-The Hindu Business Line The pandemic toll on the mental health of children, including instances of PTSD, has received too little attention “I love my father, but why does he behave like this?” asks a 13-year-old from a slum in Delhi who was sexually abused during the first lockdown. She and her mother were also beaten up often. The mother, a daily wager, was compelled to take the traumatised child with her...
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Surveys on learning losses by month end, panel told -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu House panel on education discusses COVID-19 impact The Centre is assessing how badly school students have been hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, and will collect States’ surveys on digital education access and learning losses by the end of this month, the School Education Department told a parliamentary panel on education on Monday. The panel asked the Centre to also assess the impact of its own guidelines and interventions, as well as...
More »Many schools in Bengaluru tie up with third party finance companies to collect fees -Soumya Chatterjee
-TheNewsMinute.com Parents say despite the Karnataka government putting a school fee cap of 70% of tuition fees, this has not been enforced due to ongoing litigation. A legal stalemate at the Karnataka High Court over the fee regulation of ICSE and CBSE schools in the state and especially Bengaluru has left many parents high and dry. Since the onset of the pandemic and the resultant economic slowdown, parents who suffered a loss...
More »‘Students lagging behind’: Parents, teachers in Kerala concerned over online classes -Haritha John
-TheNewsMinute.com Around 7 of the 10 government or aided-school students TNM spoke to about their online classes, said that they haven't paid attention or learnt anything much. "I haven't learnt anything new in the last year. I listened to some English lessons as I liked stories and poems, other than that I haven't attended any of the classes properly. I have no clue what I learnt in Maths and Science. Some teachers...
More »COVID pushed men into informal labour, women out of workforce: study -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu Remigration of young, trained workers Bihar, Jharkhand workers at minimal levels A survey of young, semi-skilled migrants from rural Bihar and Jharkhand in April 2021 has found that last year’s lockdown led to an informalisation of labour among men, while most of the women simply dropped out of the work force altogether. It also found that the number of out-of-State migrants halved between March 2020 and 2021, with no net effect...
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