The new National Education Policy lays emphasis on imparting teaching in mother tongue in primary classes. But when the language-base of Odisha’s adivasi communities is as diverse as 21 spoken languages further divided into 74 dialects, the task appears to be quite onerous.
School Closure, Digital Divide, Learning Gap: Post-COVID India Needs Resilient Education System
The pandemic can be an opportunity to recalibrate priorities. Education along with health, jobs and climate change should be the core ingredients of our recovery plan.
Parents want schools to reopen for younger kids in Karnataka
With Kerala announcing that classes from grade 1 and above will reopen from November 1, parents are hoping schools in Karnataka will follow suit. Parents feel it is important for younger children to return to campuses and interact with friends and teachers. With schools functioning from home for more than…
Making sure that girls don’t drop out of school
Addressing gender bias in education requires providing social, financial and emotional support to the girl child.
Inequality in homeschooling during the Corona crisis in the Netherlands
This article reports the first results of a module in the LISS Panel that was designed to map how parents school their children in primary and secondary education.
Learning at a Distance
This report explores children’s and parents’ experiences of remote learning during the lockdown in Italy, drawing on data collected from 11 European countries
In Kerala, a help desk by the children for the children
Reaching out over phone to over 30,000 little-known peers locked up in homes during pandemic times is no child’s play. That is exactly what 245 trained students from Class VIII to Class XII did during the last academic year under Kutty Desk, a novel initiative of Our Responsibility to Children…
3 critical actions to finance an inclusive recovery for children
Critical actions need to be undertaken to finance an inclusive recovery for children, requiring strong commitment and action on the part of national governments, the international community and the private sector. New recommendations lay out the commitments and actions needed for investment in all children.
The Impact Of The Covid-19 Pandemic On Public School Education
This policy note identifies the current and potential challenges for the education sector in the wake of the pandemic in India and looks at what the major responses of the government have been. It also discusses some crucial aspects of the outlook for public school education in India.