In the wake of some terror related recent incidents involving Kashmiri students studying outside their state, there is a backlash against them across the county. In Punjab, where three students were arrested on terror links and a cache of weapons was ceased from their possession (from their hostel room at an engineering college on the outskirts of Jalandhar), was followed …
This year’s World Skills Day, which incidentally is also the birth anniversary of Skill India programme (July 15, 2015)looked sober devoid of optics and high decibel rhetoric. There could be two reasons for this. One could be that in spite of being a national mission, it is no longer in the government’s priority list. Or, in alternate case, the government …
In all probability it will be curtains for the University Grants Commission (UGC), which was established through the UGC Act of 1956 on the pattern of the British University Committee, UK (repealed in 1989) and is currently the de facto apex regulator of higher education in India after the union government approving a draft legislation for its repeal and replacement …
In the recent months, some dastardly acts of shooting and killings on campuses have given rise to fears of a new trend. Ritu Chhabra, 47, principal of Swami Vivekanand Public School, Yamunanagar and Rajesh Malik, 45, lecturer at Shaheed Dalbir Singh Rajkiya Mahavidyalaya, Sonipat were shot dead point blank by own students. Tushar,14, a class 9 student of Jeevan Jyoti …
With government’s aggressive push on digitalization in education, there is risk of a different kind whereby policy makers and administrators may set onto a different path. Schools, teachers and classrooms, facing a neglect already, will be further pushed to margins and a time will come when some people will demand scrapping these altogether. Socialization must have been the most progressive …
The Union Budget 2018-19 will be presented on February 1 and therefore whatever we may recommend or write about it, will be largely immaterial to some extent as the decision would have been almost printed by now. Still, this budget presentation will be keenly followed mainly for political reasons. And the present government has not been able to convince education …
