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Thursday, September 4, 2025
TopicSchool education

Topic: School education

Sharp drop in number of boys is driving overall dip in school enrolment numbers, reveals UDISE+ data

Government officials attributed the decline in overall enrolment primarily to falling birth rates, but experts said lower birth rates impacted both genders

Parents’ spend on school education highest in Haryana & Manipur, lowest in Bihar—latest govt survey

Comprehensive Modular Survey reveals that Indian parents, on average, spend Rs 12,616 per child on school education each year; it also highlights gender divide in education spending.

Legal battle behind her, 8-yr-old with autism can now return to school. HC upheld her ‘right to belong’

Delhi girl & parents win battle against GD Goenka Public School as HC directs her re-admission into age-appropriate class, underscores constitutional guarantee of inclusive education.

Infra & safety gaps to poor digital learning record, what Centre’s index says about Bengal schools

Performance Grading Index for 2022-23 & 2023-24 comes as the state education system is embroiled in school service commission recruitment row.

Bihar slips in Centre’s school index—infra decline in 14 of 38 districts, lags in digital learning

Even as state govt harps on ahead of polls about socio-economic progress over the yrs, schools have a lot of catching up to do, shows Performance Grading Index for 2022-23 & 2023-24.

Chandigarh tops, Meghalaya at bottom of Centre’s school education performance grading index

States & UTs were scored out of 1,000 on learning outcomes, quality, access to education, infra, facilities, equity, governance processes, and teacher education & training.

‘World’s largest indigenous school’ in Odisha is a jail. ‘We’re all monkeys,’ says tribal student

The Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences is situated right next to the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology where an alleged suicide of a student from Nepal and the mishandling of the resulting protest led to a diplomatic row.

Why Doon School’s all-male ex-students are not on board with administration’s co-ed pitch

The school administration’s proposal, citing concerns over toxic masculinity & evolving societal norms, is under consideration, but ex-students worry it will shift the ‘cultural environment’.

How Rajasthan’s school mergers threaten the future of 1st-generation learners, especially girls

The Bhajan Lal Sharma-led BJP government in Rajasthan has set into motion the merger of 449 schools with larger, better-performing schools in their vicinity.

Dalrymple is right on WhatsApp history. Our textbooks don’t even mention that debates exist

Students are expected to learn a great many names, events, and dates. But nowhere is it emphasised sufficiently that history is much more than just a set of facts.

On Camera

Counter-insurgency is Indian military’s reality. Op Sindoor was brief flash in combat spectrum

The Chief of Defence Staff was spot on when he declared war fighting as ‘military’s bread and butter.’

GST 2.0: India streamlines indirect tax regime amid Trump tariffs & what it means for consumers

Goods and Services Tax Council paves way for a broad two-slab structure of 5% and 18% with a demerit rate of 40% for super luxury and 'sin' goods.

‘Loyal wingman’ to full ICBM triad & air defence, China’s show of power at Victory Day parade

China flaunted military might & modernisation as it displayed stealth drones, anti-satellite system & cyber warfare contingent during parade to mark victory over Japan in WWII.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.