-The Hindu Pratichi Trust report highlights the massive impact on the teaching-learning process About 40% primary School students could not attend online classes during the COVID-19 pandemic owing to the digital divide, a report published by Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen’s Pratichi (India) Trust found. The study was compiled on the basis of experiences shared by hundreds of teachers across 21 State-run primary Schools in Kolkata. The 72-page report highlights the issues faced by...
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Vulnerable and in the discomfort zone -Preeti Mehra
-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...
More »How Covid-19 pandemic has put India’s children at risk of abuse, exploitation and marriage -Shreya Khaitan
-Scroll.in/ India Spend The country needs a nationwide campaign to protect its children from the economic and social consequences of lockdowns and loss of caregivers, say experts. A six-month-old who was touched inappropriately by her father while they were stuck at home during the Covid-19 lockdown. A 14-year-old who might not be able to go back to School as his father, the family’s only earning member, has died from the disease. Five...
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 »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...
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