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.

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...

How Insulin Killed The Practice of Keeping Diabetic Alive By Enforced Hunger?

by Jameel Barkat 100 years down the line, Insulin is still not flowing in the veins of the millions of people who desperately need it....

Kashmir’s Kota

Thanks to private coaching centres Parrypora is host to diverse aspirations generating Rs 200 crore business. Zafar Aafaq reports It is 5:25 pm and uptown...

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...

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...

The Show Must Go On!

By Basharat Ali A Kashmiri student studying in India finds a mention in news these days. For raising a slogan, for cheering for his favourite...
Shabir Kohli’s home at Hardu kichr, Ashmuqam. KL Image: Aaqib Hyder

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...

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...

Representing Kashmir!

The ban at home on campus politics has not stopped Kashmiri students from seeking bigger roles in mainland India universities. Marila latif meets this...

A Rare School 

Curriculum, poor infrastructure and unimpressive service in public schools are pushing parents to enrol their wards in the private sector schools. This is despite...

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...

‘You are sort of an outcaste if you dare to leave a government job...

Aijaz Rashid, 30, a researcher from Arwah in Budgam who is working on a cancer drug which is 8 times more effective than the...

Counter Point: Why BGSBU is a Good Place to Study!

By Uzair Qadri The current cycle of violence inside the premises of my alma mater – Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University (BGSBU) – gives me...

The Golden Cage

Shafinur Shafin I had heard of the fabled beauty of Kashmir as early as my childhood days. The words, Kashmir is a heaven on the...

Like Father, Like Daughter

Muskan Fatima writes about the family of Prof Nooruddin, Kashmir’s first mathematician and the first VC of the University of Kashmir, most of whose...

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