Education

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.

COVID-19 has made education technology-centric and the trend seems to be here to stay. But this will only widen the divide between different groups in terms of access to education.

Virtual school has created stress, uncertainty and confinement for students. But if and when schools do reopen, will parents feel comfortable sending their kids to school?

The Happiness Curriculum was introduced in Delhi government schools in 2018. A recent research project tells us how teachers have been faring, before and during the pandemic.

Many countries have started reopening schools amid immense challenges. As schools in our cities, from Gurgaon to Hyderabad, also see partial reopening this week, what are parents, administrators and students saying?

Despite niggles over unequal access, missing interaction etc, students and teachers are trying to derive the most out of the various initiatives introduced to facilitate schooling online.