Education

Hyderabad High Court | Rajesh Pamnani

How Income and Caste Can Affect CLAT Performance

The results of India’s tough Common Law Admission Test are unequal in socio-economic terms, highlighting the deleterious effect that a candidate’s low income and a low caste can have on performance.
▶28-Mar-2022
Pragyanshu Gautam

There is Much to Gain and Little to Fear from Reopening Schools

There is ample scientific and epidemiological evidence to indicate it is safe to reopen schools for children of all ages. It is not a question of whether to reopen schools, but what should be done to…
▶07-Oct-2021
Chandrakant Lahariya

The English Education of a Kashmiri

"In a conflict-ridden space like Kashmir, can working-class people express and understand the world in a language that is not their own, while simultaneously aspiring to be upwardly mobile? Is…
▶23-Jun-2021
Ashaq Hussain Parray

Rote Learning and the Destruction of Creativity

The shallow form of schooling with its emphasis on information kills rather than develops curiosity and creativity, all made worse by the importance given to 'marks' recorded in exams. An…
▶08-Jun-2021
Anurag Mehra

Misreading the Past

A new undergraduate history curriculum reduces the complexity of the past to simplistic ideas of religious difference. The official promotion of such ahistorical thinking adds weight to the project…
▶17-May-2021
Somok Roy

Why I’m Losing Hope in India

It is not the economy that makes one worried for India. It is the flattening of diversity, the undermining of education that gave mobility to so many, and the entire 'banality of evil'…
▶21-Dec-2020
Kiran Kumbhar

School Teachers in NEP 2020

The New Education Policy pays obeisance to school teachers but while the policy makes some interesting recommendations, there is no radical change in the offing that will improve the quality of…
▶17-Sep-2020
Vimala Ramachandran

The National Education Policy on School Education

The National Education Policy lacks a coherent strategy to strengthen public education. It does not own the narrative of education as a public good, instead the policy pushes for private practices…
▶09-Sep-2020
Kiran Bhatty

Aspects of School Education in NEP 2020

The New Education Policy has new as well as old interesting ideas on school education but execution will call for a change in mindsets to broaden horizons and the training of a vast number of highly…
▶09-Sep-2020
Devi Kar

Academic Freedom In India

Academic freedom is about the right to study, teach and research a diversity of viewpoints. Yet, this right that is so crucial for the pursuit of knowledge has seen widespread attacks in colleges and…
▶27-Aug-2020
Nandini Sundar, Gowhar Fazili