Delhi HC seeks responses on plea over 'systemic exclusion' of EWS students by private schoolsThe Delhi High Court has asked the Delhi government and CBSE to respond to a petition. The petition alleges private schools are exploiting ...
RTE quota: HC junks Maharashtra govt notification giving conditional exemption to private schoolsThe Bombay High Court has ruled against the Maharashtra government's notification exempting private schools from RTE Act quota admissions, ...
Delhi schools fee hike not as per rules, placed undue financial strain on parents: Vigilance reportThe vigilance directorate has written a letter to the director of education highlighting fee hike irregularities in 18 schools and five pri...
Move to amend Right to Education Act pits experts against activistEarlier the Cabinet approved a proposal to amend the Act permitting parents to admit chidlren in private schools under the 25% RTE quota on...
Corruption in education department deprives children from going to schoolThe RTE Act was state's effort to provide quality education to poor children. But greedy education department officials have almost subvert...
Form mechanism to hear grievances under RTE Act: Maharashtra HC to governmentThe Bombay HC asked Maharashtra govt to devise a mechanism to hear grievances of students who do not get admission in pvt schools under RTE.
Bombay High Court asks parent to represent before schools under Right to EducationSchools which cancelled admissions of pre-primary students will soon have to meet their parents under the RTE as ruled by Bombay High Court.
Right to education seats to be alloted in lokayukta presenceDepartment of Public Instruction will allot seats under the RTE quota in private schools to children from weaker sections in the presence o...
Online format makes right to education a crowd pullerWith applications exceeding seats this year, Department of ecucation to admit children through a lottery system.
AIADMK wants effective implementation of RTE Act in PuducherryOpposition AIADMK today asked the government to initiate steps to implement effectively the provisions of Right to Education Act in the Uni...
Why can't govt come up with best schools at primary level: Supreme Court"Government medical colleges have been always preferred. Now we are seeing private colleges because of business purpose," the bench observe...
Supreme Court to states, union territories: Reply on plea alleging violation of Right to Education (RTE) ActThe SC today sought response of the Centre, all states and UTs on a petition alleging that there was violation of Right to Education Act.
Centre concurs in High Court with LG Najeeb Jung's guidelines on nursery admissionThe Centre has told the Delhi High Court that the new nursery admission guidelines, issued by the Lt Governor, were "in consistency" with t...
- Admission under RTE: Govt issues fresh guidelines
The government today issued fresh guidelines prohibiting schools from announcing community, castes or tribes of students and labelling stud...
25% RTE quota: Getting the poor into private schoolsOne of the arguments against RTE is that it has shifted the burden of educating the poor from the government to the private sector.
- Centre needs Rs 2.3 lakh crore to fund RTE initiative
Right to Education Act has been plagued with fund shortfalls with budgetary provision in the last two years being only half of what was est...
- After RTE, no quota for MPs in Kendriya Vidyalayas: Sibal
Government has abolished MPs' quota in admission to the Kendriya Vidyalayas.