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Saturday, September 20, 2025
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Topic: Schools

Why children may be the silent victims of coronavirus

The most consequential effects of this Covid crisis for children are likely to come from two areas: Health and education.

Closing schools a way to fight Covid-19 spread, but some countries differ with the idea

Over 160 nations, with almost 90% of the world’s student population, have shut schools, bringing to a halt the education system across the globe.

Why closing schools due to the Coronavirus pandemic may not be feasible

Elders are more at risk of contracting COVID-19 than children and closing schools may be inconvenient for single parents, the self-employed or those in the gig economy.

These are the regions in the world where people have most faith in their schools

Across the world, people feel schools are not preparing students for jobs, a new survey shows.

There’s 99.7% attendance in Kashmir schools, junior home minister tells Lok Sabha

Minister of State for Home Affairs G. Kishan Reddy tells Lok Sabha that school attendance was initially ‘thin’ in the Kashmir Valley, but picked up later.

Can govt school students in India do better? This is what an experimental policy showed

With 75 per cent of schools in India being government owned and 65 per cent of children attending a government school, quality of government schools in India is a first order policy issue.

NCERT will adopt govt schools across India to improve quality of education

Beginning with village schools near its Regional Institutes of Education in five states, NCERT will soon help teachers across India’s government schools.

Tobacco companies in China are opening schools, and the Chinese welcome it

Many such ‘tobacco schools’ were built following the devastating Sichuan earthquake in 2008.

CBSE bars students from changing subjects in classes 10 and 12

CBSE has directed schools to turn down requests from students seeking to change their subjects, especially if it requires parents making their own teaching arrangements.

India’s draft education policy isn’t a conservative conspiracy. But it may never take off

In the last five years, Narendra Modi government has walked in the opposite direction to the one recommended in this policy document.

On Camera

Pakistan strategic pact with Saudi Arabia is really about Iran. And blessed by US

This agreement is not about Pakistan and Saudi Arabia looking Trump in the eye or Riyadh turning away from Washington. If anything, it could be termed as kosher proliferation.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

2 Assam Rifles personnel killed as convoy ambushed in Manipur, on ‘same route Modi took’ fortnight ago

This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border. 

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.