Failing students in Class 5 and Class 8: Who said what in front of parliamentary committee

In a report submitted on February 9, the committee endorsed a Bill that seeks to amend the Right to Education Act to scrap the no-detention policy.

Shreya Roy Chowdhury

· Feb 16, 2018 · 07:30 am

Told to stop meddling in primary education, CBSE withdraws its unpopular evaluation policy

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights told the board its policy for Classes 6 to 8 violated the Right to Education Act.

Shreya Roy Chowdhury

· Jan 28, 2018 · 06:30 am

Criticism of no-fail policy in schools has little empirical evidence, says IIM study

An analysis of 10-years-worth of learning survey data shows that the automatic promotion of children between Classes 1 and 8 did not harm learning.

Shreya Roy Chowdhury

· Jan 24, 2018 · 09:00 am

Failing children: Why is India ending a radical school reform within years of introducing it?

No-detention policy becomes casualty of CBSE's poorly designed school evaluation scheme.

Shreya Roy Chowdhury

· Nov 22, 2017 · 09:00 am

Lok Sabha passes Bill to allow unqualified teachers under RTE Act to get degrees by 2019

HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said unqualified teachers had been recruited when the Act was passed in 2010, as qualified ones were not available.

Scroll Staff

· Jul 22, 2017 · 02:36 pm

Why aren't students of Delhi's government schools getting their textbooks on time?

Textbooks sometimes reach students towards the end of the academic year and also have printing errors and poor paper quality.

Ravi Prakash

· Apr 13, 2017 · 12:30 pm

India is set to introduce standard learning outcomes for schools, but this may hit quality

Experts say such benchmarks, which are to be made rules under right to education, will lead to a testing regime.

Shreya Roy Chowdhury

· Feb 02, 2017 · 06:30 pm

Chhattisgarh is closing down schools in areas where it should expand them

Nearly 3,000 schools are being closed down in the state. A quarter of the schools lie in conflict-affected Bastar.

Malini Subramaniam

· Jul 09, 2015 · 03:30 pm

282 million illiterate Indians: Education waits for the Big Bang

Even after six decades of independence, literacy continues to be a huge challenge for the country.

Saumya Tewari, IndiaSpend.com

· Feb 25, 2015 · 04:30 pm

In South Africa, university is open to rich and poor – but what about the missing middle?

University administrators are also grappling with tough decisions on how to fund the education of brilliant students who need financial help.

Sizwe Mabizela, The Conversation

· Jan 30, 2015 · 07:30 pm

Goan school says children are not HIV-positive, but parents continue to demand exclusion

This is the fourth school this academic year where the children have faced resistance from parents.

Mayabhushan Nagvenkar

· Jul 16, 2014 · 09:12 am