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Education

Education, learning and skilling, the role of institutions and regulations, and experiences of citizens especially our young ones.

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Education

Students detained in spare classroom: Who pays when school fees become unaffordable?

February 28, 2023 Sabah Virani

Financial insecurity after COVID-19 has left many parents unable to pay their children’s school fees. Students are caught in the crosshairs.

Kids in school uniform
Education

Schools struggle as pending RTE reimbursements run into crores

February 7, 2023 Sabah Virani

As the process for admissions under RTE have begun, schools are staring at an ever growing figure of reimbursements awaited from the government.

The picture shows students of IIT Bombay sitting in large numbers at the main gate of the institution in protest against the recent fee hike.
Education

IIT Bombay fee hike: Facts and figures that explain why students are on a hunger strike

August 8, 2022 Pranav Jeevan P

The fee hike at IIT-B will hit students from marginalized communities hard, say protesting students. Some of them may even have to drop out.

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Education

Inside a verification centre on the last day for Right to Education (RTE) admissions

July 8, 2022 Sabah Virani

In the last moments to confirm admissions under Right To Education, a few parents recount their experiences with RTE verification.

Small children in school uniforms sitting together being shown a book to read
Education

Interview with Farida Lambay, Pratham: Dealing with COVID’s toll on education in Mumbai

June 6, 2022 Sabah Virani

The pandemic has caused several setbacks to education in Mumbai, from dropping attendance rates, increasing school dropouts, and widening learning losses.

child posing for camera while children attend class in the background at Jai Vakeel foundation
Education

Special schools in Mumbai face teaching challenges post-COVID

June 1, 2022 Radha Puranik

Special schools in Mumbai are facing many challenges: from identifying learning gaps caused by the pandemic to devising new methodologies to mitigate them.

4 school kids in disheveled uniform with a slum in the background pose for the camera
Education

Why do so many seats reserved under the Right To Education (RTE) Act go vacant?

May 26, 2022 Sabah Virani

With admissions for the 25% reservations under the Right to Admission (RTE) Act underway, a look at why half the seats remained vacant in the past.

Child attending night classes
Education

Some government schools introduce night classes to reduce drop outs

August 25, 2021 Radha Puranik

In many low income group families, only one parent has a smartphone. Children don’t have access to it until evening. So, BMC started night classes.

no online education
Education

Access to a phone is not enough. Woes of online education continue

June 18, 2021 Swati Kambale

Here are experiences of three young adults, from different areas of Mumbai, which highlight the layered challenges of online education faced by young girls since the onset of the pandemic.

Education

Introducing Mumbai’s history through children’s books

June 16, 2021 Chintan Girish Modi

If you are a parent hunting for ideas to keep your child engaged during the lockdown, consider introducing them to the city’s local histories through children’s books.  Several authors and illustrators have dipped into Mumbai’s

Education

School fee unaffordable to many parents, but is the government listening?

April 23, 2021 Santoshee Gulabkali Mishra

Will Maharashtra government provide relief to the parents who cannot pay school fees?

children in schools
Education

Chasing happiness in Maximum City

March 9, 2021 Shreemayee Das

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

children in schools
Education

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.

Education

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.

Education

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

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