In this issue

The February issue of Career360 rates India's best national-board and international schools, listing them by region. It also looks closely at international schooling and boards; school life; student innovations; teachers' condition; learning outside of textbooks and more.

NATIONAL VS INTERNATIONAL

Schools affiliated to international boards have spread even to tier-two towns. How do they compare with national education boards?

4 mins

SYLLABUS CUTS PUSH STUDENT TO 'DUMMY' SCHOOLS

During the pandemic, the CBSE exam syllabus was cut and the NCERT textbooks' content 'rationalised'. But the major entrance exams' syllabi remained the same.

5 mins

LEARNING BEYOND CLASSROOMS, EXAMS

Workshops, internships, community service, field work in high school 'make children socially conscious, foster independent thinking'

3 mins

WHAT HAPPENED IN BENGAL?

West Bengal's teacher recruitment scam has stalled hiring for years and left generations of children without quality teachers.

5 mins

CHAOS, CONFUSION ABOUT BOARD EXAMS IN CLASSES 5, 8

More states have framed policies for public exams in elementary school from 2023. But private schools are caught in a fix over them.

4 mins

ADOPTED AND ABANDONED

Only some of the schools adopted by elected leaders and bureaucrats in UP have seen real development. The rest still await teachers, benches, toilets.

5 mins

YEARS FOR FRUIT; MONTHS FOR SALARY

Uttar Pradesh has implemented neither the increased cooking cost nor the honorarium for workers. Instead, payments are delayed and children served poor quality school meals.

4 mins

ODISHA: FAILING ITS CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS

Odisha doesn't allow teachers holding qualifications in special education to join regular schools. This has left the vast majority of its 1.46 lakh disabled students without vital support.

6 mins

STUDYING SCIENCE WITHOUT BOOKS OR WRITING

Tamil Nadu’s volunteer-driven programme to encourage STEM learning has been received well but the frequency of the classes is too low.

3 mins

SCHOOLING IN A 'FOREIGN' LANGUAGE

Kerala designed a series of textbooks and learning materials exclusively for the Muthuvans, a tribal community residing deep in the forests of the Western Ghats, who don't speak Malayalam and don't have a script.

7 mins

SCRIPTING A LANGUAGE

As far as Dhaniram Toto knows, around two centuries ago, his people started moving out of the region of Mongolia and made their way to West Bengal where they founded Totopara and settled down. The Toto language, spoken by under 1,700 individuals at last count, had no script until Dhaniram Toto, 59, gave it one. For his achievement, he is being awarded the Padma Shri in 2023. He spoke to Careers 360 about the language, its speakers and the birth of the Toto alphabet. Edited excerpts.

5 mins

NOT 'TOO YOUNG TO UNDERSTAND'

Ina country squeamish about sex education, two private schools have bravely started and protected LGBTQIA+ support groups.

6 mins

HOW DO YOU PROTECT CHILDREN IN SCHOOL?

Tamil Nadu schools have set up student safeguarding advisory committees to prevent sexual harassment. Now, the Madras High Court has ordered internal complaints committees as well.

5 mins

BY STUDENTS FOR STUDENTS

Children even cross the Gomti river to attend classes offered by Koshish, an NGO which has student volunteers from an engineering college teach school kids from poor, marginalised communities.

4 mins

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