As competition for jobs grows tighter, many students are finding it harder to land employment after graduation. Teachers say that while students often have solid academic knowledge, many still lack the practical skills employers actually look for — things like communication, teamwork, problem-solving, and comfort with digital tools. Faculty members agree that classroom learning alone […]
Walk into almost any staffroom this year and you’ll find the same argument happening in different words. One teacher will tell you a student handed in an essay that was clearly written by a chatbot, not a fifteen-year-old. Another will tell you that same chatbot spent twenty minutes patiently re-explaining quadratic equations to a kid […]
For most of the last century, a classroom looked more or less the same everywhere: a teacher at the front, a blackboard covered in chalk dust, rows of students copying down notes. That picture is starting to shift. Walk into a growing number of schools and colleges today, and you’ll find a new presence in […]
Walk into any college in India and ask students what they are doing other than the college degree. A surprising number will tell you about a course they are running alongside their degree — a certification in data analytics, a bootcamp in full stack development, a short programme in digital marketing they found on educational […]
As classrooms evolve to prepare students for a rapidly changing world, one thing is becoming increasingly clear: good grades alone are no longer enough. Today’s students are growing up in a time where questions about careers, technology, identity and the future arrive much earlier than they did for previous generations. Alongside academic expectations, many young […]
Jantar Mantar, long seen as a space for public dissent, once again drew a crowd — this time students, activists, and education advocates gathered to spotlight the cracks in India’s education system. Through demonstrations and hunger strikes, they pushed for urgent attention to problems that have been piling up for years. Their complaints ranged widely: […]
The HUMAIN AI Literacy Mission (HAILM) was formally launched at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, today, introducing a holistic approach to AI literacy that brings school leaders, teachers and students onto a structured learning pathway. Combining an age-appropriate curriculum for Grades 3 to 12 with live sessions, an LMS, video lessons, interactive activities, teacher development, policy […]