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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.

Strategic Scholar

Strategy always fascinated a Sopore born scholar who rose to become Kashmir’s first doctorate in Strategic Studies. But the sad truth remains that in...

Understanding Jhelum

Last September’s devastating floods left an impression on young Saqib Gulzar’s mind. In less than a year’s time, he came up with an award...

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...

The Scholarship story

A year after the 2010 summer unrest, New Delhi announced a Special Scholarship Scheme to encourage students from J&K to pursue higher education. Two...

Revising PMSSS

At the peak of 2010 unrest, Union government initiated a policy that would help students from J&K to study in major educational institution in...

Beyond Universe

From his dimly lit office chamber Dr Sheikh Javid has successfully explored the unexplored part of the universe. Saima Bhat talks to the genius...
Cover Image - Students protests against delay of examination in March 2018. KL Image by Bilal Bahadur

Lost Opportunities

With instability and turmoil frequenting Kashmir, more than 200 thousand students at the college and university level are facing a crippling crisis as their...

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...

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...

‘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...

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...

Trending Teacher

Down in South Kashmir’s Shopian, a teacher has become viral on the virtual platform over his intriguing, innovative teaching. But the man whose classroom...

Kashmir: Career Coercion

With career options shrinking to quite a few in Kashmir, scores of students are attempting to achieve targets their parents failed to hit for...

Schooling In 1947

Educational institutions have existed in Kashmir in all eras for the last many centuries. However, they were less accessible to certain people in some...

Saving Namda

An 18-year-old girl’s invention helped save the centuries old art of Namda making. A sports and science fiction buff, she already has her kitty...