National Education Policy

Here are 5 key changes for Classes 10 and 12 students as per the new CBSE grading system.

Sonali Saini and her organisation Sol’s ARC have worked with the governments of Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh to implement several scalable, low-cost, and replicable policies for inclusive education. She explains why these could be key in transforming the early childhood care ecosystem.

In the previous article, we spoke to Anthill Creations, a Bengaluru-based non-profit, about what it takes to build a playground that is safe, sustainable and inclusive. In the second part, we explore the importance of playgrounds, state of their infrastructure and reclaiming play spaces.

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.

The redesigned progress reports will be “a holistic, 360-degree, multidimensional report that reflects in great detail the progress and the uniqueness of each learner in the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains”.

The new policy aims to make college education more holistic, flexible, multidisciplinary, and suited to 21st century needs.

"I kept refreshing the page to see if it was an error but it wasn’t. I had failed both Mathematics and Physics. At that point in time, I felt as though my world was coming to an end."

The total number of years a student spends within the school education system remains the same. What changes with the policy is how the years are split.

Ashish Dhawan, Geeta Gandhi Kingdon, Rukmini Banerji, and Sridhar Rajagopalan share their perspectives on some key recommendations made by the new policy draft.