by Akshara Foundation | Jul 21, 2012 | Uncategorized
The Library Programme at Akshara Foundation has been running for more than 6 years. Over this period, we have introduced Libraries into each of the 1420 Government Primary Schools of Bangalore Urban District.The Libraries were set up in a “hub-and-spoke” fashion, with...
by Akshara Foundation | Jul 16, 2012 | Uncategorized
In a radical initiative to expose the apathy and lack of basic facilities in the capital’s government schools two years into the Right to Education Act, Social Jurist, a lawyers’ and social activists’ collective, has enlisted students of government schools through a...
by Akshara Foundation | Jun 18, 2012 | Uncategorized
This is a guest post by S Anand who is the Chief Data Scientist at Gramener.Continuing the design jams, we had one at Akshara’s office last weekend. The dataset we decided to pursue was the Karnataka SSLC results, which we had for the 5 years.We...
by Akshara Foundation | May 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
A group of students from Indiana University visited with Akshara recently and they posted a short piece on their visit.Some students commented that this was their favorite experience so far, and others commented that now they feel like they have been to...
by Akshara Foundation | Apr 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
RTE implementation must focus on improving standards in government schoolsThe provision for reserving 25 per cent seats in Class I for private unaided schools in the Right to Education Act is a red herring. About 30 per cent of the 76 lakh primary school children in...
by Akshara Foundation | Apr 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
So here’s something new that we wanted to share. http://klp.org.in/ has new features and data sets.1. Demographic and financial reports of preschools and schools for Bangalore. It’s on the homepage or click here for a direct link.2. The financial...
