Education

The institute has been in the news for targeting students and now faculty

A state government spokesperson on Friday said that introducing these biographies is being done “to introduce students of the state to the civilisation and culture of the country, following the instructions of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath”.

An initiative of eight SAARC countries, the South Asian University (SAU) situated in the prestigious Chanakyapuri area is mired in nepotism, slashing student scholarships and now targeting academics

The union government’s controversial NEP, adopted by the erstwhile BJP-led Karnataka government institutionalises discrimination and dogma in education, it’s important to document concerns around it before it becomes a template for other states. Although the stated objective of the paper is to illustrate the importance of health, it embroils itself in irrational and unscientific propaganda that can be disastrous within an educational space.  

By deleting lines, paragraphs and chapters from NCERT textbooks and the Delhi University syllabus, academic institutions working under the Union Government have attempted to peddle a majoritarian Hindutva narrative.

In this interview to MaxMaharashtra, political scientist Suhas Palshikar, a household name has outlined the rational from writing to the union of India in protest, asking for his and Yogendra Yadav’s names removed from NCERT texts

Following recent controversial changes made to political science textbooks, the political scientists wrote to NCERT asking it to drop their names as chief advisors. We feel embarrassed that our names should be mentioned as chief advisors to these mutilated and academically dysfunctional textbooks,” they said.

The group went further: it also supported DU’s decision to drop the philosophy of poet Mohammad Iqbal from the political science syllabus, as he was associated with the idea of a separate Muslim nation

Recent reports on education and higher education reveal a staggering decline in the number of Muslims enrolled in all institutes of education

The NEP 2020’s position paper on “Knowledge of India” (KI) (January 2022) including `Indian Knowledge Systems’ (IKS) clearly privileges Brahmanical propaganda and hegemonic structures of the past, a past already glorified in the thousands of shakhas[1] run by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh(RSS)