Articles tagged with: education

SC stays Delhi HC's 60% Sanskriti school civil servant quota

The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed a Delhi high court order quashing the 60 percent admission quota for the wards of Group A officers of the All India Central Services in elite Sanskriti schools. An apex court bench headed by Justice Anil R Dave, however, said the quota will also cover the childre...

SCOI analysis: Today, 10 judges in new constitution benches to hear important education & SLP cases

Two very important cases related to the power to appoint teachers and rules on when special leave petitions (SLPs) should be entertained, are scheduled to be heard by two Supreme Court’s constitution benches today under CJI TS Thakur’s new constitution bench schedules.

Duty to send kids to gov’t schools: Read the HC judgment that put private schools off-limits for public servants

Allahabad HC: We don't want no (private) education?
Allahabad HC: We don't want no (private) education?
education?”)The Allahabad high court has passed an order taking away the freedom of children of public functionaries in Uttar Pradesh to enrol in private schools.

Opinion: Foreign investment in education sector to get boost by raft of statutes

Foreign investments in India’s educational sector have been hampered by regulatory restrictions but the new Foreign Educational Institutions and other bills promise to change the landscape, explain M Dhruva & Partners partner Manthan Unadkat and senior associate Tanya Raghani.

Free legal advice: the bane of young lawyers?

Blawger Legally Infantile dishes out some choice legal advice to an old school colleague about being fined Rs 5,000 for getting caught cheating at exams. Never mind that the school will allow him to remain at the school as well as retake the exam, the culprit now wants to sue the school. Legally Inf...

Interview: Bar Council Chairman SNP Sinha

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Legally India caught up with Bar Council of India chairman Suraj Narain Prasad Sinha last week. We asked him about legal education, Australian racism and why allowing foreign law firms to practice here is a bad idea.

Freshfields, Lex Counsel, Platinum close $17.5m education JV

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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Lex Counsel and Platinum Partners have advised on a $17.5m (Rs 85 crore) joint venture (JV) deal between the UK’s Pearson Group and Delhi-based education company Educomp Solutions.