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Digital push, especially in the classroom, reveals cracks in access and empathy

August 12, 2025 11:03 am

Digital technology has come to occupy so central a place in the imagination of educational planners that they can no longer perceive what all its force can damage in an already fragile systemic environment

Express View on ASER report: Success in the classroom

January 29, 2025 7:19 am

It shows foundational learning skills have recovered post-pandemic. That's cause for cheer -- and redoubling efforts

Digital learning is an immense boon. But the computer is not a magic wand. Some types of material and pedagogic practice lend themselves to digitisation, others do not. (Express File Photo)

Why there can’t be a classroom at a click

February 06, 2024 11:16 am

Digital learning is an immense boon. But the computer is not a magic wand.

Covid exposed what we always knew: Delhi's students face a digital divide

January 30, 2023 7:32 am

From a lack of access to mobiles to poor internet connection — for students attending online classes during the lockdown in city schools in 2020 and 2021, the issues were many. A new study by the Delhi govt sheds light on how some were affected more than others

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Only 19% schools across India have access to internet: UNESCO report

October 07, 2021 10:41 am

The teaching workforce has a deficit of over 1 million teachers and the need is likely to grow, given the shortages of teachers in certain education levels and subjects such as early childhood education, special education, physical education, music, arts, and curricular streams of vocational education.

FREE live-online IAS counselling sessions by Rau’s IAS on 22nd and 29th May

May 18, 2021 6:34 pm

With interaction and superior learning being top priority, Rau’s IAS Online classes bring classroom experience to your home. Here's why you need to enrol.

India did well in transition to digital learning: Oxford report

April 08, 2021 6:09 pm

The pandemic has paved the way for a hybrid model in education, combining digital and traditional methods of teaching and learning, but governments need to act so that progress from the past year is not lost, according to the report "Education: The Journey Towards a Digital Revolution".

Rau’s IAS live-online classes for IAS exam come to UPSC aspirants’ rescue during pandemic times

September 21, 2020 7:57 pm

To replicate the offline experience, Rau’s IAS has created its E-learn platform to offer everything that has been part of the physical classroom experience...

29% school students have no access to phone, Tripura govt mulls neighbourhood classes as alternative

August 09, 2020 7:36 pm

Education minister Ratan Lal Nath told reporters that the survey, conducted among 3,22,297 students from all eight districts of Tripura during Ektu Khelo Ektu Padho classes, revealed 94,013 students didn’t have access to any sort of phone

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At meeting with HRD, states flag digital divide in education

June 09, 2020 9:57 am

The meeting — called to discuss the standard operating procedure for reopening schools and for digital education — was chaired by School Education Secretary Anita Karwal. At this meeting, states were informed that online classes should be capped at three hours per day.