Addressing gender bias in education requires providing social, financial and emotional support to the girl child.
COVID-19 Transmission in US Child Care Programs
“No association was found between exposure to child care and COVID-19” The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on child care and schools. Within 1 week of the World Health Organization’s declaration of a pandemic, 107 countries had implemented national school closures.
Covid-19: The Indian children who have forgotten how to read and write
In India, schools have remained shut since March last year when the country went into lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19. Affluent private schools and their students switched to online classes seamlessly, but government-run schools have struggled. And their students – often with no laptops or smartphones and patchy…
Tribal student in Kerala falls from tree while attending online class, fractures spine
The student had climbed a tree to get network coverage for his phone, to access digital classes. An incident that took place on Thursday in a tribal colony in Kerala’s Kannur district, which left a Plus One student with a fractured spine and other injuries, has once again revealed the…
Play-based teaching module prepared for Class 1 students to ease post-COVID transition
With schools having been closed for the last year and a half due to COVID-19, the Central government has issued a 12-week play-based module as a transition aid to help students ease into physical classes for the first time.
Karnataka: Only 15% rural kids engaged in learning during class hours, says study
BENGALURU: Homebound due to Covid-19, only 15% of government school children in rural areas are engaged in some form of learning during school hours, while others are busy with mobile phones or watching television, a survey has found.
Why the post-pandemic school is an opportunity to reinvent learning
The classroom must be centred around joyful and creative learning, join the dots between children’s lives and education.
Compendium of Research prepared by Working Group on Research
The Working Group on Research is working on creating a compendium of research studies relating to school education during the pandemic. You can find it here.
Karnataka schools, colleges reopen for classes 9-12 after five months
Schools and Pre-University (PU) colleges here and in other districts of Karnataka where COVID test positivity rate is less than two per cent reopened for students of classes 9-12 on Monday after a gap of five months. The Chief Minister Basavaraj S Bommai likened the reopening to freedom for students…