Education

Let’s not forget that underprivileged students are left out in this sudden spree of digitalisation

How students may be selected for IITs without any entrance examination in the time of pandemic and beyond

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.

Most of the affected youth have been unable to transition to online learning successfully

He added that “national interest” was a key factor as "Every country equates education to its national interest and moves forward”

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

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

New education policy that comes into force, ironically at a time when the Parliament is not in session, and schools are virtual

Demand to withdraw revised UGC guidelines about universities being required to complete final year examinations by September 2020

Chapters on human rights and secularism deleted from curriculum