Jharkhand has highest proportion of children studying in single-teacher schools in India (22.2%) 30% of all government primary schools in the state are single teacher schools Dumka, West Singbhum and Ranchi have highest number of single teacher schools A spirited demonstration happened today against single-teacher schools. Parents and children from…
Tackling Sexism in Schools and Colleges
Gurumurthy Kasinathan, an educator NCEE co-founder, and Anusha Hegde, Program Associate at IT for Change and who works in the area of adolescent girl empowerment wrote for Deccan Herald about the pervasive sexism in Indian schools, and recommended some pathways on how to tackle them. Read the Full article here.
The ‘operation successful, patient dead’ tragicomedy
NCEE co-founder Gurumurthy Kasinathan writes about how centralised examinations are anathema to the spirit and purpose of education. After a brief battle between Education department and schools association, the Karnataka High Court intervened and decided to move ahead with standardized examinations, even though academicians have continuously opposed common examinations, as…
SIAfFRE Formation Meeting Concept Note
CONCEPT NOTE Equitable Universal Quality Education is the foundation for a country’s development. It is a powerful tool for larger social good and social transformation to make India truly into a Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic. India being wedded to parliamentary democracy, the role of education, especially universalisation of equitable…
SIAfFRE Formed! Bangalore Declaration
Two Day Workshop to Reflect on The Status of Fundamental Right to Education and The Way Forward APRIL 1&2, 2023 ORGANISERS South Indian Alliance For Fundamental Right To Education (SIAFFRE) (comprising of) People’s Alliance For Fundamental Right To Education (PAFRE) All India Primary Teachers Federation (AIPTF) National…
Press Conference – Gloom in the Classroom – Schooling crisis in Jharkhand and beyond
Survey of primary schools in 16 districts of Jharkhand conducted by the Gyan Vigyan Samiti Jharkhand and similar studies conducted by the National Coalition on the Education Emergency in other geographies will be shared. Meeting recording link available here Download the reports The Jharkhand schools study report can be accessed…
Webinar on 23.12.22 – Is EdTech a danger to Education?
Watch the webinar recording on https://youtu.be/1BEnk1-JJGA. Reports discussed in the Webinar: Access the report – Digital Dollar? An exploratory study of the investments by IFC in the Indian educational technology sector Access the policy brief – Educational Technology in School Education in India Join EdTech India Watch on Telegram :…
BYJU’S malpractices – affecting employees and parents
This is a two-part investigation into Byju’s business practices. Part 1 – https://www.context.news/money-power-people/byjus-staff-reveal-harsh-work-conditions-at-indian-tech-giant Part 2 – https://www.context.news/money-power-people/loss-after-loss-indian-parents-say-byjus-pushed-them-into-debt
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…
Mapping Out of School Children during COVID-19 in India
In this research, Nisha Vernekar, Aditya Narayan Rai and Karan Singhal of Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, have systematically compiled and analysed sources of information between April 2020 and May 2022. Three types of sources have been compiled and analysed – (i) nationally representative surveys (conducted by the State and…