ActionAid Association and Slum Mahila Sanghatane organized a public hearing on the impact of Covid-19 on Children’s Education on the 22nd of March at SCM House Bangalore. Download Report of Jury on the Public Hearing COVID has had a terrible impact on every aspect of life, as we all know.…
Cries of Anguish
The main finding of this study of households in Karnataka, Telangana and Tamil Nadu is the following: Poor parents are desperate about the education future of their children and fully conscious of the devastating toll that prolonged school closure has taken on the learning, socio-emotional development and behaviour of their…
Data check: Twelve Indian states have reduced the share of education in their Budget allocations
Nineteen of 21 states are estimated to have spent less than what they set out to in 2020-’21.
Hijab row likely to hit education of Muslim women, experts fear
Young women wearing religious headscarves tearfully pleading to be allowed entry into schools and colleges with many vowing not to remove their hijabs has raised concerns on the impact this will have on their education.
Budgeting for the education emergency
It is astonishing that public expenditure data on the education sector are not easily available
NCEE questions Govt.’s reluctance in opening schools despite the lifting of curfew in Bengaluru
Press release by National Coalition on the Education Emergency (NCEE) dated January 22, 2022. Schools in Bengaluru remain closed while malls, theaters, pubs and restaurants have been kept open. As of 21 January, the weekend curfew has been lifted as well. It is tragic that schools are closed when there…
Schools must be the last to close and the first to open
January 4, 2022 We note with concern, that governments are considering or planning school closure as Covid cases are on the rise. Delhi, Goa and Haryana governments have ordered school closure. Karnataka TAC has recommended a TPR of 2% to close schools and colleges. This will spell a disaster for…
Karnataka to close schools only if positivity rate breaches 5%
BC Nagesh, minister for primary and secondary education, on Tuesday revealed schools in the districts will remain open and that they will be ordered closed only if the Covid-19 test positivity rate breaches the 5%-mark.
Kids’ low infection rate doesn’t warrant school closure: DPI
As many as 860 children in the age group of 6 to 16 years have tested positive for Covid-19 in the third wave in the state, as per the data collated by the department of public instruction (DPI). The department says that the number of infected children is only a…