Education News

Paulo Freire’s pedagogy to read the word and the world

The Brazilian educator’s problem-posing approach reinvented adult literacy programmes around the world.

Missing: boundary walls, bathrooms, blackboards

Across north and central India, government school education, especially in rural areas, is a challenge, both in terms of the number of teachers in every school and the state of the building that houses children. Reporters from four States track the state of school education. Amarnath Tewary, Ashna B...

Arvind Gupta: Seeing the simple things around us!

Renowned toy inventor Arvind Gupta makes us believe that science education can be fun if only we truly engage and help other people engage with the world around us!

Michael Owen doesn't tell his children he loves them - how big a deal is that?

His comments sparked discussions around parenting, gender and culture, and just how important those three simple words are.

From asteroid hunter to Maths wizard, 82 educators to receive National Teachers’ Awards

Teachers who engage in creative pedagogy and community leadership are in focus; among awardees are faculty in Indian Knowledge Systems, including Vaastu Shastra, the Bhagavad Gita, and integrating Sanskrit with AI

NTA takes AICTE help to map facilities for setting up testing centres

AICTE has set a September 15 deadline for institutes to submit the details following a National Testing Agency directive to support the transition of national examinations to online and CBT modes

Over ₹134 crore spent on proprietary software at premier institutes, says open source collective

FOSS United says the amount likely represented a fraction of public university spending on software it claims could be replaced by open source equivalents

Why teacher training reform is central to India’s foundational learning goals

To all well-wishers on Teachers’ Day, this is a letter from a teacher

Five questions from a school teacher for the readers to ponder upon

High Court seeks NTA response on plea challenging UGC-NET June 2026 English re-test

The plea sought to declare the decision to re-conduct the examination as arbitrary, unreasonable, procedurally unfair, and violative of Article 14 (right to equality) of the Constitution

A teacher is also a learner

If you google Sathyanarayanan Mundayoor, the first thing you may see is that he won the Padma Shri in 2020. But today, we look beyond the title and into the world of teaching through his eyes, from classrooms and libraries to the hills of Arunachal Pradesh, where he has spent decades nurturing curio...

Questions for the questioners – a Teachers’ Day special quiz

Each and every one of you will be familiar with the idea of being questioned by teachers. In this quiz, we celebrate Teachers’ Day by posing questions to you about these questioners, their teaching methods and the places of learning. Got what it takes to crack them all?