Education

Suriya slammed the Union government’s Draft National Education Policy.  Popular Tamil actor Suriya has criticised the Centre’s Draft National Education Policy (NEP), saying some of its provisions would...

Children entering school now should finish secondary school by 2030. But if current trends continue one in six will not be in school in 2030 and only sixty percent will be finishing their secondary...

The Draft New Education Policy 2018 (DNEP) is a grandiose document that covers a student's entire life span from pre-schooling to the PhD degree in about 500 pages. Here, we look at what has been proposed in...

Google is offering a new coding resource for educators via Code with Google, which collects Google’s own free course curriculum on teaching computer science and a variety of programs to help students...

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has proposed a 12.8 percent year-on-year (YoY) increase in the FY20 allocation for school education to Rs 56,536.63 crore in Budget 2019. On the higher education front,...

 ‘I feel desperate that such inequality lies bare when so many exhausted teachers are working tirelessly to enhance the lives of children from all backgrounds,’ writes Bridget James. Photograph:...

New Delhi: Making a pitch for de-colonising the Indian education system, New Education Policy committee member MK Sridhar summed up the brainstorming session on the draft of the document in one line – “We...

The draft National Education Policy (NEP) 2019 found itself drawn into a high-profile controversy soon after the ministry of human resources development posted it online for soliciting feedback late last...

The Government is considering the Higher Education Commission of India Bill, Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha. The Bill repeals the...

Despite Pakistan’s efforts to universalise primary and secondary education, access to quality education still remains a challenge — especially for girls and children from poor and disadvantaged...