The Supreme Court on April 5 stayed an order of the Allahabad High Court that scrapped the Uttar Pradesh Board of Madarsa Education Act, 2004 by declaring it unconstitutional. The High Court order on March 22 said, “We hold that the Madarsa Act, 2004, is violative of the principle of Secularism, which is a part of the basic structure of …
In today’s times an outrageous news not only make headlines, but it also goes viral. And, if has the bearing of a ‘Hindu’ teacher getting a ‘Muslim’ pupil slapped by peers, then, it gets editorialized left, right and centre. The teacher in question Ms Tripta Tyagi at Neha Public School in Khubbapur (Muzzafarnagar), Uttar Pradesh, who made students of her …
The statement made by the Karnataka Chief Minister, Siddaramaiah, saying that Karnataka will scrap the National Education Policy 2020 (NEP) from the next academic year, wasn’t unexpected. The Congress manifesto in the recently concluded May 2023 Assembly elections had already included this as a ‘promise.’ On why from next year, the CM said that since the academic year has already …
The 1250 plus Kendriya Vidyalayas (KVs) or Central Schools spread across India have been receiving a lot of attention and admiration for being the model government run schools. This attention has doubled after 2015 as students of these schools feature regularly in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s student-oriented events and town halls like pariksha pe charcha (one of the most publicized …
Rankings and league tables acting as the ‘underlying platforms of marketing activity and canvassing’ for institutions in this globalized era, is one of the widespread criticisms in the academic circles. This criticism is not completely unfounded as many HEIs across the world are investing both ways in these rankings to move upward in the table. In India, public institutions of …
Darul Uloom Deoband, the renowned Islamic seminary in Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh, is in the crosshairs of law for a recent ‘ban’ order on the learning of languages other than Arabic and Urdu. Learning of English language and skills, which appears to be increasingly popular within the student community of the seminary is seen as the chief driver for …
