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‛School Closures, Student Deaths, Children Out of School: The State of Public Education’; ‛Niti Aayog Flags Poor Student Retention, Learning Outcomes in Report’; ‛Government Report Reveals Stark Infrastructure Gap in Indian Schools’; ‛57% Schools Have Functional Computers, 53% Have Internet Access: Education Ministry’.
‛India’s Education Scam: From Fake Data, to Fake Degrees and Fake Claims’: When rankings, patents, and enrolment numbers to obtain government benefits become ends in themselves, products of such a system will lead to compromised competence in laboratories, courtrooms, hospitals, and boardrooms. Also: ‛Why Academic Freedom in India Hangs Between Attacks and Resistance’.
Private school fees are 10 times government school fees, and nearly four in ten secondary students pay for coaching on top.
The NEP’s aims are multifaceted – more control over states, institutions and curricula; exclusion; segregation; rebranding of ‘model’ schools; closing and merging of schools; deletion, distortion, ‘Indianisation’ or Brahminisation of curricula; skilling; corporatisation, commercialisation …
There is a yawning gap between their visions and independent India’s woeful track record in educating its citizens.
‘“Indianisation” of Syllabi is Hollowing Out Knowledge in Our Universities’; ‘Gagged Campuses, Hollowed Classrooms: The Universities in India Today’; ‘Cash Crunch, Research Void and Guest Faculty Surge: The Collapse of Social Sciences in India’; ‘The Cost of Learning: Protests Mount Across Universities as Fee Hikes Deepen Crisis of Accessibility’.
‘UGC Equity Rules: SC Stay Triggers Nationwide Student Outrage’; ‘Refusal to See Caste Discrimination, Not ‘False Complaints’, Is the Real Crisis on Campus’; ‘Language of Balance Recourse of the Powerful: Satish Deshpande on Opposition to UGC Equity Rules’; ‘What Is ‘Reverse Discrimination’ and Why Is It Being Brought Up for the UGC’s 2026 Rules?’.
The twelfth and concluding part of a series of articles on ‘India’s Education Journey: From Macaulay to NEP’. This article discusses the measures the Government of India can take to increase its revenues to finance universal, free, good-quality education for all children, and also increase its social sector expenditures in other areas.
‘HECI Bill 2025: Last Twist of Knife on Public Education’: The Bill redefines education as a managed, marketised and politically supervised sector, and must be withdrawn. Also: ‘Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan Bill Seeks to Overhaul Higher Education, Gives Centre Overriding Powers’.
The eleventh part of a series of articles on ‘India’s Education Journey: From Macaulay to NEP’. This article discusses why are Government of India’s welfare expenditures, including expenditure on education, so low.
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