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Board of Intermediate Education of Andhra Pradesh (BIEAP) has warned students from Class XI and XII not to write any slogans supporting or opposing Telengana state on their answer sheets. The board has also clarified that those students who will write slogans like ‘Jai Telangana’ and ‘Samaikhya Andhra’ on their exam paper would be treated as fail and will also get charged for malpractices during examination.

Owing to lack of sufficient number of government schools in the state the Ministry of Human resource and Development has decided to alter its Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) scheme, for universalisation of secondary education in Bengal. Instead of funding all government aided schools which are less than five percent in the state the MHRD will now select and fund some privately run, government aided schools.

Apprehensive that the introduction of the National Commission of Higher Education and Research (NCHER) Bill might rob them off their privileges related to the formulation and execution of various policies involving legal education, the Bar Council of India has unanimously decided to oppose the bill.

Having accepted all the demands of the HRD ministry (MHRD) related to the grants for funding the Right to Education (RTE) Act, the 13th Finance Commission has gone ahead and allocated Rs 24,068 crore for Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA); thus, making it obvious that it sees the SSA as the primary means to proper implementation of the RTE act.

With the Union budget out in the open, education seems to be a happy sector least to say. With an allocation of 1.38 trillion rupees and stocks surging high, the budget sure seems to have worked well for the education sector.
 

The idea of a bill that targets to create the much-flouted National Commission for Higher Education and Research (NCHER) seems to be not going down well with the academicians, especially in Gujarat. To talk about the draft bill for NCHER, vice-chancellors (V-Cs) and registrars from different universities across Gujarat were assembled at IIM-A campus on Tuesday.

Striking a clear note of contradiction both with the Delhi School Education Act 1973 and with the city parents' association’s stand on the issue, Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said that the right to fix the salaries of its teaching staff rested solely with the private institution managements and not with the government.

To check malpractices from creeping into the functioning of both the technical and medical educational institutions, the Group of Ministers (GoM) has cleared a crucial bill in this regard that has been drafted by the Human Resource Development Ministry (MHRD).

With the Right to Education (RTE) Act all poised for implementation from April 1 onwards, there is immense confusion as far as the schools across India are concerned. Without clear directives and guidelines form the state government confusion reins as varied responses are pouring in from different schools all choosing to take a different path over the matter.

Making yet another fatal blow to the country’s foreign student education sector, the Australian government has announced its decision to abandon 20,000 low-skilled migrant applications.