Umang
With a stated motto of Inform-Engage-Reform, the RTE Platform is an initiative to bring together all the knowledge on India's landmark Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009.
At the RTE Platform, we are aspiring to establish it as a credible, informative and evolving resource on education in India, with a particular emphasis on primary education and the RTE Act.
Providing a depth look into the 2003 Education Bill and highlighting key aspects of the bill to illustrate how the Bill is not meeting its objectives and does serious damage to areas of education where some degree of competition and choice exists—both of which CCS believes are fundamental agents for a thriving and prosperous education ecosystem.
Author / Edited by:
CCS Team
The Bill seeks to expand access to elementary education by a) increasing the number of state schools, and b) leveraging the 25% reservation of seats in all private schools. The Bill expects the private sector to discharge the constitutional obligation of the state while having no binding duties for the state. The analyses expose the weaknesses of the Bill, as well as the ambiguity that relaxes the state from accountability and compliance with standardised norms.
Author / Edited by:
CCS Team
Providing a comprehensive brief of the Model Rules under the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009, providing analysis to highlighting our argument on how private unaided schools conforming to the 25% reservation quota be reimbursements for those selected seats.
Author / Edited by:
CCS Team
Many countries have seen significant improvements in learning outcomes after the introduction of vouchers, while a few have experienced very little change. However, no country has found learning outcomes deteriorate with education vouchers. The paper describes the experience of eleven countries with education vouchers and draws lessons from their success and failures.
Author / Edited by:
Parth J Shah
The Department for the Welfare of SC/ST/OBC/Minorities introduced the SC/ST tuition-fee reimbursement scheme in 2003-2004 for SC and ST students of Delhi enrolled in recognized unaided private schools, having an annual family income of less than Rs. 1 lakh. The subsidy provided by the scheme covers between 85% and 90% of the beneficiary's total running expenses in studying in a private school. This study concludes that the scheme's performance has been suboptimal vis-à-vis its stated objectives.