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Landscape Report on Educational Technology in Schools
— Prof. Rajaram S. Sharma, Former Joint Director, CIET, NCERT, New Delhi The evolution of mass education has resulted in a school model which involves structuring and age-wise stratification, organisation of curricula, training of teachers in the techniques of instruction, classroom processes, enablers such as timetables or lesson plans and…
Webinar on Exploring the Education Technology Landscape
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NCEE recommends that blanket school closures not be an immediate response to the air pollution crisis in Delhi.
The Delhi government had closed primary schools last week, based on a recommendation from the NCPCR, owing to the air pollution crisis in the city. As the air quality has improved, schools have been re-opened from today. While the concern about the health and well-being of children is valid, the…
NCEE is hiring
Position: Coordinator Organisation: National Coalition on the Education EmergencyLocation: Bengaluru/Delhi (preferred) About the Organisation: The National Coalition on the Education Emergency is a group of individuals and organisations that have come together to work on issues relating to the impact on the pandemic on school education in India. The NCEE…
The State of Access to Education for Migrant Children
Link to Report In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, migrant children, who did not have consistent access to schools anyway, were completely deprived of any kind of education for a considerable length of time. Once physical schools reopened, there were minimal or no efforts made to address student learning…
Insights from a Study of Middle School Students’ Foundational Mathematics and Language Skills
Introduction 175 students from government higher primary schools in Bengaluru were engaged as part of a study to understand their learning needs in the context of schools being re-opened after the prolonged school closures during the pandemic. The study was conducted through a series of activities wherein students worked individually,…
Digital Dollar? An exploratory study of the investments by IFC in the Indian educational technology sector
A review of the investee companies of International Finance Corporation reveals that there are serious gaps between the work of these companies, and the priorities of Indian education, with respect to questions of access, affordability and inclusion; adherence to labor, environment and child protection standards, and quality of services
Lawmaker Karti P Chidambaram asks fraud regulator to investigate BYJU’s finances
Byju’s has been under fire these past months over its delay in filing audited financials as well as over its March funding round. Besides, the company’s subsidiaries have had to lay off staff in the past weeks amid a funding crunch
India’s edtech startups are failing to regulate themselves
In January, after the government issued an advisory asking citizens to be cautious before signing up for online courses, edtech companies had come together to form a self-regulatory body, the India EdTech Consortium (IEC). IEC has identified sales, loans, content, and teacher effectiveness as some of the most important issues…