Education

Navigating the Murky Waters of Education: The Impact of NEP on Karnataka’s Diploma Students

PrajwalDecember 19, 2023March 19, 2024

In a groundbreaking move, Karnataka became the first state in the country to implement the National Education Policy (NEP). However, as the academic year unfolds, diploma engineering students found themselves...

Education

Navigating the Murky Waters of Education: The Impact of NEP on Karnataka’s Diploma Students

PrajwalDecember 1, 2023May 24, 2024

Education

On Ridiculous Christ University Attendance Policies

A+SOctober 1, 2023May 31, 2024

Here are some abnormal things that happen every day, as if they were normal things to happen in a reputed institution proudly established to impart education. The blocks where the...

Education

Bhartiya Shiksha Board Legitimized

DannyOctober 1, 2023May 31, 2024

The Bhartiya Shiksha board has been designated a pan-Indian school education board. This now means that the board - founded by controversial yoga guru and proven fraudster Baba Ramdev –...

Caste Education

Caste in Campuses: Uniting Against the Great Indian Institutional Discrimination

adminOctober 1, 2023May 31, 2024

“Constitutional morality is not a natural sentiment. It has to be cultivated. We must realize that our people have yet to learn it. Democracy in India is only a top-dressing...

Education

Advocacy Beyond Classrooms: The Need for Student Unions

FionnSeptember 1, 2023May 31, 2024

Student unions have a bold and longstanding history of defending democratic rights in India. Along with workers and peasants, students have played an active part in numerous mass movements throughout...

Education Mental Health

Mental Health Problems in Indian Institutes

SurjoSeptember 1, 2023May 31, 2024

Poster demonstration against institutional apathy towards mental health issues at IISc

EDITORIAL Education

State Education Policy: Old Wine in New Bottle?

adminSeptember 1, 2023May 31, 2024

Reject NEP in both form and content!Resist privatisation and corporatisation of education!Demand universal and equitable education! Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah recently announced the scrapping of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020...

EDITORIAL Education

A Critique of the Karnataka State Education Budget

adminAugust 1, 2023May 23, 2024

Spark* recognises the state government’s attempts to bring changes in the current education system that is in shambles, but at the same time, also raises the importance of addressing the...

Education

How Many Deaths Make Too Many? The Institutional Harassment of Aditya Prabhu

adminAugust 1, 2023May 23, 2024

Aditya Prabhu, a nineteen year old, took his life after being leveled with charges of cheating in an examination, by the management of PES University (Bengaluru). Much of the corporate...