Education | Citizen Matters, Mumbai

Chasing happiness in Maximum City

March 9, 2021 Shreemayee Das

How a teaching assignment brought me to Mumbai, making the city my home.

Desperate move to retain students in BMC schools

February 23, 2021 Apekshita Varshney

When BMC found that its schools might not have any students left by the year 2028, it started ICSE and CBSE syllabus. Here’s the response.

The problem of Mumbai’s ‘unrecognised’ schools. What are the solutions?

February 1, 2021 Hepzi Anthony

Schools that are not recognised by the government might put the students at risk. But lakhs of students in Mumbai have no choice.

English language pushes youth in Kasaiwada up the economic ladder

January 25, 2021 Santoshee Gulabkali Mishra

Teenagers in this Kurla neighbourhood learn English and hope to achieve upward social mobility

Woes of a 2020 graduate

September 10, 2020 Nivedha Kannan

The “Kabhi haan, Kabhi naa” mindset of the authorities has plagued several students into pits of doubt and despair for the last six months.

“Let children rewind and recharge their batteries”

August 18, 2020 Bhairvi Raichura

In their zeal to keep their shops running and to justify the fee structure, schools are going out of their way to make life hell for children and the teachers. Is this at all necessary?

Teachers, please don’t teach

August 11, 2020 Anu Agrawal

This year, when schools are holding classes online, it is the best opportunity to teach students life skills and take the emphasis away from marks-based learning.

Studies must go on. Internet or no internet.

July 18, 2020 Apekshita Varshney

In the wake of successive lockdowns forced by the pandemic, state education department, teachers and NGOs are devising innovative ways to help students without smartphone and Internet access continue their education.

In e-learning push, corporation schools in Mumbai left in the lurch

June 16, 2020 Santoshee Gulabkali Mishra

Little thought is being given to how students of corporation schools will be able to access this, given that for most of them access to quality internet connection and the devices required is severely limited.

Mumbai civic body initiative to help school kids cope with mental health issues

October 16, 2019 Jahanvi J

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s Smiling School Project will train principals and teachers to identify students facing mental or emotional distress. These students will then receive free counselling. But will it be enough, given the nature and magnitude of the problem?