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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.
Academic freedom has gained a sense of urgency in India over the past decade. While there were fleeting attempts in the past, the current rightward shift in politics has placed restraints on knowledge creation in India and across other democracies.
Tamil Nadu’s clash with the Union government over Hindi reveals how profoundly language influences questions of identity, autonomy, and social opportunity. Also: ‘Why the Three-Language Formula Threatens South India’.
Students in one of India’s leading minority institutions fight for free speech. The administration has responded with heavy police deployment and invoking the law to curb demonstrations.
A new set of draft regulations put out by the University Grants Commission for the appointment of Vice Chancellors as well as for filling up academic and non-academic posts threaten federalism and higher education.
The Central Government recently decided to abolish the “no-detention” policy for students in classes 5 and 8 in schools under its jurisdiction. The recent amendment, it is feared, may deprive a considerable section from poor and rural sections of a “Right” they seemed to be making all efforts to making maximum use of.
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