State Education Plans, decentralization, reaching out to do-gooders in communities, re emphasis on schools as community social places, and adult education along with treating technology as neutral can help in re imagining a new education model to tide over effects of covid The last four months or so have been revealing on the state and status of formal education in …
For close to 30 years, Indian Parliament has never spent a full day discussing country’s education system and now most discerning people are forgetting that public education is a core social contract of democracy and a basic objective of for which welfare state of India has committed constitutionally. That ideology has been completely overturned in favor of a cost efficiency …
Independent of the draft NEP that carries a major recommendation of ‘achieving skill development among at least 50% of learners through school and higher education system by 2025 in order to realize full potential of India’s demographic dividend’, the state of Odisha has already hit the road by reimagining skills education for the socio-economic transformation of its people. By Autar …
Following a communique on 30% reduction of syllabi by CBSE for secondary classes, media outlets picked up key deletions made in the political science that turn out to be related to the constitutional values and social ethos. A barrage of outrage and outpouring happened on social media platforms forcing the government and CBSE to clarify. The politics around the controversy …
According to a leading expert in the field of cognitive neuroscience from Harvard, what matters in screen time is the content that is consumed and the context of it that affects one’s well-being. It is also imperative to make a distinction between productive and unproductive screen time. Screen time where an adult is on the other side engaging children in …
Dr Poonam Bhatia, Associate Professor – Bharti College, University of Delhi The pandemic has forced universities to bring their courses online. This is just one-step along the road to a new educational paradigm; however we can expect a new model to emerge once COVID-19 has passed. The pandemic that has shuttered economies around the world has also battered education systems …
