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Key to Reforming Indian Education: Rescuing Government Policy-making and Regulatory Functions from Service Delivery

Currently the governmental roles of policy making, regulation and service delivery are combined within a single entity in the Indian…

Maharashtra Self-financed Schools Act: Harming the Poor in the Name of Public Good

The essence of regulation is the idea that regulations are required to safeguard constituencies a free-market fails to care for. The idea that market or private players when left to…

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…

Are private schools only about the money?

We all “know” that anything that is private only exists to earn profits, right?

It is widely assumed that private provision of education would rob it of its moral foundations because “earning profits” would replace the State’s…

How to fulfil the RTE promise

Centre must fund the states, but let them identify the students who need help

After the Supreme Court judgment on the constitutionality of the Right to Education Act (RTE), the onus is now on the government to design a transparent, fair and…

Of Shakespeare and Maps

Surbhi Tandon and Udita Singh

It is important that a young child grows to think beyond the confines of the four walls of a classroom. Stephen Spender, in his poem, ‘An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum’, stresses on the liberation of children away from…