A ‘vacuum’ in education: We need to teach kids, not just hold exams
5 years, 5 months ago

A ‘vacuum’ in education: We need to teach kids, not just hold exams

Deccan Chronicle  

"India does not have a system of education,” proclaimed Prof. Krishna Kumar in his recent talk on “Teaching the Indian Constitution” at a conference in Kolkata. To take it chronologically — there are educational toys and games for the very young while for older students “fruitful educational experiences” that a regular school does not give, are on offer. Another company promises to teach kindergarten students lateral thinking, creativity and problem-solving, thereby developing “critical skill-sets”. Since teachers usually set questions following the board “pattern”, schools engage the services of educational firms that not only customise test papers for different levels but also give proper feedback to the teachers in the form of pie-charts and graphs to indicate the understanding of each student of every topic and sub topic.

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Why India needs to prioritise teacher development in higher education
3 days, 7 hours ago

Why India needs to prioritise teacher development in higher education

The Hindu  

Industry readiness is one of the graduate attributes in the outcome-based education framework. A recent revelation has exposed a critical factor in India’s higher education system: a staggering 80% of graduates are deemed not fitting for industry roles. India’s higher education system faces growing criticism for its theory-heavy curricula going slow or improving skill sets. The lack of nurturing from …

The teachers we need for the education we want
4 months, 1 week ago

The teachers we need for the education we want

New Indian Express  

In a country like India, with its vast education ecosystem and network, teacher education is like a big ship—it is hard to turn by design alone; persistence matters the most. As I reflect on my journey as minister of state for education, one thing stands clear: the heartbeat of our educational system lies in the dedication, resilience and passion of …

Examination coaching crisis: It’s a monster of our own creation
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Examination coaching crisis: It’s a monster of our own creation

Live Mint  

India’s coaching and tuition industry has ballooned into a multi-billion-dollar enterprise, and we are acting shocked as if its rise was unexpected. Let’s be honest, are we not being blasé when we push our children toward what we perceive as socially prestigious fields like engineering and medicine even if their true interests lie elsewhere? Education regulations in India have largely …

Can right to education become right to quality education?
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Can right to education become right to quality education?

Hindustan Times  

Unlocking India's demographic dividend hinges upon equipping our youth with quality education that imparts relevant learning and skills. Despite well-intentioned policies like the Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009, our education system has fallen short of delivering quality learning outcomes for our children. When the RTE Act was enacted 15 years ago, a significant challenge for our education …

Why good education cannot remain an afterthought or a political gimmick
1 year, 7 months ago

Why good education cannot remain an afterthought or a political gimmick

Firstpost  

Education is the foundation of civilization. Indian systems of education considered not merely individual material success, but helped a student find purpose, mental balance, physical health and helped navigate society. While the National Education Policy framework is a step forward, the way students learn remains unchanged. Communist revisionism of history must be addressed in order to ensure a coherent Indian …

Ways in which the Indian education system can be strengthened
1 year, 8 months ago

Ways in which the Indian education system can be strengthened

The Hindu  

India is a country with a population of 1.3 billion and counting. Here is a look at some issues that plague the education system and what can be done to redress them: Limited funds and redistribution: The government at the provincial and national levels has to provide resources such as manpower, infrastructure and funds to cater to the country’s.educational needs …

What India needs to improve in its education system post-pandemic? | In Focus podcast
1 year, 11 months ago

What India needs to improve in its education system post-pandemic? | In Focus podcast

The Hindu  

It was only in 2022, after the third wave of COVID-19, that schools in India finally reopened fully, after two plus years of pandemic-related disruptions. The Annual Status of Education Report 2022, brought out by the NGO Pratham last week, reveals that at least one of these concerns may not be a problem: overall enrolment figures for the 6 to …

Overhauling the education system in India: 7 critical changes that need to happen right now
2 years, 5 months ago

Overhauling the education system in India: 7 critical changes that need to happen right now

India Today  

The pandemic propelled a transformation in the education system that perhaps would have taken many more years to eventuate. While the last two years assumed unprecedented importance in the journey of a reimagined education system, today, which is all the more critical for all of us. Here are the changes that must be integrated into the Indian education system today …

Book Review | Teach our smaller citizens to know, not ignore, the world
2 years, 6 months ago

Book Review | Teach our smaller citizens to know, not ignore, the world

Deccan Chronicle  

This slim volume of essays by one of India’s best-known educationists must be read by everyone who has anything to do with school education. The essays are based on speeches, lectures and previously published material and deal with important aspects of school education with reference to raising Indian citizens. At the very beginning, the author states in the prologue, that …

For New India, new system and modern processes are critical, says PM Modi in Varanasi
2 years, 6 months ago

For New India, new system and modern processes are critical, says PM Modi in Varanasi

Firstpost  

The prime minister who inaugurated the three-day meet on implementation of the National Education Policy, said ‘we should not only prepare degree holder youth but give our education system to the country, whatever human resources are needed for the country to move forward New Delhi: For creating a New India, a new system and modern processes are critical, said Prime …

School Closure, Digital Divide, Learning Gap: Post-COVID India Needs Resilient Education System
3 years, 2 months ago

School Closure, Digital Divide, Learning Gap: Post-COVID India Needs Resilient Education System

News 18  

Education remains the solitary ray of hope for many to break the vicious circle of poverty. However, the data released by the Unified District Information System for Education for the academic session 2019-20 shows that 78 per cent of schools in India don’t have internet facilities and more than 61 per cent do not even have computers. Approximately 12 crore …

Board Exams Must be Scrapped Permanently. It’s the Only Way to Fix an Exam-obsessed Education System
3 years, 8 months ago

Board Exams Must be Scrapped Permanently. It’s the Only Way to Fix an Exam-obsessed Education System

News 18  

The breaking news last week for the exam-centric Indian society was that there will be no year-end Board exams for Class 10 and those for Class 12 students stand postponed. Some may argue not conducting Board exams will lead to a further drop in the quality of Indian school education. To compete in these high-stress summative assessments called Board exams, …

Delhi’s Education Board Will Prepare Children for a Fast-changing World
3 years, 10 months ago

Delhi’s Education Board Will Prepare Children for a Fast-changing World

News 18  

Remember the old Bajaj Electricals’ ad where an old man is singing ‘jab main chhotta ladka tha….’, as he reminisces about the bulb remaining a constant fixture throughout his life? As the board examinations occupy centre stage in the psyche of the parents, teachers and students themselves, the entire education system has moulded itself to match the needs of these …

NEP's proposal to make board exams easy will not emphasise on rote learning: Manish Sisodia
4 years, 5 months ago

NEP's proposal to make board exams easy will not emphasise on rote learning: Manish Sisodia

India Today  

According to Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, the proposal of making board exams easy in the National Education Policy 2020, which was recently approved by the Union Cabinet, will not address the issue of rote learning for school students. Reforms part of “wishful thinking” During the interview, he also said, “By saying that board exams will be easy, we …

Opinion | Our national education policy is high on goals but low on realism
4 years, 5 months ago

Opinion | Our national education policy is high on goals but low on realism

Live Mint  

The new National Education Policy is the third overhaul of India’s education system in the life of the Republic. Unfortunately, notwithstanding various policy measures, what we have is a shambles of an education system: one where students achieve perfect scores in history and literature at school, but PhD theses are, in a great many instances, embarrassing documents attached to unemployable …

Education at the mercy of the market
4 years, 5 months ago

Education at the mercy of the market

The Hindu  

It is an intriguing but by now a hardly surprising fact that on June 24, the Human Resource Development Ministry finalised a loan with the World Bank as the culmination of a process allowing for its third and final intervention 1993-2002 and the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan since 2002) in determining the structure, content and governance of the entire system of …

Ridiculous That You Can Skip School But Not Tuitions for Board Exams: Rocket Scientist Behind New NEP
4 years, 5 months ago

Ridiculous That You Can Skip School But Not Tuitions for Board Exams: Rocket Scientist Behind New NEP

News 18  

Dr K Kasturirangan, the rocket scientist who drafted India's new education policy, has come in for praise for advocating a major revamp of how our children learn. Whether it is about de-stressing Board exams or bringing in mother tongue as the medium of instruction up to age 10, or allowing Ivy League institutions to set up campuses in India, the …

Busting myths and the double-speak on education | Opinion
4 years, 6 months ago

Busting myths and the double-speak on education | Opinion

Hindustan Times  

“If you’re gonna be two-faced, at least make one of them pretty,” Marilyn Monroe once said. A vibrant private school sector will deliver better outcomes, at a lower cost One of our myths is that education must only be delivered by the government if it is to serve the public good. Between 2010-11 and 2017-18, 24 million children have abandoned …

Budget 2020: Finance minister must co-opt costs of modernising teaching, infra in allocation for education sector
4 years, 11 months ago

Budget 2020: Finance minister must co-opt costs of modernising teaching, infra in allocation for education sector

Firstpost  

It is imperative that the higher education system is thoroughly revamped so that students receive quality and contemporary education and are ready to join the workforce of the future. NEP 2019 states the intention to move the higher education system to large multidisciplinary universities, colleges, and higher education institution clusters, with institutes proposed to be categorised as “research oriented” or …

India's education system, arrested by inequality and loopholes in policy, sets poor children up for failure
5 years ago

India's education system, arrested by inequality and loopholes in policy, sets poor children up for failure

Firstpost  

Education has been sold in India as a route to national greatness. *** From mid-September to mid-October in 2019, tens of school teachers were absent from government high schools in New Delhi — teachers who taught Math, Science, Hindi, Social Studies, Sanskrit and English, including to those all-important ‘board exam classes’. In the month that the students in Delhi’s government …

Are we obsessed with exams?
5 years, 1 month ago

Are we obsessed with exams?

The Hindu  

Recently, the Tamil Nadu Minister for School Education K.A. Purpose Looked at it holistically, the primary purposes of school education are to teach values to students, develop their thinking skills and learning abilities, equip them with knowledge and necessary skills in order to help them move to the next stage of education, and prepare them to face challenges in life. …

What is STEAM education? Here's how it has started to transform the Indian education system
5 years, 3 months ago

What is STEAM education? Here's how it has started to transform the Indian education system

India Today  

The Indian education industry is the most conversed industry globally due to the fact that India has the world’s youngest population. Schools are finding it challenging to keep up with the expectations of our 'Gen-Z' and already started drifting towards their need of a fresh, intuitive, discovery based, challenging education environment which has created inroads for STEAM education or experiential …

India’s School Education: Waves of tragic cries, concerns, and yet some hope
5 years, 4 months ago

India’s School Education: Waves of tragic cries, concerns, and yet some hope

Deccan Chronicle  

Even seven decades after Independence, the properly schooled are still a ‘small lot’ in India’s immensely vast and diverse society. But it is the room for hope that dedicated teachers as transformative figures try to bring into the system, even if at the margins, is what emerges from this chronicle of real life stories that author Sandeep Rai, has put …

32 million Indian children have never been to any school: How can we reform education for the underprivileged?
5 years, 4 months ago

32 million Indian children have never been to any school: How can we reform education for the underprivileged?

India Today  

Debates surrounding the educational sector and education for the underprivileged have been one of the hottest topics for eons, and remains so till date, and not without reason. Several schemes have been instituted to ensure that underprivileged children receive a solid educational base including 'Samagra Shiksha' and 'Strengthening for Providing Quality Education in Madrassas'. The Right to Education guarantees free …

7 immediate changes needed in the Indian education system
5 years, 5 months ago

7 immediate changes needed in the Indian education system

India Today  

While we all understand how crucial education is to shape our lives, it has also been a major problem in our country. Here are 7 immediate changes needed in the Indian education system: 1. Indian schools must embrace technology and education with an open heart and propagate the same to the students as it is there, where their future lies. …

Does India really need a New Education Policy to achieve educational equity?
5 years, 5 months ago

Does India really need a New Education Policy to achieve educational equity?

Hindustan Times  

​Does India really need a New Education Policy? In reviewing this draft policy, I focussed mainly on school education including the chapters on Teacher Education, the National Research Foundation, Technology in Education and the Regulatory System. It says ‘we have been almost fatally slow in the adoption of technology to improve the quality of education’, and ‘salary, promotion, career management, …

Reinventing teaching can reform education
5 years, 11 months ago

Reinventing teaching can reform education

India Today  

Pedagogies become obsolete when they continue to focus on what’ they teach rather than how’. Indian education has suffered for decades on this score because the purpose of education has never envisaged fostering curiosity and creativity as being critical to education but in knowing facts and information. If we fail to do this, we would continue to harbour irrelevant teachers …

Opinion | India’s education sector needs a quantum shift
5 years, 11 months ago

Opinion | India’s education sector needs a quantum shift

Live Mint  

The quality of education has a direct bearing on any economy. While Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said on 26 September 2014 that there is no dearth of talent in India and “Mars success should be made an opportunity to make the world aware of Indian talent”, the ASER report shows Indian children have a huge learning deficit. The highly …

On Education, India Follows Finland, England, Scotland. Why Not Motherland?
6 years ago

On Education, India Follows Finland, England, Scotland. Why Not Motherland?

News 18  

Dr Kasturirangan committee has apparently submitted its report on the New Education Policy. This paper looks at what’s gone wrong in the school education sector and the steps that can possibly be taken to correct this. The Act mandates under section 12 that even private schools “shall admit in Class I, to the extent of at least twenty five percent …

Indian education system heavily dependent on private players, says Manish Sisodia
6 years, 3 months ago

Indian education system heavily dependent on private players, says Manish Sisodia

India Today  

Speaking at the Asian Summit on Education and Skills, Delhi Education Minister Manish Sisodia said that the biggest challenge for the Indian education system is its dependence on private players and deteriorating quality of the government schools. Read: Delhi Education Minister Manish Sisodia stresses on need to change exam pattern, teacher training in India Importance of teacher training: The training …

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