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The passing of foreign universities Act to allow overseas varsities in the Indian soil will open new vistas for international education companies like Edexcel, part of Pearson Group of the UK, according to the David Davies, international business manager of the company.
KAPIL SIBALHUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT MINISTER We are confronted with a collapsing past and an uncertain future. All the methodologies of the past have changed. And we are confronted with new issues. We need infinite possibilities to conquer the challenges of tomorrow. The question is how will it happen? And I submit that we will meet the challenges through intangible assets. The wealth of corporations and nations will depend on intangible assets. Knowledge is at the heart of making intangible assets. I would suggest that if a nation wants to be wealthy it must invest in knowledge, which means investing in our children. When I look upon education, I look up on it as determining India's future.
The Indian Supreme Court today agreed to give early hearing to petitions challenging the validity of the provision of Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act which mandated 25 percent of reserved seats for economically backward sections in private unaided schools.
An apex court bench of Chief Justice SH Kapadia, Justice KS Panicker Radhakrishnan and Justice Swatanter Kumar made the observation in the course of the hearing of a petition by the Society for Un-aided Private Schools of Rajasthan challenging the provision of the Right to Education Act mandating the private schools to reserve 25 percent of their seats for the students coming from socially disadvantaged section of society.
The Union government wants to increase the money it plans to spend on implementing the Right to Education (RTE) Act, while putting up a larger proportion of the funds for programmes under it to counter complaints by states that they are strapped for cash.
Raghunathan, a former professor of finance, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, who currently heads a corporate foundation involved in social work and inclusive education, discusses the problems of the Right to Education Act and on the regulatory issues in higher education, with E. Kumar Sharma. The hurdles in implementing the Right to Education Act: The Act says every child between six and 14 years should have the right to "free and compulsory education in a neighbourhood school". It calls for local bodies to set up the requisite number of schools within three years. Given our birth rate, we add nearly 20 million babies every year. This calls for 60,000 new schools every year.
Financial and retirement planning has always been more an art than a science, because it is based on setting a financial path to a future goal rather than predicting a future outcome. Since no one knows the future, financial advisors generally will create a financial plan designed around the idea that there will be adjustments in the future.
According to our correspondent, dubbing her as Murtidevi (Goddess of statues), party spokesman Abhishek Singhvi said, CM Murtidevi Mayawati has brushed aside her and the state government's responsibility for implementing Right to Education Act.
In a strong message to states who have expressed inability to provide funds for implementing the Right To Education Act, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal Thursday said this posturing shows they are not interested in ensuring education for all.
It's easy to be a cog in the gigantic government wheel. Ask any one of the over 4,500 ias officers or the 2,50,000 elected local self government officials. Standing out, trying to make schemes work or even innovating afresh requires a mix of thought and action which usually brings an irresistible force in confrontation with an immovable, entrenched interest. The numbers alone are daunting. There are over 100 centrally sponsored schemes that converge on each of the 6.4 lakh villages. These vary from the mammoth Rs 40,100 crore a year Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) to the newly launched Rs 1,000-crore Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls by the Women and Child Development Ministry which has so far implemented 28 schemes. In the Tenth Pl...
...Educationists argue about the number of out-of-school children a...
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