Going by the country’s commitment made at the World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal, in 2000, it should eliminate all gender disparity in education by 2015. Although only a couple of years remain fo

The obstacles in enforcing the Right to Education Act (RTE) seem unending. Just when things were beginning to fall into place a new row has broken out over the state government’s decision to give the

The management and teachers of the Oxford Indian School in Nandini Layout have been a clean chit by an inquiry committee constituted by the government to look into allegations that five children adm

Setting at rest recent controversy, all schools, irrespective of the boards they are affiliated to, on Thursday agreed to implement the Right to Education (RTE) Act and reserve 25 per cent of their s

Starting Monday, 480 schools across the city will be closed as part of the state-wide bandh called by the Karnataka Unaided Schools Management Association (KUSMA). “We are not against RTE, but we are

Following the age old practice of trying to circumvent the law, schools which did not enjoy a minority status, have begun vying for it to avoid admitting poor students under the Right to Education (RT

To provide education to all children in the state, irrespective of their physical and mental health, the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan has implemented a new programme for differently-able children.

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The state government has put the onus on the Centre for the implementation of 25 per cent quota for economically disadvantaged students in private schools under the Right to Education Act (RTE) from t

The state government is likely to issue an order including even minority schools under the Right To Education rule. With this, the schools set up for particular communities will have to surrender 25%

Educational experts and activists have urged the Union human resource development ministry to withdraw the 86th Constitutional Amendment providing free education in private schools to 25 per cent stud