Education

A woman in Jammu sets up a library on her property to encourage students to read and gradually it is emerging a model for...

Arrested while in the first year of graduation way back in 2013, a young man has cleared his graduation, acquired a law degree and...

In Kashmir, the prestigious Aligarh Muslim University is linked to two towering personalities, both named Sheikh Abdullah. While one, almost every Kashmiri is aware...

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...

Teachers recount the travails of delivering online lectures at 2G speed, reports Umar Mukhtar At 8 am,  Rafia, a school teacher, keeps her cell phone connected...

One of the well-known intellectuals who laid the base for the modern education in Kashmir soon after the partition died on August 18, at...

Except for a fortnight-long reopening of educational institutions in March, the lingering yearlong security siege now melded with Covid-19 lockdown has effectively turned Kashmir...

Despite shutdown and lockdowns, many Kashmiri students and professionals have bagged fellowships to study at prestigious western universities, reports Syed Samreen Mohammad Tabish, 29, applied for...

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...

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...

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

In a world besieged by the virus, people are working from their homes, using the high-speed Internet. In Kashmir, more than 1.5 million students...

Barieq Manzoor, a Downtown girl topped IGNOU’s BCom examination. It was beyond her expectations. In an interview with Saif Ullah Bashir, she says her...

The abundant colleges and teacher-scarce education department has lead the department to use and abuse almost 1900 teachers as contractual lecturer for more than...

With instability and turmoil frequenting Kashmir, more than 200 thousand students at the college and university level are facing a crippling crisis as their...