Why India needs to prioritise teacher development in higher education
3 days, 3 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 qualified and passionate teachers has hindered the growth of India’s education system and its ability to produce skilled graduates. To revitalise India’s education system, it is imperative to prioritise teacher training, incentivise quality teaching, and create a supportive environment for both teachers and students.

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Let’s not blame India’s early policy settings for our failings in mass education
1 month, 1 week ago

Let’s not blame India’s early policy settings for our failings in mass education

Live Mint  

Three-quarters of a century after freedom from British rule, Nehruvian policies continue to animate debates on the extent to which they aided or hobbled the emergence of India’s economy. A recent study by Nitin Kumar Bharti and Li Yang of the Paris School of Economics’ World Inequality Lab compares the approach taken by India and China to public education over …

Is India's education system ready to tackle the rural teacher shortage?
2 months, 1 week ago

Is India's education system ready to tackle the rural teacher shortage?

India Today  

India is grappling with a deepening education crisis as more than 1 lakh ninth-grade students in Delhi government schools failed their annual exams for the 2023-24 academic year. IMPORTANCE OF PERSONALISED LEARNING AND TEACHER-STUDENT RATIO Praneet Mungali, Trustee & Secretary of Sanskriti Group Schools, emphasises the importance of learning outcomes in shaping education systems. URBAN-RURAL DIVIDE IN TEACHER DISTRIBUTION Similarly, …

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 …

How to de-burden India’s schoolteachers
5 months, 1 week ago

How to de-burden India’s schoolteachers

The Hindu  

India has long grappled with a profound learning crisis, exacerbated by the pandemic-induced learning loss, resulting in more setbacks than progress. A 2014 article on teacher perceptions of barriers to implementing evidence-based practices found that various challenges, including inadequate resources, time constraints, and lack of training, can adversely impact teacher capacity and motivation. A 2021 analysis of systemic drivers of …

Why is the quality of higher education eroding in literate Kerala?
5 months, 4 weeks ago

Why is the quality of higher education eroding in literate Kerala?

Hindustan Times  

When Kerala's school education minister, V. Sivankutty, announced the results of the class 10 Secondary School Leaving Certificate examination in early May this year, the pass percentage reached an all-time high of 99.69%. Claiming that Kerala had never compromised on academic excellence, Sivankutty reminded the state that it still ranks first in the Centre's development indices regarding school education. Rajan …

Transfer of Govt Teachers to Be Based on Strength of Students
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Transfer of Govt Teachers to Be Based on Strength of Students

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy has directed officials to take transparent measures with regard to government teachers’ transfers, which would be proportionate to the strength of students. Keeping in mind the previous government’s failure in providing the required facilities to teachers, the Chief Minister asked the officials to solve issues of teachers in an amicable manner and ensure that …

Devi Kar | Hiring teachers gets increasingly harder for most schools in India
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Devi Kar | Hiring teachers gets increasingly harder for most schools in India

Deccan Chronicle  

It is well known that there is a serious shortage of schoolteachers in our country. Here are a few examples: “Have done my masters…” ; “My hobby is surfing the net” Some applications are formatted in a decorative manner and yet important information is omitted. But even if one sees simple words like “separate”, “accommodate”, “colleague” and “opportunity” are incorrectly …

Celebrating our teachers: Key pillars of India’s education system
1 year, 4 months ago

Celebrating our teachers: Key pillars of India’s education system

Firstpost  

Teachers’ Day is not just a moment to extend greetings and gifts but a time to reflect on the pivotal role that teachers play in shaping our collective destiny Our education system finds its beating heart in the form of a formidable force – our teachers. As India celebrates yet another Teachers’ Day, we stand united in acknowledging the indispensable …

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 …

Is the budget allocation of 2023 satisfactory for teacher training and empowerment?
1 year, 11 months ago

Is the budget allocation of 2023 satisfactory for teacher training and empowerment?

India Today  

School education offers the maximum opportunity and capacity to build competencies and life skills in children; therefore, the educator's role has never been more important. ABOUT BUDGET 2023 ALLOCATIONS It is encouraging to see the 2023 Budget's focus on re-envisioning teacher training through "innovative pedagogy, curriculum transaction, professional development, dipstick surveys, and ICT implementation." The budget's focus on inclusiveness and …

How foreign universities in India can change the face of Indian education system
1 year, 11 months ago

How foreign universities in India can change the face of Indian education system

Firstpost  

In line with the recommendations of the National Education Policy -2020, the University Grants Commission has initiated several measures for the internationalisation of the higher education system in India. Some foreign universities have already set up partnerships with Indian institutions, allowing students to partially study in India and complete their degrees on the main campus abroad. A regulatory framework allowing …

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 …

Recent developments and challenges in the Indian education sector
2 years ago

Recent developments and challenges in the Indian education sector

India Today  

There have been a number of recent developments in Indian education policy that have had significant implications for the sector and its stakeholders. The NEP 2020 calls for several key reforms and initiatives, including the expansion of early childhood care and education, the introduction of vocational education and training at the secondary level, the promotion of a holistic and multidisciplinary …

Role of EdTech in empowering different sections of society
2 years, 2 months ago

Role of EdTech in empowering different sections of society

India Today  

Education dynamics are witnessing the biggest shift in recent years, especially in India and it's a rapidly growing technology sector. EMPOWERING TEACHERS AND STUDENTS It is the balance between these that helps institutions lay a strong foundation to enable young minds to prepare for the future. In the same context, there are two very different edtech platforms in India that …

On Teachers' Day, Academicians Demand Highlight Lack of Support, Recognition in Teaching Profession
2 years, 4 months ago

On Teachers' Day, Academicians Demand Highlight Lack of Support, Recognition in Teaching Profession

News 18  

As the country celebrates Teachers’ Day, the state of educators in India is still underwhelming. Highlighting the issues faced by teachers across the country, Ramya Venkataraman, founder & CEO, Centre for Teacher Accreditation said, “Insufficient career growth, recognition, and support options are some of the top issues in the profession that many of us are working to address.” Talking about …

We must invest in our teachers for India to take its next big leap
2 years, 4 months ago

We must invest in our teachers for India to take its next big leap

Live Mint  

Through the 20th century, the sobriquet for India shifted from a newly independent country to a developing nation standing on the shoulders of a strong agrarian economy. With a tech talent demand-supply gap of just 21.1%—the lowest among major economies—and a significant leap in the Global Innovation Index over the last decade, the India of 2022 is staking its claim …

Globalisation of Indian education in the post-pandemic age
2 years, 5 months ago

Globalisation of Indian education in the post-pandemic age

India Today  

The new national education policy released by the government of India in 2020 outlines a grand outlook for the future of education in India, presenting a sweeping vision for the higher education institutions in India. The learning accumulated in Indian educational institutions is an advantage, and our ability to quickly scale educational offerings, particularly in engineering, to meet growing needs …

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 …

Higher education faces structural inequality across gender, caste, region
3 years, 6 months ago

Higher education faces structural inequality across gender, caste, region

Hindustan Times  

The good news is that women have surpassed men in enrolling in higher education for the second consecutive year. However, the report also contains enough evidence to suggest that India’s higher education sector confronts serious issues of inequality across the gender, caste, and regional axis. But there is wide regional variation in the share of government colleges across different states. …

Budget 2021: Why greater digitisation of education is the need of the hour?
3 years, 11 months ago

Budget 2021: Why greater digitisation of education is the need of the hour?

India Today  

Education plays an important role in bringing a change in society across generations and more so now in this technological age. The government must take initiatives such as allocating bigger spending on education and push greater digitisation in the education sector in the upcoming budget. Budget 2021 expectations for education sector The National Education Policy 2020 and Covid-19 are two …

Teacher's Day 2020: Education experts look back to the teachers who shaped their lives
4 years, 4 months ago

Teacher's Day 2020: Education experts look back to the teachers who shaped their lives

India Today  

This is a time for a big shift in the way education is carried out in India, with schools being closed for several months due to Covid-19, the rise of online classes, and the arrival of a new National Education Policy in 34 years. India will be handheld through this big shift by inspiring teachers and education experts; but where …

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 …

Are Indian schools spending enough on teacher training?
4 years, 8 months ago

Are Indian schools spending enough on teacher training?

India Today  

Education forms the foundation of an equitable society. Schools must also ensure he/she possesses a range of skills such as classroom management, school administration, and most importantly, child psychology. Therefore, the schools must re-envision the teacher training programmes and here are few ways of doing that: Firstly, the schools must conduct a rigorous and externally implemented Teacher Needs Assessment. It …

Pondering leadership, quality education for building new young India
4 years, 11 months ago

Pondering leadership, quality education for building new young India

India Today  

As student movements all over the country take to the streets and the internet to discuss, dissent and debate legislations, I stop and wonder how we afford more children the skills, values, and mindsets to flourish in our world. Is the quality education one where we help our children build a spirit of leadership; one where their convictions are embedded …

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 …

Could skill training be a viable replacement to higher education
5 years ago

Could skill training be a viable replacement to higher education

Hindustan Times  

Ever since the inception of formal higher education in various parts of the world, from 1636 in Cambridge, Massachusetts to 1948 in India, the clash of skilling or apprenticeship versus higher education has existed. For the longest time, higher education has imparted and taught the skills required for an individual to thrive in the world. In today’s fast changing and …

The many structural flaws in India’s higher education system
5 years, 1 month ago

The many structural flaws in India’s higher education system

The Hindu  

The furore surrounding fee hikes at the Jawaharlal Nehru University has spurred deeper questions about the quality of university education. India’s higher education system is structurally flawed and underfunded. This crisis will affect innovation and human capital, the two pillars of labour productivity and GDP growth, while cheating India’s largest demographic of its potential. The government needs to recognise the …

Question of quality
5 years, 2 months ago

Question of quality

The Hindu  

Over three decades ago, I was fortunate enough to be taught by a highly knowledgeable professor whom I admired a lot, for several reasons. A year ago, when Prakash Javadekar was the union Human Resources Development minister, he announced that a PhD degree would be mandatory for teaching positions in universities from July 2021. The announcement by the former HRD …

Teaching should be most sought-after profession in society: Arvind Kejriwal
5 years, 4 months ago

Teaching should be most sought-after profession in society: Arvind Kejriwal

India Today  

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said he envisions a society where teaching is the most sought-after profession. How one teacher had decided the course of Arvind Kejriwal's life Reminiscing about his time as a student, the chief minister said one teacher had decided the course of his life. I decided that I will work towards just one goal …

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 …

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. …

India's student-teacher ratio lowest among compared countries, lags behind Brazil and China
5 years, 6 months ago

India's student-teacher ratio lowest among compared countries, lags behind Brazil and China

India Today  

India trails behind several countries including Brazil and China in terms of student-teacher ratio in higher education segment, a government report has revealed. Rising enrolment and low hiring rates results in lack of teachers The faculty shortage have worsened over the time due to increasing enrolment rate of the students and low faculty recruitment in the higher education institutes. New …

India's US envoy urges American students to study in Indian Universities
5 years, 7 months ago

India's US envoy urges American students to study in Indian Universities

India TV News  

India saw its best phase of macro-economic stability in the past five years and is set to become the fifth largest economy in the world by the end of this year, the country's top diplomat in the US has said, urging the young American students to come and study in India. "You are guaranteed of the excellent quality education as …

Invest in primary teachers, kids' future at stake
5 years, 10 months ago

Invest in primary teachers, kids' future at stake

Deccan Chronicle  

We are continuing to neglect primary teachers at our own peril. A recent study carried out by the Institute of Education in England found that the quality of early childhood education was even more important than family background — though a stimulating home environment certainly helped. It is a warped logic that makes employers pay primary teachers much less than …

Opinion | Spotlight needed on training teachers in India
5 years, 10 months ago

Opinion | Spotlight needed on training teachers in India

Live Mint  

As discussions on India’s persistently low-learning outcomes gain momentum once again in light of Pratham’s Annual Status Of Education Report, it is time to turn our attention to solutions. Economist Eric Hanushek finds that a child taught by a good teacher gains 1.5 grade-level equivalents, while a child taught by a bad teacher only gets half an academic year’s worth. …

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 …

Over 54 per cent of Indian parents want children to become teachers, says study
6 years, 2 months ago

Over 54 per cent of Indian parents want children to become teachers, says study

India Today  

The classic cliche of Indian society which states that every family should have a doctors and engineers in it has now been shifted to other professions as well including teaching. According to a recent study by the Global Teacher Status Index 2018, India has reached to the highest position when asked about whether they would encourage their students for teaching. …

18.6 million without jobs in India this year, unemployment rate to stand at 3.5 per cent in 2019
6 years, 2 months ago

18.6 million without jobs in India this year, unemployment rate to stand at 3.5 per cent in 2019

India Today  

Many would argue that the core objective behind education is to gainful employability. According to the International Labour Organisation, India will again see its unemployment rate at 3.5 per cent in 2018 and 2019, the same which was seen in 2017 and 2016. Quality institutions are less in India The reason behind this is that India has a small number …

54 per cent Indian parents want their kids to be teachers: Study
6 years, 2 months ago

54 per cent Indian parents want their kids to be teachers: Study

India TV News  

Indians are the most positive about their children taking up a career in teaching, a new global study has revealed. The UK-based Varkey Foundation's ‘Global Teacher Status Index 2018’ was released on Thursday and is described as the most comprehensive study of how society views teachers across 35 countries around the world. Overall, India ranks eighth among the 35 countries …

Education reforms: Getting children into classrooms is no longer enough
6 years, 5 months ago

Education reforms: Getting children into classrooms is no longer enough

Hindustan Times  

To achieve its full potential, it is crucial that India enacts education reforms to enhance human capital. Likewise, a simple analysis found that halving the pupil-teacher ratio in Rajasthan is expensive compared to other approaches, costing ₹17,368 per student, generating benefits to learning outcomes that, in an optimistic scenario, are worth five-times the costs. A trial in Andhra Pradesh cost …

Empowering the Educators: A Call for Restructuring the Education System in India
6 years, 11 months ago

Empowering the Educators: A Call for Restructuring the Education System in India

The Quint  

The article emphasizes the importance of restructuring the education system in India to empower people from low economic backgrounds. It highlights the need to hire the best teachers with a zeal to teach and make a difference. The article also stresses the importance of providing incentives and assessment grids to ensure that teachers are doing their job effectively. It concludes …

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