Education
I was recently in Chhattisgarh as a member of Joint Review Mission of Centrally Sponsored Scheme of teacher education. This initiative of the Government of India’s MHRD, is a nationwide program for restructuring of teacher education, largely in response to Children’s Right to Free and Compulsory education (RTE). In my last two posts, “Listening [...]
Restructuring Teacher Education in Chhattisgarh I was recently in Chhattisgarh as a member of Joint Review Mission of Centrally Sponsored Scheme of teacher education. This initiative of the Government of India’s MHRD, is a nationwide program for restructuring of teacher education, largely in response to Children’s Right to Free and Compulsory education (RTE). My first [...]
Tags: Chhattisgarh, JRM, SCERT, Teacher education
Comparison of Indian RTE Act and Pakistan RTE Bill [Image Courtesy: Top News: topnews.in] On Nov 12, 2012, Pakistan’s National Assembly passed the historic Right to Free and Compulsory Education Bill, 2012 paving the way to give effect to Article 25A of the Constitution of Pakistan which states, ”The State shall provide free and [...]
Indian education policy space might not have seen a report as progressive as “The Report of the Review Committee on the Delhi school Education Act and Rules, 1973”, thanks to former Chief Secretary of Delhi, Shailaja Chandra, IAS (retd.), the chairperson of the drafting committee of this three volume report. The review committee has consulted [...]
We know markets lead to innovation, increased quality, and falling costs. Freedom is the sin qua non of innovation in every sector. If someone thinks she can do a better job, she should be free to try. The market will sort those that really do do better from those that don’t and channel resources to the [...]
(This post is written by Sudershan Singh, Research Associate in CCS’ School Choice Campaign) The HRD ministry has decided to launch a new system of entrance test for admission to government funded technical institutes of India, notably, the IITs, NITs and NIITs, etc. The tests are in the name and style of ISEET and will be implemented [...]
Today marks what would have been the 100th birthday of a truly extraordinary man: Milton Friedman. He was the most influential economist of the latter part of the 20th Century and was hands down the greatest ambassador of libertarian ideas to the common person. His weapons of persuasion: an abundance of common sense and goodwill. [...]
Post independence India was characterized by socialistic ideology and has gradually transformed into a country which even after implementing liberalization reforms in the year 1991 is still averse to free market principles and capitalist economy. Western liberalism has not found its place in China as well mainly due to the repression by Communist Party. Hence, [...]
The Supreme Court has, in a recent verdict, by a majority of 2:1, upheld the validity of the Right to Education (RTE) Act, most significantly the clause mandating 25% reservation for economically weaker children, but exempted unaided minority institutions (the term ‘minority’ has been used in both the linguistic and religious contexts and it applies [...]
Recent reading of two seemingly disparate issues made me question if they might be connected after all? The first was in Thomas L. Friedman’s 2008 book – Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why the World Needs a Green Revolution and How We Can Renew Our Global Future. In his book, Friedman says that the earth is [...]
