India’s official data tell two stories at once. UDISE+ 2025-26 records 26 crore students, falling dropout and pupil-teacher ratios comfortably inside policy targets. PLFS 2025 records graduate unemployment at 11.2 percent against a national rate of 3.1 percent. Between those two numbers sits the question that will define the next decade: whether an expanding system…
Two People. The Told and the UntoldA degree can tell us that a person has completed a course of study. It can tell us what they have learnt, perhaps even what they are qualified to do. But can a degree tell us whether a person is educated? Consider two people. One has multiple degrees, speaks…
Experts argued that India must spend on what strengthens learning systems, fund behaviour changes with patient capital, and build sustainability in from day one Education financing in India needs to shift from spending more to spending on what strengthens learning, and corporate social responsibility (CSR) can catalyse change but cannot carry the system, panellists remark…
Inclusive education in India continues to face barriers for children with disabilities and other disadvantaged groups, limiting meaningful access to learning. The Clear-Cut Education Summit 2026 highlighted gaps in accessibility, foundational learning, invisible disabilities and education support, with experts calling for systemic changes in education policy and inclusion to ensure no child is left behind….
At the inaugural Clear-Cut Education Summit 2026 in New Delhi, education leaders, practitioners, researchers and innovators called for a wider understanding of learning one that goes beyond enrolment, examinations and foundational skills to include thinking, inclusion, character, technology, evidence and the realities children face outside school. New Delhi, October 1, 2026: Getting children into school…
New AISHE data by the Press Information Bureau show record growth in universities, enrolment and gender parity over the past decade — but faculty representation, caste and tribal proportionality, and disability access have not kept pace. India’s higher education system expanded faster in the decade to 2023-24 than in almost any comparable period since independence,…
Education in India has always been characterized by paradox and contradiction: tales of substantial growth, juxtaposed with serious inequality. The National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO) was commissioned by the National Statistics Office (NSO) under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) to conduct the Comprehensive Modular Survey: Education (CMS:E) from April – June 2025….
