“Our education sector is full with wives, daughters and acquaintances of bureaucrats.”
Abdul Qayoom Wani, a resident of Wasun Baghi, Tangmarg, after completing B A, B Ed joined education department as a teacher. In 1991, along...
Mehmooda Ahmed Ali Shah
A close associate of former Indian Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi and a well-known educationist of Kashmir, Mehmooda Ahmed Ali Shah took her last breath...
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...
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...
New Generation, New Education
The New Education Policy 2020 is aimed at revolutionising the educational set-up and making the new generation acquire the basics that the evolved market...
“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...
Unlearning Mistakes
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While the infrastructure of private coaching centres was part of a debate in...
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...
“I am trying to convince students to start their own units, like opening a...
A 1999 batch KAS officer, Shabnum Shah Kamli, heads state’s Department of Technical Education (DTE).She tells Syed Asma, despite huge potential to change lives,...
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...
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...
A Gatekeeper’s Tale
Serving at Government College for Women for four decades Mohammad Rafiq Shiekh has ushered in several generations of students into the college, reports Saifullah...
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...
New Landmark
It took almost three years from starting investigations to the delivery of the verdict. But as a group of 43 people goes to jail...
Fleeing The War Theatre
As Russia finally invaded the NATO member, Ukraine, its weakest neighbour, scores of Kashmiris were caught in the medical campuses. While efforts are underway...
