Monthly Newsletter | March 2021 | Volume 23
Dear Readers,
I am glad to present before you the March Edition of the School 360 Newsletter.
We have entered the New Year, we may as well call it the new age as far as the education sector is concerned. The NEP 2020 implementation is underway and the reopening of schools is getting by with a few hiccups. While it remains to be seen, how long it will take for the normalcy of schools to return, it is clear that the mechanisms and processes that have been evolved to withstand the challenge will preserve the academic environment and help the educational ecosystems develop resilience for the future contingencies.
This edition includes diverse items including the protests by Private School bodies against the fee-cut directive and a debate on the omission of content from textbooks. Other topics that find a place are the promotion of students sans exams in states, UN Report on global academic Inequity, and NEP implementation.
I hope you will find the newsletter informative and we request you to keep up with the feedback.
Stay safe, stay healthy
Thank you.
Civil Society Organization Protests the Omissions of New religions from Textbooks
An organization known as Swaraj Abhiyan Karnataka has alleged “saffornization” of education citing omission of content related to the new...
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2 Million Jharkhand Students of classes 1 to 7 may get promoted without examination this Academic Year
The state of Jharkhand will see around 3.2 million students promoted to their respective next classes this year without any examinations. The decisio...
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CBSE: Two levels of English and Sanskrit from 2021-22 session, Improvement exams under NEP 2020 Implementation
The NEP-related changes are being progressively implemented by the agencies, the CBSE has announced several measures that indicate the direction of t...
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Private Schools organize Protest over Fee Cut Directive in Bangalore
A massive protest organized against the state government’s ruling mandating a 30% fee cut in private schools was held in Bangalore with protesters numbering in their thousands. Teachers, members of the non-teaching staff from the unaided schools of Karnataka were among the protesters. The protest march was held under the umbrella of Karnataka Private Unaided School Managements, Teaching and Non-Teaching Staff Coordination Committee (KPMTCC).
Notably, the Primary and Secondary Education Department had mandated a 30% reduction of school fees in private unaided schools in view of the economic hardships faced by the parents due to the pandemic-related disruption of the economic activities.
The private schools contended that the 30% reduction in the school fees is unreasonable and inconsiderate and will j...
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UN Report Indicates Poor learning Outcomes of Children In school
The UN has come up with a report that indicates the sub-par status of educational outcomes in several areas o...
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Civil Society Organization Protests the Omissions of New religions from Textbooks
An organization known as Swaraj Abhiyan Karnataka has alleged “saffornization” of education citin...
Read more..