Education ministry’s UDISE Plus 2023-24 report also shows there are close to 13,000 schools with no students but employing over 31,000 teachers between them.
West Bengal’s decision to split academic year for Classes 1 to 5 into two terms, despite teacher crunch, raises questions about learning gaps, implementation challenges
The education ministry has published UDISE Plus data for 2023-24 and 2022-23 together; the new report, in line with NEP 2020, shows enrolment drop for SC, ST, OBC, minority children.
Despite space constraints, MNLU Mumbai expands beyond BA LLB to offer specialised LLM courses with SEBI and BSE; plans courses in public health, environmental law
CBSE alleges international-board schools violate RTE Act, other state, UG regulations. The AIU grants equivalence to boards like IB, IGCSE for higher education admissions and employment.
The new rules allow schools to make children repeat classes but says ‘no child shall be expelled’ till Class 8. Change comes 5 years after the RTE Act was amended.