It’s Time to Regulate India’s EdTech Sector
In the last two years, more than 150 million students have entered India’s EdTech sector besides platform users such as teachers and administrators. The role of EdTechs is no longer limited to imparting education through online classes. This calls for a regulatory framework by the government that safeguards the interests of all stakeholders offering and availing the varied educational services.
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...
With Schools Closed Across Maharashtra, How Well Did Students Learn Over the Past Year?
Students across Maharashtra are suffering from acute learning losses, policy reforms addressing the worries of their parents and teachers are needed.
Is the PM e-Vidya Scheme Losing the Plot on Digitising Education?
In a post-pandemic era, how is PM e-Vidya placed to digitise education for all? Are the services accessible to the students they seek to assist?
Mediating the Media: Making India’s Children Media Literate
Authored by Ipsita Mishra
The Internet is the main source of information today, with usage climbing across urban and rural areas. Where we get our...
Taking the Classroom Online: E-Education for India
India’s education landscape is vast ─ close to 260 million students attend more than 1.5 million schools and around 30.5 million college students attend...
Bastion Shorts: Has AAP’s Education Model Really Worked?
The Bastion Shorts—Episode 5
As Delhi goes to vote tomorrow, many of us would be basing our votes on the reforms brought about in...
NCERT’s “Primary” Concern with Technology: Effective or Erroneous?
Written by Shraddha Tripathi
In July 2018, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) published new guidelines concerning the education of children in...
Education in Times of COVID: How Corporation Schools in Chennai Are Bridging the E-Learning...
Like every other industry, education systems across the world have come to a crashing halt in the face of COVID-19. Although the pandemic has...
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...