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Educational institutions, the words, 'educational institutions' are of very wide import and would include a university also, S. Azeez Basha v. Union of India, AIR 1968 SC 662 (670): (1968) 1 SCR 833. [Constitution of India, Art. 30(1)]A school, seminary, college, university or other educational facility though not necessarily a chartered institution, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 532Means institutions that impart education, P.A. Inamdar v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 2005 SC 3226.Imparting higher education, i.e. graduate level and above and in particular specialized education such as technical or professional, constitutes a separate class, P.A. Inamdar v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 2005 SC 3226....
Educational institution bus
Educational institution bus, means an omnibus, which is owned by a college, school or other educational institution and used solely for the purpose of transporting students or staff of the educational institution in connection with any of its activities. [Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (59 of 1988), s. 2 (11)]...
Minority Educational Institution
Minority Educational Institution, means college or institution (other than a University) established or maintained by a person or group of persons from amongst the minorities. [National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions Act, 2004, s. 2(g)]...
Education
Education. Mr. Forster's Elementary Education Act, 1870 (English) (33 & 34 Vict. c. 75), is the starting point in the history of the provision by legislation of a general system of education. Before this date education had been dealt with either as a series of individual problems in respect of which provisions were made for the education of special classes of persons, or by executive, as opposed to legislative methods, as, for example, by a system of grants in aid. This Act was followed by a series of Acts, known collectively as the Education Acts, 1870 to 1919, which together established a system of free and compulsory elementary education of a non-denominational character. The initial Act established 'school boards' with powers of building and maintaining elementary schools and of regulating the attendance of school children between the ages of 5 and 13. The El. Ed. Act, 1876, declared 'the duty of the parent of every child to cause such child to receive efficient elementary educatio...
Vocational institution
Vocational institution, means an educational institution in which instruction is provided for course of study in the field of engineering, technology, agriculture, dairy and poultry, paramedical, social science, applied arts and crafts and such other subject leading to any pre or post vocational certificate, and includes such other institutions as the State Government, in consultation with the Council, may, by notification, declare as vocational institutions. [West Bengal State Council of Vocational Education and Training Act, 2005, s. 2(l)]...
Technical education
Technical education, has the meaning assigned to it in clause (g) of s. 2 of the All India Council for Technical Education Act, 1987 (52 of 1987). [National Commission for Minority Educational Institution Act, 2004, s. 2(k)]Technical education, includes medical education, Nachane Ashwini Shivram v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1998 Bom 1. [See also Constitution of India, Art. 371(2)(c), List III, Entry 25]...
University
University, an association of learners, and of teachers and examiners of the learners, upon whose report the association grants upon whose report the association grants titles called 'degrees' (such as 'Master of Arts,' 'Doctor of Divinity'), showing that the holders have attained some definite proficiency.The English Universities are those of Oxford, Cambridge (incorporated by 13 Eliz. c. 29, by the two names of the Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford and Cambridge respectively, with the direction that they shall be called and named by none other name for evermore), Durham, London, Victoria of Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield, Bristol, and East Midland University Nottingham, the graduates of which (see University of Liverpool Act, 1904; (English) University of Leeds Act, 1904; and (English) Sheffield University Act, 1914) have equal statutory privileges and exemptions; and Reading University (see 18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 25). There is also the Uni...
Minorities
Minorities, means 'groups held together by ties of common descent, language or religious faith and feeling different in these respects from the majority of the inhabitants of a given political entity, T.M.A. Pai Foundation v. State of Karnataka, (2002) 8 SCC 481.The Constitution of India recognizes two categories of minorities, viz. religious minorities and linguistic minorities; have the fundamental right to establish and administer educational institutions of their choice and to conserve the district language, scripts or culture of their own, Constitution of India, Art. 29 and 30.Minority [fr. minor, Lat.], the state of being under age--e.g., twenty-one years. also, the smaller number.The minority under article 30 of the Constitution of India mean those from a distinct and identifiable group of citizens of India, St. Stephen's College v. University of Delhi, AIR 1992 SC 1630 (1646). [Constitution of India, Article 30]The word 'minority is not defined in the Constitution but literally...
Correspondence school
A school that teaches by correspondence the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets In the broadest sense of the term correspondence school may be used to include any educational institution or department for instruction by correspondence as in a university or other educational bodies but the term is commonly applied to various educational institutions organized on a commercial basis some of which offer a large variety of courses in general and technical subjects conducted by specialists...
Recognised institution
Recognised institution, means an institution for research in agriculture or extension education, other than an affiliated college. [Gujarat Agricultural University Act, 2004, s. 2(13)]Means an institution of higher learning recognised by the University within the State of Mizoram. [Mizoram University Act, 2000 (8 of 2000), s. 2(o); (58 of 1994), s. 2(o)]Means an institution specified in Schedule I with grants qualifications in occupational therapy or, as the case may be, an institution specified in Schedule II which grants qualification in physiotherapy. [Maharashtra State Council for Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy Act, 2002, s. 2(m)]...
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