On 23 March 2020, a nationwide lockdown was instituted to contain the spread of the deadly Covid-19 in India. At one stroke, almost in a baptism by fire, all educational institutions were closed and so, more than 1.2 billion children around the world were abruptly out of school. Schools and Read more…
Education allows people to live a dignified life, improve quality of living and participate in the national development (UNESCO, 1990; 1996., DFID, 2006). But the Covid-19 pandemic has severely disrupted the education system in India, more so for the adolescent population.
The RTE brought new dawn upon the human capital of a rapidly developing country such as India. The ASER report from 2018 states that substantial improvements are visible over these 8 years in the availability of many school facilities mandated by RTE. The report stated that the fraction of schools with usable Read more…
“Beti Bachao, Beti padhao” but what after padhao? What is happening to our women after that? There is comparatively a decent amount of awareness (although, if awareness leads to desired actions is a debate for another time) about saving the girl child and educating her. But, what after educating her? Read more…
This is the third in a three-part series by Prof Ashish Kulkarni called “Understanding the Market for Higher Education”. In the first part, titled The Market for Higher Education is Not for Learning, the author talks about what makes up a market, and how you’d probably not pay the same amount of Read more…
This is the second in a three-part series by Prof Ashish Kulkarni called “Understanding the Market for Higher Education”. In the first part, titled The Market for Higher Education is Not for Learning, the author talks about what makes up a market, and how the market for higher education has a lot Read more…
This is the first in a three-part series by Prof Ashish Kulkarni called “Understanding the Market for Higher Education”. What makes up a market? Common sense tells us that a market should have the following characteristics: 1. There should be a clearly defined good or service that is being sold. Read more…
The National Education Policy 2020 is an important document, one with potentially vast implications for an entire generation of Indians if not more.
With the parents and certain social and political groups demanding fee waivers, budget private schools are in a pickle. They do not know how they will manage to pay salaries to their teaching and non-teaching staff.