Webinar: Where Are the Kids? (बच्चे कहां हैं?)

A survey was conducted in 40 primary and 41 upper-primary government schools across Araria and Katihar districts of Bihar, in early 2023 by Jan Jagran Shakti Sangathan. Please join us for a Webinar discussion (link here) on the findings of the Report “Where Are the Kids?: The Curious Case of…

Press release: Parents and Children Agitate Against Single-Teacher Schools in Garu (Jharkhand)

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…

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…

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 :…

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…