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 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...
Ailing alma mater
Academics and student welfare seem to be the last priority of the University of Kashmir, obsessed with seminars and whimsical appointments. HAMIDULLAH DAR reports.
Many...
Campus Monopoly
Kashmir produces around 50 thousand graduates annually but accommodates merely 5000 in all PG courses. Those left out end up spending huge money to...
Withered Tales
Vagaries of winters have substantially reduced over the decades. But the new tools have created an unreal world around the façade of the virtual...
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 Costly Recess
As around 160 thousand students are writing their examinations for three classes, Umar Khurshid revisits the state of education and the schooling in the...
‘IUST Has Filed 28 Patents’
Almost 40 days after Dr Shakil A Romshoo, Kashmir’s foremost earth scientist, took over as the Vice-Chancellor of the IUST, he told Khalid Bashir...
Three Essential Tips to Create a Captivating Book Cover
Everyone says that it’s bad to judge a book by its cover. Yet, everyone does so. And that is one of the essential reasons...
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...
“Our educational system has become employment oriented rather than education oriented”
Naeem Akhtar, a former bureaucrat who after joining politics rose through the ranks and became state’s Education Minster, tells RS Gull that state’s education...
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...
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...
Unreal Class, Real Tensions
Teachers recount the travails of delivering online lectures at 2G speed, reports Umar Mukhtar
At 8 am, Rafia, a school teacher, keeps her cell phone connected...
Course Correction
Kashmir’s seminary network is acknowledging the concerns but it would require strong societal backing to encourage the Dar-ul-Ulooms’ to start producing skilled people so...
