Two zilla parishad education department officials, who were caught red-handed by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Thursday, while receiving a bribe from a school principal, have now blamed their senior…
The Congress decision to grant ‘minority religion’ status to Lingayat community in Karnataka has predictably kicked off similar demands from the Kodavas and is likely to reverberate throughout Hindu society in…
Unaided non-minority (i.e. Hindu run) schools in Maharashtra have decided to boycott the Right to Education (RTE) Act quota admissions next academic year if the state fails to reimburse them for the…
Tiruchirappalli city police have launched an inquiry on a complaint lodged against Servite matriculation school at Keezhapudur by a parent whose son was punished by the school authorities for having burst…
This article is a response to the article titled “Jamia and the Rationale Behind Special Rights for Minority Institutions” published by The Wire on the 22nd of August 2017, in which the…
In the wake of Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Insaan’s 10-year sentence for rape, a question rises as to why controversial self-styled spiritual leaders are gaining mass following in Bharat these days?…
The Rajasthan Elementary Education Department has a good website where quite some data is available with regard to RTE. It maintains a separate Private School Portal where this data is…
The government of Telangana has come up with a new scheme called the “Telangana Minorities Residential Educational Institutions”. The aim of this scheme, in the words of the Telangana government itself,…
People are worried – aloo, tamatar price increased by double in 10 years, but why has school fee increased by 3-4 times? Well, you don’t pay RTE (Right to Education)…
In the first part of the write-up, we had seen how the RTE Act was constructed to ensure complete autonomy to minority educational institutions with regard to admission of students….