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Education

This section is a window to the education scenario of Jammu and Kashmir. It gives details about the policies, issues, initiatives and inspirational stories related to education.

A Rare School 

Curriculum, poor infrastructure and unimpressive service in public schools are pushing parents to enrol their wards in the private sector schools. This is despite...
The signboards could be misleading but both institutions are in the same building. KL Image by Faheem Mir

College Abundance

All of sudden, there is a huge race for more colleges. With additional 52 colleges announced by the governor in recent months, the number...

Inside Kashmir’s Seminary Network

Kashmir’s formal education system owes its evolution to medieval Khanqah education and Maktab teaching. Kashmir still has an impressive seminary network and Dr Nisar...

Campus Impact

Even though the Central University of Kashmir would take some more time in finding a permanent address to operate from, its campuses in Ganderbal...
A 1955 photograph showing the students being taught in an open school.

Schools On Distress Sale

So far, Kashmir’s public discourse surrounded the loss of school days and the sluggish 2G in the education’s online circus. Silently but surely, the...

The Sopore College

Despite contributing to the making of generations of professionals in the last more than seven decades, the state-run Degree College at Sopore is yet...

Enabling Better Schooling

Poplars in Kashmir and the people in Pulwama have been acknowledged as key contributors to reducing India’s dependence on imports in managing the pencil...

Digital Teaching

While the smart classrooms and the Skype teaching are two parallel forms of digital education, teachers caught between unrest and examinations tagged the two...

‘We Are Trying To Technologically Equip Our Schools’

Director of School Education Kashmir, Tassaduq Hussain Mir is a busy man these days. He has to ensure that the government schools adopt and...

The Exam Fever

Students who somehow reached home during the pandemic are being asked by their universities to return and appear in examinations. This too at a time...

The Versatile Vice-Chancellor

by Ikhlaq Qadri Exactly this was a time of the year, 13 years ago in 2008, spring officially sprung, that I was finally a graduate....

Super Education

Thanks to all expense paid Super-50 initiative, public school students are now all set to take any competition head on. Saima Bashir reports For years...

Deaths By Drowning

Around 35 people, most of them minors, have drowned while bathing in streams and ponds to beat the scorching sun. This has triggered calls...

Challenging The Elite Schools

 Lesser-known private schools are giving competition to elite schools, not only challenging their supremacy, but also putting a question mark on their screening measures...

Stressed Schooling

A series of decisions taken with regard to the private school education sector has brought back the debate over how Kashmir is going to...