The 2022-23 academic year has come closest to a normal start, with schools reopening for all children in most states after a long gap of two years. While India was…
The Indian EdTech market is riding the wave of technological innovation and rapid growth, with nearly 10,000 products1 in the market today, adding to the enormous variety of solutions available…
Khan Academy is a global, not-for-profit organization working with the mission to provide free, world class, education to anyone anywhere. Khan Academy platform hosts world class content for various subjects,…
India has been facing a learning crisis for many years. Already, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, 55% of India’s children were unable to read or understand simple texts at the age of…
As schools begin a new academic year, they face the daunting challenge of addressing the learning crisis of the two-year-long pandemic, which comes on top of learning levels that have…
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 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…
Education and health are central to developing human capital and driving economic growth. Since independence, the Indian government has invested in building public health facilities (more than 200,000) and public…