EducationWorld November 2020

Delhi: Digital learning myth

– Autar Nehru (Delhi)

A mid-term annual status of Education Report (ASER Wave 1) 2020 released by the highly respected Pratham Education Foundation on October 28 confirms that a mere 30 percent of India’s 260 million school-going children are receiving digital education since education institutions countrywide were closed in mid-March to check the spread of […]

Truly shocking neglect

Thank you for the cover story ‘Prime Minister: Indian education needs pandemic aid package’ (EW October). It’s truly shocking that the prime minister didn’t allocate even Re.1 to the education sector in the government’s Rs.20.97 lakh crore economic aid/stimulus package announced in May.

This despite several education activists pleading with the PM to […]

Wake-up call & season for introspection

It’s the ultimate insult to the neta-babu brotherhood which despite the landmark liberalisation and deregulation initiative of 1991, continues to micro-manage the Indian economy.

In the International Monetary Fund’s latest World Economic Outlook 2020 published last month, India’s GDP is set to contract by 10.3 percent because of ham-fisted mismanagement of the Covid-19 crisis and Bangladesh […]

Well begun but unfinished long march

Two decades and a year ago, your editors embarked on a historic and perhaps in retrospect, too ambitious a mission. The first issue of EducationWorld — The Human Development Magazine, was ceremonially launched on November 1, 1999 by the late Prof. N.S. Ramaswamy (1926-2012), a great institutions builder and founding director of the National Institute […]