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The Uttar Pradesh state government plans to equip all school examination centres with CCTV cameras by December this year to crack down on the use of unfair means by students. “Beginning next academic session, all examinations will be conducted under the watch of cameras. Buildings or premises that...
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October 16, 2017 Loknath Das
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Madhu Kumari teaches students of Class 1 to 5 in a government upper primary school for three hours devoting one hour each to mathematics, English, and Hindi. After that, the 15-year-old attends Class 7 for three hours in the school in Patpara locality of Rajasthan’s Bharatpur city. “I...
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October 12, 2017 Loknath Das
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While the physical safety of children is of utmost importance, the emotional, mental and health safety of the little ones should also not be ignored. We do not measure the damage done to a child when they are reprimanded for mistakes they make, use sarcastic remarks to modify...
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October 7, 2017 Loknath Das
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Washington The World Bank has warned of a learning crisis in global education, particularly in low and middle-income countries like India, underlining that schooling without learning is not just a wasted development opportunity, but also a great injustice to children worldwide. The Bank in its latest report has noted...
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October 7, 2017 Loknath Das
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I recall my recent visit to a district public library in Jharkhand. I was excited to learn that the collector had reclaimed the public library building that had been occupied by paramilitary forces for years. The building was large, spacious, well ventilated. It had a number of shelves,...
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October 6, 2017 Loknath Das
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Children sit by a muddy road behind the RTO office in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhatarpur district. Vehicles speed by or stray dogs loiter around them, barking. They came to learn at a school set up by the government, but the failure of the administration to provide them a building...
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September 25, 2017 Loknath Das
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