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 …
Most post-budget commentaries for years have remained steadfast in quantitative discourse and more so in case of education sector in India. The significative recommendation of 6% GDP spend on education made by Kothari Commission in 1966 has remained a crossbar for most writers, who dissect budgets for an analysis in this very backdrop. And, since then return disappointed as national …
The estimated 15000-20000 medical students from India who returned home following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February this year, seems, have exhausted all options as some of them have started journey back to their universities in Ukraine to complete their course by complying with various directives by Ukrainian authorities. Even as the NEET UG 2022 results for more than 18 …
