When current Army Chief General Asim Munir alluded to inheriting the legacy of General Zia-ul-Haq in his now-infamous speech, it did more than just raise eyebrows — it triggered alarm bells. It hinted at a return to the ideological straitjacketing of a nation already beleaguered by decades of top-down authoritarianism cloaked in religious righteousness. To many observers, it raised unsettling …

India’s 21st century skilling story, in which skill development reincarnated as a priority sector in the second half of 2000s decade with the setting up of National Skills Development Corporation (NSDC) in 2008, announcement of the National Skills Policy 2009 and all hyped talks about the importance of skills and models getting 360-degree attention, is still rife in officialdom and …

Union Education Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan, is facing his first major political and administrative challenge in three years since he took the office as the Education Minister in 2021. The mess created by the reports of malpractices in the conduct of various entrance examinations by National Testing Agency (NTA under the ministry) leading to retests and cancellations in recent weeks, is …

The shattered confidence in this year’ National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test [(NEET (UG)] for admission to undergraduate medical education program across India due to several issues from alleged paper leak to compensatory grace marks, looks perennial. Though NEET has been marred by allegations of malpractices in the past as well, only this time, the question of ‘grace marks’ became disproportionately larger to …

By Autar Nehru In the last (about) two months of prolonged election campaigning, the residue memory, like any course program, isn’t about the content (read developmental issues), but a few social media aha viral moments, a few speech comments, ‘festive offers’ and of course a bharat darshan/discovery of sort on TV and newspapers. Even among the developmental issues, ‘education’ is …

Faraway from the Gaza warzone, unrest and activism on US university campuses over this war, is becoming a war in itself.  The known seats of activism and not so well-known universities—all seem to participate in this unrest, which is raising certain fundamental questions on the American university system itself. American education system seems broken. The Gaza conflict’s impact on US …