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Education is an evolving activity, so is the art of teaching and creation of educational infrastructure, tools and methods. R S Gull visits an upcoming initiative that is out of box from the first...
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With opening of new schools and mid-session transfers banned, Education Ministry is grappling with the ReTs, some of whom might have entered the system undeservingly. But the government will have to...
View ArticleDreams Indebted
For best education, lot of students seek admissions in Western universities. Some get scholarships and most of them approach banks for educational loans. Muntaha Hafizi visits the sector that had Rs...
View ArticleThe 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 impasse over the proposed move of certain...
View ArticleDAV 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 latest one being sale of one of its campus...
View ArticleShould Government Ban Private Coaching by its Teachers?
Concerned about the quality of education given to Valley students, three Kashmir University engineering students put a question mark on government decision to ban private teaching by public sector...
View ArticleAs 5-Year PMSSS Program Comes to End, ‘Only 30% Students Avail Scholarships’
KL NEWS NETWORK SRINAGAR PMSSS beneficiaries, scores of Kashmiri students were expelled by Meerut University Expelled Students. The Prime Minister’s Special Scholarship Scheme (PMSSS) for students from...
View ArticleTrending Teacher
Down in South Kashmir’s Shopian, a teacher has become viral on virtual platform over his intriguing, innovative teaching. But the man whose classroom theatrics are already a talk of the town is on a...
View ArticleProcessed Foods: Just Empty Calories or Something Worse?
Away from parental check, Kashmir youth are consuming Junk Food at an alarming rate thus harming their health. Scholar Zeenat Farooq decodes the ‘Processed Foods’ and ‘their High Value’ in the fast...
View ArticleAmerica Calling
A small town girl’s month long American tour changed her idea of education and life completely. Saima Rashid narrates her experience Afeefa and other students who studied Robotic Engineering in US. The...
View ArticleDabla’s Kashmir
Unlike his counterparts, sociologist Bashir A Dabla (July 9, 1954 – September 2, 2015) was always preoccupied with his mission of understanding the trends in Kashmir society that people usually...
View ArticleKilling In Classroom
An examiner’s wrong evaluation pushed an engineering aspirant to suicide. A re-evaluation posthumously identified the mistake. Syed Asma reports about how peer pressures, systemic failure and parental...
View ArticleBeyond 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 physicist whose find earned him a berth at prestigious...
View ArticleWithered 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 reality that is gradually taking a huge toll of the new...
View ArticleWorkshop Wonder
The journey of an old city boy from his father’s mechanic workshop to Kashmir University’s Arabic department is pregnant with pain, passion and perseverance, reports Shakir Mir Tariq Ahangar His...
View ArticleCampus Shift
It has been a long time since Reyaz Punjabi demolished the office of Kashmir University Students Union thus closing the chapter of active student activism. Young generation is utilizing the spaces that...
View ArticleTeacher Motivation: A Key To Overhauling Education System
By Yasir Wani The movement of renovating the education system has gained pace with innovative circulars from the directorate office. Intermittently, something new is coming from the education...
View ArticleSozni 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 of poverty. Saima Bashir tells his story Shabir Shabir Ahmad Mir, 27, is a...
View Article“It is good to see people ask questions like how and where we are spending...
Director School Education Dr Shah Faesal, an IAS topper who wants to be remembered as an Iqbaliyat scholar, tells Saima Bhat that it is a good sign that education is back in public debate Shah Faesal...
View ArticleNoori 2.0
After seen being cradled by Omar Abdullah in March 2012, the cloned Pashmina goat Noori went out of sight instantly. Four years later, Noori is now mother of two kids besides an inspiration for...
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