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School safety zone launched at St Joseph’s School
Commute

New initiative for School Safety Zone to get students to be change agents

November 20, 2019 Jeevan Biswas

A new initiative called ‘Young Change Agents for Road Safety’ aims to create safe zones around schools by getting students to drive change

Education

Pasta or Pav bhaji? Roti or Ragi mudde? How Bengaluru’s schools and students deal with food

July 31, 2019 Tanika Deuskar

As children increasingly consume junk food, some Bengaluru schools have adopted strict policies to ensure that their students eat healthy. These schools’ policies range from providing food cooked at school itself, to replacing any junk food children bring from home

Commute

ಬಿಎಂಟಿಸಿ ಮರು ಪ್ರಾರಂಭಿಸಿದ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿ ಬಸ್ ಪಾಸ್ ಸೇವೆ ಕುರಿತ ಸಮಗ್ರ ವಿವರ: ಆನ್ ಲೈನ್ ಅರ್ಜಿ ಸಲ್ಲಿಕೆಯಿಂದ ಹಿಡಿದು ಸಂಗ್ರಹದವರೆಗ

July 12, 2019 Akanksha Choudhary

BMTC has relaunched its online student bus pass service, after a failed attempt last year. Read on to find what’s different about the process this time, and how you can apply for your pass

Education

RTE helpline: How to use it effectively?

December 22, 2018 Rahna Jacob

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.

Education

Parents, activists and academia divided while State Cabinet intends to modify RTE rules

December 11, 2018 Arjun Rajan

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?

Education

BBMP can handle Bengaluru’s schools better, State just needs to help

November 19, 2018 Shashank Atreya

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

Education

A school in the cloud contributes to quality of teaching and learning in Karnataka’s schools

November 16, 2018 Arjun Rajan

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.

Education

How volunteer teachers are making a difference in Bengaluru’s govt schools

November 15, 2018 Navya P K

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?

Education

What ails Bengaluru’s government schools?

November 14, 2018 Navya P K

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?

Civic

Pre-primary section in govt schools: this Bengaluru NGO creates a model to follow

July 19, 2018 Sahitya Poonacha

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?

Education

This NGO creates spaces where learning is fun and hope is high

October 25, 2017 Kennedy Wirth

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.

Education

Tech products help visually disabled, yet a long way to go!

October 12, 2017 Revathi Siva Kumar

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.

Civic

Freedom Pedals reaches unused cycles to deserving kids

September 12, 2017 News Desk

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

Education

A people’s school for quality education takes shape in Whitefield

April 19, 2017 Abhilash M

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

Education

Right to Education: schools explain their side of the story

March 14, 2017 Akshatha M

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?

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