Schools

Earlier there were a lot of children in government schools, but of late the number has reduced, as parents prefer private schools. However commercial nature of this has also created school drop outs.

State Cabinet has decided to amend the Right to Education rules to go for private schools only where government schools do not exist. Legal precedence doesn’t support this. What are the implications of the amendment, and what are parents worried about?

As part of the Bengaluru Solutions Series, the second installment looks at private and government schools in Bengaluru. This piece looks at the shortcomings of state-sponsored education, and ways to improve the quality of affordable private education

Learning outcomes in government schools and affordable private schools remain lower, due to the quality of teachers and other related issues. Can an app help teachers better their own skills of teaching? Meghshala is trying to crack the right formula for this.

Teaching, helping with infrastructure support like labs and play areas has helped push enrollment and learning outcomes in a few schools. Can they scale and sustain?

With everyone including people belonging to high and low income sectors preferring private schools, government schools are seeing low enrolment and even closure. Who is to blame? What’s going on?

Even as the Chief Minister announced in the budget of including pre-primary section in government schools, an NGO quietly worked on creating a model for such schools. What is this idea all about?

In fourteen years, this Bengaluru-based NGO has transformed the lives of children from underprivileged sections learning in government schools, to help them pursue a better life with better education and jobs.

October 12 is World Sight Day. What help do the visually challenged have? What more do they need? Here’s a summary of new age solutions.

Three years ago when Sampath Ramanujam, Founder of Anvaya Foundation travelled to Kaiwara, along with his family, he met two girls who were playing happily with a fully damaged cycle with no bell, no brake

What happens when the cost of education skyrockets and people become unhappy with the quality of education? They start their own school!

While some schools circumvent RTE rules, other schools have many objections to the RTE implementation. What are they? And how are they dealing with them?