-The Hindu The post-COVID-19 situation is complex and the ‘where we left it’ approach will not do for any stage of school education As children return to the classroom after an unprecedentedly long gap, many among their Teachers realise that Teaching will be tougher. And there are others who assume that it will be business as usual. In fact, they have already started Teaching from the point ‘where we left it’, meaning...
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Attack on Press Freedom’: Editors Guild, DUJ Condemn IT Dept ‘Surveys’ at Media Houses
-Newsclick.in Slamming the IT ‘surveys’ at the offices of NewsClick and Newslaundry, the Guild said the dangerous trend of harassing and intimidating independent media must stop. The Editors Guild of India, the apex body of journalists, on Saturday said it was deeply disturbed about the Income Tax Department’s “survey” conducted at the Delhi offices of news websites NewsClick and Newslaundry. In a separate statement, the Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ) also condemned the...
More »80% of Indian Children Learnt Lesser During the Pandemic: UNICEF Report -Ditsa Bhattacharya
-Newsclick.in UNICEF urged governments to prioritise the safe reopening of all schools, while also ensuring that children are able to pursue quality learning remotely if necessary. At least 80% of children in India between the age of 14-18 years reported lower levels of learning during the Covid-19 pandemic than when physically at school, according to a recent UNICEF report. The report pointed out that despite government, private and civil society actors coming together...
More »Why is it difficult for children from underprivileged sections of the society to get their lessons online? Read this new report to know.
Remote Teaching and learning promoted by Edtech companies as an alternative to physical classrooms, especially since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, may have a sizeable consumer base in our country. However, at the bottom of the pyramid, there are only a few takers of online education. In reality, class and caste-divide, which is more prominent in rural areas, affects access to digital learning. The majority of the school going...
More »Prof. Chinmay Tumbe of IIM Ahmedabad interviewed by Civil Society News
-Civil Society News, Gurugram THROUGHOUT the first and second waves of the coronavirus pandemic, the extent of the tragedy in India was mostly unknown. How many people had really died? Were they men or women? Information was anecdotal and speculative. This April, there were queues at crematoriums and burial grounds, but even as bodies piled up there were no reliable figures to go by. We now have some figures based on data-hunting...
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