Topic: Education

The new National Education policy is out after a long wait. Here is a quick take on top ten recommendations in relation to school education in this policy. These are categorised into what is good, bad, and iffy – provisions that are high on rhetoric but may be difficult to realise.

The cabinet approval for the long-awaited National Education Policy 2020 has brought with it a fair share of criticism. Aiming to overhaul the education sector of the country after a 34-year gap, the policy is not without its fault. Even though it aims at revamping the whole schooling structure with a focus on the future, the issues are too glaring to be left unnoticed.

The CPI(M) Polit Bureau has strongly denounced the "unilateral" decision to "impose" the new education policy, without discussing it in Parliament first.

Nargis Naseem, a survivor of the anti-Muslim pogrom in northeast Delhi, who cracked the CBSE 12th board exams with first-class despite losing her home and study materials in the violence unleashed by Hindu mobs, has been sponsored by Vision 2026, a flagship project under the Human Welfare Foundation, Delhi, for her higher education under its ‘Meritorious Girls Scholarship’ scheme.

The university should stop pretending that things are normal, no they are not and we cannot make them normal by refusing to acknowledge human needs.

On 7 April 2020, students of the Pondicherry Central University took to twitter the issue of online classes and assignments, which created a divide amongst the students. They trended the hashtags #StopDigitalDivide and #SuspendOnlineClasses which were retweeted by hundreds of twitter handles include students, faculties and activists.