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Maharashtra SIR extension keeps teachers away from classrooms as unit tests face delays
Teachers deployed as BLOs for over a month will continue election-related work until August 17, with the draft electoral rolls now scheduled to be released on August 24. Schools across Maharashtra have reported reduced teaching time, limited staff and difficulties in conducting unit tests, while educators say prolonged deployment is affecting classroom teaching and the academic schedule
Cruel irony: Ambedkar University decides to scrap reservation policy!
Students and teachers of the Ambedkar University unitedly appeal to the management board not to scrap the fee waivers offered to socio-economically disadvantaged students.
Who will clean the deep rot in the Indian education system?
From plagiarism, to corruption and lack of transparency, to violence; a lot needs to be fixed
Covid-19 and the Classroom Crisis
Let’s not forget that underprivileged students are left out in this sudden spree of digitalisation
IIT entrance exams amidst Covid-19?
How students may be selected for IITs without any entrance examination in the time of pandemic and beyond
Students observe hunger strike, demand national-level exams be postponed
Over 4,000 students undertook a nation-wide hunger strike to draw the Centre’s attention and compel them to delay entrance exams while considering public health safety.
Education of over 70 percent of youth disrupted by Covid-19: ILO
Most of the affected youth have been unable to transition to online learning successfully
PM Modi says the NEP hasn’t raised concerns of any bias
He added that “national interest” was a key factor as "Every country equates education to its national interest and moves forward”
Dravidian TN speaks out against NEP, no to 3-language formula
Calling the Centre's plan “painful and saddening”, CM Palaniswami (AIDMK)—an ally of the ruling BJP-- has demanded a reconsideration of the three-language policy, with states being allowed the constitutional independence to implement their own, even as the opposition DMK has opposed the elite bias in the proposed policy changes
21st century brand of India’s Language Policy – NEP 2020
The National Education Policy, announced, without debate in Indian Parliament and without adequate inclusion of concerns and criticisms sent in by diverse Indian groups has raised several questions of concern, especially with related to access to education for all, democratisation of education, the language formula articulated, diversity concerns and worst of all, the all out privatisation of higher education. This note looks at the implications of the language policy in education as articulated in NEP 2020
Modi and Sangh shape education in their own mould
New education policy that comes into force, ironically at a time when the Parliament is not in session, and schools are virtual
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