activists rued
that the right to education was still a far-fetched
dream for disabled children. The activists said that
with no special educators available and lack of infrastructural
facilities including ramps and braille gadgets, schools
in Bangalore were far from being disabled friendly.
They also demanded that under the Karnataka state draft
rules of the Right to Education (RTE) Act, the government
should provide special provisions to disabled children.“The
RTE Act does not make any special mention about the
need of special educators for children with various
disabilities in schools.
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| Research Paper
Analysis of Government Education in Chandigarh: A Calculation
of Per Capita Expenditure
Shruthi Jayaram
Chandigarh has come a long way in the education scenario,
with an overall literacy rate of 81.76%1, as covered
by the 2001 census which is considerably higher than
the nation wideaverage of 65%. Its rural-urban literacy
split is also suggestive of a relatively efficienteducation
system, the figures being, again, considerably greater
than the national average. This project aims to analyze
the efficiency and the efficacy of government spending
on education in the Union Territory of Chandigarh, with
special regard to elementary and secondary education.
It calculates per capita expenditure on education in
schools, with disaggregates of primary and secondary
per capita education expenditure. Chandigarh has come
a long way in the education scenario, with an overall
literacy rate of 81.76%1, as covered by the 2001 census
which is considerably higher than the nation wide average
of 65%. Its rural-urban literacy split is also suggestive
of a relatively efficient education system, the figures
being, again, considerably greater than the national
average.
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Book
of the Month
Race, Culture & Identities in Second
Language Education: Exploring Critically Engaged Practice
Kubota, Ryuko & Lin, Angel (Eds.)
NY: Routledge (2009)
This book explores the nexus of race,
culture, language, and identity as they come together
in different school settings—bilingual, ESL,
EFL—around the world (U.S., Latin America, Canada,
Asia, and Australia). The explorations of the role
of race and racialization are both theoretical and
practical. Race is constructed theoretically “as
a form of embodied habitus that gains different currencies
in different social and cultural field governed by
different rules of exchange” (Kubota & Lin
citing Luke, within volume, p. 12). Race is also treated
practically in the data-driven inquiries that span
the spectrum of educational levels—from pre-school
through high school and adult education.
For more click here
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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
The Theatre, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India
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SCHOOL VOUCHERS FOR GIRLS
400 girl children from poor families
of North East Delhi receive school vouchers for a
period of 4 years.
For details visit website
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Support Children's Right to Education of Choice!
DONATE
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