The NCEE in collaboration with Aide et Action International and the Centre for Migration and Inclusive Development (CMID) organised the first ever national consultation on the State of Access to Education for Children of Migrant Workers on August 17, 2022. Most migrant children spend an average of six months in…
NCEE urges due diligence by government of Andhra Pradesh before implementing MoU with BYJUs
Read the appeal in English, Hindi and Telugu The government of Andhra Pradesh’s announcement at the World Economic Forum about an MoU with BYJUs raises several questions about subjecting poor and vulnerable children to risks involving data harvesting and theft concerns and dubious pedagogical value of unproven EdTech products Urging…
Citizens’ group Bahutva Karnataka seeks resignation of Karnataka Education Minister
“We condemn his mishandling of education during the Covid crisis, failure to address malnutrition and his complicity in weaponising education.”
Right Digitalization in Education? – Summary note with suggestions for action
Date: 23 April 2022 Key Participants: Ajay Singh, Amit Dhakulkar, Anjela Taneja, Dr. Indranee Dutta, Dr. Niranjan Aradhya, G Nagarjuna , Gurumurthy Kasinathan , Mitra Ranjan, Nachiket Udupa, Osama Manzar, Parminder Singh, Prof. Anita Rampal, Prof. Geetha Nambissan, Prof. R Ramanujam, Prof. Rajaram Sharma, Ravi Subramanian, Rishi Mazumdar, Sriranjani Ranganathan…
School management committees across Tamil Nadu on road to revival
One of the Coimbatore coordinators, T Arulanandham said that the department would hold elections for the posts of SMC president, vice-president, and members.
Covid widens rich-poor gap in learning
The survey “Cries of Anguish” conducted by the National Coalition on the Education Emergency has attributed the development to online classes, parents guiding their children themselves, and the effect of private tuition
Webinar on “Right Digitalization” in Education? on 23rd April 2022
A recording of this seminar is available on YouTube. Please watch it here. Digitalisation has been taking place across sectors for a while now but has gathered a lot of pace in the last couple of years, even more so during the pandemic. Specially in education, due to the unexpectedly…
Haryana to distribute 2.5 lakh tablets among Class 10-12 students of govt schools next month
Haryana govt. to distribute 2.5 lakh tablets to Class 10-12 students of government schools in May. Procurement of personalised and adaptive learning (PAL) software (for Classes 9 to 12), which will cost more than ₹5 crore is also planned
Tamil Nadu: Primary Schools To Get Smart Classes
Government announces that smart classrooms would be built in all 23,000 government primary schools in the next four years, with 7,500 coming up at ₹150 crore in 2022-23.
Education Emergency: The crisis and efforts to address it
Impacts of the pandemic on the Indian education system, mitigation efforts by the NCEE and next steps