Education

The Better India speaks to Shankar Maruwada, CEO and Co-Founder of EkStep Foundation and member, National Steering Committee for the National Curriculum Frameworks, to gauge what India's policymakers have in store for its children.

Meet Alice Thomas, a social worker from Puducherry who has spent 32 years funding the education of over 150 children from tribal and marginalised communities and helping them find jobs as paramedical staff, teachers, engineers, and more through her NGO Udhavi Karangal.

Ladakh recently touched new heights in the Ministry of Education's Performance Grading Index (PGI) 2020-21. Dedicated teachers are one of the main reasons why school education in Ladakh has seen a remarkable transformation.

Damodar Patnekar, Ashutosh Shankar and Aarthy Vassan founded their ed-tech startup Bodhami, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platform which offers career counselling, mentorship and job readiness programmes to students.

Battling polio that left him with 70 per cent locomotive disability and in a wheelchair, Ajay Gupta strived to bring quality education to play schools in tier II and tier III cities. Here’s how he is accomplishing his mission.

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is offering two varied courses on ‘Remote Sensing and Digital Image Analysis’ and ‘SAR Data Processing for Land Deformation Studies’.

Allaka Kedareswara Rao from Andhra Pradesh cleared his District Selection Committee exam in 1998 to become a government teacher, but had to wait for decades to achieve his dream. Here’s the story of how he finally achieved his victory.

Kalpana Achyut Koletkar learnt algebra, English, and other subjects taught in the SSC curriculum

Inspector Ranjeet Singh Yadav from Ayodhya is on a mission to educate children from slums by going above and beyond his call of duty.

What makes a girl drop out of school? Is it financial constraints, social pressures or patriarchy? It is all of this and much more, explain experts.