EDUCATION

This is the first part of a series of reports on Jawaharlal Nehru University (2016-2021) by the JNU Teachers’ Association. On 26th January 2021, the five-year tenure of Prof. Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar as Vice Chancellor of JNU will formally come to an end. While there are press reports that confirm that the Search Committee constituted for … Continue reading JNUTA Report on the university 2016-2021 Part I – Delhi High Court orders →

Guest post by MOHAN RAO “And yet there must be deliverance for we are all otherwise convicted at birth.” I want to thank Srivats and Anveshi for inviting to be part of a discussion about the book, Caste as Merit, by Ajantha Subramaniam.* I am not a scholar on these issues and I must confess … Continue reading Invention of Merit and the ‘Millstone of Caste’: Mohan Rao →

Ces dernières années, sous prétexte de rétablir l'égalité entre les sexes, des politiques ont été exclusivement menées en faveur des filles et des femmes dans le système éducatif. Résultat : les garçons sont en échec scolaire ou universitaire. Par crainte d'être qualifiés "d'anti-féministes" ou encore de "raciste", les institutions subissant des pressions de la part des lobbies, refusent de prendre les mesures nécessaires en faveur de ceux qui sont en difficulté : les garçons (...)

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Société

Ces dernières années, sous prétexte de rétablir l'égalité entre les sexes, des politiques ont été exclusivement menées en faveur des filles et des femmes dans le système éducatif. Résultat : les garçons sont en échec scolaire ou universitaire. Par crainte d'être qualifiés "d'anti-féministes" ou encore de "raciste", les institutions subissant des pressions de la part des lobbies, refusent de prendre les mesures nécessaires en faveur de ceux qui sont en difficulté : les garçons (...)

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Société

A specter is haunting western psychology, the specter of dialectics. The scaffold of the academic world is shaking. The time for its transformation is near… Dialectical psychologists unite! You have nothing to lose but the respect of vulgar mechanisms and pretentious mentalists. You will win a world, a changing world created by ever-changing human beings. […]

Segregated charter schools have a high failure rate and are notorious for lacking accountability and oversight. Charter schools are also well-known for being non-transparent even though they are ostensibly “public” schools. This has been the case for nearly 30 years when charter schools first came into being. Over the years, endless reports, articles, and books […]

The disruption of education in Covid times has caused serious concern, and there are well-justified calls for  urgent corrective action. Along with this, however, there is compelling reason to give much more thought to where exactly business-as-usual education systems are taking us and to what extent, if at all, these are capable of contributing to the creation of a better, [Read More...]

The education and the department of human resource is always a hot topic in Kashmir valley but from last one month it has been more. It is being discussed at every nook and corner, from top to bottom and by every Tom, Dick and Harry. There has been three trending topics which were discussed by the people in the print[Read More...]

source John Anderson Peter Hitchens is a British journalist, author and broadcaster. He currently writes for the Mail on Sunday and brings a singular perspective on many issues facing contemporary society. He and John discuss some of them here, including the breakdown in trust we are witnessing, his experiences in the Soviet Union, conservatism and […]

President-elect Joe Biden recently nominated Miguel Cardona to serve as the next U.S. Secretary of Education. Hardly anyone in education circles has heard of or spoken about Cardona, let alone in an open and serious way. For weeks there was endless speculation and confusion surrounding the “top potential pick” for this position. All kinds of […]
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