We Don’t Need This Education
A flawed education system that treats students as numbers, not minds, is taking a toll on adolescent mental health. Do we have a solution?
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A flawed education system that treats students as numbers, not minds, is taking a toll on adolescent mental health. Do we have a solution?
A university, for the State, should merely be a sanitised site of formal curriculum: it should not be a sanctuary that encourages young minds to engage in critical analysis and speak truth to power.
Thousands of teachers work under the system with no job security. Now they fear that new changes will further damage their chances of securing permanent posts.
Its centralised focus on state examinations even in grades 3, 5 and 8 in addition to the board examinations in grades 10 and 12 runs contrary to the RTE. Also: extract from: ‘Reads Like an Impressive Wish List But Barters Right to Education’.
The relentless pressure to excel in exams like JEE and NEET drives students to the brink. But that’s just one side of this tragic story.
An analysis of the budgetary allocations for education in Union Budget 2023-24, in the context of the claims made in the New Education Policy 2020.
Private schools will never remain accountable to the government. If we have to prevent incident like the one described in this article, it is one more reason that now India must nationalize education and implement a common school system.
The NRF Bill, 2023 seeks to replace the publicly funded mechanism of research support to the scientific community through the Science and Engineering Board Act, 2008 with a mechanism expected to be largely directed by the funds available through corporate sector and philanthropic foundations.
In public universities, a candidate’s excellence is no longer a guarantee for appointment as a teacher. They need to have the backing of a Sangh parivar organisation.
Discussions to drop a paper on Ambedkar and references to caste and feminism are the latest steps in an effort to turn public educational institutes into training centre for Hindutva.
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