Tag: Education

As online teaching becomes the new trend, the questions of accessibility and equality complicate the domain of learning.

The UGC insists on conducting final year examinations amid the pandemic, what is the teaching-learning community thinking on this issue?

Rationalisation and bureaucratisation accompanied by social inequality have characterised the educational domain for long, will these old processes continue in a pandemic stricken world or will things alter?

India accounts for 37% of female suicides in the world annually, do social stigma and lack of mental health awareness have a role to play?

Growing drop-out rates, child marriage and child labour are among the challenges that Bangladesh will face due to school closures amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The Roshni Scheme in Kerala has prioritised the education of children from migrant class families and this is why they decided against returning to their native states in large numbers even amid the pandemic.

With the government keen on conducting final year examinations for final year students even amid the pandemic, lets rethink evaluation.

Meenakshi Thapan was Professor of Sociology at Delhi School of Economics. And her book Life at School:An Ethnographic Study has enriched the domain of sociology of education in India, and inspired young students and researchers to take active interest in the dynamics of educational institutions, knowledge and curriculum. In a conversation with Professor Avijit Pathak, she has narrated her academic journey, her meeting with Jiddu Krishnamurti, her engaged communion with the spirit of Krishnamurti's educational philosophy, and her decision to devote herself to Rishi Valley school after her retirement from Delhi University

CBSE drops chapters on Secularism and Democracy citing the need to reduce academic burden on students amid pandemic. Opposition leaders condemn the decision.

The UGC has advised universities and colleges to conduct final semester examinations by the end of September.