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…
A fireside chat at the Clear-Cut Education Summit 2026 argued that scale needs government ownership, whole-school thinking and a lasting role for civil society Education models scale when government owns them, when pilots are built around the whole school rather than the intervention alone, and when they bend to local conditions, speakers said at “What…
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…
At the Clear-Cut Education Summit 2026, experts discussed how inequalities outside school affect children’s classroom experiences and learning outcomes. The panel called for more inclusive teaching, better assessment, meaningful communication and a broader, child-sensitive approach to learning. NEW DELHI: Unequal conditions outside school shape children’s classroom experiences. At the Clear-Cut Education Summit 2026, speakers discussed…
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…
Six years after India tore up a 34-year-old education framework, classrooms look genuinely different — but the policy’s own funding target, learning deadline, and language formula remain unresolved. On July 29, 2020, the Union cabinet approved the National Education Policy 2020, based on recommendations from the Kasturirangan Committee, replacing a policy that has, for the…
Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation has intensified the debate over India’s examination system. While political accountability matters, lasting public trust can only be restored through comprehensive institutional reforms and a stronger focus on learning outcomes.
In Paikmal block of Odisha’s Bargarh district, a quiet renovation is underway. Anganwadi centres — the community childcare that anchor India’s early childhood system — are being repainted with alphabet murals, fitted with interactive number walls, and stocked with teaching-learning materials, NITI Aayog said in a July 18 update on the initiative. The upgrade sits…
Getting children into school has been the central obsession of education policy for as long as most of us can remember. And honestly, the world has pulled it off in ways that would have seemed impossible a few generations ago. Enrollment numbers have gone up, attendance is tracked, and governments have built schools in places…
