It is time education is recast as a public good for 'unlearning bias, prejudice and divisiveness'. When human rights norms become mainstreamed into the curriculum, the transformative potential of …
Author: Pramod K. Nayar
With the NEP’s Focus on ‘Autonomy’, Are We Ushering in a Spirit of Academic Capitalism?
Commentators see the National Education Policy 2020's emphasis on choice, modularity and autonomy as disquieting because they see it as pushing the education system into a neoliberal governance mode.
What Happens to the Right to Education, Online?
There are three principal concerns – digital divide, privacy and access – all of which emerge from contexts in which cultural practices, of which education is one, have run …
University Rankings and How They Affect Academic Responsibility in the Globalised Era
University rankings not only hold higher educational institutes accountable for how they utilise funding and academic autonomy, but also empower prospective students to make informed choices and thus, force …
How Different is Digitised Learning, Really?
The repute of degree and institutions are not lost because of a shift in the mode of learning-teaching mode, they are lost because of poor teaching, irrespective of the …
How the Camera Has Changed the Dynamics of the Classroom
From concerns about surveillance to the blurring of spaces, it is evident now that the virus has changed more than our physiologies.