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HDFC debuts in education
Peerzada Abrar, The Economic Times,
January 31, 2011
In its first ever investment in the
booming education sector, Housing Development Finance
Corporation (HDFC). has picked up stake in Indus World
Schools, a unit of education company Career Launcher.
The deal size is valued at around Rs 40-50 crore, according
to industry sources with knowledge of the transaction.
Private equity firm Gaja Capital Partners, an existing
investor, is part in this round of funding that will
finance the expansion plans for the education company.
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Rosa Parks on the school bus
Kevin Huffman, The Washington Post,
January 31, 2011
Last week, 40-year-old Ohio mother
Kelley Williams-Bolar was released after serving nine
days in jail on a felony conviction for tampering with
records. Williams-Bolar’s offense? Lying about
her address so her two daughters, zoned to the lousy
Akron city schools, could attend better schools in the
neighboring Copley-Fairlawn district. Williams-Bolar
has become a cause celebre in a case that crosses traditional
ideological bounds. African American activists are outraged,
asking: Would a white mother face the same punishment
for trying to get her kids a better education? (Answer:
No.)
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Bill to ban unfair practices in higher education may
see light
Rashmi Belur, Daily News & Analysis,
January 31, 2011
The Prohibition of Unfair Practices
in Technical Educational Institutions, Medical Educational
Institutions and Universities Bill, 2010, will be placed
before parliament soon. The parliamentary standing committee,
headed by member of parliament Oscar Fernandes, which
was appointed to collect opinion from stake holders,
has now started visiting all states.
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School vouchers: Whose choice?
The Journal Gazette, January
30, 2011
School vouchers were not a campaign
issue last fall. But they are a legislative priority
today – the bill establishing them is co-authored
by the Indiana House speaker himself. Taxpayers should
ask why lawmakers preaching fiscal responsibility are
pushing legislation that would drain millions of dollars
from Indiana’s public schools, with no data or
research to support their assertion that sending public
money to private schools improves education overall.
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Class X exam: CBSE will check any favouritism
Ishfaq Naseem, Indian Express,
January 31, 2011
The Central Board of School Education
(CBSE) is facing an uphill task convincing teachers
and parents that its first-of-the-kind option to students
to choose between school-conducted internal exam and
an external board exam for Class X will serve to improve
education. Ahead of the March examination, CBSE chairman
Vineet Joshi has been interacting with parents and teachers
in the country to assure them that the board is “not
introducing an uneven examination system” as many
fear. In Pune on Sunday, Joshi said the board will randomly
re-assess answersheets to ensure schools don’t
indulge in favouritism during evaluation.
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INDIA: Expanding private and vocational education
Alya Mishra, University World News,
January 30,2011
With a slew of parliamentary bills
in the pipeline aimed at revolutionising the higher
education sector, and increasing participation from
international education providers, 2011 may well turn
out to be a watershed year for higher education in India
– in particular making the playing field clearer
for private players and increasing vocational provision.
Several bills pending in parliament are expected to
be approved during the year, including a bill on accreditation
of higher education institutions and programmes to ensure
quality education in both government-funded and private
institutions.
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Breaking out of the input trap
Yamini Aiyar, Indian Express,
January 31, 2011
The recently released Annual Survey
of Education Report serves as an important reminder
of India’s greatest challenge: converting increased
financial outlays to improved development outcomes.
Since 2004, India’s education budget has more
than doubled, increasing from Rs 152,947 crore in 2004-05
to Rs. 372,813 crore in 2009-10. For the same period,
ASER has tracked learning outcomes — and found
that learning levels have remained depressingly stagnant.
Nearly half the children in Standard 5 are still unable
to read a Standard 2 text.
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B-schools to take regulatory tussle with AICTE to court
Kirtika Suneja, Indian Express,
January 27, 2011
With the government planning to regulate
management education, business schools plan to take
legal recourse against the All India Council for Technical
Education (AICTE) for doing so. In a recently held meeting
with the council, B-school associations like the Association
of Indian Management Schools (AIMS) and Education Promotion
Society for India (EPSI) are considering legal action
as the AICTE has put guidelines in place to regulate
the Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) programmes.
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Research Paper
Markets in Education: An
Analytical Review of Empirical Research on Market Mechanisms
in Education
Sietske Waslander, Cissy Pater, Maartje
van der Weide
ABSTRACT: In the last three decennia,
many governments have introduced market mechanisms in
education. They have done so by enhancing parental choice
and encouraging school competition, through policies
like abolishing catchment areas, creating voucher programmes
and setting up charter schools. These market mechanisms
have given rise to fierce debates in both political
and scientific circles. However, most prior reviews
of research literature in this area have concluded that
the effects of market mechanisms in education are small,
if they are found at all. This review tries to answer
the question why that is the case, by analysing the
causal pathways that link market mechanisms to educational
outcomes and by reviewing the empirical evidence for
each step along those causal pathways. The findings
of this review point to the need for a nuanced and qualified
discussion about market mechanisms in education. What
market mechanisms mean in actual practice strongly depends
on (local) contexts, while the impact of market mechanisms
is related to other policies impacting on parental choice
behaviour as well as actions taken by schools.
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Book of the Month
“You’re Going to Love This Kid!”
Teaching Students with Autism in the Inclusive Classroom
By Paula Kluth
In “You’re Going to Love
This Kid!” Teaching Students with Autism in the
Inclusive Classroom, Paula Kluth tackles an issue of
educational, psychological, and sociological importance:
the inclusion (or lack thereof) of autistic children
into 'mainstream' classrooms. Kluth begins with a chapter
on autism itself – and, more broadly, various
conditions along the autistic spectrum. I believe that
this is crucial to the success of the book. She does
not assume that mainstream teachers will be intimately
aware of the intricacies of autism, and she therefore
provides an overview of the nature of the condition
psychologically, biologically (e.g., senses and reactions
to affronts on them), emotionally, behaviorally, and
socially, citing a variety of sources, from the DSM-IV-TR
manual to quotes from autistic individuals themselves
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Student First!
Magazine
The second issue of Student First!
Magazine is out. The theme for this issue is Public
Private Partnerships in Education.
Read it
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
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101 Things You
Wanted To Know About The Police But Were Too Afraid
To Ask
A Children's Book for Adults to Learn
from is an easy guide to knowing your police. Commonwealth
Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) believes that only when
we know that we can speak up with confidence, and it
is only when we speak out against wrong, that things
will change. The book is brought out in this hope -
that people knowing all about their police and their
own rights - will use this knowledge to demand the better
police service that we all deserve. This has been published
in various languages like Hindi, English, Kannada, Telegu,
Gujarati and Marathi in India. To know more about these
books or for a copy email [email protected]. |
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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!
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