Schools Need Reinvention

In recent years, schooling in Kashmir has undergone a quiet transformation, one that is now too visible to ignore.

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With NEET and JEE fever reaching new heights, students have all but disappeared from classrooms, taking admission instead in private coaching centres or in online tutorials. And as a story in this paper has highlighted, formal schools, once a pillar of education, now function largely as certificate shops, necessary only for board registration, internal marks, and bureaucratic compliance.