Anti-Not Found Suitable Movement: Rahul Gandhi Enters The Fight
After having a discussion with Delhi University students on 27 May, 2025 the leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, in a social media post, said that a…
Education
Too Fast, Too Loud, Too Soon? An Educationist’s Take on the Hidden Impacts of CoComelon on Toddlers’ Minds
If you have parented a toddler in recent years, chances are you have encountered the digital sensation CoComelon. With its bright and vivid colored characters, cheerful melodies, and animated plots,…
History as Political Tool: Muslim Rulers Deleted From Curriculum
The new education policy 2020 is being implemented gradually. Apart from other things, it has focused on Indian knowledge systems and Indian traditions. The changes that pertain to History have…
Ramcharitmanas and Vedic Workshops in Uttar Pradesh Schools: A Public Interest Litigation Against an Unconstitutional Move
A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Allahabad High Court challenging two government orders mandating summer workshops on Ramayana and Vedas in schools across Uttar Pradesh. The…
Assessing Kerala’s higher education landscape : Strengths weaknessess and future directions
Kerala's higher education sector shows promise but requires significant quality improvements, according to the latest NITI Aayog report which is a clarion call demanding remedial measures to elevate the quality…
UGC’s 2025 Draft Guidelines: The Corporate-Hindutva Takeover of Higher Education?
by Dr Shirin Akhter & Sachin N. The University Grants Commission’s (UGC) Draft Guidelines and Draft Regulations on Minimum Qualifications, Recruitment, and Promotions (2025) are hurriedly being pushed as necessary…
Startup brings hope and help to students in Africa
Recently when ‘10 startup founders to follow in 2025’ were selected in Nigeria, a special place of honor went to Manish Sardana, co-founder of Craydel, a startup which has won…
The Draft UGC Regulations 2025: A Recipe For Disaster
Recently, the Union Minister of Education released the Draft UGC (Minimum Qualifications for Appointment and Promotion of Teachers and Academic Staff in Universities and Colleges and Measures for the Maintenance…
Socio-Economic concerns in Education: An Analysis of NEP 2020
by Satvinderpal Kaur and Kanika Sharma Abstract An overview of the NEP 2020 document in the context of Socio-economically Disadvantaged Groups (SEDG) is pertinent as it deals with the underprivileged…
Mental health concerns of online education among children
Online education to the school children is a new phenomenon which was started during the COVID period. Since the Novel Corona Virus was highly contagious and would spread fast in…
Inclusive Education and Some Major Challenges
Inclusive education is a philosophy and practice that aims to provide equal access to education for all children, regardless of their physical, intellectual, social, cultural or linguistic differences. It is…
Medical Education in Jeopardy
Siting in a protest camp in the freezing weather of Quetta during the peak of winters isn’t easy but for a medical student like Saima Baloch, it is a matter…
Indians Being Deprived of their Right to Education?
What can be said about the Central Government’s recent decision to abolish the “no-detention” for students in classes 5 and 8 in schools under its jurisdiction. This policy has been…
Educating For Adaptive Change Beneath A Darkening Sky
[Prefatory Note: This is a revised text of my presentation at the 4th Istanbul Education Summit made on December 7, 2024, held under the auspices of the Maarif Foundation in Turkey…
Taking Care of Children of Migrant Workers
A significant number of residents of Bhaggupurva hamlet in Nagnedi panchayat (Banda district) of Uttar Pradesh) migrate regularly from the village as they cannot earn their subsistence in the village.…
Brighter Schools Make Learning A Happier Experience
Any visitor to Dihri school, located in a remote village of Hussainabad block of Palamau district, is in for a surprise. There are big-screen TV sets in some class-rooms with…
A Crisis of Credibility: The Threat of Predatory Journals to Indian Research
In recent years, India's higher education system has witnessed considerable growth and transformation. However, along with these advancements, challenges such as predatory journals have emerged, undermining the academic and professional…
In AMU, A Fight Against Neoliberal Education
The Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) administration’s decision to enforce the mandatory 75% attendance rule for students has sparked an outcry. On November 21, 2024, students protested in large numbers against…
Education that Helps to Create and Maintain a World Based on Justice, Peace and Protection of Environment
Education reform has been discussed a lot but has been seldom taken forward in the true spirit. All too often, this has been discussed in very narrow contexts with a…
Paulo Freire and the Enemies of Justice
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela Paulo Freire, the radical Brazilian educator, would have turned 103 on September 19,…
Educational Reform in Punjab Must Bring Education Closer to Society’s Real Needs
by Bharat Dogra and Jagmohan Singh While education has been increasingly seen in terms of its linkages to economic development, it is important to take a wider view to include…
Higher Education System in India and Challenges for Teachers
India is home to an extensive network of universities, autonomous colleges, deemed-to-be universities, and institutes of national importance for higher education. Across the nation, there are 40,000 colleges and more…
Valiant Teachers Continue Education in Conflict Zones
While most attention in conflict and war zones is understandably concentrated on the loss of human life, a silent crisis that accumulates over one or more years relates to the…
Rationalization means school closure, transfers, layoffs and saffronization of education: Fight to save the constitution
The state of school education in Chhattisgarh can be judged from the fact that more than 3000 schools in the state do not have principals and 8194 posts of teachers,…
Budget 2024-25: Hindutva Onslaught on Higher Education
Higher education is an anathema to Hindutva politics in India, similar to any other right-wing reactionary politics worldwide. Their aversion to scientific and secular education is a deliberate political strategy…
Early Identification and Teaching Learning Process
The Constitution of India as per Article 21 (A) recognizes Right to Education as a Fundamental Right and provides that every child has a right to elementary education of satisfactory…
Key Messages for Education in and Beyond School
Perhaps the most remarkable feature of the human species is that inherently it is neither particularly constructive not particularly destructive. How human beings actually behave and live depends to a…
Why the Most Important Educational Reforms Are Neglected?
There has been a lot of discussion regarding educational reforms but even in the middle of all this it appears that the educational reforms that are most needed are being…
Irrelevant competitive examinations and a collapsing education system
The failure of the National Testing Agency (NTA) to conduct various competitive examinations in a fair manner has not only exposed the corruption that has crept into it, but has…
On the Erosion of the Public Education System – A Letter of Resignation
Reader, I was admitted to the Department of English in the University of Delhi as a Junior Research Fellow a few months ago. However, after having attended the classes and…
NEP 2020 has failed to address the real problems of Indian society
New education policy (NEP) 2020 was introduced by the Ministry of Human Resource Development promising to create an ‘India- centered’ education society. One of the key behind this policy as…
A community-run Gondi language school in Gadchiroli district, Maharashtra
To Shri Jual Oram Union Minister (Tribal Affairs) Dear Shri Oram, In Mohagao village in Gadchiroli district, 15 Gram Sabhas came together to set up a community-run school where teaching…
Schools in Poorest Communities Lighted by Enthusiasm of Children
Children in remote villages, and within these villages in the hamlets of the poorest communities, face several difficulties in going regularly to school. In the case of migrant labor households…
Shaping the Future of Universities through Visionary Leadership
A university is undeniably a crucial institution that shapes students’ personalities, advances scientific temperament, instills core values, and lays the foundation for the nation’s development, serving as a breeding ground…
Smartphones in Class Rooms
The well-known saying "The show must go on" is frequently used to uplift the players in the entertainment industry. Similarly, the market needs to continue uplifting the confidence of the…
Education and Consciousness under Techno Feudalism
Education stands on the twin pillars of essentialist and emancipatory consciousness. Education, in terms of skills, qualifications, grades, marks, and employability, reflects the essentialist criteria of consciousness, which are crucial…
Guarantee Check: Massive underinvestment in Education at the Centre
Bahutva Karnataka (BK), a platform of organizations committed to justice, harmony and the promotion of constitutional values, is releasing a series of ‘Guarantee Check’ reports juxtaposing the Central Government’s official claims…
Save the University of Madras
The irony is that the A++ Graded University is found to be violative of I-T Laws. The I-T Department had frozen the bank accounts of the University of Madras, a…
Navigating the Digital Age: Balancing Distraction and Innovation in Classrooms
Universities have rapidly adopted technology in recent years, leading to a significant movement towards digitalization in the academic environment. Students are increasingly depending on a variety of gadgets and applications…
The Right to Online Education for Refugees: The Global Constitutional Approach
Education for refugees, asylum-seekers, migrants and stateless (RAMS) mobility for education, with all its permutations and dimensions, has been perennial since time immemorial. It is regrettable but veritable platitudes that…
Why Indraprastha College for Women should first learn to protect its girl students for ViksitBharat@2047 Campaign
Indraprastha College’s failure to protect its women from sexual harassment in its centenary year. If it cannot protect, how will it educate? Education is an instrument of fiqr (rationality), ziqar…
Education for Hindu Rashtra: UGC-NCERT’s on Rightwing Drive
As the ruling party BJP is close to completing two terms in office, its impact on most of the institutions is more than obvious. While ED-IT-CBI have played their role…
The Militarised University: Where Secrecy Goes to Thrive
For anyone wishing to bury secrets, especially of the unsavoury sort, there is one forum that stands out. Call it a higher education institution. Call it a university. Even better,…
To The Fresh Graduate: From one who was one, 40 odd years ago
We didn't know so many things that are now known. And so much there was to see, we could not see or didn't want to see. Economic Growth -…
Guinea Pigs or National Assets
Like avid scanners of the share market the mercantile propensity of the present regime inclines it towards gambling in both economics and politics.It has a craving for sudden, unforethought and…
Clamour for Teachers Grows in Jharkhand – Parents Write to CM
Hundreds of agitated parents, children and concerned citizens took out a rally and staged a dharna outside the Block office in Manika (Latehar district) today to protest against the rampant…
From Education to Incarceration
Not long after moving to Topeka, Kansas, in the early 1980s, community organizer Curtis Pitts learned about a hidden slice of that city’s history that would come to shape his…
Providing Schools for the Most Marginalized Children in Remote Villages
Rajaram Ka Purva is a remote rural hamlet in Banda district of Uttar Pradesh inhabited by the poorest of the poor. Almost none of the children in this hamlet are…
Social Responsibility of Teachers and their Importance
Every year on September 5, Teachers' Day is celebrated in the country. Dr. Radhakrishnan's birthday is celebrated as Teachers' Day. He was born on September 5, 1888, in Tiruvallur, Tamil…
Education as a Means for Empowerment
Society is in a state of flux. It is undergoing constant change and reformation. This element of metamorphosis is true for all fields of human endeavour - be…
How to Integrate Education System with the Real Needs of Our Deeply Troubled World
The overwhelming feature of the education system of the greater part of the world is that is that it is completely out of connect with the real needs of our…
Submission To Australian National Anti-Corruption Commission: Huge & Fraudulent University Fees Exposed
Education is a basic human right and all education should be free for all. However the commodification and corporatizing of higher education has meant that free university education presently only…
Unrealized Aspirations: The Common School System & the Quest for Equitable Education in India
by Riya Jain, Sagar Sengar and Sandeep Pandey A Gujarat government Indian Administrative Service officer Dhaval Patel after visiting six primary schools in Chhota Udepur district among the tribal area…
Where Are the Kids? Alarming Number of School Drop Outs in Bihar
The urgency of improving school education, particularly in the government-run schools of more remote rural areas, has persisted for a long time. Following the prolonged closure of schools during the…
Politicians wrecked Maharashtra’s great tradition of education
The great tradition of education in Maharashtra has been destroyed by politicians, shikshan samrats running institutions like overlords. They were exposed in a highly forthright manner by Sharad Jawadekar, a…
The Ideal of Education
by Ekitha Gangavath, Ayush Bajpai, Amit Singh and Sandeep Pandey Unfortunately, this theme gets people’s attention only when some students commit suicides. As public memory is short things relapse to…
To be or not to be a Marxist @South Asian University
by Sandra Elizabeth Joseph, Apoorva Yarabahally, Sukanya Maity and Snigdha Jayakrishnan A response from few members of Aijaz Ahmad Memorial Study circle(AAMSC), in the light of suspension of four professors…
Dehumanization of Education System during the Corporate-Fascist Regime
The New Education Policy, 2020 has unleashed an unprecedented attack on the education system of India. As the NEP2020 is getting implemented, we can find that Indian history is getting…
Forget the University: Gift Cards, Professionalism and the Australian Academy
Dear future students wishing to come to Australia and study: don’t. The gurgling, decaying system is, on a regular basis, being exposed for what it is. If it is not…
Why is there a need of meaningless entrance examinations for professional education?
by Gangavath Ekitha and Ayush Bajpai CLAT[1] was introduced in 2008 as a Common Entrance to the so-called Islands of Excellence[2]- the National Law Universities in India- or the Law…
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