Category: Education
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Access to School Education for Girls in India: Impact & Interventions for Change
One of the major challenges of the education system in India is to address gender disparities in terms of enrolment and drop-out rates of the girl child. The dismal female literacy rate in 1981 was at 28.47% and increased to 65.46% in 2011 as opposed to the male literacy rate of 82.14% in 2011. The…
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Measures to address the impact of COVID on access to education in Government Primary Schools of Delhi
The UNDP report COVID and Human Development: Assessing the Crisis, Envisioning the Recovery states that the pandemic has emerged as a “human development crisis” with indicators of certain dimensions expected to sink as low as mid-1980 levels. Education is one such dimension. With schools being closed and large proportions of the population without internet access,…
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Right to Internet vis à vis Right to Primary Education in the NCT of Delhi
Information about the issue: In the last few months, COVID-19 has surfaced as an unprecedented challenge for the issue of access to quality education, especially for primary school students in government schools. For most of the students in government primary schools belonging to the disadvantaged communities, absence of computers, smartphones or any reliable broadband service…
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The Policy Dialogue: Need for Access and Quality in India’s Education Policies
We are organizing an online policy awareness and deliberation session on the subject of Need for Access and Quality in India’s Education Policies. Date: 21st August 2020 Timings: 7:00 p.m. to 7:40 p.m. Event Portal: Zoom The National Education Policy (NEP), 2020 has been hailed for its reformative approach to school and college education in…
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The Policy Dialogue: Reforms in India’s Education Policies
We are organizing an online policy awareness and deliberation session on the subject of Reforms in India’s Education Policies. Date: 31st July 2020 Timings: 7:00 p.m. to 7:40 p.m. Event Portal: Zoom Though the Draft Education Policy, 2019 has focussed on some of the crucial changes necessary in our educational system, the recent pandemic has…
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Draft National Education Policy: An Overhaul of the Indian Education System
There have been significant changes in the world and the country since the last time the education policy was modified. Hence a need was felt to do so now, such that the educational requirements of the present scenario could best be tackled. A committee was set up in June 2017 under the chairmanship of Dr.…
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Sustainable Livelihood through Education-The Way Forward for the Northern Hilly Areas
Ever increasing consumption, rapid growth in population and modern production systems have resulted in greater demand for natural resources. Hilly areas of Northern India are particularly vulnerable to the consequences of climate change and indiscriminate exploitation of nature, as they are rich sources of biodiversity and natural resources. In these challenging times, sustainability is the…
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Reshaping the Educational Landscape: Draft National Education Policy
By Parvathy Ramesh, University of Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. India-centred, sustainable, equitable, vibrant, and high-quality – these are the keywords used to describe the vision of the draft National Education Policy (NEP) in a report submitted on May 31, 2019. Chaired by Dr. K. Kasturirangan, the Committee for Draft National Education Policy proposes several reformations in…
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Sustainable Reforms: Education for Livelihood in the Hilly Regions
Using the case study of Almora in Uttarakhand, this Working Document addresses the following issues:
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Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan: A Major Overhaul in India’s Education Sector?
By Vishu Surana, National Law School of India University, Bangalore. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela realized 30 years ago that education is the most essential tool for social, economic and political transformation and a key instrument for building a just society. For a country like India…