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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
India has replaced genuine welfare—education, health, justice, and environmental care—with short-term handouts that buy loyalty but stunt progress.
The seventh part of a series of articles on ‘India’s Education Journey from Macaulay to NEP’. This article discusses a key strategy adopted by the BJP for advancing its political and cultural agenda – the saffronisation of the country’s education system.
The fifth part of a series of articles on ‘India’s Education Journey from Macaulay to NEP’. This article discusses the impact of the neoliberal policies implemented in India during the period 1991-2014 on the higher education.
Fourth part of a series of articles on ‘India’s Education Journey from Macaulay to NEP’. This article discusses the impact of the neoliberal policies implemented in India during the period 1991-2014 on the school education system.
By the late 1970s, the Nehru model was in crisis. In the early 1980s, the Indian Government decided to approach the IMF for a huge foreign loan, in return for which it offered to voluntarily implement economic reforms and partially liberalise the economy.
The second part of a series of articles on India’s Education Journey from Macaulay to NEP: A review of education during the Nehruvian period, including a discussion of the Nehruvian model and its limitations, Nehruvian model and school education, and Nehruvian model and higher education.
A brief look at education in pre-British India, its destruction by the British and imposition of a colonial education system, and the demand of ‘Education for All’ by India’s freedom struggle.
‘Language Shaming and the Avoidable Burden of the Three-Language Formula’: The three-language formula is a political project that burdens India’s schoolchildren. Also: ‘What Ambedkar and Periyar Teach Us About Maharashtra’s Hindi Debate’.
‘The Great Indian University Illusion’: India dreams of Ivy Leagues while gutting public universities and pricing out its best minds. A knowledge economy without knowledge is just PR. Also: ‘The Real Challenges of Foreign Campuses’.
With higher education centres turning into carriers of political propaganda, there is little room for academic freedom or informed public discourse.
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