A private school in Bengaluru was in the limelight recently for its alleged reprehensible treatment of students belonging to the poorer strata of society. These children allegedly had their hair cut t

While the Karnataka Unaided Schools Management Association (KUSMA) is slowly retreating from its state-wide week-long strike with its tail between its legs, as schools have staunchly refused to cooper

For city schools reluctant to implement the Right to Education Act, no ploy to undercut it seems too low to attempt. Newly admitted underprivileged students are now targets.

Five children admitted u

It seems that the state government is trying to exclude reputed and posh schools which offer international, CBSE and ICSE syllabus from the purview of the RTE Act on the pretext that many of them are

The state government is dragging its feet on the implementation of the 25 per cent quota for poor students in private schools under the Right to Education Act. Despite the SC upholding the constitutio

Unrecognised schools continue to accept admissions for the new academic year (2012-13) in violation of norms, while the Department of School Education remains a mute spectator. This newspaper had, in

In a significant development with regard to the implementation of 25 per cent quota for poor students in private schools under the Right to Education Act, the state government has decided to finalis

Parents’ associations of city schools have demanded that the state government fix a fee structure for private schools by including the cost of admitting 25 per cent of poor students under the RTE Ac

On April 12 2012, the Supreme Court in the Society for Unaided Private Schools of Rajasthan v Union of India upheld the Constitutional validity of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Educatio

With the state government deciding to grade private schools across the state, the school education department will do so on parameters such as availability of qualified teachers, facilities, and stude