-The Hindu Nearly 34 lakh students of 1.18 lakh schools in 720 districts participated Nearly 80% students found learning at home during the pandemic "burdensome" and felt that they learnt better in school with help from peers, according to the government's survey of more than one lakh schools across the country. The Ministry of Education on Wednesday released its National Achievement Survey (NAS) 2021 report, which assesses the health of the school Education...
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Anti-child marriage crusader Ashok Dyalchand wins Swedish award -Shoumojit Banerjee
-The Hindu Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai is voted WCP’s ‘Child Rights Hero of the Decade’ City-based Ashok Dyalchand, who has been tirelessly campaigning against child marriages and for girls’ rights in India for more than four decades, was conferred with the prestigious Honorary Award at the World’s Children’s Prize (WCP) ‘Child Rights Hero’ ceremony held in Sweden on May 23. Dr. Dyalchand, a crusader for the rights of adolescent women through his Aurangabad-based Institute...
More »Will replacing PhD professors with practitioners work? -Siddharth Singh
-The Hindu Challenges abound in this approach, which needs to be analysed in depth before a policy is announced The University Grants Commission (UGC) has recently announced that it will do away with the mandatory PhD qualification to teach in Central Universities (CUs) spread across the country. It purportedly addresses a shortage of qualified faculty in CUs. According to the Ministry of Education data, there were 10,000 teaching positions lying vacant in...
More »Child rights groups oppose raising marriage age of women
-The Hindu Instead, they tell parliamentary panel to improve access to Education to delay marriages An umbrella body of child rights organisations set up by Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi, which appeared before the parliamentary panel studying the Bill on raising the age of marriage for women to 21 from 18 years, has opposed the move and emphasised the need to improve access to Education to delay marriages. The India Child Protection Forum [ICPF]...
More »The poor are bearing the brunt of inflation -Krishna Raj
-The Tribune The prices of essential food items have increased by 50% in seven years, whereas the real wage rate has risen by 22%. These figures show that inflation has outsmarted the real income of the poor, making their lives miserable as the food basket constitutes a substantial proportion of the total expenditure on the poor. The net effect is that the poor earn less and take loans to maintain the...
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