Education has a cultural value in Kashmiri society. The modern education became rapidly acceptable in 20th century in the valley and before that the state has been an acknowledged seat of spiritual and scientific knowledge over a long period of time in medieval period and thereafter. There is evidence to corroborate existence of a famous learning centre at Sharda Peeth …
When Prakash Javadekar took charge of country’s human resource development (read education) ministry in July 2016, there was a general consensus among opinion leaders if not celebration that India’s education is in safe and detectors hands. The delay in announcement of the New Education Policy was seen an attempt by him to broaden its consultation in the first place bureaucratically …
University campuses in several parts of country are reverberating with a kind of unrest that was missing from them for a long time. The near riotous turn of events at Ramjas College in Delhi last month following cancellation of a seminar, was in fact an extension of the JNU ruckus played exactly a year ago. A social media post that …
Ever since the new chairman R K Chaturvedi took over office on July 26, CBSE or the central board of secondary education, the pan India secondary education board with over 17,500 affiliated schools, has suddenly come to ‘regulatory’ life. One after another, CBSE has started to revisit regulatory issues in the last couple of months. It began by issuing an …
On July 5, the affable bearded Prakash Javadekar, was promoted to the cabinet rank and handedover the ministry of HRD. His appointment was by and large welcomed by all and he did well to acknowledge the national importance of education above politics. Comparatively degree-wise better qualified than his predecessor, Smriti Irani, who moved to textiles, Javadekar brings to the table …
On June 1, one more suicide took place in Kota, sixth this year. While the issue of coaching menace and suicides in Kota for the past two months have entered prime time TV debates and received lot of press, it is ironical that just a day after JEE Advanced results were announced, ‘the most successful’ coaching institute advertised full pages …
