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Meet Jitendra Mane, Who Teaches Rural Children Despite His Crippling Disability
“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” Over the last four years, Jitendra Mane, a 32 year old...
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Geometry That’s Interesting? This New Model Helps Students Learn Better While...
Using Technology in Classrooms It’s true what they say, ‘Technology in the hands of great teachers is transformational’. Using new technology in classrooms piques a student’s curiosity, can make them...
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This Teacher Raised Lakhs to Send His Students to a Robotics Competition in...
Four students from a government school in Bengaluru are passionate about building robots. To the extent that participating in regional level robotics competitions is just “a cakewalk” for them, says...
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This Rajasthan Couple Helps Underprivileged Students Crack Govt Exams Free of...
In a small village in Rajasthan’s Dausa district, about 55 km from Jaipur, two government school teachers are transforming the lives of students from economically weaker sections, over the last six...
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Despite The Odds, This Nomadic Tribal is Fighting to Educate his Children
“It all started when I couldn’t clear my grade ten examination,” says Vikas Burungle, 29, from a village called Dahivadi in the Satara district of Maharashtra. Vikas is from the Nath Panthi Davari – a...
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There Are 900 Teachers From This One Village! Welcome to Karnataka’s Alavandi!
Though lack of resources and facilities for providing good education in rural regions continues to remain a pressing issue in India, the village of Alavandi in Koppal district of Karnataka stands out...
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With No Building or Supplies: How Two Rajasthani Youngsters Got Students Back...
India has made progress in raising enrolment rates for primary education. But schools have not been very successful at preventing dropouts. This is an equally, if not more, important measure of...
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A Little Volunteering Can Change a Lot: Here’s Why You Should Give it a Shot
In India, many initiatives are dependent on tens of thousands of volunteers who give up their time, and sometimes comfortable lives, to make life better for strangers in need. So why do they do it? A...
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How Raipur’s Transparent RTE System Got 5500 Poor Kids Admitted to Top Schools
Four-year-old Lokesh is the son of a blind father who has a government allowance of Rs.350 a month. Ayush’s father, a cobbler, wishes his fate doesn’t befall on his child. Jhanvi’s mother, a cook,...
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Face Derecognition If Security Measures Not Upped. CBSE Issues Guidelines for...
The murder of a seven-year-old in a reputed Gurugram school’s premises and the rape of a five-year-old girl by a school peon in Delhi have opened a Pandora’s box of concerns. Parents now worry about...
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This School Drop Out Has Over 2.5 Lakh Hours of Engineering Under His Belt!
“I“ didn’t know what iron was. But you have to find your passion when you are young and take an interest in it. After that, you put in countless hours and never let it go. You’ll conquer it. And no...
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How Films, Comic Books are Reducing Dropout Rates in One of MP’s Poorest...
Chemistry Nobel laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan recently said that India ought to spend more time thinking about education, particularly in science and technology, and not be caught up in “all this...
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Trigonometry to Bernoulli’s Principle: Here’s How LMES Is Making Science Fun...
How many of us still feel the jitters when thinking about Trigonometry? Ask any engineer about Fourier transforms, and Laplace transforms, and it is highly probable that you will see a pained look on...
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For Rohingya Refugees in Telangana, This Night School Is a New Lease of Life
The crisis in which the Rohingya community has found itself deeply muddled in, is undoubtedly one of the worst cases of human rights infringement in present times. With hundreds being killed by the...
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Masters Degree at 97: This Man From UP Has Proved Age Is Just a Number!
Holding a Master’s degree is no big feat in today’s day and age. But for Bareilly’s Raj Kumar Vaishya, it is indeed a lifetime achievement. Following the announcement of results for the final year...
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English, Math Training: How a Mumbai Org is Uplifting Hearing Impaired Kids
TEACH, or the Training and Educational Centre for Hearing impaired is an initiative that helps deaf students from vernacular medium schools. It also assists them with higher education and professional...
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Meet Taruna, Who Left Her Bank Job to Feed and Educate Ghaziabad’s Struggling...
“During my days in school and college, I saw first hand what the lack of funds and resources could do to a family. From being a family that had had enough and more, overnight we became one that had to...
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How a Trust Pulled 1,800 Slum Kids off Dehradun’s Streets and Gave Them...
Hope is an alien concept if you’re born in Dehradun’s Bindal slum, lining the side banks of the unpredictable Bindal river. Your parents are mostly daily wage labourers working at construction sites....
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This Levelfield School’s Unconventional Methods Are Changing the Concept of...
He was all of 33 when his friends, acquaintances, colleagues and the wider circle of people around him thought he’d taken leave of his senses. And who really could blame them ? The year was 2009. An...
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MBA Students to Actors: How Everyone Is Benefiting From a Change in Tech and...
myEnglish teachers at the British Council, India are guiding adult learners to achieve success through interactive online English courses. Using live online classrooms and guided online activities they...
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