After 52 years of unchecked private school fee hikes, Delhi finally stands on the cusp of reform. The passage of the Delhi School Education (Transparency in Fixation and Regulation of Fees) Bill, 2025 in the Assembly on August 8 marks a turning point in the city’s education landscape. It is a long-overdue attempt to rein in arbitrary fee increases, restore …
By Autar Nehru Donning the unconventional mantle of a ‘fairy grandparent’, the Supreme Court of India has stepped in to address the deepening—yet largely unacknowledged—crisis of a rapidly escalating mental health epidemic among students, where the pursuit of academic success or professional advancement has increasingly replaced the joy of learning with anxiety over rankings, results, and relentless performance metrics—all contributing …
By Varun Juneja, Associate Director, CodingZen There’s more to coding than meets the eye: a broader, more applicable skill known as computational thinking. While coding is a method, computational thinking is an approach. And it’s not limited to computer science. It’s in every subject: math and science, of course, but also literature and history. What Exactly Is Computational Thinking? Computational …
As India celebrates the fifth anniversary of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 on July 29, the occasion offers a moment of reflection on one of the most ambitious overhauls in India’s educational history. Introduced after a 34-year policy vacuum, NEP 2020 aimed to disrupt and reimagine the country’s learning landscape—from anganwadis to autonomous universities—with a promise to mold India …
On July 25, 2025, the Supreme Court of India delivered a pivotal judgment in Special Leave to Appeal (Crl.) No(s). 6378/2024 (Sukdeb Saha v. State of Andhra Pradesh & Ors.), setting forth 15 binding guidelines for educational institutions nationwide. Invoking Article 141, the Court declared: “These guidelines shall be read as complementary to the ongoing work of the National Task …
By Ramanujam Thirumalai, CTO, Global Products and Solutions (GPS), NIIT Ltd. A recent study found that 78% of employers consider fresh engineering graduates ill-equipped for the workplace. One of India’s Tier 1 IT firms cut its fresher intake by more than 70%—from 38,000 in FY23 to just 10,000. Across industries, onboarding delays for new hires are now stretching well beyond a …
