Education

National Curriculum Framework: The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has tasked the State Councils of Educational Research […]

Context: The proportion of India’s children attending a government school has now declined to 45 percent. Whereas this number is

Utility: Focus on Ed-Tech due to COVID and rise of unicorns in Ed-Tech. Context: Pandemic has shown us that traditional

Context: Government spent merely 3.2% of its GDP on education in 2020-21. Online education started in India without any changes

Context: A Task Force has been setup to prepare a roadmap on imparting technical education in mother tongue. Aim of

Context: Ministry of education has released a circular for regulating online conferences. What was the circular? Education ministry released a

Context: UGC has allowed IITs to open branches abroad. Background The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are India’s premier institutes

 Context: NEP-2020, for the first time has highlighted internationalisation of higher education as an objective. To achieve this, NEP-2020 allows the top 100 World Class

National Education Policy’s (NEP 2020) idea of a single common regulator for the entire higher education system is too monolithic

How Covid-19 Pandemic has impacted School Closure in India: UNICEF estimated that school closures affected about 250 million children in