The Right to Education Act, 2009, explicitly prohibits physical punishment and mental harassment of students. Corporal punishment persists widely. Understanding why — and what actually changes school behaviour — is the work of school leadership. A contributing voice from policy analysis | Specialist in curriculum, pedagogy, and school leadership This essay addresses one of the […]
The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, places specific obligations on schools and their staff. Most teachers are unaware of the details. The children who most need its protections are in schools where it is most absent. A contributing voice from school practice | Specialist in education equity, school improvement, and teacher professional […]
Official enrolment data is nearly universal. But enrolment and attendance are not the same thing, and attendance and learning are not the same thing. Finding the children who have truly fallen out requires looking in harder places. Sahitya Krishnaswamy | Education policy researcher with experience in community-based survey methods This is one of the under-discussed […]
India has a legal and policy framework for inclusive education that is among the most ambitious in the world. What happens to a child with a disability on a typical Monday morning is another story. Arjun Venkataraman | Special education consultant and inclusion researcher This is one of the under-discussed but important challenges in Indian […]
Millions of children follow their parents across state lines every year to brick kilns, sugar-cane fields, and construction sites. When they arrive, the school system has no record of them — and when they leave, it has no memory of them either. Dr Meenakshi Rajan | Researcher in child rights and mobile populations, based in […]
The National Policy for Children (NPC), 1974 was adopted by the Government of India on 22 Aug 1974. This policy describes children as a supremely important asset of the nation and makes the State responsible to provide basic services to children both before and after birth, and also during their growing years and different stages […]
UNICEF Report ‘The State of the World Children: Children in an Urban World’ 2012 exposes the realities of children living in urban areas. On one side, children belonging to good socio-economic background have access to quality health, education, nutrition, play, and other provisions whereas on the other side, the children who belong to poor socio-economic […]
Vishal Jain
