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- Right to Education: A voucher-based system for transferring funds to the deserving will be more democratic
Although there exist several delivery mechanisms for transfer of funds - in bank accounts, by bank drafts or by cash - each has its own mer...
03 Nov, 2012, 06.00 AM IST
- Subsidy overhaul
Conditional cash transfers work around the world, and they can in India, too
08 Mar, 2011, 06.19 AM IST
- CAT dates are out: October 27 to November 24
The countdown for Common Admission Test 2010 (CAT 2010), which will determine admissions of MBA aspirants to various IIMs and other top B-s...
30 Aug, 2010, 07.13 AM IST
- Try out school vouchers
School vouchers should be part of Centre's plans to implement RTE.
31 Jul, 2010, 05.53 AM IST
- Kaushik Basu has reason to be happy, school voucher trials a hit
The vouchers — a live example of the Coupons theory expounded by chief economic advisor Dr Kaushik Basu in the Economic Survey – were given...
15 Jul, 2010, 10.40 AM IST
- Basu has reason to be happy, school voucher trials a hit
The vouchers — a live example of the Coupons theory expounded by chief economic advisor Dr Kaushik Basu in the Economic Survey – were given...
15 Jul, 2010, 05.12 AM IST
- School vouchers, please Govt monopoly is crime against children
Right to education cannot mean the right to attend a government school.
25 Jun, 2009, 02.19 AM IST
- Sibal toys with idea of school vouchers, but doubts remain
With private participation no longer being viewed with suspicion in the human resource development ministry, the idea of school vouchers se...
24 Jun, 2009, 01.45 AM IST
- Good schools may no longer be for moneybags only
School choice for low-income parents may at last be possible, that is if they are ready to limit their choice to schools that charge no mor...
30 Mar, 2007, 01.00 AM IST
- Good schools may no longer be for moneybags only
Interestingly, CCS initiative will provide vouchers worth Rs 300 per month as against the Rs 800 to Rs 1,000 per month that the Delhi gover...
29 Mar, 2007, 03.03 AM IST
- US Congress & Arjun think same; Bush vouches for good tutoring
When it comes to school education, the US Congress and India’s ministry of human resource development seem to be on the same page.
05 Feb, 2007, 04.12 AM IST
- Plan paper to consider education vouchers
Education vouchers have made their way into the Eleventh Plan approach paper despite stiff resistance from the ministry of human resource d...
14 Oct, 2006, 12.01 AM IST