It has been close to three months since the #OccupyUGC movement started as a spontaneous response of students to UGC's utterly rash decision of discontinuation of the non-NET fellowship scheme. Due to our sustained protests, the government was forced…

Saffronisation of India’s academic, cultural and democratic institutions
The AIFRTE is alarmed by the present NDA-led regime’s obstinate and narrow-minded approach towards the academic community in general and in dealing…

Peaceful March of Students face Brutal Police Attack
Organizations and individuals including intellectuals and activists assembled in the All India Resistance Camp Against Committing Higher Education to WTO takes serious note of the brutal police attack on peaceful march of students of Occupy UGC movement and…

Indians to resist against Committing Higher Education to WTO
All India Forum for Right To Education According to the momentous decision taken at our IV National Council Meeting held at Sewagram (Maharashtra), we have organized intensive campaign against Government of India Committing Higher Education to WTO. Our campaign…

746 primary NDMC schools students still waiting for copies
1. The Chief Minister of Delhi Secretariat, I.P. Estate New Delhi- 110002 2. The Commissioner, North Delhi Municipal Corporation Dr. S.P.M. Civic Centre, Minto Road New Delhi-110002 31.08.2015 Sub: 5 months gone, 4 lakh students of…

Inclusive Education Program – Yenepoya Memorial Trust signs MoU with IEF
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Institutional Excellence Forum (IEF) and YMK Memorial Educational & Charitable Trust in Mangalore on 29th July that will pave the way for Inclusive Education Program towards enabling students…

Laptop required for education in TISS
Dear Sir/Madam, Sub-Request for providing laptop Sir/Madam, with respect to you, I am Tapan Kumar Gochhayat, Jajpur, Odisha. Now I am pursuing MA in Dalit and Tribal Study Action under the school of center for social justice and governance, Tata Institute…

First Steps Forward – An Initiative for Better Learning Outcomes
An article written by Mr. Colin Bangay (Senior Education Adviser for the UK’s Department for International development in India) on 2nd June, 2015 for World Education Blog, prompted me to write about the experiment Door Step School has been…

Every Child Counts campaign moves beyond Pune
The Every Child Counts (ECC) campaign was launched by Door Step School NGO (DSS) in the year 2011. The objective was to ensure every child between 6 and 14 years age living in the city of Pune gets its right of free elementary education. With help of citizen…