Towards an Alternative Education Path
An alternative education path (ATP) which is well integrated with the creation of a better and safer world is presented here. One part of ATP can be called Core 1…
Education
Forgotten Girls of Hill Villages
There are countless subdued dreams of young girls residing in the remote villages of Bageshwar, one of the 13 districts in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand. Bageshwar, which was erstwhile…
National Education Assembly’s Declaration Calls for Saving Education from Privatization and Commercialization
There has been a lot of concern recently regarding the direction of education policy in India, particularly regarding the Union Government’s National Education Policy 2020 (NEP). The National Education Assembly…
In defence of decolonial and disruptive curriculum
Universities are no longer producing critical mass to question power for social, political and economic transformation of society for greater common goods. Universities are no longer producing independent knowledge traditions…
In difficult times for education, smooth flow of pre-matric scholarships is important
Ensuring school education for all children is an important policy objective in India. Our progress in this was disturbed in recent times by the pandemic which increased the number of…
Non-Availability of Badly Needed Funds for Dalit Students Increases Their Difficulties
Only 0.1% of funds allocated for pre-matric scholarship for scheduled caste students disbursed during first 9 months of financial year The government has been trying to reform the system of…
Paulo Freire: Education, Schooling and Social Change
by Jyoti Raina and Mansi The work of Brazilian philosopher-educator Paulo Freire continues to have great relevance in the world today. Born to a middle-class family in Recife, in the…
A Helping Hand for Rural Schools and Anganwadis to Meet Important Needs
Report from Jhansi district National level information has frequently highlighted many unmet needs of schools and anganwadis in remote rural areas. While the government has several ambitious plans of improvements,…
India’s Education Market: The Next Neo-Colonial Frontier
Over the last week or so, Australian politicians and representatives of the university sector got busy pressing flesh in India, hoping to open avenues that have largely remained aspirational. It…
Low Budgets, Inequalities Impede Educational Progress in India
Adequate investment in equality-based education is widely accepted as one of the key components as well as a strong base for the progress of developing countries. Despite this, educational progress…
Why is Telangana blocking the entry of poor children into private schools?
by Sanjana Sree Manusanipalli and Sandeep Pandey The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act was enacted by the Union Government in 2009 and implemented in 2010. As…
Role of School as an Agency of Social Change : Some Reflections
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world” (Nelson Mandela). There are varied perspectives exist among the scholars with regard to the role of…
Private Universities: Where Do India’s Intellectuals Stand?
1 Ravela Somaiya, a senior socialist friend living in Hyderabad, had sent a video to me about two months back. I opened the video and found Ramchandra Guha's speech in…
Gloom in the Classroom: The Schooling Crisis in Jharkhand
One third of primary schools in Jharkhand have a single teacher. Pupil attendance is just 68% in primary schools and 58% in upper-primary. Right to Education Act grossly violated in…
A Regressive step to End Maulana Azad National Fellowship
Muslims will suffer the most. This will lead further marginalization of Muslims in higher education. In India, the nightmare for Indian Muslims does not appear to be ending anytime…
On Education in India
Every academic year comes to an end with the graduation of students who are ostensibly ready to take up a new set of challenges and goals. Many of them have…
As elections approach, Himachal people recall educational and other impressive achievements of Congress era
As election day (November 12) approaches, people of Himachal Pradesh are more inclined to recall the more impressive achievements of the long era of Congress rule. In 2017-18 among Human…
Why are Indian Students moving abroad for studies?
There has been a significant decline in the quality of education during the last few decades. Additionally, the right-wing government has been working to modify the curriculum that stifles Indian…
World Teachers’ Day—Educational systems need a new awakening
Every year in India we celebrate 5th September as the National Teachers’ Day and just a month later the world observes 5th October as ‘World Teachers’ Day’. The theme this…
Should We Abolish Examinations?
Someone I know very well has just completed his engineering course and joined an IT company. He was selected by the company after a rigorous online selection test. Many of…
Role of Muslim Intellectuals in the Promotion of Educational awareness among Students
Today , a public meeting was organized by the Education Promotion Council ( henceforth EPC)at the Nobel Senior Secondary School, Dillar Nagar, Ghazipur, UP. At the outset, let me remind…
Bridging the learning gap through Mission Buniyad
As children go back to school, a Delhi government programme to close the gap that has taken place in learning during the pandemic is helping in more ways than one.…
What Does It Mean that Women Now Dominate Higher Education?
In the last week of her life, my mother extracted a promise from me. “Make sure,” she said, “that Orion goes to college.” I swore that I would, although I…
Academentia and Managerialism
by Thomas Klikauer and Meg Young Recently, the idea of Academentia has entered the public domain. Academentia combines academia – those working in post-secondary education – with dementia, i.e. the progressive impairments to memory, thinking, and behaviour which negatively impacts…
Imposing Sectarian Agenda on Educational Syllabus
In the name of rationalization of curriculum many a topics have been removed from the CBSE syllabus (April 2022). From the tenth standard syllabus; the topics excluded are democracy and…
CUET Adds Further to the Tyranny of Imposing Over-Centralized, Exam-Centered ‘Education’
One of the most important requirements of our troubled world is a meaningful system of education which is able to create joyful, interesting conditions of learning linked to strong ethical…
New pedagogy practices in Indian school Education: the vent between vision and acquisition
Prologue Some years back, I was visiting government schools in an eastern state of India, when the government official accompanying me said, “Let me take you to a SMART school,…
Dangers of Teaching the Bhagavad Gita in Educational Curriculums
The Hindu right wing forces are planning for a while to make the Bhagavad Gita as a national scripture and access to absolute state power is allowing them to fulfil…
The Absolute Irrationality of Exams
The results of Term 1 exam of class X have been declared. As a student myself, I can intensely feel how the educational atmosphere is laden with the brute bulkiness…
The Exploitative System of Public University: A Delhi University Teacher Recounts his Tale
Several students of mine on Saturday came to meet me. Since I stay near JNU, we decided to go to the campus. For those who may not know, I am…
Academic Justice Through Citation Audit
That academia which preaches justice is itself an unjust environment has been pointed out by some of the academia themselves (Kumar 2016, Guru 2002). The major complaint is that the…
Equity in Education after COVID-19 Pandemic
With the re-opening of schools, there is a need for pedagogic support for students belonging to the marginalized sections to help them acquire linguistic, numerical, and cognitive competencies. In the…
The Hollowness of India’s Education System
In its Term 1 sociology test for Class 12 students - held on December 1, 2021 - the Central Board for Secondary Education (CBSE) included a question asking which political…
COVID lockdowns offer an opportunity to reorient our idea of education
by Sandeep Pandey, Seema Muniz and Gopal Krishna Verma Some people are disheartened with the disruption in children’s education due to the menace of Covid and the successive lockdowns. While…
Adventures in American Education
“General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that education is the foundation of a century-old plan. It is hoped that the People’s Education Press will focus on the fundamental task of fostering…
Educating for the Prime Directive
Recently, I was involved in a discussion about the things we do and do not teach our children. I’ve already said quite a bit on this subject. But after talking with a…
Covid-19: It’s time to look at school dropouts
Education is the backbone of any developing nation. 100% literacy is one of the first landmarks used for judging the level of development of any nation. India is a developing…
Problem-Based Learning – Solving the inherent issues in the education system
PBL: “Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, teach him how to catch a fish and he will never go hungry”. This simple quote emphasizes…
The curious formula for awarding marks to second language in CBSE and class X examinations
The Central board of secondary education has cancelled class X and class XII examinations. They have sent a formula for awarding marks to the students of class X this year…
Online Education in India : A Subterfuge of Socratic Knowledge
“To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge” (Nicolaus Copernicus). Socratic knowledge in…
Educating for the future we want
Introduction Our ability to achieve a livable future for all depends on whether we can foster an unprecedented degree of social learning. There is no change without learning, and no…
My Covid-19 Teaching Year
It seems appropriate that the 2020-2021 school year in Portland, Oregon, began amid toxic smoke from the catastrophic wildfires that blanketed many parts of the state for almost two weeks. The night…
Education is hollow without Art
"Cultivation of the Mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence" - said Dr. B. R. Ambedkar. Well, what could be more stimulating and productive than art? The art…
Global Classroom- A Concept that has come of Age
Global Classroom is a novel and innovative way to gain international experience, virtually, from wherever you are! When talking about Global Classroom we mean a unique class consisting of students…
Higher Education in Jammu and Kashmir – abuses and malpractices!
Written by Dr. Aadil M. Nanda and Dr. Rafi Ramzan Dar Gone are the days when our educated youth were viewed as a potential human resource waiting to be tapped. In the days…
Academic Autonomy: Needed a Holistic Societal Perspective
If a university privately funded by philanthropists can be forced to fall in line, even if due to implicit pressure from the ruling dispensation, it can be inferred that autonomy…
Educational Curriculum Can Benefit Much From Using Classic Films and New Wave Films
The need for introducing more issues of social relevance in school and college education has been often emphasized, as also the need for improving the ethical content of education. At…
Revisiting NEP 2020 From The Perspective Of Global Education And Knowledge Society
Written by Bhumkia Rajdev, Abdul Basith and Suhail K New Education Policy 2020 has replaced thirty-four-year-old National Policy on Education (1986). The 66-page document talks about vision of government for…
Surveillance Capitalism threatens public university in India
“The higher education in India is poised for colossal changes with deleterious outcomes under the 'surveillance capitalism,'” according to G. Arunima, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University and the Director of Kerala…
The dalit teacher – facing a 360-degree discrimination
Who is a teacher? In a loose sense a teacher would be anybody including Mahatma Gandhi who was not a teacher in any school or college and Ambedkar who was…
Issues of Increasing Concern in School Education
The last year has been extremely difficult for school education. On the one hand there have been very prolonged school closures due to COVID related factors and on the other…
The University Deception: Rankings and Academic Freedom
Forget the global university rankings of any list. The global university promotion exercise is filled with snake oil and perfumed refuse, an effort to corrupt the unknowing and steal from…
Transformation of Higher Education post COVID-19 in India
Written by Dr. Sudhamshi Beeram, Dr. Arathi P Rao and Prof. K Rajasekharan Nayar The disruption caused by COVID-19 pandemic has been drastic and perhaps one of the most dramatic…
Master of Disaster – Germany’s Private University
Written by Thomas Klikauer and Norman Simms Nestled in the northern Hanseatic port city of Bremen, Jacobs University is one of Germany’s few private tertiary institutions Jacobs University In a…
Coronavirus Education: Learning and Teaching from the Margins
The coronavirus student, a species brought forth in the world of education by a pandemic that has killed over 400,000 people in the United States and 100,000 in the United…
Education for a Better World Needs New Thinking, Not a Polishing of Old Systems
The disruption of education in Covid times has caused serious concern, and there are well-justified calls for urgent corrective action. Along with this, however, there is compelling reason to give…
Dilemmas of Education in J & K: Government Teacher, Enrollment Drive and BPL Parent
The education and the department of human resource is always a hot topic in Kashmir valley but from last one month it has been more. It is being discussed at…
Making Sense of the Present Moment of ‘Onlinisation’ of Teaching
Along with COVID 19 and its associated terminology, we are currently being educated in a new jargon regarding one of the oldest occupations, namely, teaching. We now are told of…
Need for Equality in Indian Education System
Education has always been considered as one of the most important weapons for improving the living standards of society and help the nation progress. Though it is seen as a…
Sparking a Revolution for Edification
Education is the foremost tool that can be used to empower entire communities towards progress. Consider any issue that plagues a community, and education would be a key resolution mechanism.…
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