Of everything in the National Education Policy, no single provision has generated quite as much noise as the three-language formula. It sounds, on paper, like a modest idea — every school student studies three languages, at least two of them Indian. In practice, it has turned into one of the more persistent arguments in Indian […]
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 […]