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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.

Speaking To The Car

Though part of his routine University curriculum, Anwar Naseer explored the possibility of using speech to command a car and he succeeded. Now, he...

Disappearing Diaper

Engineering students at the University of Kashmir teamed up and within three years created a prototype of a one-time diaper that signals caretaker every...

In Avanitvarman’s Capital

When the Islamic University was established in the deserted foothills of Awantipore, the naysayers said the campus hardly suits a small highway town, home...

Restricted Knowledge

Once the home to Sharda Peath, the medieval university in subcontinent, Kashmir with a millennium of recorded history is still struggling to get into...

Thank you, Korea! After PhD, a Kashmiri scholar puts his appreciation on record

Schooled in a modest privately run school at Kanipora, the resident of Shurat in Kulgam did his graduation from the degree college in South...

Autumn Windfall

With more than half of the 150 thousand fresh admissions, every autumn, opting for private sector schools, the costs of educating the new generation...

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...

Conflict in Campus

by Tasavur Mushtaq The university of Kashmir, the highest seat of learning, is the abode of thousands of knowledge seekers. Since its inception, albeit as...

Questionable Texts

Government schools in Kashmir are the best in human resource and  poor in infrastructure. But the major reason for the parents to stop sending...

Remembering Sir Syed

by Khursheed Wani October 17 evening was unique at picturesque Pahalgam. The fading hoardings with greeting messages for Amarnath pilgrims were out of sync with...

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...

Academic Aversion

Unlike 2016, the educational campuses across most of Kashmir had interrupted schedule because the doors would shut more frequently than ever. Muhammad Younis explains...

Barkat’s School

Started by a mother of seven to impart free education to the underprivileged, Buchwara’s Lowood School is now a splendid piece of history. To...

Smouldering Schools

Schools became surprising targets of arson and destruction after Burhan Wani’s killing in July 2016. Officially all are operational. Umar Khurshid visited some of...

Two Teachers

The government adjudged two teachers as the best in 2017. They were honoured at a gala function last week. Later they told their story...