Monthly Newsletter | February 2021 | Volume 22
Dear Readers,
The first month of the New Year has passed and it has been quite eventful. The news that the successful Covid-19 vaccine is imminent gives us all a reason to be buoyant and it is partly due to that and partly due to the impatience with the inertia that the pandemic forced us into, that the schools in most states and UTs are about to reopen.
The governments are still evaluating the conditions and planning accordingly to minimize the risk of infection, yet almost all stakeholders agree that protracted schools closure is doing more harm than good and so the campuses are going to children once again although the precautions will remain in place and there will be a ceiling on the capacity of the classes until the threat of the virus has been neutralized.
We found it reasonable to include items concerning the reopening of schools in the country in this edition of our Newsletter. We have focused on schools in Karnataka as we found them representing the scene of the entire country, and also due to the recent state government diktat ordering fee reduction for the 2020-21 academic year. Another notable item relates to the restructuring of the CBSE affiliation system which is going to be automated from March onwards.
I hope you find this edition as informative as we found the news in them reassuring.
With prayers of progress and prosperity and appeals for feedback, I wish you a great year ahead.
Government of Karnataka in a directive stated that the schools must slash the tuition fee for the academic year 2020-21 by as much as 30 %. The justification for orderi...
The NEP promulgation marks a paradigm shift in education, a prelude of sorts for these shifts has been witnessed in the changes that the schooling system has witnessed ...
With the state government still indecisive on the issue of reopening of schools for lower classes, the educationists and health experts have come in support of reopenin...
The South Delhi Municipal Corporation has been penalized by the Delhi High Court as the civic body failed to send the requisition for teachers to fill the 1100 vacant posts of special educators in its schools. The court has imposed a fine of Rs. 25,000 on the body.
The presiding judge called the conduct of the civic body into question by calling it negligent towards the need of the section requiring special education.
The civic body was supposed to requisition special educators from the Delhi Subordinate Service Selection Board (DSSSB) the failure on this account brought about the reprimand and the fine from the Judicature.
The court had directed the body to expedite the process of recruitment in the vacant positions and conclude it within 3 weeks on December 18. After the passage of more than 3 weeks since the court’s direction, the SDMC ...
The CBSE affiliation process for schools is likely to get completely digital with the newly proposed restructuring. It has been ...
The NEP promulgation marks a paradigm shift in education, a prelude of sorts for these shifts has been witnessed in the changes ...