Survey finds parents are unwilling to send their children to school even if Centre and state govts allow schools to reopen from October with appropriate Covid precautions in place.
The internet infrastructure, if put in place, would continue to provide the best in education experience to India's hinterlands even in post-Covid era.
There may be a silver lining to virtual classrooms and distance learning, which many universities and schools across the world have adopted due to Covid-19.
UGC revises academic calendar again. To compensate for loss of academic time, it has asked colleges to teach six days a week, without any summer or winter break, until 2022.
In 1995, telecom minister Sukh Ram made the first mobile call to Jyoti Basu. And VSNL’s internet service was terrible. But its dial-up link over poor fixed telephone lines opened up a new world for us.
National Testing Agency’s charter is to assess the 'competence of candidates' for admission and recruitment, but NEET and UGC-NET firestorms have put its own competency in question.
The report predicts net emigration of 4,300 millionaires in 2024, lower than the outflow in 2023 & 2022. Congress has raised concerns about the outflow of HNIs from the country.
Lt Gen Nilakantan says revised Entitlement Rules & Guide to Medical Officers for pensions had been revised to rationalise disability classification, quantification & granting of disability.
Changed reality for Modi govt in its 3rd innings is by no means rise of a new phenomenon. It's a return to old normal where even majorities had to routinely wrestle with storied million mutinies.
From a student’s perspective, this article is much needed because I have witnessed the harassments and snappy words about many teachers since things became online. It isn’t fair to expect expertise from teachers as the majority simply aren’t familiar with digital methods of teaching, much less doing it facing a blank screen.
We really ought to give our hardworking teachers more credit. It can’t have been easy to switch from an interactive and engaging method to a relatively distancing one, yet they have learnt it and have ensured that us students don’t miss out on education.
From a sincerely touched student,
Thank you so much to every teacher.
From a student’s perspective, this article is much needed because I have witnessed the harassments and snappy words about many teachers since things became online. It isn’t fair to expect expertise from teachers as the majority simply aren’t familiar with digital methods of teaching, much less doing it facing a blank screen.
We really ought to give our hardworking teachers more credit. It can’t have been easy to switch from an interactive and engaging method to a relatively distancing one, yet they have learnt it and have ensured that us students don’t miss out on education.
From a sincerely touched student,
Thank you so much to every teacher.