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Campus Reacts
As Kashmir was limping to normalcy after bullets mixed with ballot during daylong by-poll, a police raid in a south Kashmir college triggered sort of a crisis forcing closure of academic spaces for a...
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The Dhar Dictum
DP Dhar’s son who runs the prominent school in memory of his father has been witness to Kashmir’s various highs and lows in recent years. In a long conversation, Vijay Dhar laments over the loss that...
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Representing Kashmir!
The ban at home on campus politics has not stopped Kashmiri students from seeking bigger roles in mainland India universities. Marila latif meets this Budgam boy who is one stop grievance redresser for...
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Campus Chaos
After forces stormed a college campus in Pulwama, student protests became a new norm in conflict ridden Kashmir. Umar Mukhtar tries to find out why stones replaced pens across Kashmir On April 12,...
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“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, DTE is secluded and disconnected Kashmir...
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Pushed Out
Tens of thousands of students seeking higher studies in various professional colleges are put to severe problems in absence of private education set up in the state. Zafar Aafaq offers details of how...
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Two Teachers
The government adjudged two teachers as the best in 2017. They were honoured at a gala function last week. Later they told their story to Aakash Hassan Postgraduate in Hindi, Lovely Singh was vigorous...
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Smouldering Schools
Schools became surprising targets of arson and destruction after Burhan Wani’s killing in July 2016. Officially all are operational. Umar Khurshid visited some of these schools to report how the...
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Academic Aversion
Unlike 2016, the educational campuses across most of Kashmir had interrupted schedule because the doors would shut more frequently than ever. Muhammad Younis explains the phenomenon, its consequences...
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Rare Investment
While there is rat race amongst private school owners to get the best of the new generation, there has not been any effort on their part to manage a small population of children who have serious...
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Questionable Texts
Government schools in Kashmir are the best in human resource and poor in infrastructure. But the major reason for the parents to stop sending their kids to the state run schools is not infrastructure...
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Remembering Sir Syed
Khursheed Wani October 17 evening was unique at picturesque Pahalgam. The fading hoardings with greeting messages for Amarnath pilgrims were out of sync with the deserted streets and empty hotels. The...
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Conflict in Campus
by Tasavur Mushtaq The university of Kashmir, the highest seat of learning, is the abode of thousands of knowledge seekers. Since its inception, albeit as Jammu and Kashmir University, it has been...
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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 to help the smart kids, reports Umar...
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Autumn Windfall
With more than half of the 150 thousand fresh admissions, every autumn, opting for private sector schools, the costs of educating the new generation are spiralling up as the processes revolve round the...
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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 professional education economy at a time when the...
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In Avanitvarman’s Capital
When the Islamic University was established in the deserted foothills of Awantipore, the naysayers said the campus hardly suits a small highway town, home to less than 10,000 people. But the university...
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Disappearing Diaper
Engineering students at the University of Kashmir teamed up and within three years created a prototype of a one-time diaper that signals caretaker every time the individuals wishes to urinate, reports...
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Speaking To The Car
Though part of his routine University curriculum, Anwar Naseer explored the possibility of using speech to command a car and he succeeded. Now, he is working on a prototype for Volkswagen, reports Umar...
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Zaiba Aapa’s School
After unknown gunmen left a young science graduate to survive crippled, he felt the pain of the people with serious disabilities. A few years later, he set up a school that teaches more than 100...
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