A Costly Recess
As around 160 thousand students are writing their examinations for three classes, Umar Khurshid revisits the state of education and the schooling in the...
Pellets & Classroom
A number of students who were hit by the pellets during last two unrests have faced problems in continuation of their studies. While most...
A Mountainous Feat
A young boy from a modest background put in his all efforts and managed cracking NEET examination with flying colours. Now the tensions in...
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...
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...
Frightened Flight
Owing to the disruptive education in Kashmir, tens of thousands of students migrate out to pursue studies. But the situation back home is chasing...
Education Experiments
The first major crisis that better-performing students from poor family backgrounds face is between 14 and 18 years of age when parents seek their...
Youth Engagement
by Masood Hussain
With gloom dominating the valley, sweet surprises come from the Indian mainland. Last week’s surprises were encouraging. Two Kashmiri students were elected...
Community Initiative
Villagers in Syed Ali Geelani’s Duroo village donated land and resource to create a co-education institution that has a grand mix of science and...
Creative Twins
In a distant Kokernag village, there are twin brothers, sons of a labourer, who have more than 40 innovations to their credit. In the...
The Sand Art
When an entire classroom understood the idea of how sand art can be used to explain a situation in one of the world’s most...
The Poet Mentor
by Swati Parashar
The calmness of a perfect summer day in Gothenburg (where I live and teach at the university) was shattered when I received...
Zaiba Aapa’s School
After unknown gunmen left a young science graduate to survive crippled, he felt the pain of the people with serious disabilities. A few years...
New Landmark
It took almost three years from starting investigations to the delivery of the verdict. But as a group of 43 people goes to jail...
Classroom In Crisis
In 47 days of schooling in Kashmir, classes were open for 24 days only. What it means for parents who spend hugely on education...