education sector transparency india

Education Sector Transparency

Delhi Nursery admission

-Transparency in Nursery Education Admission Policy

level requirement and government efforts Transparency in Nursery Education Admission Policy level requirement and government efforts #blackmoney # Taxchori #Budget 2016 #education for everyone

Why does court support the management quota in nursery admission? national interest is missing - education sector

I have applied for 18 schools for my child but he did not get space in any school list . As a parent we are too nurvers, what should we do ? Delhi do not have sufficient school so that they can give education to every one. Government in India do not have strong policy to curb the malpractice in the name of autonomy of private school, Black money involvement in education sector. In india only we talk about make in India but as a parents we feel we fail in India due to poor policies and poor intention to bring transparency in system .

similarly many parents are reporting they have applied for 40 Plus school but their child name in no list .

Is schools are out of Government control due to commercialization of education in India.

Black Money ,caption money , donation , corruption has hold in country, we parents are paying more than 1 lakh rupees tax annually, we are hopeless shell we stop paying tax, education cess as Bombay High court said in one case , it may be possible public will stop paying tax if government do not have better policy for betterment and control over scope of black money , we pay tax for betterment , for no corruption, enough facility , education for everyone.

Refuse to pay taxes if govt doesn't curb 'hydra-headed' corruption: Bombay HC

http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-don-t-pay-taxes-unless-government-curbs-hydra-headed-corruption-bombay-high-court-2173410


First suggestion: Increase opportunity of education (right toeducation)With existing infrastructure, if school can run in shifts (two or three) or some evening classes just like UK and USA, many more people can get opportunity to complete their education. Also the operating cost will be reduced drastically.

ContentsFirst suggestion: Increase opportunity of education (right to education) .................... 1

New Education Policy ................................................................................................. 6

A) Suggestions to promote education in India....................................................... 6

Right to Education act ............................................................................................. 6

School Shift for increasing employment and education for every one ..................... 6

Semester System to reduce load on children.......................................................... 6

Sports education need to be mandatory ................................................................. 6

Saving the Girls - Girls Self-defense training .......................................................... 7

First Aid Education .................................................................................................. 7

Mandatory Disaster Management Education .......................................................... 7

Comprehensive education – ethics, physical education, arts & crafts, life skills ..... 8

B) TRANSPARENCY IN NURSERY EDUCATION ADMISSIONS ....................... 8

Improving the quality of regulation .......................................................................... 8

School fees direct transfer in school Bank A/c ..................................................... 9

PAN/ TIN /BAR code mandatory in all school fees receipts ................................. 9

"No Poor child has applied" .................................................................................. 9

Social responsibility of School .............................................................................. 9

Safety of our children & responsibility of school ................................................... 9

TAX Benefit on Child Education ......................................................................... 10

D) TRANSPARENCY REQUIREMENT IN SCHOOL/COLLEGE FEES .............. 10

Requirement of National Level Education Fee regulatory Bill ............................... 10

Ranking of institutions and accreditations ............................................................. 11

Proposed Grading of School ................................................................................. 11


(E) PROMOTION OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS IN SCHOOL AND ADULT EDUCATION ................................................ 13

You Tube/ Microsoft / Google can bring revolution in Education Sector ............... 13

All India Radio / DTH can bring in education channels ......................................... 13

(F) SUSTAINING STUDENT SUPPORT SYSTEMS ........................................... 13

Develop the culture of adopting a government school and contribute in school Infrastructure development support .................................................................... 13

Promoting Social Drive as culture from Sports Body ICC & BCCI & Cricker / Celebrities .......................................................................................................... 13

Promoting Social Drive from Film Actors, Film Industry, Film Producer, Film Director / Celebrities to run social drive as Social responsibility ......................... 13

Promoting Social Responsibility of all religious Institution (Hindu/ Muslim/ Christian/ Sikh……) in India ............................................................................... 14

Promoting corporate scholarship as Social Responsibility by giving tax benefit . 14

Promoting Individual scholarship Social Responsibility by giving tax benefit...... 14

Social Drive like .................................................................................................... 14

(G) ENGAGEMENT WITH INDUSTRY TO LINK EDUCATION TO EMPLOYABILITY ..................................................................................................... 14

Bridging gender and social gaps ........................................................................... 14

Developing the best teachers................................................................................ 14

Promote cultural integration through language ..................................................... 14

Internationalization of higher education ................................................................ 15

Promoting open and distance learning (odl) and online courses........................... 15

Integrating skill development in higher education ................................................. 15

Improving state public universities ........................................................................ 15

Enabling inclusive education – education of girls, scs, sts, minorities and children with special needs ................................................................................................. 15

New knowledge, pedagogies and approaches for teaching of science, maths and technology in school education to improve learning outcomes of students ........... 16

Revamping teacher education for quality teachers ............................................... 16

Reforming school examination systems ................................................................ 16

Extending outreach of secondary and senior secondary education ...................... 16

Internationalization of higher education ................................................................ 16

Financing higher education ................................................................................... 16

Meaningful partnership with the private sector ...................................................... 16


Linking higher education to society ....................................................................... 16

Pace setting roles of central institutions ................................................................ 17

Focus on child health ............................................................................................ 17

Promotion of languages ........................................................................................ 17

School standards, school assessment and school management systems ............ 17

Strengthening of vocational education .................................................................. 17

Addressing regional disparity ................................................................................ 17

Accelerating rural literacy with special emphasis on women, scs, sts & minorities through adult education and national open schooling systems ............................. 18

Ensuring learning outcomes in elementary education ........................................... 18

Promoting research and innovation ...................................................................... 18

Governance reforms for quality ............................................................................. 18

Benefits: ................................................................................................................... 18

Feedback & Initiative taken by government .............................................................. 18

Punjab approves “Educational fee regulator” ........................................................ 18

Foreign Education Provider's Bill .......................................................................... 19

We find India quite confusing: British educator ..................................................... 19

Australia to include India in Asia Pacific education initiative ................................. 20

Higher investment in education ............................................................................. 20

The National Skill Certification and Monetary Reward Scheme ............................ 20

Human Resource & Skill Development Fund | Unorganized Sector in India | Skill Gap Analysis Reports ........................................................................................... 20

India will need another 1,000 universities and 50,000 more colleges, according to government estimates. .......................................................................................... 20

Indian students spend over Rs 10,000 crore on foreign education per year: ASSOCHAM ......................................................................................................... 21

The Mahindra Group marked its entry into the Higher Education sector with the inauguration of a premier Engineering institution - ‘Mahindra École Centrale’ (MEC).................................................................................................................... 21

Google in education .............................................................................................. 21

India Govt to upgrade 39 more medical colleges as super-specialty hospitals ..... 22

New Zealand enters Indian education market, to open pre-school in Chennai ..... 22

All-India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE). .................................................... 22

Government takes step to put Indian institutes on global list ................................ 22

Interest rate subsidy on education loans ............................................................... 22


The 'French' Connection in Engineering ............................................................... 22

Education department issues Economically Weaker Section application notice ... 23

Five new norms to be included in RTE The new norms are working day, teachers' learning equipment, sports material, library and student-teacher ratio. ................. 23

Five more IITs in Jammu and Kashmir, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala ................................................................................................................... 23

Five IIMs in Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Bihar, Odisha and Maharashtra. ............ 23

Indian engineering graduates' degrees to be recognised across 17 countries ...... 23

Scope for Black Money and Tax chori in Education Sector ...................................... 26

Implementation of DBT schemes .......................................................................... 26

Solution: ................................................................................................................... 26

Nursery admission corrupt practice .......................................................................... 26

Government Initiative ............................................................................................... 27

Complain of parents against school ......................................................................... 36


New Education PolicyTopic outline taken from mygov- Government of India Initiative: http://mygov.in/group_info/new-education-policy

Skill Development

A) Suggestions to promote education in India

Right to Education act

As per Right to Education act - School should be available for each children. I would like to suggest best suitable solution that School should be run in 3 shifts to increase the opportunity of education for each child.

School Shift for increasing employment and education for every one

First & second shift of 5 hours each + Evening school should be for 3 hours, total 13 hours. Three sets of teachers will be used. This will also help increasing the employment.

Semester System to reduce load on children

Semester System (every 3 month - like in any MBA) need to be introduced for reducing work load and creating better knowledge understanding.

Sports education need to be mandatory

Sports education need to be mandatory and it should have a proper syllabus. This should not be used as free period or PT only. Schools should operate on joint venture system with different sports bodies.


Saving the Girls Girls Self-defense training

Self defense training should be mandatory especially for girls (approximate 100 Hours in a year). This training may start from Class 6th onwards.

First Aid Education

Adding the First Aid education in schools / colleges will help us save lot of precious lives. In India, awareness on first aid is missing at every level and need to be added different levels.

Mandatory Disaster Management Education

Adding the disaster management education in schools / colleges like sports (few best examples like videos, movie shows (once in week) in schools about disaster management, movie on flood safety, rescue operation, safety in earthquake and safety in fire. One chapter in syllabus on safety and disaster management may be added in school education. Lab room to display best safety features.


Comprehensive education ethics, physical education, arts crafts,life skills

B) TRANSPARENCY IN NURSERY EDUCATION ADMISSIONS

Improving the quality of regulation

Benchmarking - Best Example: Online/ for full state Polytechnic or engineering admission counseling at in Madhya Pradesh Vyapam. Similar kind of concept in nursery admission process state wise bring lots of transparency in admission process, also it is big relief for parents and in the same time it will help to stop black money involved in the name of donation. Transparency in fee structure and online process breaks the concept of donation.


School fees direct transfer in school Bank A/cAll Fees should be transferred directly in school account by NEFT or cheque. At the same time schools have to mention PAN Number / TIN Number in all receipts.

PAN/ TIN /BAR code mandatory in all school fees receiptsEvery fees receipt should have Bar code / TIN Number / PAN Number

"No Poor child has applied"A common admission counseling system shall be introduced (may be city wise) for all schools (like Vyapam in MP) EWS students can also be distributed according to their location etc. Fake statement of schools also gets caught that "no Poor children has applied". Schools cannot run away from their social responsibility to take 25 % seats of poor quota (EWS).

Social responsibility of SchoolStrict rule for school also required that they should have to spend 5-10% of their income in Social Responsibility (Free Books, Poor student Fees, Save the Senior citizen, Save the Girl child, Tree Plantation etc.).

Safety of our children responsibility of school

Schools are harassing parents for undeclared and unauthentic rules and regulation. There should be some rules and responsibility of school if children not present consecutive 3 days then school should inform parents by email, SMS or call or written letter to ensure no miss happening with children. Before cancelling admission of children at least 2 warning massage should be sent by school. All rules and regulations should be as per national education system and as approved by HRD Ministry. Financial penalty clause on school should be brought in favor of parents. For everything school should not impose financial penalty. All fee structure definition should be defined nation wise and shall not change school to school.


TAX Benefit on Child Education

Currently tax benefit for child education is Rs. 200 only that is quite old and far away from current situation. People are paying Rs. 3000 to 6000 per month for child school fee. Government need to increase this tax benefit amount to atleast Rs. 3000 per month for child education to promote education level in India Department of Revenue Feedback:

Ref: DORVU/E/2015/00761 dated 15 Sep 2015

The Issue tax benefit on child education raised in your grievance pertains to policy matter hence matter has been refer to TAX policy Division of CBDT for further necessary action.

D) TRANSPARENCY REQUIREMENT IN SCHOOL/COLLEGEFEES

Requirement of National Level Education Fee regulatory Bill

1. All School, Engineering colleges, Medical colleges are charging unwanted fees in the name of development fees, infrastructure fees, books, library, donation fee etc. This requires re-evaluation to stop black money involvement. For all receipts, TIN number or Pan Number should be compulsory. These schools / colleges should be treated as small scale industries – type – Education.


National Level Education Fee Regulatory Bill Required

Fees Heads

Development fees

Infrastructure fees

Library

Computer

Laboratory (Phy/Chem/Bio)

Stationary charges

Hostel /Accommodation

(Should not be mandatory)

Food (Should not be

mandatory)

Transportation (Should not

be mandatory)

Annual charges/

Fee/function

Sports

Book

Cloth/Uniform

Examination Fee

ETC.

2. Transparency in charges / fees structure framework is required. National Level common fees regulatory bill required.

3. Fees should be as per School Grading system of school or colleges (G1to G5) as per facility standard like

Ranking of institutions and accreditations

Proposed Grading of School

School Grading Facility

Grade G1 Basic Facility + Zoo + JIM+ Swimming Pool+ Music

facility + Drawing art+ Clay art + Joint venture with

spots Body + Free check up (Doctor Visit) in every

Week + Disaster Management Training + Horse

Riding + 3G Internet + Laptop+ Computer Room +

ISO 9001


Grade G2 Basic Facility + JIM+ Swimming Pool+ Music facility

+ Drawing art+ Clay art + Joint venture with spots

Body + Free check up (Doctor Visit) in every Week+

Disaster management Training +3G Internet +

Computer Room

Grade G3 Basic Facility + Music facility + Drawing art+ Clay art

+ Free check up (Doctor Visit) in every Week + 3G

Internet

Grade G4 School having basic Facility Play Ground, Library,

Spots ground, Toilet, Drinking, water facility +

Disaster management Training + Should have

separate Bank a/c and all fees /charges directly

deposited in School bank A/c through

NEFT/Cheque/DD.

Grade G5 Many more don’t have basic facility

Note: All Schools should have separate Bank a/c and all

fees / charges directly deposited in School bank A/c

through NEFT/Cheque. All nationalized bank/

private bank can help in this Subject.

4. Development fee is applicable in new schools only up to 4 years from registration

/ establishment of school while various old schools are still charging these fees

continuously.

5. All components of fee structure need to be fixed nation wise and school/college

have to publish detail on Internet as well as Government Income tax site. All fee

receipts must have Bar code / Pan No/ TIN No etc.


(E) PROMOTION OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONTECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS IN SCHOOL AND ADULT EDUCATION

You Tube/ Microsoft Google can bring revolution in EducationSector

1. To increase the free education program – education for every one- You tube or Microsoft can bring videos related to their education course like maths, science at all level from class 1 to 12 or higher, technological video like engineering maintenance of automobile, power plant etc. in number of fields.

2. Competitive environment creation for Social responsibility of Individual/ Schools/ Colleges and They should have target to publish the open video content on You Tube about education /Subject / technology/ Class room material-notes

All India Radio DTH can bring in education channels

3. HRD Ministry to play important role in this area. To reach to everyone - Telecast / DTH providers can help in this subject to promote education. DD channel could be a good point to start. If government gives some special tax benefits then lot of private DTH providers and private parties also comes in front.

4. For Microsoft itself this is really good opportunity to promote “Bing” by investing in education program. Quality of service will help them to connect with all internet users, mobile users, also they can bring live education channel through DTH.

(F) SUSTAINING STUDENT SUPPORT SYSTEMS

Develop the culture of adopting government school and contribute in schoolInfrastructure development supportSuppose one Government school adopted by MS Dhoni and another one adopted by priyanka chopra, Dipika , Sachin , Reliance , Adani etc. So definitely after some time it will create very competitive atmosphere and teacher , student feel pride to be part of this competitive journey and for their better performance starts /corporate definitely do more effort as their name and branding added with schools……

Promoting Social Drive as culture from Sports Body ICC BCCI CrickerCelebritieshttp://vishesh2014.blogspot.in/2015/01/promoting-sports-body-icc-bcci-cricker.html

Promoting Social Drive from Film Actors, Film Industry, Film Producer, FilmDirector Celebrities to run social drive as Social responsibilityhttp://vishesh2014.blogspot.in/2015/01/promoting-social-drive-from-film-actors.html


Promoting Social Responsibility of all religious Institution (Hindu/ Muslim/Christian/ Sikh……) in India

Promoting corporate scholarship as Social Responsibility by giving tax benefit

Promoting Individual scholarship Social Responsibility by giving tax benefit

Social Drive like

1. Scholarship to engineering, Medical students (Rs. 25000/- to Rs. 50000/- each Student per year)

2. Scholarship for school going student (Rs. 500/-to 1000/- Per month) 3. Scholarship for intelligent student – Rs. 50000/- one time Scholarship) 4. Adopting a government school and contribute in school Infrastructure

development support. (10 lakhs per school). 5. Free book library development for students in schools, colleges, professional

institutes like engineering, medical, CA, Law etc.

(G) ENGAGEMENT WITH INDUSTRY TO LINK EDUCATION TOEMPLOYABILITYDeveloping the culture of Industry – Education oriented program – means

1. Every corporate should have training program for their employee ( 10% of working day in years), and out of them

2. 5% of working day should be certificate base class room training program under skill development for each employee

3. At least 10% of their employee strength should have to offer internship for college /school student for free internship for up to one month and paid internship of 3,6,12 month program.

Bridging gender and social gaps

1. 33% reservation for Girls teacher, 2. 33% Girls staff in school and colleges 3. 33% reservation of girls admission in school /college 4. Free public conveyance for girls student in school/college

Developing the best teachers

No quota in selection of teacher in Govt. school

Promote cultural integration through language


In school history/economics subject all tourism spot and there story need to be add in course material so that student in India should know about incredible India. and at least one chapter about Indian as well as foreign language greeting to promote culture of cross cities, also one chapter about Best practices by railway , water harvesting , power saving , power generation, Importance of Patent, Innovation need to be added

Internationalization of higher education

Reserve the 10% of quota for cross country student Flexibility & Promoting the global Collaboration of School & College

Promoting open and distance learning (odl) and online courses

Should be after graduation Only for specific skill, - Skill like, IT, Railway, Power sector, engineering, Oil & Gas, Piping

Technology, PG Program, Job oriented skill, Specialization for working professional,

Integrating skill development in higher education

Specialization for working professional, Skill like, IT, Railway, Power sector, engineering, Oil & Gas, Piping

Technology, PG Program, Example short term Proficiency courses just like M S Ramaiah School of Advanced Studies- www.msrsas.org/ PROFICIENCE COURSES like run by IISC Bangalore -

http://cce.iisc.ernet.in/Proficience/semesterindex.php

Improving state public universities

Enabling inclusive education education of girls, scs, sts, minoritiesand children with special needs


New knowledge, pedagogies and approaches for teaching of science,maths and technology in school education to improve learningoutcomes of students

Revamping teacher education for quality teachers

All teacher have to be submit Course on government web site and available for reuse as e learning tools, for general public

Biometric attendance in all school (Govt. & private) for student and Teacher

Reforming school examination systems

Extending outreach of secondary and senior secondary education

Internationalization of higher education

Financing higher education

Meaningful partnership with the private sector

Linking higher education to society


Pace setting roles of central institutions

Common Placement cell, Should have responsible to support for student to get internship Take meeting of placement officer monthly and identify and implement skill

gap by organization Job oriented skill certificate base training, Organized free seminars for student by industry leaders. Most important simplify the learning process. Uniformity in fees structure for all school & colleges, and Supporting financial help and scholarship for poor student

Focus on child health

School should organized health camp every month as social responsibility of school and every time they need to call different kind of doctors like, teeth, eyes, bone…. Every student should get certificate of report and should be summery have to be submitted on group of parents and government site.

Mandatory Sports for good health and tie with sports body, Minimum 30 Hours in years for yoga & Sports (Not only PT) for each student

Promotion of languages

School standards, school assessment and school management systems

Strengthening of vocational education

Easy the process of registration for institute, special Financial support & Tax benefit to Institute to build nation or Skill India, all course material should have to be submitted in government site and should be available for public review and future reference. Flexibility in adding new courses as per market demand

Addressing regional disparity


Accelerating rural literacy with special emphasis on women, scs, stsminorities through adult education and national open schoolingsystems

Ensuring learning outcomes in elementary education

Promoting research and innovation

Governance reforms for quality

Benefits:1. Employment increase teachers, other staff. 2. No investments in infrastructure creation school buildings are already available. 3. School income increase so automatically development of city. 4. Basic school /college fee should not be more than 200/- per month so that every

person can get education. Govt. needs to take some good step for this. 5. Tractability of school income to stop black money involvement 6. Quality of education increase 7. Government income will increase from collected taxes in DTH , Tele broadcasting.

Feedback Initiative taken by governmentThis comes in my knowledge from India today dated 22 Oct. 2013

Punjab approves “Educational fee regulator”

To prevent private institutions from charging excessive fee from students, the Punjab government on Monday decided to set up a regulatory body to keep a check on them. A Punjab government spokesman said that the new regulator was being set up to rationalize and regulate the fee structure in unaided educational institutions across the state. The decision was taken in the cabinet meeting here chaired by chief minister Parkash Singh Badal. The Punjab and Haryana high court had recently said that private institutions could not be allowed to charge fees from students arbitrarily.


Foreign Education Provider's Bill

We find India quite confusing: British educator

News comes in knowledge: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/education/we-find-india-quite-confusing-british-educator/article5300520.ece

The biggest challenge in the education sector in the future is to make it affordable to everybody, says Martin Hall, Vice Chancellor of the over 100-year-old Salford University, Manchester, UK.

I feel very strongly about it. So in the future, education between different countries should be a partnership. It’s not about us exporting a highly expensive product. At our University we’re examining how we can come into countries like India and work with partners to offer the best opportunities. I am very excited about the model we are developing for that.

We have a number of partnerships in different parts of the world… we’ve been in Sri Lanka for 25 years but are yet to come to India. We want to set up international hubs, where our expert staff will fly out from 5 to 8 days and provide quality teaching, and are excited about doing that in India.

We find India quite confusing because we get certain messages from the Federal government and entirely different messages from the state governments and partners. And there are so many new private universities in India and we’d like to work with them. But we also respect the older universities because they have a higher status, but often not much money.

Salford University

We are well over 100 years old and have over 20,000 students, including 2,000 international students. The three big countries which supply us students are China, India and Nigeria.

the economic growth in Britain last year was 0.2 per cent.

Yours was well over 5 per cent. The point is the global economy is shifting south, towards Asia, towards China, India, and to survive our universities need to build these partnerships because we live in a globalised world. We’d like to think our international education is good for India, but it’s also very good for our own students. In my university, and I am very proud of it, half of my British students are the first in their families to come to a university. Lots of them haven’t had the opportunity to leave Britian; many haven’t even been to London. So for them to meet international students is a great opportunity.

Moving forward, what are the challenges in education?

Huge financial challenges in making education affordable for many more students. We’ve got to find very clever ways of using new technology in the best way to improve the quality of education, while we reduce the costs. I also believe women’s education is important everywhere. If we don’t drive that we’re not going to get social change.


Australia to include India in Asia Pacific education initiativeRead more at: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/26090504.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

By PTI | 20 Nov, 2013, 01.13PM IST

Higher investment in education

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-11-25/news/44448539_1_higher-education-rashtriya-ucchatar-shiksha-abhiyan-pallam-raju IANS Nov 25, 2013, 10.53PM IST

Referring to the 12th five-year plan (2012-17) thrust on higher education, The new initiative in higher education - Rashtriya Ucchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA), Additional spending of Rs.25,000 crore by the central and state governments. About 300 universities and 8,500 colleges across the would be covered under the scheme with 90 percent of funding from the central government for most needy states like Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, northeastern states and Uttarakhand and 65 percent for other states and Union Territories.

The National Skill Certification and Monetary Reward Scheme

This will be implemented on pan-India basis, in New Delhi today. Union Budget to allocate Rs 1,000 crore for a scheme.

National Skill Development Corporation, a body under the Ministry of Finance, is one of its kind public private partnership endeavour with 51 per cent equity held by private sector and 49 per cent by the Union Government. Formed in 2010, NSDC is a professionally run not-for-profit company that includes 22 Sector Skill Councils and 87 training partners with over 2500 training centres spread across 352 districts in the country.

Good thing in above sachem that Each tested and certified trainee to get an average of Rs 10,000 to cover training costs.

http://nsdcindia.org/news-events/index.aspx

Human Resource Skill Development Fund Unorganized Sector inIndia Skill Gap Analysis Reports

http://nsdcindia.org/knowledge-bank/

India will need another 1,000 universities and 50,000 more colleges,according to government estimates.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/.../article1-1158435.aspx


Indian students spend over Rs 10,000 crore on foreign education peryear: ASSOCHAM

http://indiaeducationdiary.in/Shownews.asp?newsid=27289

Due to capacity constraints of quality higher education, nearly eight lakh Indian students spend over Rs. 10,000 crore in the year of 2012-13 on studies abroad In India, a meager 12% of enrollment takes place in higher education, USA tops the list with 82% of enrolments in higher education, where as those with low enrolment constitute, Pakistan (5%), India (12%), China (20%) and Brazil (24%), adds the ASSOCHAM findings. The US remains the most popular destination for post-graduate management and engineering degrees, Australia for vocational training, UK for one year degree courses, Russia and China being favored for medical education,

The Mahindra Group marked its entry into the Higher Educationsector with the inauguration of premier Engineering institution‘Mahindra École Centrale’ (MEC).

This is in collaboration with École Centrale Paris, one of the oldest and most prestigious engineering institutions in France, and Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU) Hyderabad, a premier institution with academic and research oriented courses. Mahindra École Centrale is the maiden venture of Tech Mahindra’s 100% subsidiary Mahindra Educational Institutions.


Google in education

Chromebooks at School now in India pilot programme will be launched in collaboration with Andhra Pradesh government's department of information technology and will be examined across four schools. 25 Chromebooks will be made available for free to each of these schools. Facilities such as high-speed WiFi Internet connectivity and power backups are also arranged by the government for hassle free usage. Mentors will also be assigned to train teachers and students and familiarize them with the technology and its functions."This is a very healthy initiative taken by Government of Andhra Pradesh. With Google backing it up with funds and technology, progress is definitely assured. Interactive learning is trending in schools today and children of the current generation do enjoy it more. Hence, this facility will definitely help them. I hope the Pilot gives successful results and Google continues investing in education and launching such programs for the benefit and development of mankind."

http://www.coolage.in/2014/01/02/google-in-education-chromebooks-at-school-now-in-india/


India Govt to upgrade 39 more medical colleges as super-specialtyhospitals


New Zealand enters Indian education market, to open pre-school inChennai

http://www.mydigitalfc.com/.../new-zealand-enters-indian...

All-India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE).

The programme, initiated by the department of education of the Union ministry of human resource development, aims to create a database of the large, diverse system of higher education in the country.

http://aishe.nic.in/aishe/home

To portray the status of higher education in the country, Ministry of Human Resource Development has endeavoured to conduct an annual web-based All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) since 2010-11. The survey covers all the Institutions in the country engaged in imparting of higher education.

Government takes step to put Indian institutes on global list

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/.../45882653...

Interest rate subsidy on education loans

9 lakh students who took education loans before March 2009 will benefit from a Rs 2,600-crore interest rate subsidy proposed by P Chidambaram. The moratorium proposed in the interim budget will apply to students with annual family income from all sources below Rs 4.5 lakh. Central Scheme for Interest Subsidy (CSIS) on education loans disbursed after April 1 2009, the government took over the interest burden for the period of study and a little beyond.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/.../artic.../30592549.cms

The 'French' Connection in Engineering

In a bid to bring the European model of Engineering Education to India, India-based conglomerate, Mahindra has tied up with the 200-year-old Ecolé Centrale Paris, and come up with an Engineering Institute in Hyderabad—Mahindra Ecolé Centrale (MEC).

http://www.newindianexpress.com/.../article2166667.ece1...


Education department issues Economically Weaker Sectionapplication notice

As the new academic session is going to start soon, the education department has issued a notice regarding applications from Economically Weaker Section (EWS) students for admission in 25 private schools.


Five new norms to be included in RTE The new norms are workingday, teachers' learning equipment, sports material, library andstudent-teacher ratio.


Five more IITs in Jammu and Kashmir, Chhattisgarh, Goa, AndhraPradesh and Kerala

Five IIMs in Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Bihar, Odisha andMaharashtra.

The 10 institutes were allocated an initial sum of Rs.500 crore for the current fiscal year.

Education gets push in Union Budget with new IITs, IIMs The education sector receives an allocation of Rs.68,728 crore for 2014-15, up from a revised budget estimate of Rs.61,857 crore in 2013-14

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This year’s total allocation, the school sector got Rs.51,828 crore, or 9.9% more than the revised budget estimate of 2013-14.

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23. Reply by Joint Director, Central Board of Secondary Education

FTS No. 87505/14 PMOID No.4/3/2014-PMP-41 July I Dated 10.07.2014

In reference to your feedback, which you have shared on PM India Web Site, it is to bring to your notice that your suggestion may be implemented by the educational administration of that are where infrastructure like buildings for schools are not available. The minimum time required for school per day is more than six hours, therefore, two shifts would be more feasible.

Regarding fee in CBSE affiliated schools, it has been stipulated that the fee charged by a school must commensurate with the facilities provided by it. Schools are not allowed to charge any capitation fee. In case of malpractice in this regard, the Board may disaffiliate a school.

As per the affiliation byelaws clause 11.1, “No capitation fee or voluntary donations for gaining admission or any other purpose is charged or collected in the name of the school. If a school is found guilty of such malpractice, the affiliation of such school may be cancelled by the Board”.

Further, parents must be taken into confidence before increasing the fee. For any further query, related to school education, you may also write through ‘Interact with chairman’ on CBSE website cbse.nic.in

Thanks and Regards,

Al Hilal Ahmed,

Joint Director Central Board of Secondary Education, Shiksha Sadan, 17,Institutional Area, Rouse Avenue, Delhi-110002. 011-232 377 80

Really Not Happy with answer- it is only sweet English reply


Scope for Black Money and Tax chori in EducationSectorAadhaar (UID) & direct transfer of benefits in education sector to bring transparency in India

1. All Student (from class -1 till …..) should get Unique identification No

Implementation of DBT schemes

Income Tax benefit to parent on Education fee (help to trace unfair practice in collages and school

Solution: All Schools should have separate Bank a/c and all fees / charges directly

deposited in School bank A/c through NEFT/Cheque. All nationalized bank/ private bank can help in this Subject.

All components of fee structure need to be fixed nation wise and school/college have

to publish detail on Internet as well as Government Income tax site. All fee receipts

must have Bar code / Pan No/ TIN No etc.

Transparency in charges / fees structure framework is required. National Level common fees regulatory bill required.

Fees should be as per School Grading system of school or colleges (G1to G5) as per facility standard

Nursery admission corrupt practice

https://youtu.be/AFZLf-UuRc4


Government Initiative


IS Court supporting Black Money Transaction and Against India National Interest in the name of autonomy of school?


Is government and court support black money in the name of management quota and no fair dealing in school fee in the absence of no PAN No / TIN Number or barcode on School fee receipt Logically there should not be any management quota in nursery admission if government or court supporting this Then seat need to sell by e-auction and state as well as central government should get taxes on this amount as income tax. This should not be done under table in the name of donation, caption money It is against the national interest. This should be scrapped for national interest. Black money or under table transection are killing our Indian economy and this black money may use in terror activity. Requesting honourable High court / Supreme Court and government of India should take strong steps to avoid this kind of situation by generating policy level transparency. Nursery admissions: HC stays Delhi government order scrapping management quota

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday stayed the AAP government's order

on nursery admissions scrapping many criteria including management quotas.

In a victory for private schools, the court said they can keep 11 out of the 62 criteria

scrapped recently by the Arvind Kejriwal government. .

This included the management quota, called the "biggest scandal in the education

sector" by CM Kejriwal.

The case has been listed for further arguments in March.

The schools had wanted some criteria -- like national and sports awardees, children

of martyrs and school transport staff -- to be considered during admissions.

Last month, the Delhi government scrapped 62 “discriminatory” criteria, including

management quota, but retained the 25% quota for economically weaker sections

(EWS).

Petitions against this circular were filed by the Action Committee Unaided

Recognised Private Schools and Forum for Promotion of Quality Education For All.


They claimed that the order violated earlier judgments by the Supreme Court annd

the High Court on the autonomy of private unaided schools to regulate their

admissions.

Complain of parents against school- Point system followed by different school in different there is no uniformity - Schools are playing to do malpractice which is against national interest - School are promoting unethical practice in nursery admission. Indirect

promotion of black money, black marketing of admission seats by showing not enough seats available

- Requesting government to bring transparency in process

- Bluebells they simply said list will be out on 15th and there is no draw as per

the school. - Same is the case with Summer Fields School, they said list will be out on 15th

on school notice board and it's based on the points system 'No Draw', they are not even putting the list of all the applicants with the points they have scored.

- same with number of school

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- Finance Ministry - Central direct tax department - HRD Ministry - LG Delhi Office

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