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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.

Shabir Kohli’s home at Hardu kichr, Ashmuqam. KL Image: Aaqib Hyder

A Viral Vocabulary

The pandemic caused by the invisible Coronavirus has started dictating a new value system as part of its etiquettes regime. In order to understand...

OBE Is The Alternative

by Nazir Ahmad Gilkar and Iqra Majeed Shah Kashmir personifies a systemic, normalised clampdown. The shutdowns are usually a 100 to 200 days affair in a year. These...

Biscoe’s Kashmir 1935

Missionary educationist, Cecil Earle Tyndale Biscoe (1863–1949) was a key player in pushing Kashmir to modern education and a better understanding of the world...

Open To Learning

Distance education is gaining popularity in Kashmir as limited seats in the valley’s colleges and universities can’t accommodate everyone. Many opt for Open Learning...

The Shrine Contribution

A small shrine nested in Kashmir’s Pir Panchal Mountains in Shahadra Sharief funded a huge university in Rajouri’s backyard. The Ghulam Shah Badshah University...

Killing In Classroom

An examiner’s wrong evaluation pushed an engineering aspirant to suicide. A re-evaluation posthumously identified the mistake. Syed Asma reports about how peer pressures, systemic...

Campus Reacts

As Kashmir was limping to normalcy after bullets mixed with ballot during daylong by-poll, a police raid in a south Kashmir college triggered sort...
Syed Firdousa Rabbani with the students of her school. KL Image: Faheem Mir

Model Teacher

Faheem Mir meets a Rehbar-e-Taleem teacher who donates her modest earnings to the poor students in her class. Her colleagues say she is maintaining...

A Sweeping Shift

In anticipation of the tabling of the proposed public universities bill in the Lok Sabha, Yawar Hussain interacted with the academicians to understand how...

Turning A Blind Eye

Students who have hearing and visual impairments are increasingly finding it difficult to receive proper education. Syed Asma  takes a closer look at the...

Lost in Translation

Looking for a government job, get a degree first. Want to make laws and rule the state, fret not. You can be a cabinet...

Teacher Motivation: A Key To Overhauling Education System

By Yasir Wani The movement of renovating the education system has gained pace with innovative circulars from the directorate office. Intermittently, something new is coming...

Rare Investment

While there is rat race amongst private school owners to get the best of the new generation, there has not been any effort on...

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...

Trendsetting Results

The results of the tenth and twelfth standard examination by the JK Board of School Education (BOSE) involving 150 thousand students offers some clear...