Delhi may scrap nursery admissions for 2021-22, schools unlikely to open before July
In an important development, the Delhi government has proposed to scrap and suspend admissions in the nursery for the 2021-22 academic year. The state is considering to implement the scrapping of admissions in 2021 and proposing the same for private schools. As a corollary, the 2022-23 academic sess... Read More
Government Schools in Kerala to Install Weather Stations
In a first-of-its-kind initiative in the country, 240 government schools in Kerala will soon install weather stations. These will be used to observe and record daily changes in the weather conditions in the state.... Read More
Relevance of Soft Skills in Students
In a progressively diverse and globalized job market, school education, degree/diploma, certifications, skill development, job readiness, and suitable employment have become buzzwords in discourses on education taking place at the global level.... Read More
Pushing Multi-grade Classrooms in Learning Sector
It was developed in Mysore district in 1995 to revive the primary school practices. A group of 15 primary school teachers went to Rishi Valley to study about children in multi-grade classrooms. They observed about how these children are learning in this setup.... Read More
Findings on the adoption of Online Education in Government Schools in India
How well the schools have transitioned to online education is an area of active research interest and there have been several useful studies that have attempted to measure the degree of success that the Indian schools have achieved in adopting the online mode of education. One in the league is the s... Read More
How Rational are the CBSE Bye-Laws 2018?
The curriculum that is deemed to be suitable for an entire nation with differences in language, social mores and culture like no other in the world is a phenomenal entity and Central Board of Secondary Education has been endowed with such recognition giving it its tremendous credibility.... Read More
Due to Acute Shortage, Two Rounds of CET for Appointment of Govt. Teachers in Karnataka
Karnataka Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, B.C. Nagesh, announced that CET (Common entrance Test) for the appointment of government school teachers will be conducted twice in the next round. The reason given was that the state government didn’t get the requisite number of teachers for th... Read More
Artificial Intelligence to be introduced in CBSE Schools
Making the year 2018 eventful with changes that really altered the state of affairs, Central Board of Secondary Education is not seeming complacent. Come January, the schools start applying... Read More
NEP 2020: 10 Nations Show Interest in Adopting India’s NEP into their Education Systems
The National Education Policy 2020 may be gaining certain international admiration. Although it is still in its pre-implementation phase, the NEP 2020 is being viewed with some optimism in the country, and going by the Union Education Minister’s disclosures, it is getting recognition from other part... Read More
CSR Spending for Improvement of School Education
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) contributions has been mandated by Government of India for all companies meeting specified financial thresholds. Certain areas of socioeconomic development have been specified as well, school education being one of them.... Read More
How is India beating gender inequality through girls’ education
With gender equality being considered as a sine qua non for attainment of the development goals, the urgency attached to the question of girls’ education in India and across the world is gaining importance. Gender roles have substantially shifted but it can hardly be contested that opportunities for... Read More
How NEP 2020 supplements RTE 2009?
The demographic dividend is realizable only if the young population is adequately educated and made adept in 21st century skills. The average age of Indians is 25-30 years and that is a good sign only if education systems are robust.... Read More
Plea Against Salary Cuts of Private School Teachers Moved in Delhi High Court
A petition demanding the reversal of the salary cuts of Delhi’s private school teachers has been made in the Delhi High Court. The situation that arose in the wake of the pandemic saw deductions in the remunerations of teachers and other staff of several private schools of the national capital.... Read More
UNESCO Report: Use of AI in Education
According to a new report by United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), Artificial Intelligence (AI) can provide solutions to the challenges in the Indian education sector. Apart from suggesting use of technology in evaluation and school management systems, the repor... Read More
What makes you eligible to start a school in India?
Apart from having necessary land and required financial resources to open a school in India, sustaining its operations until it becomes financially independent and ensuring the continuous advancement of the school are the key factors for the success of any school project. Let us examine the individu... Read More
A draft timeline for the proposed implementation of the National Education Policy has recently been rolled out. The plans of the Department of School Education and Literacy regarding the on-ground implantation of the NEP are going to change school education fairly quickly. To put things in perspecti... Read More
The Features of a Next Generation Classroom in a School?
With digital literacy on the rise and the ease of availability of information and data, it is pertinent to think about the shifts that the schools and the classrooms would undergo in the future... Read More
Education Technology enhances learning outcomes
We have written at some length about the transformation of conventional classrooms into smart learning spaces in our previous article. In the present article we are specifically enlisting the digital devices that are deployed in the classrooms—more aptly called smart classrooms—and giving a descript... Read More