Girls in the capital city still struggle to get education beyond 8th grade, yet less than 13% of the Centre’s scheme to promote education of the girl child was used When Maya saw the status of girls’ education in her neighbourhood in South Delhi’s Jasola, she decided to take matters into her own hands. She […]

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Integration of economically weaker sections in private schools can benefit fee-paying children if teaching is made more effective Being a single parent in a high-profile job, Malvika* says her children were well aware that they couldn’t get into trouble at school and have her called in during the week. “They were really supportive,” she says. […]

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It all started when the Industrial Tribunal passed an order directing the Department of Education to release salary for the past 10 years of Maya Devi, amounting to Rs 4.8 lakh (approx). She works as a part-time sweeper in a school under Delhi government. Maya Devi was underpaid. She was made to work full day, […]

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The road to a medical education is paved with coaching institutes and dummy schools, which enable a student to pass class 11 and 12 without compulsory attendance. This gives them an unfair advantage in NEET Every year, thousands of students across India appear for the NEET (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test) exams. Hundreds of hours […]

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First generation learners, whose parents never had the benefit of an education, are enthusiastically attending school despite so many disadvantages Of the many factors that define India as a ‘developing country’, one of the most marked and significant changes has been that of underprivileged children being exposed to education. There seems to have been a […]

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Whether it is Delhi University or JNU, the unrest widely reported in the media is discouraging students from making Capital campuses their first choice Incident 1: Najeeb Ahmed, a first-year student of Jawaharlal Nehru University, went missing after a brawl with members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) at Mahi-Mandavi Hostel in Delhi on […]

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With professors continuing their anti-autonomy protest, the evaluation process has been stalled and is affecting final year students What is the link between the latest Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA) protests and exam paper evaluation? In their latest attempt to draw the attention of the university administration and the University Grants Commission, the teachers have […]

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Indians need to stop glorifying the past and work towards a better future by embracing science ‘No one saw an ape turn into a man’, claimed Satyapal Singh, HRD Minister of State, while commenting on Darwinian evolution. Moreover, our country’s Science & Technology Minister himself made a comment claiming that Stephen Hawking considered theories of […]

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