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Thirteen Years of the Right to Education Act: A Stocktaking Brief
Read more: Thirteen Years of the Right to Education Act: A Stocktaking BriefThe article discusses the implementational status of the Right to Education (2009) Act, 13 years after its enactment. It picks a few key factors and promises by the law and provides a commentary on how they have fared against the test of reality.
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What is India’s Rural Education Scenario like in Reality?
Read more: What is India’s Rural Education Scenario like in Reality?Understanding the ground realities of rural education.
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NEP 2020 : Homeschooling messed up; where the vision of the visionaries went opaque
Read more: NEP 2020 : Homeschooling messed up; where the vision of the visionaries went opaqueNational Education Policy (NEP) 2020 is indeed a well thought, futuristic, long-awaited education policy reform that turns the whole paradigm upside down. Nevertheless, no policy is flawless. Here the author presents one critical aspect of the NEP that has so far managed to hide from the intellectual lenses; homeschooling messed up.
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Is the Indian education system on the right track?
Read more: Is the Indian education system on the right track?The authors discover the many possible loopholes of the well-intentioned New Education Policy, 2020. This article brings to light the implications of a policy reform that could potentially create a divide between the “elites” and the “commoners”.
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The New Education Policy – Opportunities and Caveats
Read more: The New Education Policy – Opportunities and CaveatsThis article evaluates the recently announced education policy — the NEP. It discusses the necessity that drove the government into formulating such a document, the possibilities that entail upon its implementation, and the talk around its effectiveness in truly achieving what most of us have regarded with deep skepticism — better utilization of our people,…
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Prof. Thandika Mkandawire’s legacy: Lessons for higher education and its internationalisation
Read more: Prof. Thandika Mkandawire’s legacy: Lessons for higher education and its internationalisationProfessor Thandika Mkandawire was someone at home in the world: his childhood years were spent in Malawi, Zimbabwe and Zambia; his life’s work spanned Africa, Latin America, Europe and Asia; he was pan-Africanist in his outlook but with a deep affinity for the global south at large. His discomfort with structures sustaining global inequality and…
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Why we need to de-institutionalise the idea of knowledge?
Read more: Why we need to de-institutionalise the idea of knowledge?By Ashit Kumar Srivastava Take in no light word but human beings are obsessed, nay passionate, with the idea of affiliations something to which there is no denying of. Ever since childhood, when consciousness touches upon the threshold of our rationality, we start looking for forums to affiliate ourselves with various groups, institutions and finally…
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India’s Invisible Innovation: Affecting India’s Business and Economic Milieu in the Future
Read more: India’s Invisible Innovation: Affecting India’s Business and Economic Milieu in the FutureCan India become a global hub for innovation? Ekta Gupta endeavors to answer this question as a reflection to Nirmalya Kumar’s TED talk on India’s Invisible Innovation. ‘Innovation is novelty in how value is created and distributed’ as defined by the famous economist Schumpeter. Thomas Friedman in his book, “The World Is Flat,” said, that it…
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Rethinking Education as an Economic Good: Analysing the Proliferation of Private Universities across India
Read more: Rethinking Education as an Economic Good: Analysing the Proliferation of Private Universities across IndiaPrivately-funded higher education institutions have been materializing across India in the last few years. Anamika Srivastava & Deepanshu Mohan consider how these new universities challenge the traditional value, nature and goals attached to education. They argue that while private investment is necessary to meet increasing demand, new institutions must be careful not to compromise or contradict the larger social…