By 31st March 2018, an estimated 18000 teacher education or training colleges will be ranked and those securing ‘D’ will have to shut their shop Acknowledging  the widely held  perception that some private teacher training institutes (TEIs) recognized by it were indulging in corrupt practices including selling B Ed degress, the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE, set up in …

Prof Krishna Kumar, one of India’s most respected & eminent professor of education who has been the most celebrated director of NCERT today questioned the legitimacy of ASER Reports that have become a part of narrative on the state of poor quality of school education and are refereed to/quoted from most frequently even by government officers. He questioned the poor …

May 26, 2017 marked the third anniversary of BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government at the centre, And, expectedly after winning several recent state and municipal elections and high popularity of Prime Minister Narendera Modi, the government, celebrated satisfactorily its three years of ‘development performance.’ However, whatever the government might have to say or think, its performance in education for …

The 2nd edition of  national rankings by the union ministry of Human Resource Development  under  the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) released on April 3 displays supremacy of public (Govt ) HEIs.  The first ever degree colleges ranking is dominated by southern states though six DU colleges figure in top 10     see 100 ranks on (https://www.nirfindia.org/ranking2017.html)   A …

THE 11TH edition of Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) published by Pratham Education Foundation and released on January 18, 2017 throws up no major surprises in its assessment of learning outcomes in schools across rural India for the year 2016 though some welcome marginal improvements in reading and basic arithmetic ability have been seen in primary grades of government …

No-detention Policy’ may be diluted and capped at class V instead of class VIII at present Deadline for Training of untrained teachers may get five year extension till 2020 Notwithstanding evidence on good side of ‘no detention policy’ and counsel from  National Council  of Educational Research & Training (NCERT), the union ministry of human resources development is keen to amend …