Short staffing, emotionally vulnerable students, stress and safety have been major issues for educators this year.
In India, as the virus abates, a hunger crisis persists
In a separate 2020 survey by Azim Premji University I Bangalore, 90 percent of respondents reported a reduction in food intake due to the lockdown. Twenty percent of respondents continued to battle the problem even six months later.
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.
Karnataka sees rise in number of anaemic kids, women in last five years
Notwithstanding numerous initiatives to provide nutritious food, anaemia continues to be a major health problem among women and children in Karnataka.
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…
Fixing India’s education crisis is key for development: Jean Drèze
Development does not mean having more US Dollars, but people living well with good nourishment, education, longer life, more freedom and so on. Universal quality education could make a major contribution to greater equity in Indian society, says economist Prof Jean Drèze.
‘Smaller Citizens: Writings on the Making of Indian Citizens’ review: The crisis in education
Krishna Kumar highlights the disparities that exist in the system: gender, caste, class, and the urban-rural gap, and also casts a light on how schools treat their youngest citizens.