Online teaching was perhaps the most preferred mode (of the policymakers) for imparting education to school children in the last two years when schools faced closures thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was promoted by both the Central and State Governments when mobility almost came to a standstill (or got restricted in comparison to normal times) during the last two years. However, various studies (a list of those studies is...
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Parents anguished by loss of basic skills & deep socio-emotional stress amongst children, reveals new NCEE report
-Press statement by the National Coalition on the Education Emergency (NCEE) dated March 17, 2022 The NCEE conducted a rapid households survey of parents in Karnataka, Telangana and Tamil Nadu about their children's education during the pandemic and the main finding of this study is that poor parents are desperate about the education future of their children and fully conscious of the devastating toll that prolonged school closure has taken on...
More »Computers in 80% of TN govt schools but internet in only 18%: Report -Binita Jaiswal
-The New Indian Express Officials dispute findings of UDISE+ report; Kerala and Puducherry fare much better CHENNAI: Only 18% of government schools in Tamil Nadu have internet facility, according to the Unified district Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+) report 2020-21.The latest UDISE+ report, which was released recently by the Union Ministry of Education, reveals that 32.03 per cent of schools (government, government-aided, private, and others) in the State have internet facility...
More »Census rules amended to allow self-enumeration, digital data collection
-The Hindu The decennial Census exercise, which was indefinitely postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, will be held for the first time both in the digital mode and through paper schedules The Union government has amended the Census Rules framed in 1990 to allow the details to be captured and stored in an electronic format and also to enable self-enumeration by respondents. The decennial Census exercise, which was indefinitely postponed due to the...
More »In young voters, aspirations slowly turn into anxiety -Roshan Kishore
-Hindustan Times At 54.9 million, young men and women in the 18-30 age group constitute 36.5%of the total voters in the ongoing assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. Gorakhpur: Uttar Pradesh is home to 54.9 million young men and women who are in the 18-30 age group. That is approximately 36.5% of the total voters in the ongoing assembly elections. For an overwhelming majority of this cohort, the 2014 Lok Sabha and the 2017...
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