Education | Citizen Matters

When school board exam cancellations would cease to matter

April 30, 2021 J S Rajput

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.

Future of Jobs: Is the MBA regime nearing its end?

March 16, 2021 Ambi Parameswaran

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

Betrayed, cheated, angry: Delhi’s municipal school teachers not paid since August

February 4, 2021 Vijaya Pushkarna

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.

Access to schooling: Will 2021 further deepen the divide?

December 28, 2020 Vijaya Pushkarna

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.

For schoolkids in Delhi, not quite a happy new year

December 28, 2020 Vijaya Pushkarna

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 challenges before Delhi’s ‘Happiness’ teachers, during COVID and otherwise

October 15, 2020 Kriti Gupta

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.

Back to school: Are we ready to go the same way as global schools are going?

September 23, 2020 Swati Amar

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?

Gaps remain, but technology is the best bet for Delhi schools today

August 6, 2020 Vijaya Pushkarna

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.

When the screen is your child’s classroom and playground

August 3, 2020 Swati Amar

What is school like without peer interaction, free play and spontaneous exchanges with teachers? Swati Amar spoke to teachers, parents, children and a psychologist to find out.

Can online coaching help Kota revive its local economy?

July 28, 2020 Kavita Kanan Chandra

Kota, a reputed hub of coaching for competitive entrance exams, is tottering as students have gone back home and ancillary businesses catering to them have had to shut shop.

In e-learning push, corporation schools in Mumbai left in the lurch

June 16, 2020 Santoshee Gulabkali Mishra

Little thought is being given to how students of corporation schools will be able to access this, given that for most of them access to quality internet connection and the devices required is severely limited.

With schools closed, exams suspended, big e-learning push for teachers and students

April 22, 2020 Vijaya Pushkarna

Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia interacted with teachers and parents via YouTube, promoting the theme “Every Home a School, Every Parent a Teacher.” ‘Online’ seems to be the general mantra in education, as students are stuck at home, uncertainty clouding their immediate academic future.

Delhi Report Card 2: Keen focus on education, but jury still out on outcomes

February 1, 2020 Sri Krishna

It is widely acknowledged that the AAP government placed education reforms at the top of their agenda during their tenure, initiating many experiments, particularly in school education. While some of these have clearly yielded positive results, some have drawn sharp criticism.

Mumbai civic body initiative to help school kids cope with mental health issues

October 16, 2019 Jahanvi J

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s Smiling School Project will train principals and teachers to identify students facing mental or emotional distress. These students will then receive free counselling. But will it be enough, given the nature and magnitude of the problem?

How a fire in Surat has shaken up the ‘coaching’ industry in Bhopal

August 28, 2019 Shuriah Niazi

Following a fire in a Surat coaching centre that claimed 24 lives, the Bhopal administration ordered an inspection of fire safety compliance at all coaching centres. Findings were alarming and notices have been issued to 200 coaching institutes and hostels.