Right To Education
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Bihar government schools remove over 20 lakh students for being absent for three straight days
Over 1.5 lakh of them are in classes 10 and 12, and will not be able to write their state board examinations.
Scroll Staff
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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
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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
Trending
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Uttarakhand restricts sale of land for agriculture as locals protest tourism infrastructure boom
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Expelled BJP Minority Morcha leader Usman Ghani arrested in Rajasthan
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Canada: Amid anti-immigration rhetoric, curbing international students is a knee-jerk reaction
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Business history: How Jaypee Infratech’s stalled construction projects left homebuyers in the lurch
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By mixing Carnatic and Hindustani, Mysore’s kings helped create a unique body of music
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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
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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
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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
Video
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Watch: K-Pop singer Aoora sings in Assamese as he collaborates with Nilotpal Bora in a new folk song
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Watch Anu Malik and Sonu Nigam’s impromptu performance of ‘Main Hoon Na’ at Farah Khan’s home
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Watch: Doordarshan newsreader faints on live TV in Kolkata owing to severe heat
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Watch: Spice Girls sing ‘Stop’ as bandmates reunite to celebrate Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday
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Watch: Over 350 ballerinas come together to break the world record for standing on tip toes
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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
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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
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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
The Reel
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Aditi Rao Hydari on playing diverse characters: ‘I want the audience to take me home with them’
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The story of India’s unique ‘Milk Revolution’ is going to the Cannes Film Festival
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The story behind the ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’ title track: ‘Just write very simple poetry’
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‘Juna Furniture’ review: A simplistic crusade against the neglect of senior citizens
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‘Late Night with the Devil’ review: A deft satire on the price of success
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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
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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
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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
The Field
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IPL 2024: Sanju Samson and Dhruv Jurel earn Rajasthan Royals easy win over Lucknow Super Giants
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Badminton, Thomas and Uber Cup 2024: Indian men beat Thailand in campaign opener; women beat Canada
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IPL 2024: Jake Fraser-McGurk’s whirlwind knock powers Delhi Capitals to win over Mumbai Indians
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Athletics, Asian U20 C’ships: Harshit Kumar wins hammer throw gold as India’s medal tally increases
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Archery, World Cup Shanghai: Indian compound archers sweep all three team event gold medals