Tag: education
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COVID-19 and Education: Impact and Future Preparedness
When Nelson Mandela famously said: “Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world,” little did we know that a day would come when this essential weapon would be at a treacherous risk. With the COVID-19 pandemic affecting people worldwide irrespective of nationality or race, the education system has faced the…
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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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Dovetailing Livelihood with Literacy
By Annapurna Sinharay, Symbiosis Law School, Pune. Karl Marx vilified the education system as an instrument in the hands of the evil capitalists to train a pliant labour force. However, the widespread unemployment plaguing the country today has reduced the system to one of a much benign nature, hopefully to Marx’s liking. Among the many…
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LexQuest’s 2nd National Article Writing Competition, 2018
To commemorate the 127th Birth Anniversary year of the Father of our Constitution, Lexquest is initiating a drive, to engage and ideate with you, thereby working in the direction of enriching thoughts and encouraging actions. At the same time, keeping in line with the Preamble envisaged by the visionary, Baba Saheb Ambedkar, we aspire to…
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Of Privileged Indians: Note from One to the Others
By Adv. Tanya Chandra, Co-Founder, LexQuest. Sometimes, it dawns upon us that being born into privilege of any kind, in an underdeveloped country, changes the course of our priorities, and it is indeed a safety net, hence an escape route from a life of deprivation, oppression, indignity and neglect that millions of the same country…
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Reshaping Education: The BRICS Way
By Sandeep G., SASTRA Deemed University, Thanjavur. GDP is the indicator of the economic strength of every Country. Presently, all nations compete with each other to increase their economic strength, by domestically formulating highly feasible economic policies and entering into treaties with various other nations. However, an encounter against the prevalent illiteracy rate in India has, since…