National Education Policy Compliance Profile: Jharkhand
18 Nov 2022 2 Min Read
Structure of education administration, quality of laws, learning progress of students, and regulatory pain-points for private schools in Jharkhand
Umang
Wed, 10/19/2022 - 17:44 5 Min Read

With Project Umang, we aim to understand if education interventions such as blended learning and School Leadership are cohesively effective in enhancing the students learning outcomes.

School Voucher for Girls
Wed, 10/19/2022 - 17:35 5 Min Read

School Vouchers for Girls is a school voucher project run by School Choice Campaign for girl children from the North East Delhi region.

Right To Education Platform
Wed, 10/19/2022 - 17:17 5 Min Read

With a stated motto of Inform-Engage-Reform, the RTE Platform is an initiative to bring together all the knowledge on India's landmark Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009.

At the RTE Platform, we are aspiring to establish it as a credible, informative and evolving resource on education in India, with a particular emphasis on primary education and the RTE Act.

Patang
Wed, 10/19/2022 - 16:16 5 Min Read

Section 12 (1) (c) of the Right to Education Act (RTE), 2009 requires unaided private schools to reserve at least 25% seats for children from economically and socially disadvantaged communities.

Legislative Analysis 1: Free & Compulsory Education Bill, 2003
18 Oct 2022 1 Min Read

Providing a depth look into the 2003 Education Bill and highlighting key aspects of the bill to illustrate how the Bill is not meeting its objectives and does serious damage to areas of education where some degree of competition and choice exists—both of which CCS believes are fundamental agents for a thriving and prosperous education ecosystem.

Author / Edited by:
CCS Team

Legislative Analysis 2: The Right to Education Bill, 2005
18 Oct 2022 1 Min Read

The Bill seeks to expand access to elementary education by a) increasing the number of state schools, and b) leveraging the 25% reservation of seats in all private schools. The Bill expects the private sector to discharge the constitutional obligation of the state while having no binding duties for the state. The analyses expose the weaknesses of the Bill, as well as the ambiguity that relaxes the state from accountability and compliance with standardised norms.

Author / Edited by:
CCS Team

Legislative Analysis 4: The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009
18 Oct 2022 1 Min Read

Providing a comprehensive brief of the Model Rules under the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009, providing analysis to highlighting our argument on how private unaided schools conforming to the 25% reservation quota be reimbursements for those selected seats.

Author / Edited by:
CCS Team

Education Vouchers: Global Experience and India’s Promise
18 Oct 2022 1 Min Read

Many countries have seen significant improvements in learning outcomes after the introduction of vouchers, while a few have experienced very little change. However, no country has found learning outcomes deteriorate with education vouchers. The paper describes the experience of eleven countries with education vouchers and draws lessons from their success and failures.

Author / Edited by:
Parth J Shah

Expanding Education Opportunities: Delhi's SC/ST tuition fee reimbursement scheme
18 Oct 2022 1 Min Read

The Department for the Welfare of SC/ST/OBC/Minorities introduced the SC/ST tuition-fee reimbursement scheme in 2003-2004 for SC and ST students of Delhi enrolled in recognized unaided private schools, having an annual family income of less than Rs. 1 lakh. The subsidy provided by the scheme covers between 85% and 90% of the beneficiary's total running expenses in studying in a private school. This study concludes that the scheme's performance has been suboptimal vis-à-vis its stated objectives.

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