Tag: Right to Education
From Streets to Schools: Making the Invisible Visible
Co-authored by Evita Rodrigues and Sanya Sharma
“More than anything else, schools are instruments for bridging inequalities in the country and breaking the cycle of...
From Streets To Schools: The Girl in the Yellow Dress
Co-authored by Evita Rodrigues and Sanya Sharma
As the traffic light turns red, I hear a knock on the taxi window. Looking out, I see a...
NCERT’s “Primary” Concern with Technology: Effective or Erroneous?
Written by Shraddha Tripathi
In July 2018, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) published new guidelines concerning the education of children in...
The 2019 National Education Policy Must Enable Girls’ Right to Education
Written by Evita Rodrigues
Research by Tanvi Mehta
The potential of education to empower often goes unrecognized. It is a tool capable of empowering women to...
‘Open’ for Business: The Growth of Massive Online Open Courses in...
Co-authored by Aarathi Ganesan and Aditya Vikram
By virtue of her burgeoning population and proactive Right to Education policy, India is home to around 310...
This Seat is Reserved! The Underbelly of Discretionary Quotas in Kendriya...
Researched and Written by Aarathi Ganesan
Last week, Minister for Human Resource Development (HRD) Prakash Javadekar, along with his predecessor Smriti Irani, came under the...
No-Detention Policy: Boon, Bane or Both?
Written by Amrita Singh
Updated on 15/01/19
The No-Detention Policy (NDP) came into existence due to an alarming increase in the rate of school dropouts, and...
Merging the Marginalized: North East Region and the RTE
India’s North-East Region (NER) is a long belt of eight states ─ Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim. Each state...
Reservation in Private Educational Institutions – Tracing The Debate
Section 12 of the “Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act” provides for a mandatory 25% reservation in Class 1 in all...
Monitoring the Right to Education: Who Does What?
On 1st April 2010, The Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act (RTE) was passed by the UPA government, making primary education a fundamental...
