Question of Vacant RTE seats and Loss of School’s Revenue—case of Maharashtra
The number of RTE quota seats filled stand at 46,900 while the total number of seats in the Maharashtra is as high as 2.44 lacs. Faced with a deadlock, or at least a bottleneck, there are suggestions coming in from various quarters, notably from the schools themselves.... Read More
Use of CSR Budget to Improve Early Childhood Education in India
Educationists opine that elementary education plays a vital role in charting the development of an individual. Through preschools, children get exposure to the world around and develop an affinity for learning. Social statistics demonstrate that children who had the opportunity to complete elementar... Read More
School Serv, an enterprise that has grown to be a leading K-12 School Lifecycle services company is an idea of change brought to life. It embodies an ambition of reimagining education by bringing school services expertise close to educationists. The need for founding an agency that can bridge the ga... Read More
Practices to Adapt in a Preschool Teacher Job
Preschool teachers have more than one set of responsibilities on their shoulders. Being a preschool teacher is an associated qualification to their identity as a teacher as they enter the students’ life when their minds are most impressionable and brains in accelerated receptive mode.... Read More
Key Elements of School Interior Design
“Educational buildings, as well as the sites surrounding them and furniture inside, are machines for learning specially designed to accommodate their specific functions including receiving lectures... Read More
Documents Needed While Applying for CBSE Affiliation
All applications shall be submitted online only. Following documents are required to be uploaded while making an application for CBSE affiliation online -... Read More
Comparing CBSE and State Boards
The education sector in India is expanding and so is the choice of the students and their parents. The choice which is much deliberated upon is the one between the education boards. There are many options to choose from which are mainly, national boards (CBSE and CISCE), state boards that include al... Read More
Sports in Schools — how significant are they?
Schools began to get increasingly interested in sports and games. This, I am convinced, was the result of CBSE’s categorical directions regarding the induction of a regular sports period into the time table.... Read More
Do co-curricular activities complement learning outcomes?
We have discussed, assessed and compared contemporary curricula being taught in schools across the country in our earlier articles. We have also touched upon several co-curricular and extracurricular... Read More
Impact of School Architecture on Pedagogy
The school architecture is becoming more and more crucial in bringing learning experiences to classrooms in-line with the evolving curricula. It is not just about the classrooms, there is an undeniable need to attend the external context and landscape design as well. With such trends coming to the f... Read More
Education Technology enhances learning outcomes
We have written at some length about the transformation of conventional classrooms into smart learning spaces in our previous article. In the present article we are specifically enlisting the digital devices that are deployed in the classrooms—more aptly called smart classrooms—and giving a descript... Read More
Hows and Whys of the National Educational Policy 2020
Education in India is aimed at improving the socio-economic framework which delineates a community with diverse demands. The government has chiefly concentrated its efforts on improving the literacy rate of India since independence by introducing free and compulsory education from six to fourteen ye... Read More
How to establish a boarding school in India
Promoters looking to start a boarding school have certain choices, The school can either be an exclusive residential school or it can be day school with facility of hostel for students as well. There are residential schools affiliated to every educational board including the CBSE, CISCE, state bo... Read More
How Rational are the CBSE Bye-Laws 2018?
The curriculum that is deemed to be suitable for an entire nation with differences in language, social mores and culture like no other in the world is a phenomenal entity and Central Board of Secondary Education has been endowed with such recognition giving it its tremendous credibility.... Read More
How Multiple Intelligences based Curriculums advance classroom learning?
The theory of multiple intelligences as expounded by Dr. Gardner in his pioneering work Frames of Mind has been discussed in our earlier article. If we consider it as established that there are multiple intelligences at play during cognitive exercises like learning... Read More
K-12 School Education Scenario in Rural India
Education in rural India has always been a great subject of discussion and we like bringing it into the light such that we eliminate the problems around us and make this society a better place for learners.... Read More
How is India beating gender inequality through girls’ education
With gender equality being considered as a sine qua non for attainment of the development goals, the urgency attached to the question of girls’ education in India and across the world is gaining importance. Gender roles have substantially shifted but it can hardly be contested that opportunities for... Read More