As per the latest data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), India recorded 1,70,924 suicide cases in 2022—an increase from 1,64,033 cases in 2021—of which approximately 7.6% (13,044 cases) were student suicides. The number of student suicides per year has more than doubled over the last two decades, from 5,425 in 2001 to 13,044 in 2022. Among female suicide …
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 …
India’s largest and first-ever competency-based student assessment, the PARAKH Rashtriya Sarvekshan 2024, under the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, has raised serious concerns about learning outcomes in key subjects. The recently released report reveals a sharp decline in students’ understanding of mathematics and science as they progress from primary to secondary school. While a fair percentage of Class 3 students …
