-Livemint.com The proportion of school students in Grade 3 who are able to read a book meant for Grade 1 has improved only marginally from 40.2% in 2014 to 42.5% in 2016 New Delhi: The overall learning level in schools across rural India continues to be “pretty disappointing”, according to the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) published on Wednesday. Nationally, the proportion of school students in Grade 3 who are able to...
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The Perils of an Exam-Centric Education System -Avijit Pathak
-TheWire.in CBSE’s prevalent culture of examinations, which is indifferent to the uniqueness of a learner, negates creative articulation and critical thinking and kills the spirit of teaching as a vocation. Once again we have returned to the tyranny of examinations. Although the class ten board exams were made optional in 2011, as the new Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) guideline suggests, from 2018 onwards, it would be compulsory for students to...
More »India Will Be Hard-Pressed to Find Another Anupam Mishra -Himanshu Thakkar
-TheWire.in In November, after a very cogent public speech on India’s rivers, he was completely exhausted and in pain. But that he came anyway showed his dedication. “I need to go and pay respect to the people fighting for India’s rivers” insisted the weak Gandhian, barely able to walk, on November 28. In his speech at the India Rivers Week’s inaugural ceremony on that day, Anupam Mishra, with his characteristically wry humour,...
More »British Library to digitise 4,000 Bengali Books
-PTI ‘This exciting project will make South Asia’s rich and vibrant printed heritage accessible to everyone’ A new British Library project will digitise 4,000 early printed Bengali Books, amounting to more than 800,000 pages, as part of the U.K. India Year of Culture plans for 2017. The digitisation project is part of a wider “Two Centuries of Indian Print” project, an international partnership led by the British Library with funding from the Newton...
More »Centre to fund digital discounts -Nistula Hebbar
-The Hindu Public sector insurers, oil-marketing firms and others not to take a hit for cashless push The Centre has decided to bear the burden imposed on public sector firms on account of the many discounts and incentives offered to promote digital payments. The plan is to create a new expenditure head in the exchequer’s accounts that will absorb the costs of such measures. Public sector insurers, oil-marketing firms and others will thus not...
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