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...
From Helper To Lawyer
Mohammad Aslam had come to Srinagar as a domestic helper but is now pursuing a law degree from University of Kashmir. With help from...
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...
Costs of a Social Media Post
A student’s social media post triggered a crisis forcing the administration to quickly take legal action and intervene to prevent escalation of tensions, reports...
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...
Failing The Education Test
by Riyaz Wani
The charges extracted from the students should be in direct proportion to the quality of the services rendered and to the extent...
Model in Mountains
At seven his father became part of Kashmir’s surging collateral damage and at 14 he was formally admitted to an orphanage. Nine years later,...
The Coercion Class
In the absence of higher institutions for learning, thousands of Kashmir students spread across the country to pursue education. One of the major shares...
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...
Deaths By Drowning
Around 35 people, most of them minors, have drowned while bathing in streams and ponds to beat the scorching sun. This has triggered calls...
A diligent teacher
In a state where people invent excuses to take a day off from work, a government teacher in a south Kashmir village has employed...
Marketing Peace!
Can innovative marketing techniques help bring peaceful resolution to Kashmir issue? It can, argues first time writer Mehboob Makhdoomi, a management research fellow from...
Churning out failures
Some decades back, passing 10th class examinations in Kashmir was deemed a big achievement. Education system and standards have considerably improved since, particularly in...
Campus Impact
Even though the Central University of Kashmir would take some more time in finding a permanent address to operate from, its campuses in Ganderbal...
“I would rate it 5/10. KU is an office; it is yet to reach...
Vice Chancellor of Kashmir University Professor Khurshid Iqbal Andrabi tells Kashmir Life that there is no official ban on research related to Kashmir conflict...
