Monthly Newsletter | July 2019 | Volume 03
To all our readers...
With pleasure I present the third edition of the School Serv newsletter to our readers.
All eyes remain on the budget that will be allocated to education in the upcoming union budget 2019-20, but that lies with the future. Currently, the National Education Policy promulgation is deservedly making headlines. NEP has remained in news for both promises it made and the controversies it created. The clauses that were disputed are being negotiated upon and the final resolution will only come with the final draft, submission of inputs for which will close on July 31st.
Other important subjects that garnered attention pertain to the issue of vacancy of the RTE Quota seats in the private schools.
I hope that the current issue will prove informative for all you readers. I am inclined to request you all to take time to participate in a dialogue so that this platform we have devised evolve in a way it is intended to. I believe my appeal will bear fruit.
Happy Schooling !
Vinod Kakumanu
National Education Policy is posed as a democratic and inclusive draft, however, there are issues which have found vocal detractors. The fiercest opposition that erupted in the wake of NEP promulgation was against the imposition of Hindi as a compulsory subject. The order was rescinded eventually. Now, the body representing 60,000 private schools, National Independent School All...
The clause recommending mandatory Hindi teaching in schools, as expected, did not sit well with people in many states, most notably, Tamilnadu. Amid, intense backlash that the union...
The number of RTE quota seats filled stand at 46,900 while the total number of seats in the Maharashtra is as high as 2.44 lacs. Faced with a deadlock, or at least a bottleneck, there are suggestions coming in from various quarters, notably from the schools themselves.
The reasons for the sustained vacancies include the reluctance of parents to settle for a not-preferred school in the face of the ...
The National Education Policy is set to alter certain deeply embedded perceptions we have about our education system. One of such point of views is the one which categorizes class X...
Read more..The government of Kerala has demanded for the withdrawal of the ruling issued by the High Court staying the merger of the three Directorates of school education....
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is considering stopping practical examinations at the home –centers. The practical exams will be conducted at the external centers like theory exams instead. The orders in this regard would take effect from the 2020 board exams...