The National Education Policy 2020: Getting It Done!
After years of waiting, the National Education Policy (NEP) of 2020 was finally approved by the Union Cabinet on the 28th of July, resulting...
Social and Emotional Learning Can Help Indian Schools Deal With the Mental Impacts of...
India needs to develop a contextualised framework for Social and Emotional Learning to address the pandemic's mental impacts on students and caregivers.
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.
Should the NEP Prescribe a Three Language Policy with Hindi?
Understanding the Context
On the 31st of May 2019, the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) released the Draft National Education Policy (NEP), a comprehensive...
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...
Learning By Doing: How Project Based Learning Can Transform Our Education System
A new B-school graduate finds himself on his first day at work as an analyst in an investment bank. He is facing a spreadsheet...
In Search of a Vaccine for Public Education: Is School Consolidation the Answer?
By Sourya Reddy
The idea of school consolidations are fairly simple in theory; for a particular region, in schools where there are too few students,...
No Country for Foreign Students
Co-authored by Amrita Singh & Aakanksha Jadhav
Another day, another session of rigorous frisking and mockery in an unknown language. Frederick*, well equipped to enter...
Beyond More Enrolment, RTE Needs to Consider Out-of-Class Lives
In a country that seems to be obsessed with Gross Enrolment Ratios, the lives of Om and Swati, students in Mumbai and Madhya Pradesh, force us to pause and reconsider.
How Can Citizens Decide Electoral Agendas?
How can citizens create political narratives and change the focus of elections to human development indicators like education, health or the environment?
