While this is the draft of the NEP and thus open to modifications, it is hoped that the final text of the policy supports its promise of equity and gender equality in education more sincerely and consciously. read more

The Centre on Friday announced a \u20B9400-crore budget for its ambitious plan to develop “world-class institutions”, an increase from last year’s \u20B9128-crore allocation, in an indication of its resolve to ensure more Indian varsities make it to the top rungs... read more

Against this policy tradition of honouring secularism as a core Indian value for designing Indian education, the omission of the words “secular” and “secularism” in the NEP 2019 is odd. Indeed, the NEP’s frequent affirmation of its aim of inculcating... read more

In school education, the ministry has been trying to come up with ideas to radically alter the way learning-teaching activity is conducted. read more

The good news is that most children are now enrolled in schools. The question is: why are our students not learning sufficiently? We must ask whether the teacher is teaching, and how well is she or he teaching? Our pedagogical practices require serious... read more

The panel headed by K Kasturirangan, former chief of the Indian Space Research Organisation, said governance and leadership of educational institutions (HEIs) are “deeply influenced and controlled by external bodies and individuals.” read more

The official said the ministry may try to finish the process of going through the suggestions by the end of July and take the draft NEP to the cabinet thereafter. read more

If you read that entire section on languages policy, it has many dimensions related to how a child picks up a language, the early introduction of languages, and language comprehension capability, says K Kasturirangan, chairman of the committee that created... read more

The title of the controversial section was tweaked from “flexibility in the choice of languages” to “flexibility in the three-language formula”. read more

With the extended deadline for the K Kasturirangan committee, constituted last year to draft the National Education Policy (NEP), set to end on Friday, senior government officials said that its finalised draft is likely to be in the public domain “s... read more

The Union human resource development ministry will introduce three new professional programmes imparting over 1,000 hours of industry-linked training for students from this academic year onwards. read more

The New Education Policy was one of the campaign promises of the Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of the 214 Lok Sabha elections. It is expected to lay down the contours of the was education is disseminated in the country from the most basic to the higher... read more

The National Education Policy (NEP) is likely to be delayed for the fourth time since it was first announced, with the government-appointed committee entrusted with the task of drafting the policy getting yet another extension till October 2018, officials... read more