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The Proud Shepherd
A boy who was being encouraged to follow his father and graze herds in the Pir Panchal jungles decided to study sciences and was supported by his father in challenging situations. Now busy in post-doc...
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The New Learning Curve
The implementation of the new education policy (NEP2020) has inordinately delayed the admissions at the undergraduate level as the authorities have joined the national academic calendar. Mohammad Fazil...
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Stressed Schooling
A series of decisions taken with regard to the private school education sector has brought back the debate over how Kashmir is going to implement the universalisation of basic education, reports Tahir...
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Molvi Rasul Shah (1855-1909)
Mirwaiz Rasul Shah followed Sir Syed Ahmad Khan at a time when the educational deficit had started crippling Kashmiri Muslims, writes M J Aslam Islamia High School (Rajouri Kadal) Srinagar is the...
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Enabling Better Schooling
Poplars in Kashmir and the people in Pulwama have been acknowledged as key contributors to reducing India’s dependence on imports in managing the pencil deficit. But the enormous contribution that...
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Campus Impact
Even though the Central University of Kashmir would take some more time in finding a permanent address to operate from, its campuses in Ganderbal are encouraging an economic change as people are...
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Inside Kashmir’s Seminary Network
Kashmir’s formal education system owes its evolution to medieval Khanqah education and Maktab teaching. Kashmir still has an impressive seminary network and Dr Nisar Ahmad Trali, a physician, worked...
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Digital Dependence
A new survey has vindicated the naysayers that children’s overexposure to cell phones and computers for education and recreation is seriously compromising the capacities of Kashmir’s new generation,...
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‘Doctors’ At War
Almost 200 medical students who were rescued from Ukraine early this year have kept their fingers crossed about what the future holds for them. They are unable to return to the classroom as the war...
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Taming Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) has seven global strains and some of them are defying the most modern therapies that science has evolved. Still one of the top human killers on daily basis, Masood Hussain and Fazil...
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Doing Science In Kashmir
The lack of infrastructure was the key brain drain factor as researchers would choose better global institutions for doing science. Under an impressive plan to ensure ‘brain gain’, the central...
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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 regimes in the recent past. In this detailed...
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Tread With Care
Under a uniform academic calendar, March Session has been reintroduced in Kashmir. Concerned citizens believe it will deprive students of around 70-days of learning and teaching and eventually can...
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No Dismal Performance
Even though the students from Jammu and Kashmir under-performed numerically in comparison to the national average but the sheer number and the merit indicate that they can compete better in any test...
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A Battle for Schooling Kashmir
The Christian missionaries had to fight a despotic ruler, a superstitious society and a looter bureaucracy for a long time before they succeeded in making basic schooling possible in Srinagar late...
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Remodelling Universities
A draft bill is making sweeping changes in the system of managing the universities in Jammu and Kashmir, reports Yawar Hussain The newly formulated Jammu and Kashmir Public Universities Bill 2022 has...
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A Sweeping Shift
In anticipation of the tabling of the proposed public universities bill in the Lok Sabha, Yawar Hussain interacted with the academicians to understand how they see the sweeping shifts in governance...
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A Model Library
MA young under-grad sets up a library out of his own pocket money to manage the book deficit for students in the north Kashmir periphery, reports Maleeha Sofi and Hilal Shah An eight-year-old girl’s...
View ArticleLiberating Learning
As the Sun had its last loveliest smile, winter, the loneliest season of the year has already begun. With almost every facet of life hit by its harshness, education occupies the top slot. Likely to be...
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The Sopore College
Despite contributing to the making of generations of professionals in the last more than seven decades, the state-run Degree College at Sopore is yet to reach a level where it can have NAC top grade,...
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