Tag: Right to Education
Beyond More Enrolment, RTE Needs to Consider Out-of-Class Lives
In a country that seems to be obsessed with Gross Enrolment Ratios, the lives of Om and Swati, students in Mumbai and Madhya Pradesh, force us to pause and reconsider.
The Ways an Education Nonprofit Can Fundraise in Post-Pandemic India
Imagine this. You established your organisation in 2016 to contribute to the field of education. You are almost ready to launch a fellowship program...
Unveiling the Hijab Controversy with Warisha Farasat and Rajeev Bhargava
The Karnataka High Court’s interim ruling on 10th February 2022 banning all students “regardless of their religion or faith from wearing saffron shawls, scarfs,...
Replacing Pity With Potential Can Transform Disabled Children’s Rights
Hosted by Chirag Chinnappa
Edited by Manasi Nene
Earlier this month, the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment announced its intent to sensitise and train 10,000...
A Roadmap to Safely Reopening Schools For Our Children
Instead of asking whether schools should reopen, examine the requirements to allow our children to be safely reintroduced to their classrooms and childhoods.
Loopholes Inhibit the Enforcement of Tamil Nadu’s RTE Rules
There are too many children falling through the cracks of our education system. In principle and practice, Section 12(1)(c) needs to be reformed in the state to account for parents’ real-world situations
Empowering Parents To Demand Better Of Their Child’s Education
Without improving parental engagement, Indian education will lack accountability and deliver poor education under the facade of quality and equity.
In Search of a Vaccine for Public Education: What’s With Consolidating...
By Sourya Reddy
Headlines like these have been finding a place in newspapers for a little over a couple of years now. Of the sparse...
#Dialogues: Early Childhood Care & Education in the NEP 2020 with...
Last month, the Union Government approved the new National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. Since then, many prominent personalities have spoken about its potential for...
Of Empathy in Education: Interventions in a Juvenile Home in Gujarat
The Right to Education Act of 2009 constitutionally grants every child between the ages of 6 and 14 with a right to avail free...
