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A change that’s quietly taking root

Authored by - Dr IV Subba Rao, former IAS officer and senior advisor, CSF and Ashish Dhawan, founder-chairperson, Central Square Foundation, New Delhi.

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Published on May 01, 2025 02:15 PM IST

ByI V Subba Rao, Ashish Dhawan

Why school internships are crucial for India’s next generation

This article is authored by Mamta Saikia, CEO, Bharti Airtel Foundation.

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Published on Apr 29, 2025 06:28 PM IST

ByMamta Saikia

India’s smart board revolution

This article is authored by Praveen Prakash, former principal secretary, school education, Andhra Pradesh.

Smart board(PHOTO FOR REPRESENTATION ONLY)

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Published on Mar 29, 2025 02:46 PM IST

ByPraveen Prakash

NIPUN Bharat 2.0: Rewriting the education story

This article is authored by Shaveta Sharma-Kukreja and Anita Karwal.

Education (Getty Images/Top Photo Group RF)

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Published on Mar 20, 2025 12:59 PM IST

ByShaveta Sharma-Kukreja, Anita Karwal

Early childhood models from Haryana

This article is authored by Amneet P Kumar, IAS, former commissioner and secretary, government of Haryana.

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Published on Mar 11, 2025 02:52 PM IST

ByAmneet P Kumar

Adapting to college life abroad

This article is authored by Vinu Warrier, managing partner & founder, eduVelocity.

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Published on Feb 21, 2025 10:28 AM IST

ByVinu Warrier

Preparing teachers for the post no-detention era

This article is authored by Sonakshi Agarwal, director, Sterlite EdIndia Foundation.

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Published on Jan 11, 2025 03:04 PM IST

BySonakshi Agarwal

National Education Day 2024: Educationists, CEOs & founders share key insights

On National Education Day 2024, educationists, CEOs and founders of various institutes have come forward to share their insights on the important of education.

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Published on Nov 11, 2024 05:43 PM IST

ByHT Education Desk | Edited by Gaurav Sarma, New Delhi

How education can integrate practical job-oriented experiences

This article is authored by Piyush Nangru, co-founder and COO, Sunstone.

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Published on Nov 11, 2024 11:35 AM IST

ByPiyush Nangru

Why development needs more than data

This article is authored by Priyadarshini Singh, fellow, Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP), New Delhi.

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Published on Nov 07, 2024 02:21 PM IST

ByPriyadarshini Singh

Why communication and collaboration matter in college

This article is authored by Vinu Warrier, managing partner & founder, eduVelocity.

Four e-learning and education technology start-ups from India are among 30 global finalists to compete for the Next Billion EdTech Prize, to be announced next month.(Getty Images/iStockphoto)

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Published on Oct 28, 2024 01:00 PM IST

ByVinu Warrier

MDI Gurgaon opens applications for two-year postgraduate management programmes

MDI Gurgaon has commenced applications for two-year full-time postgraduate management programmes. Read about course details below.

MDI Gurgaon is inviting applications for its two-year postgraduate management programmes.

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Published on Oct 23, 2024 05:36 PM IST

ByHT Education Desk, New Delhi

What will it take for India to attract international students?

This article is authored by Sachin Jain, country manager, ETS India & South Asia.

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Published on Oct 15, 2024 09:00 AM IST

BySachin Jain

Time to focus on early childhood care and education

This article is authored by IV Subba Rao, Utsav Kheria and Sanjana Manaktala, policy lead, Rocket Learning.

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Published on Sep 27, 2024 12:09 PM IST

ByI V Subba Rao, Utsav Kheria, Sanjana Manaktala

Teachers’ Day 2024: Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan's inspirational quotes

Teachers' Day 2024 on September 5. Check Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan’s top inspirational quotes.

Teachers’ Day 2024: Check Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan's inspirational quotes (Illustration: Rushikesh Tulshiram Gophane)

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Updated on Sep 05, 2024 07:59 AM IST

ByHT Education Desk | Edited by Papri Chanda

India@78: Modi’s vision in redefining education

This article is authored by M Chuba Ao, national vice president, BJP and Sumit Kaushik, PhD candidate, OP Jindal Global University.

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Published on Aug 14, 2024 03:47 PM IST

ByM Chuba Ao, Sumit Kaushik

1 in 4 countries banned use of smartphones in schools due to negative impacts

Less than 1 in 4 countries has banned smartphones in schools due to the negative impact of excessive technology use on student performance, GEM report.

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Published on Aug 04, 2024 03:54 PM IST

PTI | , New Delhi

OpenAI Develops System to Track Progress Toward Human-Level AI

The company believes its technology is approaching the second level of five on the path to artificial general intelligence.

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Published on Jul 12, 2024 11:51 AM IST

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APHC sets aside two govt orders to convert classes 1 to6 in all schls to Eng mdm

The High Court asserted that the medium of instruction in schools, particularly up to class 8, must be in the mother tongue as unequivocally recognized by the National Policy on Education Act, 1968, and various other reports.

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Updated on Apr 16, 2020 08:35 AM IST

Amaravati | ByPress Trust of India

UT has no panel to hear plaints of teachers

The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development in 2015, after amending the Right to Education Act (2009), had made it mandatory to form a state-level committee under director (schools) to take up appeals of teachers working in government schools

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Published on Jan 03, 2020 12:47 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | BySrishti Jaswal, Chandigarh

Decade-old EWS criteria for pvt schools in Chandigarh leaves financially backward in lurch

The cap on a family’s annual income for eligibility under the category is ₹1.5 lakh

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Published on Dec 10, 2019 01:32 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | BySrishti Jaswal, Chandigarh

UT invites EWS students to apply for income certificates

Details uploaded on UT Sampark Centre website

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Published on Dec 07, 2019 01:10 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | BySrishti Jaswal, Chandigarh

Entry-level intake: Chandigarh schools admitting kids as young as 18 months old

Vivek High School, Sector 38, is taking in students of the age 1.5 years in its entry-level class, while Kailash Bahl DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 7-B and St Peter’s School, Sector 37-B, are admitting children as old as 2.5 years

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Updated on Dec 05, 2019 09:05 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | BySrishti Jaswal, Chandigarh

Non-recognised private school in Delhi won’t be shut by MCD : Kejriwal

“I met representatives of non- recognised private schools. I told them that no school will be closed in Delhi. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi will not be allowed to close any school. The Delhi government believes in opening schools and not closing them,” he tweeted in Hindi.

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal(Biplov Bhuyan/HT PHOTO)

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Published on Oct 18, 2019 01:24 PM IST

New Delhi | ByIndo Asian News Service

Right to Education: Supreme Court notice to Karnataka on changing school admission rule

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to look into the legality of the Karnataka government rule, which exempted unaided and private schools from admitting to class one 25 per cent students from the socially and economically disadvantaged groups.

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Updated on Aug 20, 2019 07:39 AM IST

Karnataka | ByIndo Asian News Service

73% seats reserved for poor students in Delhi’s private schools filled, shows data

According to the Right to Education Act, 2009, private schools, excluding minority institutions, should reserve 25% seats for students belonging to EWS/DG groups in all entry level classes (nursery, kindergarten, and class 1) and provide free and compulsory elementary education to them.

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Updated on Aug 20, 2019 07:15 AM IST

ByKainat Sarfaraz

Start educational reform in Class 1

The natural curiosity and creativity of children is often discouraged in school. Keeping these alive and growing is a must

For children to have a successful first year in school, their families and schools must also be prepared(SHUTTERSTOCK)

analysis

Updated on Jun 27, 2019 07:21 PM IST

ByRukmini Banerji

Our students are not learning. But are our teachers teaching?

The good news is that most children are now enrolled in schools. The question is: why are our students not learning sufficiently? We must ask whether the teacher is teaching, and how well is she or he teaching? Our pedagogical practices require serious reassessment

Untrained teachers, irrespective of schools being adequately staffed, directly affect student performance. ASER and NAS results make it clear that this is not merely a learning crisis; the Indian school education system is going through a teaching crisis(S Burmaula / Hindustan Times)

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Updated on Jun 26, 2019 07:33 PM IST

ByShamika Ravi and Neelanjana Gupta

‘Consideration of RTE extension only after new govt’

In an affidavit, the Union human resource development ministry informed the court that extension of the RTE to class 12 would require more “synergic cooperation between different levels of government and will have large financial implications”.

The Centre’s affidavit came in response to a PIL by NGO Social Jurist, which had sought an extension of the benefits of the RTE Act for the EWS and disadvantaged group till class 12.(HTPHOTO)

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Published on May 22, 2019 04:38 AM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByRicha Banka

Dehradun school removes Class 1 student, father moves child rights body

The father of a class 1 student of a Dehradun-based school has complained to the State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (SCPCR) against the school for allegedly removing his daughter from the school roll.

Last August, the child’s father, had complained to the SCPCR that the school authorities had subscribed nine expensive reference books apart from the three CBSE books, which was increasing the pressure on the students.(AP file photo for representation)

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Updated on Apr 01, 2019 12:45 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Dehradun | ByHT Correspondent

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Latest from education act

Authored by - Dr IV Subba Rao, former IAS officer and senior advisor, CSF and Ashish Dhawan, founder-chairperson, Central Square Foundation, New Delhi.

This article is authored by Mamta Saikia, CEO, Bharti Airtel Foundation.

This article is authored by Praveen Prakash, former principal secretary, school education, Andhra Pradesh.

This article is authored by Shaveta Sharma-Kukreja and Anita Karwal.

This article is authored by Amneet P Kumar, IAS, former commissioner and secretary, government of Haryana.

This article is authored by Vinu Warrier, managing partner & founder, eduVelocity.

This article is authored by Sonakshi Agarwal, director, Sterlite EdIndia Foundation.

On National Education Day 2024, educationists, CEOs and founders of various institutes have come forward to share their insights on the important of education.

This article is authored by Piyush Nangru, co-founder and COO, Sunstone.

This article is authored by Priyadarshini Singh, fellow, Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP), New Delhi.

This article is authored by Vinu Warrier, managing partner & founder, eduVelocity.

MDI Gurgaon has commenced applications for two-year full-time postgraduate management programmes. Read about course details below.

This article is authored by Sachin Jain, country manager, ETS India & South Asia.

This article is authored by IV Subba Rao, Utsav Kheria and Sanjana Manaktala, policy lead, Rocket Learning.

Teachers' Day 2024 on September 5. Check Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan’s top inspirational quotes.

This article is authored by M Chuba Ao, national vice president, BJP and Sumit Kaushik, PhD candidate, OP Jindal Global University.

Less than 1 in 4 countries has banned smartphones in schools due to the negative impact of excessive technology use on student performance, GEM report.

The company believes its technology is approaching the second level of five on the path to artificial general intelligence.

The High Court asserted that the medium of instruction in schools, particularly up to class 8, must be in the mother tongue as unequivocally recognized by the National Policy on Education Act, 1968, and various other reports.

The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development in 2015, after amending the Right to Education Act (2009), had made it mandatory to form a state-level committee under director (schools) to take up appeals of teachers working in government schools

The cap on a family’s annual income for eligibility under the category is ₹1.5 lakh

Details uploaded on UT Sampark Centre website

Vivek High School, Sector 38, is taking in students of the age 1.5 years in its entry-level class, while Kailash Bahl DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 7-B and St Peter’s School, Sector 37-B, are admitting children as old as 2.5 years

“I met representatives of non- recognised private schools. I told them that no school will be closed in Delhi. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi will not be allowed to close any school. The Delhi government believes in opening schools and not closing them,” he tweeted in Hindi.

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to look into the legality of the Karnataka government rule, which exempted unaided and private schools from admitting to class one 25 per cent students from the socially and economically disadvantaged groups.

According to the Right to Education Act, 2009, private schools, excluding minority institutions, should reserve 25% seats for students belonging to EWS/DG groups in all entry level classes (nursery, kindergarten, and class 1) and provide free and compulsory elementary education to them.

The natural curiosity and creativity of children is often discouraged in school. Keeping these alive and growing is a must

The good news is that most children are now enrolled in schools. The question is: why are our students not learning sufficiently? We must ask whether the teacher is teaching, and how well is she or he teaching? Our pedagogical practices require serious reassessment

In an affidavit, the Union human resource development ministry informed the court that extension of the RTE to class 12 would require more “synergic cooperation between different levels of government and will have large financial implications”.

The father of a class 1 student of a Dehradun-based school has complained to the State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (SCPCR) against the school for allegedly removing his daughter from the school roll.

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