Education

As teaching and learning goes hybrid, new horizons will open up for teachers having a good mix of technology and domain skills.

Teachers and the state education department coordinated to use open spaces to teach primary school students unable to attend virtual classes.

With the full reopening of schools run by the MCD in the capital on Nov 1st, not just students but even teachers were missing. Why?

Children need the stimulation they receive at preschools and day care centres. Yet, with so many of them out of business, the future looks uncertain.

As schools reopen, parents have to be very patient and help their children through what could be a phase of challenging adjustments.

Are vaccines a must before kids can go to school? Can schools be super spreaders? Such perceptions are delaying reopening, but do they have a basis at all?

There has to be a paradigm shift in teacher training, with compulsory computer education for all and emphasis on behavioural preparation.

Thousands of Class 5 students from MCD run-schools are not traceable as their phone numbers and addresses in the records are wrong.

The ‘two board exams’-based evaluation proposed by CBSE for the class of 2022 rests on ‘trust the teacher and the school’. But can this be a regular alternative?

New assessment systems for schoolkids are urgently needed. It is high time school boards pay serious attention to exam reforms and look at alternatives, writes a former NCERT chief.

Going forward, the MBA market will probably get splintered into sub-parts and specialized MBAs, focusing on specific sectors like entrepreneurship and more.

Online teaching, physical coordination with students lacking digital access, frontline COVID duty — they have done everything expected of them. Yet their pleas fall on deaf ears everywhere.