A committee the government had set up last year to prepare a National Education Policy (NEP) has so far worked out what two members called a “zero draft” that is yet to be submitted although the p...

The Narendra Modi government has sought to defuse a gathering language storm by deleting a reference to “non-Hindi speaking states” in the draft National Education Policy but sceptical parties ins...

Tamil Nadu parties DMK and AIADMK as well as the Left have decided to oppose in Parliament and other forums the draft National Education Policy’s endorsement of the three-language formula in seconda...

The human resource development ministry has revised its draft National Education Policy, introducing a host of policy measures that include differential salary packages for teachers of the same rank a...

Policy analysis calls for a careful separation of language from legislative intention. And that is exactly where the devil lies in the draft National Education Policy, 2019. Cloaked in a rhetorical sm...

Protests broke out in Tamil Nadu on Saturday against the draft National Education Policy’s endorsement of the three-language formula for schools, prompting the Centre to try and allay the fears of a...

The government headed by Narendra Modi has been characteristically noisy about the new National Education Policy. So it is a little puzzling to find that Dinesh Singh, the former vice-chancellor of th...

Participation, it is often argued, consolidates the democratic spirit. Theoretically, it should enable participants with stakes in processes and institutions to arrive at a consensus. This pursuit of ...

For the last couple of months, the country has been occupied in a discussion on the draft national education policy. Academics and academic institutions are worried about the impending spectre of havi...

In her budget speech on July 5, the finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, reiterated the government’s plan of bringing in a new National Education Policy, thereby initiating “major changes in both...