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…
India has the largest school education system in the world with 25 crore children enrolled in 15 lakh schools. We have achieved near universal enrollment of children at the primary…
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…
Re-visiting the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of educating children during and after the pandemic Children in our country are not learning. The National Education Policy 2020 states that even before the…
Schools have gradually started reopening for in-person teaching in some states after being forced to shut for around 17 months since March, 2020. During this period, children’s learning along with…
The impact of pandemic-induced school closures in India since March 2020 has had an unprecedented impact on the school-going children, especially students from low-income households enrolled in non-elite private schools…
A study conducted by the Central Square Foundation suggests that nearly 80% parents from low income households[1] want to continue sending their children to private schools despite their inability to pay fees. And…
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…
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…