National Education Policy 2020: What is needed is a new kind of thinking

New educational institutions will not thrive in an old culture. They need an environment of trust and freedom

Simply Put: New Education Policy

Budget expectations: quality education needs financial backing

In absence of substantial financial backing, achieving quality education appears to be distant dream

New education policy to shrink India’s school system: GN Devy

The National Education Policy 2020 agregates where it should segregate and vice versa, veteran linguist and activist says

Maharashtra to shut almost 14,000 schools with less than 20 students

While the state government aims to cut costs, children in remote tribal areas will be most affected

Why a country with one of world’s best education systems wants reforms now?

Finland will now do away with subjects like history, geography, math by next year

Education not enough

As a means of bringing long-term change in public attitudes, education at present is too weak and demands radical improvement

Why investing in school education should be a priority in upcoming Maharashtra Budget

Maharashtra needs to have a larger kitty parked to grapple with huge number of out-of-school children

Debate around NMC Act highlights problems rankling technical education institutes

Doctors and activists across the country say NMC Act will corporatise medical education and lower the quality of healthcare providers

AIDS set to strike with a vengeance

Blissfully unaware India and China to be hardest hit

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There will be 2 billion more people on Earth by 2050: UN report

India will overtake China as the world’s most populous country in the next eight years, according to the United Nation’s The …

Rural vs. Urban: Measuring the inequality of opportunity

Just building infrastructure to bridge inequality in basic services like education is not the answer

How kids in a low-income country use laptops: lessons from Madagascar

Our findings suggest that developing countries like Madagascar have something in common with western nations when it comes to laptop use, such as …

The perils of being a child in India

The name game

Name>> University ÔÇó Nigeria

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Darwin on trial

Outlining their rights

Cartography provides the indigenous peoples of the world another way of asserting their rights

Simply Put: Online education for differently-abled

Poverty and emergencies keep children out of school

Every one in five children in the world are not in school, says the latest UNICEF report

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Centre overrules Supreme Court directive on combined medical entrance test

The latest Union government’s rule intends to allow the states to conduct their own medical entrance exams for the current academic year

Greening the syllabus

The glitch in India's technical education

Less than half of the students pursuing technical education manage to get a job