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...

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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...

Education

After Effects of NEP in Uttar Pradesh: NEP’s Four Year Undergraduate Program is Graded Inequality and Exclusion

PrachiAugust 1, 2023May 23, 2024

We have seen how the forceful and mindless implementation of the Four Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUP) at Delhi University in 2013 turned out to be disastrous for the students. Thousands...

Education

Schools and Polytechnics: World’s Largest Educational Laboratory- The Soviet Experience Part V

SushantJuly 1, 2023May 22, 2024

“A school outside of life, outside of politics, is a lie and hypocrisy” - Com. Lenin (at the First All-Russian Congress on Education) In July 2020, the Government of India...

Education

Unbridled Profiteering in Private Colleges: The Legal Battle

SushravyaJuly 1, 2023May 22, 2024

“Education is what makes a person fearless, teaches him the lesson of unity, makes him aware of his rights and inspires him to struggle for his rights.” - Dr B.R....

Education

After-effects of NEP 2020 in Uttar Pradesh: Loan Model of Education and Massive Fee Hikes

PrachiJuly 1, 2023May 22, 2024

Recently, many government educational institutions in Uttar Pradesh were in the news over students’ protests against massive fee hikes. These hikes are not an isolated concern arising in a handful...

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Unveiling the Dark Side of Virtual Learning: Exploitation and Fraud in India’s EdTech Boom

adminJuly 1, 2023May 22, 2024

These companies prey upon aspirational parents’ insecurities about their children being unsuccessful, and manipulate them