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It is a good first step to reduce corruption in the education department and remove a significant hurdle for private schools to perform to their best. Yesterday, the Delhi government passed three significant bills related to schooling in the state. The Delhi School Education (Amendment) Bill, 2015; Delhi School (Verification of Accounts and Refund of…

This article written by Ritu Bhandari was published by The News Minute on 18th May, 2015. On November 27, 1973, Aruna Shanbaug, a junior nurse at the King Edward Memorial Hospital in Mumbai was sodomised and brutally assaulted by a janitor working in the same hospital. The janitor choked Aruna with a dog chain as…

Save Deepalaya School, Sanjay Colony For more than twenty years, Deepalaya, an NGO based in Delhi, has been successfully running a school in the slums of Sanjay Colony in Okhla, New Delhi. Known to the residents of Sanjay Colony simply as ‘Deepalaya’, the school has been synonymous with opportunity and success. Functioning from its present…

In his latest column on Mint popular education columnist Anurag Behar has called for reforms in the teacher education system in the country. In doing so, and as one would expect, he has blamed 'private investments' for the poor standards of teacher education institutions in India. We don't expect anything better from Anurag Behar than…

On November 27, 1973, Aruna Shanbaug, a junior nurse at the King Edward Memorial Hospital in Mumbai was sodomised and brutally assaulted by a janitor working in the same hospital. The janitor choked Aruna with a dog chain as he carried out the sexual assault. Aruna's brain was severely injured in the attack, leaving her…

This article written by Baladevan Rangaraju, Founder Director of India Institute was published by Swarajya on 23rd September, 2014. Higher education in India is considered among the poorer in the world. Every ranking has critics who find fault with its methodology for under valuing or over estimating some parameters. But our tertiary education fares low…

In India, a woman is raped every 15 minutes as per the National Crime Records Bureau. And this ghastly statistic is only based on the total tally of rape cases that get reported at all. There is no need to further highlight the gory details of these crimes that have gripped India for generations now….

The classical contract theory required the parties to decide the terms of contract themselves without any government intervention. It also required a perfect competition and free markets where rule of law ensures sanctity of contracts. Another presumption was that the parties will be equal i.e, they will have equal bargaining power. However, we don’t live…

In our last weekly your view, we asked you whether higher education institutions not enjoying autonomy in matters of policy is an important reason for poor quality graduates in our country. Out of 18 poll takers, 94 % of you agreed with the above statement while the remaining 6 % of you disagreed. Today, when…