Scholarship delays shatter dreams of rural students in Lingsugur, Karnataka. The air hung heavy with the promise of another scorching day. The sun, a relentless white orb in the cloudless sky, cast Tawargera village in Karnataka dusty main road in a shimmering heat haze. Kavya, in a faded salwar kameez, stood at the bus […]
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Girls in Sindhnur face significant challenges for pursuing higher education, other than forceful marriages, field laboring, social stigma in castes, economic crisis and lack of educational institutes are some of the factors. As the dawn breaks over the horizon, a girl named Narseema wakes up quietly to get ready by not waking up others in […]
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Survey shows that employers in India are more likely to hire a graduate who has both a degree and industry micro-credential. Professional certificate courses are in high demand among Indian students and employers, reveals a 2023 Coursera survey, “Advancing Higher Education with Industry Micro-Credentials.” Coursera, an online learning platform, surveyed nearly 5,000 students and employers across […]
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ABVP presented a resolution to the principal secretary with suggestions like conducting a re-examination, granting grace marks and deleting out of syllabus questions. The expert committee constituted by the state government to examine the complaints of out-of-syllabus questions in the Karnataka Common Entrance Test (KCET) 2024, remains non-committal, despite Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad’s (ABVP) meeting […]
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Students and school administrations remain clueless of what the new academic year’s curriculum will look like for students in Karnataka. As they write their preparatory exams, students in the state are not sure what their educational future is going to look like in the next few months as the new academic year begins. The state […]
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Seats in the transgender quota have remained empty since 2014 in the Bangalore University. Students applying to Bangalore University (BU) urge it to convert the transgender quota seats which have remained vacant since 2014 to the general quota. Anju, an applicant of the Bangalore University said, “I applied to the Bangalore University last year and […]
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Despite women accounting for 44 percent of postgraduates and Ph.D. holders in STEM fields, their representation in the Science Technology Engineering Math (STEM) workforce remains low, at just 13.9 percent. While the number of female students in STEM has risen, their participation in the workforce remains low shows a UNESCO report. Experts say that STEM […]
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Despite the Karnataka Government giving a two year adjusting period to the Central mandate on age, many schools in Karnataka have already started implementing it. A recent mandate issued by the Central government has left parents confused and worried as it requires children to have completed six years of age to be admitted into the first […]
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Inclusive environment for the LGBTQIA+ community is still something that schools need to work on, say students Schools in the city are yet to raise awareness and bring inclusivity for the LGBTQIA+ community, despite the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 focussing on providing transgender individuals with equitable and inclusive education. Rishi (name changed), a class […]
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NCERT’s new curriculum mandates gender neutrality but schools don’t implement them because they say that there is a lack of trans students. The transgender community in the city wants more focus on basic facilities in school like separate toilets, qualified teachers, and sensitizing students about the subject of the trans community to make education for […]
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