Monthly Newsletter | October 2021 | Volume 29
Dear Readers,
We are glad to present to you the October edition of the School 360 Newsletter.
Most businesses have opened up in the face of the receding pandemic with the exception of educational institutions. Though many states have reopened schools for the higher classes, attendance is low. Parents are worried about children not being vaccinated, and are withholding from giving consent for them to return to schools. According to Dr Chandrakant Lahariya, epidemiologist and public health specialist, schools should have been the last to close and first to reopen because they are not super-spreaders as suggested by scientific evidence. Orientation programs are being conducted for parents by many schools to build confidence. Many experts and principals concur on the view that students should return to schools, otherwise the learning gaps will be difficult to bridge with the passage of more time.
In this edition, we have included topics covering Shikshak Parv 2021, shortage of teachers in the government schools of Karnataka, BMC’s permission for offline board exams in Mumbai, Delhi government’s request to CBSE for waiver of board exam fees for class 10 and 12, Karnataka High Court’s modification of government order regarding fee-reduction from 30% to 15%, and signing of agreement between NCERT and Tech Avant-Garde, Microsoft’s Global Training Partner, to augment the digital skills of all concerned in school education.
We hope you will find this edition of the newsletter informative and enrich us with your valuable feedback.
Thank you.
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Udit Prakash Rai, Director of Education, requested the CBSE board to waive examination fees for all grade 10 and 12 students studying in government and government-aided...
‘Shikshak Parv 2021’ was celebrated by the Ministry of Education from 5th to 17thSeptember 2021 to acknowledge the valuable contributi...
The education department of BMC (Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation) has permitted the CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education), CISCE (Council for the Indian School...
The Government Order dated 29th January 2021 directing schools to reduce the tuition fees for the academic session 2020-21 by 30%, was modified by the Karnataka High Court on September 16. The fee-reduction was brought down to 15% by a single bench of Justice R Devdas who stated:
The petitioner-institution (school management of the concerned private unaided school) shall collect annual school fees from their students as fixed under the Act of 1995 of the academic year 2019-20, but by providing deduction of '15 per cent' on that amount, in lieu of unutilised facilities by the students during the relevant period of the academic year 2020-21.”
Petitions were filed by the Private Unaided Schools and Associations of such Private Unaided Schools, and the directive was issued during the hearing of these petitions.
It was further direct...
Karnataka’s government schools are facing an acute deficit of teachers at all levels. This dearth of teachers for various ...
An agreement has been signed between NCERT (National Council of Educational Research & Training) and Tech Avant-Garde (Micro...