Children Not Going To School

Displaced Gazans sheltering in a school courtyard in Rafah were resorting to desperate measures such as diluting baby milk powder in too much water or giving children one meal a day because there was not enough food to go around.

The rise in Covid cases in Delhi has brought back concerns about school going children, prompting the institutions to come up with online classes and recorded lectures for those not well as health experts are against school closures.

One in every five children in the world is out of school, an UNICEF report released on Wednesday said. The report, launched ahead of the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly, differentiates between the number of children out of school globally and those out of school in conflict regions.

With schools closed, Internet suspended and playgrounds off-limits due to the indefinite shutdown in Darjeeling since June 15, the children have nowhere to go. Malls, cinema halls, the zoo also remained out of bounds for them. "Our parents don't allow us to go outside and play. The police uncles are not allowing us to play on the road. Inside the h...

Mid-day meal was introduced for school students to check drop-out rates and provide children from economically weaker sections with nourishment. But now schooling appears to have become more about food and less about education, Union Minister for Human Resources Development Prakash Javadekar said today amid a controversy about tying up mid-day meal...

Six more cases of child sexual abuse have been filed against Manjunath, the employee of a private school in Bengaluru. The first police case against the 31-year-old was filed last week, after the parents of a child accused him of molesting their child. But now, more and more parents say they have found out why their child did not want to go to scho...

More than 300 government school teachers in Kerala - the state with the highest literacy rate -- have not been paid for five months. And with harvest festival Onam coming, they are desperate for money.

India lacks innovation in education as children are discouraged to ask questions in schools something which should not be allowed to go on, Education Minister Prakash Javadekar said today, contending "unless you rebel, unless you challenge the status quo, how can you innovate anything".

Ahead of the second phase of odd-even scheme, the Delhi government today said it has not been able to arrive at a solution to the problem of cars returning after dropping school children and suggested car-pooling.

The country has risen in support of the Delhi gang-rape survivor but for Sonal (NOT her real name) and her family, it has been a lonely and long frustrating battle for justice. Sonal was eight years old when she was sexually assaulted by her paternal aunt's brother-in-law. Sonal and her younger brother had been left with the aunt in Yavatmal distri...

Displaced Gazans sheltering in a school courtyard in Rafah were resorting to desperate measures such as diluting baby milk powder in too much water or giving children one meal a day because there was not enough food to go around.

The rise in Covid cases in Delhi has brought back concerns about school going children, prompting the institutions to come up with online classes and recorded lectures for those not well as health experts are against school closures.

One in every five children in the world is out of school, an UNICEF report released on Wednesday said. The report, launched ahead of the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly, differentiates between the number of children out of school globally and those out of school in conflict regions.

With schools closed, Internet suspended and playgrounds off-limits due to the indefinite shutdown in Darjeeling since June 15, the children have nowhere to go. Malls, cinema halls, the zoo also remained out of bounds for them. "Our parents don't allow us to go outside and play. The police uncles are not allowing us to play on the road. Inside the h...

Mid-day meal was introduced for school students to check drop-out rates and provide children from economically weaker sections with nourishment. But now schooling appears to have become more about food and less about education, Union Minister for Human Resources Development Prakash Javadekar said today amid a controversy about tying up mid-day meal...

Six more cases of child sexual abuse have been filed against Manjunath, the employee of a private school in Bengaluru. The first police case against the 31-year-old was filed last week, after the parents of a child accused him of molesting their child. But now, more and more parents say they have found out why their child did not want to go to scho...

More than 300 government school teachers in Kerala - the state with the highest literacy rate -- have not been paid for five months. And with harvest festival Onam coming, they are desperate for money.

India lacks innovation in education as children are discouraged to ask questions in schools something which should not be allowed to go on, Education Minister Prakash Javadekar said today, contending "unless you rebel, unless you challenge the status quo, how can you innovate anything".

Ahead of the second phase of odd-even scheme, the Delhi government today said it has not been able to arrive at a solution to the problem of cars returning after dropping school children and suggested car-pooling.

The country has risen in support of the Delhi gang-rape survivor but for Sonal (NOT her real name) and her family, it has been a lonely and long frustrating battle for justice. Sonal was eight years old when she was sexually assaulted by her paternal aunt's brother-in-law. Sonal and her younger brother had been left with the aunt in Yavatmal distri...