Gist of Editorials: Limits of class | GS – II
The RTE Amendment Bill has triggered the debate between anti-detentionists and detentionists.
Gist of Editorials: Learning Little (The Hindu) | GS – II
The reading and arithmetic abilities in rural schools are dismal according to ASER report.
Editorial Simplified: Limits of Class | GS – II
The RTE Amendment Bill, recently passed in Rajya Sabha, has again triggered the periodic debate between anti-detentionists — votaries of No-Detention Policy (NDP) — and detentionists.
Editorial Simplified: Learning Little | GS – II
The latest assessment of how children are faring in schools in rural areas indicates there has been no dramatic improvement in learning outcomes. This picture has emerged from the Annual Status of Education Report.
Editorial Simplified: Innovation, Not Eminence, is Key | GS – II
In India, the better institutions of higher education tend to prepare graduates for their first job or vocation. But this is of limited merit in a world where a person is expected to change vocations and re-skill herself six times over a career.
Editorial Simplified: Opening Up to the World | GS – II
Since Independence, the challenges of building a mass higher education system with inadequate government funding has meant poor quality, increasing privatization and politicization. Excellence is possible, as the IITs and IIMs show, although it is limited to a tiny segment of a system that enrolls 35 million students.
