How we assess education matters
The competition aspect of educational assessment is meant for students to be ranked against their own prior achievement, not against their classmates.
4m ago
Curriculum and textbooks as weapons
Does “simplifying” the curriculum really guarantee that children will not be able to pace themselves in higher studies?
5m ago
Ethics, happiness, and mental health for education
When a student is in a place of despair, on the brink of taking their own life, what does one do as a teacher?
5m ago
Is education only about earning money?
We need a peak in social consciousness, and not just in our GDP.
6m ago
University: Our factory of miseducation
Universities should be about creating the next generation of thinkers, right? Even in terms of skills, haven’t we been failing largely?
6m ago
TVET and our skills ‘fetish’
There is an inherent bias in our thinking when we imagine the aspirations and career trajectories of students from different socio-economic backgrounds.
7m ago
School choice: Celebrating, not eliminating, variety
We rarely think about the fact that individuals studying under different education streams may have different perceptions of what being educated means and may have different educational goals and aspirations.
7m ago
Educating education: An academic's two cents on education reform
Today, students are still subjected to, more or less, the same so-called education that we or our seniors experienced.
8m ago
June 22, 2018
Can we redefine some definitions?
We have an education system in which student after student—countless of them—write the same definitions as answers. They probably get the same marks too— four out of five, nine out of ten.
May 1, 2015
EVERYTHING BEGINS AT HOME
She tried to balance the 3-year-old on her hips.
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