Ensure accuracy in GER data, School Education official asks volunteers

Ensure accuracy in GER data, School Education official asks volunteers

Principal Secretary, School Education Department, Praveen Prakash, has appealed to the 59,000 village and ward volunteers in the State who have received the 100% GER Badge to verify their data and make sure it is accurate. In a release on Saturday, Mr. Praveen Prakash said that the volunteers of a village secretariat in Nandyal district … Read more

View: India 2020 demands better education. National education policy is a start

View: India 2020 demands better education. National education policy is a start

NEP 2020 has now set up the National Higher Education Regulatory Council to replace UGC. The dark shadow cast by UGC has now been dispersed, opening up free thinking in universities while reducing micromanagement. Synopsis Rural India’s aspiration for quality education has never really been met. It is important to aim high. Currently, GoI spends … Read more

View: There’s a flip side to Modi government’s National Education Policy 2020

View: There’s a flip side to Modi government’s National Education Policy 2020

The New Education Policy (NEP) has some good suggestions, but is marred by serious defects: homogenisation, centralisation outside political influence, enmity towards private enterprise in education, self-propagation of governing body ideology across generations of a higher education institution and refusal to recognise caste as a disabling factor that calls for explicit remedial measures. Together, these … Read more