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Topic: Primary schools

Inside Andhra’s single-teacher schools: How state’s betting on 9,620 model schools to fix crisis

According to an education ministry report, India has 1,04,125 single-teacher schools. Andhra Pradesh accounts for the highest number at 12,912, followed by UP and Jharkhand.

No schools left without teachers, 80% decline in those with only one teacher: Chhattisgarh govt

A recently concluded rationalisation exercise undertaken by the Chhattisgarh government has fairly distributed human resources across schools, from Class 1 to 12.

Stalin govt is using a unique model to bridge primary school learning gap of last two years

Tamil Nadu govt's mission Ennum Ezhuthum, or 'Numbers and Letters', for primary school children is changing the way teachers teach and students learn.

Counting sticks, clapping — how one of India’s learning laggard districts is helping kids learn

Primary schools in UP's Shamli, one of India's low performing districts in terms of basic literacy & numeracy among kids, trying activity-based model under govt's ‘Mission Education’.

Class 5 students as teachers, low attendance — Gujarat govt schools don’t paint ‘vibrant’ picture

About 700 government primary schools in Gujarat, headed for polls later this year, function under just one teacher. ThePrint got a close-up view in Kachchh and Mahisagar.

In India’s poorest district in UP, smart classes a small ray of hope for children’s future

One head teacher’s initiative in a govt upper primary school in Shravasti has inspired district administration to launch project to set up more smart schools.

India expects all primary & lower-secondary school kids to be educated by 2030: UNESCO report

UNESCO's Global Education Monitoring Report released in Paris on International Day of Education says India expects its upper secondary enrolment to hit 88% from 55% in 2015.

20 hours a week, no homework: That’s the Finland school system RSS chief wants in India

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat highlighted Saturday that Finland’s school system is the world’s best, and that India should emulate it. Here’s what makes it the best.

Haryana wants to ‘befriend’ English, will teach primary students one sentence a day

Since students do not get to listen to English or speak it, they aren’t able to build skills in the language. That’s what the...

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Cautious optimism — India’s new relationship with Tarique Rahman’s Bangladesh

Both Bangladesh and India will have to work together to repair the damage done during the Yunus administration.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Embraer moves full throttle in pursuit of IAF contract, ties up with Hindalco after Adani

IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.