“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world,” Nelson Mandela once said. This resonates deeply with me as I reflect...
In a recent statement that hits home for many, the Bombay High Court pointed out a harsh truth: education, once considered sacred in our culture, has...
The recently announced National Education Policy tries to address this issue and heralds a new approach to education. Most importantly it has equity as one of...
Inclusive education for disabled programme, Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan, covers 5,827 children under the act in the district, with 35 IERTs and 47 IE volunteers helping.
Co-founder of MGIS, Dr Anju Musafir, highlights the features and success stories of the school that make it one of the top institutions in India
An exclusive interview with Padma Shri Javed Ahmad Tak, an educationalist from Kashmir, who, regardless of all the difficulties in his life, is working towards the...
Inclusive Education in India deciphered by Dr. Vasudha Prakash, the founder of V-Excel Educational Trust.
The report talks about Inclusion, lack of teacher's support, data about the excluded ones, infrastructure issues, special schools, lack of political & financial issues, and community...
Bellen Woodard's campaign 'More Than Peach' gains worldwide applause for its originality and creativeness to aware people regarding coloured skin.
Ministry of Human Resource Development has taken several steps to improve quality of teachers at all levels of education-HRD Minister
Ministry of Human Resource Development takes various steps towards improving the quality of teachers across the country.
UNESCO believes that four principles are key to understanding and implementing inclusive education. First, inclusion is an ongoing pursuit to promote diversity, to learn to live...
Inclusive education would need to be made a shared responsibility, including educators, social workers, parents, and students to participate in its design, delivery, and monitoring.
Under both SSA and RMSA, the focus is to give subject specific, need based and relevant in service teacher training to both elementary and secondary teachers...
The 65th Meeting of the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) was held under the Chairmanship of Union Human Resource Development Minister Shri Prakash Javadekar on...
The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009 provides that every school should have barrier-free access. The Ministry of Human Resource Development...
The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan is the main programme for universalising elementary education for all children between 6-14 years of age.
When children interact daily, socially and academically with peers who are diverse and different, a certain magic spontaneously happens. They learn to understand – and invariably...
Buzzwords in the educational world are sometimes referred to by some as ‘Edubabble’. Teachers and heads of educational institutions must keep abreast of edubabble.
Amitabh Mehrotra started the School for Potential Advancement and Restoration of Confidence (SPARC)-India in 1996, a society dedicated to the rehabilitation of all kinds of disabilities...
CBSE has made it mandatory for all its affiliated schools to appoint a special educator to promote inclusive education. A recent CBSE circular states that while...
NCERT's school education survey reveals that schools have more enrolments of disabled children. At the same time only 21.11% schools are equipped for disabled children and...
