Because of Covid, today’s kids are missing out on not just school, but life lessons, human interaction and the forging of relationships. And their needs need to be prioritized.
Karnataka: Schools must be shut as last resort, NCEE tells government
The National Coalition on the Education Emergency (NCEE), a forum of experts in the field of education, child rights and medicine have strongly recommended that schools be closed as a last resort. This comes even as the Karnataka government has announced the suspension of in-person classes for all except classes…
Closing schools would ‘spell disaster for children’, says Right to Education group
The National Coalition on the Education Emergency said evidence suggest children are least vulnerable to Covid-19 and the fatalities are negligible.
Campaign strives to send children to school in 2022
Backed by teachers, parents and doctors, the initiative says children deserve normalcy in the New Year as they have lost too much in the name of COVID measures
The children who quietly dropped out of school
The Covid-19 pandemic and lockdowns disrupted the education of millions of students in India. When schools reopened, many never went back.
Mumbai Schools NOT reopening tomorrow, BMC delays reopening till December 15 over Omicron threat
Mumbai Schools reopening has been delayed. As per recent orders from BMC, Mumbai Schools will not be reopening from tomorrow – December 1, 2021 for classes 1 to 7. They would reopen from December 15, 2021, once the situation is conducive.
Interview on Suno India podcast featuring the NCEE and “ A Future at Stake”
In this podcast of The Suno India Show, host Kunika Balhotra speaks with Dr Sajitha Bashir, the author of the report, to understand what steps schools and governments should take to address this education emergency. Click here to listen.
Back to school – How the gap in schooling has caused an education emergency in India
The school closures in India due to the COVID-19 Pandemic have been among the longest in the world. For close to 18 months, 265 million students have not been to school. The report, “A FUTURE AT STAKE -Organizing the Education Recovery for the Most Vulnerable”
School enrolment fell during pandemic: Annual Status of Education Report
The percentage of rural children who were not enrolled in school doubled during the pandemic, with Government schools seeing an increase in enrolment at the expense of private schools, according to the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2021. Over a third of children enrolled in Classes 1 and 2…
We mustn’t ignore a big crisis of education staring us in the face
The majority of students need a year to recover learning losses.To make matters worse, too many states are pressing teachers hard to test children and continue with the current class syllabus. Unless there is a sharp and quick change in the dispositions and actions of our states, we can anticipate…