Restructuring Teacher Education in Chhattisgarh

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…

Great Speech by Nani Palkhivala on 24th-26th Amendments

This talk by Nani Palkhivala on the 24th-26th Amendments, which enabled “parliament to dilute fundamental rights through amendments to the constitution,” restricted “property rights and compensation in case the state takes over…

Lopsided Justice- Fate of low budget private schools under RTE

By Arvind Ilamaran

The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 lays out a set of conditions that need to be satisfied by every school other than those established, run or…

Listening to winds of change 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…

Schools Remain Casualty in Dantewada

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…

Are We Whitewashing Decentralization in the Education Sphere? Lessons from PAISA

By Abir Joshi

Reading between the lines of the 2012 PAISA Report published by Accountability Initiative, it becomes clear that the ideals of decentralized autonomy…

The Third E

Expansion, Equity and Excellence are documented as fundamentals on the basis of which Education in India stands. While access has expanded significantly and equity has supposedly been achieved through the public school system, we are nowhere near achieving our third ‘E’ — excellence as is evident from the…