Education

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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