Education

Venture investors are betting that the next set of large companies will emerge across health, education and entertainment. But computing costs will be an inhibitor in a business that is already expensive to scale.

With technologists saying math need not be learnt now that we have AI at hand, it's clear that the cognitive skills of children are at peril. A hollowing out of human jobs is likely too. But AI spin-masters refuse to see the obvious.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is siding with neighborhood residents who argue the elite school’s campus walkway should be open to the public.

From election duty to ration-card verification, government schoolteachers are being asked to do everything but teach

India’s premium preschools are selling specialized learning methods at a steep markup. What are parents actually paying for—and can the spending be sustained through a child’s education?

This follows repeated disruptions to recruitment examinations caused by paper leaks, technical glitches, administrative issues, litigation, and clashing schedules,

Progressive states such as New York and California are taking a conservative turn for traditional schooling. They banned screens. Conservatives who usually want tradition conserved should wake up. This shift ought to have bipartisan support.

In many ways, the government school stands for all that’s wrong with India. The Cockroach Janta Party movement has seized what politicians ignored—and the issue is highly resonant across social classes. It’s a bigger deal than you might think.

Despite a collapse in learning outcomes across the world, the OECD’s report on one of the world’s best known surveys has glossed over what’s clearly a crisis. It’s now for educationists to raise an alarm over the impact of technology on cognitive capacity.