The state education department has initiated steps to bring back to class students "who have had to drop out of the schools due to financial constraints during the Covid pandemic”. An orde...

An association of school heads has appealed to the chief minister to reconsider the decision to extend the summer vacation, pointing out that hot and humid conditions prevail in Bengal even during aut...

For more than 15 years now, the Annual Status of Education Report (Aser) has been an annual feature of the education landscape in India. It is the only annual source of data for basic learning outcome...

The unhappiest birds are the first to come home to roost. The latest Annual Status of Education Report for Bengal laid bare the long-feared damage to foundational learning caused by the absence of in-...

The Economic Survey for 2021-22 has recommended augmenting investments in school education infrastructure at a time children are switching from private to government schools amid a dip in parental inc...

Frog prince Sir — In a country where an overwhelming number of marriages are still arranged, matrimonial ads, with their specific — outrageous? — demands, have often been a source o...

The Annual Status of Education Report 2021, compiled by Pratham, has recorded an 84 per cent jump in the proportion of un-enrolled students, from 2.5 to 4.6 per cent in all children aged 6 to 14 ...

The 2019-20 report of the Unified District Information System for Education Plus seemed to give the Narendra Modi government reason to cheer. More children joined school in 2019-20 than in the previou...

Politicians in India believe that power is equal to mastery in every sphere. Education, for example, is firmly in their hands, irrespective of their experience of academia. Usually governments are rel...

India, one of the largest democracies of the world, is trying to live up to its promise of delivering justice, liberty, equality and fraternity to its citizens. The Right to Education Act, 2009 comple...