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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.

No Dismal Performance

Even though the students from Jammu and Kashmir under-performed numerically in comparison to the national average but the sheer number and the merit indicate...

Leave, Please!

For bulge of workforce working on contractual basis in government sector leave is an emotional issue. While their permanent counterparts enjoy all perks, they...

Questionable Examination

Barely out of Secondary School, as thousands of boys and girls were pushed into a CBT by NTA for an eligibility test to enter...

Off The Shelf

An improvement in the literacy rate is not changing the age-old trend of avoiding books within and outside the classrooms. With the section of...

Fleeing The War Theatre

As Russia finally invaded the NATO member, Ukraine, its weakest neighbour, scores of Kashmiris were caught in the medical campuses. While efforts are underway...

Messy Education

With most of the money spent for the welfare of teachers the leftover hardly helps the cause of providing quality education to the underprivileged...

Playing With Future

A complete lack of infrastructure and official apathy has forced two schools in north Kashmir to transform commercial shops into classrooms. While the students...

The New Learning Curve

The implementation of the new education policy (NEP2020) has inordinately delayed the admissions at the undergraduate level as the authorities have joined the national...

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...
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...

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...

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...

Lured to New Languages

Amid the diversity of languages spoken and written in Jammu and Kashmir, the new generation is picking the non-native languages to manage better livelihoods...

DAV Divide

From once a premier address for seeking knowledge in Srinagar DAV School is struggling to survive the onslaught of time, mismanagement and politics. The...

Elite driven!

Like air rescue teams who handpicked victims during recent floods Omar’s cabinet too fell for elite trap while deciding future of students across Kashmir....