The new year has begun with a sense of cautious optimism with children gradually returning to classrooms, even those in primary grades. However, many of these children have not seen…
The Union Budget 2022-23 is a significant one for the education sector; it is the first budget to be announced after the launch of the National Initiative for Proficiency in…
Schools first shut owing to Covid-19 in March 2020. Almost two years on, just after schools reopened, they are shutting again given the surge in Covid cases due to the…
The last two years of school education have been punctuated by repeated school closures due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Consequences range from rising inequality in accessing education, to learning loss,…
The Indian EdTech market is characterised by its fast growth, catalytic innovation, and the enormity of the landscape. In 2019, there were ~5000 EdTech solutions available in the market comprising…
The Covid-19 pandemic witnessed significant growth in technology-based learning, as brick and mortar classrooms shuttered and governments, schools and students adopted EdTech solutions instead. Even with physical classes gradually resuming,…
The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 lays down an important goal: improve learning outcomes; shift from rote-based learning to conceptual understanding and application of knowledge. It advocates for competency-based assessments…
The latest National Achievement Survey (NAS), a large-scale assessment survey of student learning levels, was held on 12 November, 2021. Led by the National Council of Educational Research and Training…
The majority of children from low-income communities in India are far behind grade-level competencies, especially those in their foundational years. As per the ASER 2019 report, 43% of children in…
The pandemic-induced school closures disrupted teaching-learning for 250 million school-going children in India. Consequently, the entire education system started developing home-based learning programs that met India's contextual needs. Teachers and…