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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.

Shabir Kohli’s home at Hardu kichr, Ashmuqam. KL Image: Aaqib Hyder

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...

A Reading Room 

A woman in Jammu sets up a library on her property to encourage students to read and gradually it is emerging a model for...

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...

Hard lessons

The last two decades have witnessed a proliferation of coaching centers in the valley and every student seems to be joining them. Are these...

“There is a strange emotional attachment and an unexplainable affinity between Kashmiris and Pakistanis.”

Nadia Mehr, who became first Pakistani girl to earn a doctorate from Kashmir, tells Rahiba R Parveen  that staying in conflict torn Kashmir was...

The Inside Rot

Faculties at SKUAST-K are up in arms against the incumbent Vice-Chancellor, who even after completing his tenure of five years seems unmoved. With the...

Kashmir in Dehradun

Limitation of options and cutthroat competition leaves little scope for the majority of students to stay put in Kashmir. They migrate for study in...

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...

Remodelling Universities 

A draft bill is making sweeping changes in the system of managing the universities in Jammu and Kashmir, reports Yawar Hussain The newly formulated Jammu and...

I Can Walk English…Talk English…

English mania is a global phenomenon, though English is no mania; It is a necessity. So how can Kashmir lag behind. SHAZIA YOUSUF reports. Some...

 Loading Laurels

Be it sports, science, activism, photography or documentary making, a youth from South Kashmir is doing it all with style and substance. Saima Rashid...

Sozni Scientist

Born to disabled Sozni artist parents Shabir Mir picked up threads and a needle when he was just 11 to work his way out...

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...

Dhaka Despatches

Kashmir’s desperation to have a doctor in a family helped Bangladesh emerge as the new destination for medical training. After a medical student's mysterious...

Examining Class X Results

In the first pan-Jammu, Kashmir Ladakh BOSE results for the tenth class, data speaks so loudly about the changes silently taking place in the...