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…
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…
India’s Education Paradox by Debdas Banerjee examines regional inequalities in India’s education system and highlights how national averages can hide differences between states. The book explores school education, vocational training, higher education and NEP 2020, calling for more region-specific education planning. India now enrolls more children in education than at any time in the country’s…
Change is moving through India’s schooling system. New steps taken in Uttar Pradesh, then Delhi, and now Rajasthan, each one pointing ahead, not back. Preparing young minds isn’t just about books anymore; it’s tied to identity, balance, because work lives shift. These places began differently, yet their paths lean the same way. Learning no longer…
Over a hundred years since John Dewey wrote these words, classrooms still mirror the very issue that he cautioned against. In most education systems, including India’s, education is not usually integrated into learners’ lives. For many learners, particularly the marginalised, schooling is not so much a place of exploration but a fixed framework that requires…
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….
