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Reaching 1600 students already, this start-up is slowly altering how we teach...
Madhi is the Tamil word for ‘knowledge’. In 2015, Merlia Shaukath started a non-profit in Chennai, naming it ‘Madhi Foundation’. Currently, Madhi focuses on training teachers and student learning...
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From the Army to Aligarh: Meet India’s ‘Academic Soldier’, Lt. General Zameer...
At Tedx Hyderabad 2017, he was introduced as the Academic Soldier, and the label fits Lt. General Zameer Uddin Shah like a glove. Born on 15 August 1948 in Bahraich District of Uttar Pradesh, India, he...
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NRIs Spend ₹15 Lakh to Transform Punjab Govt School Named After Kargil Martyr
How would you keep the memory alive of a martyr who sacrificed his life for the country during the Kargil War? Erect a statue and forget all about it later? The village of Ghudani Kalan in Payal...
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No Detention Policy for Schools: Is the No Fail System Hurting Our Students?
The role of education in an individual’s life can never be undermined. That is not a topic of contention. But how one must attain that education remains in contention. The question of education places...
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Time to End Our Outdated and Backward Education System. Here’s a New Style
In this era of overt commercialisation and apathy towards education, Jacob and Susan – a young couple from Kerala – are running an education initiative that could be an example for the entire country....
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Failing Kids Doesn’t Ensure Competition. Why We Need the No Detention Policy
Over the last couple of years, the government’s focus has been towards utilising the vast workforce India is copiously producing. This has been reflected in its policies. For example, changes in the...
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Taking an Online English Learning Course? Here’s Some Advice From Successful...
From facing issues in presenting themselves with confidence to handling communication in a second language with ease, British Council myEnglish students share the secrets of their success. We’re in...
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This Couple Quit Their Well-Paying Jobs to Make Math Fun and Fearless for Kids
This article is powered by Intel India. Imagine a Mathematics lesson. Fractions, trigonometry, permutations, numbers, decimal points, square roots – an endless list. If you are someone who was, or...
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How a 12-Year-Old Opened the Gates for Education for Kids in His Community
For the nomadic community of Narikuravars in Tamil Nadu, the only mode of livelihood comes from selling beads on streets or worse, begging. Amidst the various ostracised communities in the state,...
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Here Are 10 Amazing & Innovative Methods Transforming How Indians Are Learning!
With more than 1.5 million schools, 260 million enrolments and 12 million teachers, India has the largest, most diverse and complicated learning systems in the world. While access to education has been...
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Power of Bugs: Five Eco-Warrior Organisms That Can Save the Environment!
Did you know about the existence of worms who are capable of eating plastic 1400 times faster than other organisms? Or water hyacinths that are capable of purifying sewage water? For the longest time,...
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Mumbai Professor Begged on Trains to Set up English Medium Schools in Rural...
Sipping a cup of tea at his Goregaon home, Sandeep Desai chuckles as he recalls the first day he boarded a local train with an agenda in mind and a transparent acrylic box in his bag almost seven years...
View ArticleAshok Leyland’s ‘Road to School’ Is Helping 20,000 Kids Learn Differently...
One of the major reasons why so many children drop out even before they reach secondary school is the idea that the time invested in education could be better utilised by doing labour that would offer...
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Planning on Writing the UPSC? Here Are Some Key Likely Changes to the Civil...
The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) had constituted an expert committee under the chairmanship of former human resource development secretary and retired IAS officer B.S. Baswan to review the...
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How India’s 1st Educational Crowdfunding Platform Transformed the Lives of...
Education is the greatest gift you can give anyone. In a country like ours where rural societies are still marred by the social issues of poverty, malnutrition, illiteracy and caste-based...
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Son Honours Father Slain in 26/11 Attacks by Educating Adivasi Girls
On 26/11, Chief Ticket Inspector SK Sharma was one of the many people who lost his life in the Mumbai terror attacks. Sharma was rushing home that night to spend his son, Aditya’s birthday with him....
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Just Going to School Is Not Enough. Here’s What Our Kids Need to Truly Learn
Seventy years of our Independence and we have reached a stage where there is no more force, coercion or awareness needed in the field of education. Today almost every parent, be they from rural or...
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Brijesh, Who Fought Great Odds to Study at IIT, Is Raising Lakhs to Educate...
Brijesh Saroj is the son of a daily wage worker in Uttar Pradesh and is determined to repay the society which helped him during a difficult period. Despite being academically brilliant — he and his...
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Leaving No One Behind: Here’s the Kind of Education That Can Transform India
When he was in 5th standard, Badra Sen Negi ran away from his home in a small village in Himachal’s Kinnaur district. Later, when he came under the aegis of an initiative run by an NGO, he hesitantly...
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18% GST: Here’s Why Higher Education in India Should Be Tax-Free
Social and economic progress in any developing nation is based on its ability to leverage human capital. In the past few years, a lot of the public discourse has revolved around the distinct...
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