A degree still matters. Nobody’s arguing otherwise. But if you’re walking into 2026 thinking that piece of paper alone is going to get you hired, it’s worth a reality check — because that’s not really how it works anymore. AI, automation, digital transformation — pick whichever buzzword you want, they’re all pointing at the same […]
Walk into almost any staffroom this year and you’ll find the same argument happening in different words. One teacher will tell you a student handed in an essay that was clearly written by a chatbot, not a fifteen-year-old. Another will tell you that same chatbot spent twenty minutes patiently re-explaining quadratic equations to a kid […]
For most of the last century, a classroom looked more or less the same everywhere: a teacher at the front, a blackboard covered in chalk dust, rows of students copying down notes. That picture is starting to shift. Walk into a growing number of schools and colleges today, and you’ll find a new presence in […]
Walk into any college in India and ask students what they are doing other than the college degree. A surprising number will tell you about a course they are running alongside their degree — a certification in data analytics, a bootcamp in full stack development, a short programme in digital marketing they found on educational […]
Few parts of the National Education Policy have generated as much back-and-forth as its three-language formula. The government frames it as a way to make students more confident across languages and give India’s linguistic diversity its due. Plenty of students, teachers, parents, and even a few state governments see it differently — as one more […]
A degree still matters. Nobody’s arguing otherwise. But if you’re walking into 2026 thinking that piece of paper alone is going to get you hired, it’s worth a reality check — because that’s not really how it works anymore. AI, automation, digital transformation — pick whichever buzzword you want, they’re all pointing at the same […]
Every few years, India renews the conversation on improving school education. Recent reforms have rightly focused on curriculum, teacher development, digital infrastructure and foundational learning. Over the past two decades, the country has achieved near-universal school enrolment of over 98 per cent among children aged 6–14, while initiatives such as the National Education Policy (NEP) […]