Earlier this month, the Ministry of Education launched the National Initiative for Proficiency in reading with Understanding and Numeracy (NIPUN) Bharat. A national mission, NIPUN Bharat aims to achieve universal…
This month completes a year since Covid-19 forced schools to discontinue physical classes. And while the education ecosystem is still grappling to mitigate the impact of the pandemic for about…
As the new academic year begins after a year of school closures, we look at how Uttar Pradesh has resumed in-person classes. CSF interviewed Vijay Kiran Anand, the first Director-General…
“Parental involvement, in almost any form, produces measurable gains in student achievement.”- Armendia Dixon Research and evidence highlight that parental involvement in children’s schooling and learning results in higher academic…
The Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent school closures impacted about 320 million children in India. However, the crisis proved to be an opportunity for EdTech which made headlines for enabling at-home…
Kesarbai Kulkarni of Aurangabad district is not educated, but she left no stone unturned to ensure that her grandson Samyak receives education. When schools shuttered in India to contain the…
The rise of remote learning The school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic pushed an estimated 1.2 billion children out of brick-and-mortar classrooms across the globe. Governments, and non-government and…
With the recent approval of the National Education Policy (NEP 2020), the upcoming Union Budget 2021-22 will have to make available adequate funding to implement the key reforms and initiatives…
With the Union Budget 2021-22 just around the corner, this edition of The EDge is dedicated to understanding implications of budgetary allocations on education reforms. CSF interviewed Dr Vinod R.…
The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 approved by the Union Cabinet in July 2020 lays down an ambitious plan for transforming school education. It highlights the need for holding key-stage…