Today, 24 January is the International Day of Education, a day that celebrates one of the most important sectors within the development discourse. Education offers many...
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is guiding global development efforts to develop sustainable societies. efforts to achieve the SDGs must involve the widest possible range...
The scheme comes in the backdrop of PM’s vision of Sabko Shiksha, Achhi Shiksha and aims to support the States in universalising access to school education...
Under SSA, provisions have also been made for residential schools/hostels and transportation/escort facility for children living in sparsely populated areas, children living in areas where schools...
A total sum of Rs. 23,500 crore has been provided for SSA for the year 2017-18 at Budget Estimate stage against the Ministry’s estimated resource demand...
The Central Government has developed student assessment system called the National Achievement Survey (NAS), which is independently conducted by National Council of Educational Research and Training...
Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) is the designated scheme for implementation of the Right of the Child to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE)...
Newly released Census 2011 data has revealed two shocking facts: as many as 7.8 million Indian children are forced to earn a livelihood even as they...
Vice President Dr. Hamid Ansari is concerned about the declining contribution of State in funding key social sector programmes, including education. Ansari shared statistics of the...
The eight edition of Jumpstart, an annual congress of children's content creators, a flagship project of the Frankfurt Book Fair's South Asia node will be called...
Bringing about change is a complex process and of all the spheres of national interest, nowhere is the need for change more urgent than in the...
DEEKSHA consists of - Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) and Learning Level Assessment (LLA) for the primary and senior classes respectively. DEEKSHA is launched to negate...
Even after having massive funds at its disposal the J&K state administration has failed to utilise them fully for SSA and RMSA. With these successful initiatives...
Old Bhopal holds the dubious distinction of being a place that has 5 government schools cramped on a single campus. What’s worse is the dismal infrastructure...
The latest edition of the ‘The State of the World's Children’, report by Unicef has pointed out that pre-school is important for a strong educational foundation...
A look at the current education scenario in India and what forms the foundation for the recommendations of the TSR Subramanian.
Department secretary Aradhana Patnaik has sent a letter directing DSEs to ensure that programmes are organized at state, district, block and panchayat levels between 7 and...
With a view to enhance the reading skills of students from government schools, the Sarva Shikshan Abhiyan (SSA) has entered into an MoU with the Room...
A recent survey conducted by the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) in Bengaluru is the subject of a lot of criticism as experts and officials are lambasting...
Meteldanga, a village in Birbhum has produced 4 Madhyamik passouts after 150 years. The four who have entered in the pages of history are Khukumoni Tudu,...
US based commentator had a lot to say about the Union HRD minister’s policy making. While a volley of tweets echoed on social networks between the...
HRD Minister Smriti Irani announced a soon to be launched child tracking system to capture data about 200 million children and arrest the drop-out rates. Besides...
In a recent meeting Aurangabad municipal commissioner, Om Prakash Bakoria expressed serious concerns over the unsatisfactory performances of students and encouraged the head-masters to provide extra...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a slew of measures along with the Ministry of Human Resource Development for the overhaul of the education sector. Many measures...
There’s something fishy in the suddenly hiked fees of private schools in Rajasthan. What could it be? Rajasthan education ministry wonders and so do we …...
