Why Don’t Our Textbooks Live Up to Our Ambitious Education Policies?
This is the first instalment of a two-part series on how and why our textbooks fail to meet the lofty ambitions set by national...
Budget 2018: Is the Money Anywhere Close to the Mouth?
Co-authored by Amrita Singh & Tanvi Mehta
An Obsession with the Established
The budget for 2018-19, unveiled by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, focused on revamping...
A Low Benchmark: The State of Infrastructure in Our Schools
Written & Photographed by Apurva Sankar
Working as a Teach For India Fellow in a government school for the past 2 years has given me...
Amidst COVID-19, Who is Watching Over Children’s Data on Ed-Tech Platforms?
As Indian students continue to depend on ed-tech platforms to learn for the foreseeable future, we also need to also think about how we’re protecting their digital and personal safety. Are ed-tech companies themselves responsibly using and protecting children’s data? How is the Indian state monitoring their protection of children’s data? Are our Internet laws strong enough to protect a child’s right to privacy online? We answer all these questions and more, in this month’s On the Fence.
New Year, New Education Policy: Fighting Ailments of Old
Written by Amrita Singh
On December 18th 2017, the government of Odisha tied up with All India Society for Electronics and Computer Technology (AISECT) to provide...
A Roadmap to Safely Reopening Schools For Our Children
Instead of asking whether schools should reopen, examine the requirements to allow our children to be safely reintroduced to their classrooms and childhoods.
The Saga of Film Education: Raising Cinema to be Respectable
Written by K. Hariharan
Cinema in the 20th century was the most dominant form of popular culture across the world. Simultaneously, it was considered the...
Where are the Missing Girls of our IITs? The Leaky Pipeline
Women are systematically pushed out of the pipeline that takes them from school, through coaching and the JEE, onto engineering college. At each step of this journey, here's how bright female minds are lost to gender stereotypes and biases, or the ‘leaks’ in the IIT pipeline.
May the Pop be With You! Integrating Popular Culture in Indian Classrooms
“Koi mujhko ye bataaye,
Kyun ye doori aur majboori?
Iss duniya ki kya story,
Kiske haath mein kiski dori?”
Some of you might have already started humming along....
Towards Inclusive Private Schooling
During this lockdown, few private schools have hiked their fee for the current academic year. As a result, various state governments have issued guidelines...
