Student feedback must for development of assessment model
By: Dr. Arshed Iqbal Dar Well, in education, peace is a state where teacher, teaching, taught, structure and infrastructure becomes one. The ultimate goal of teaching is to promote learning that is why education means enabling the mind to find out the ultimate truth, which emancipates us from the bondage of dust and which gives […]
Life is after Carona too
Nothing is permanent except change. Everything changes but not change – a universal fact. Change comes unnoticeable and people are never ready or prepared for it, so there is always resistance to it. People generally consider that they are forced to deal with change, disappointment and failure. But at the same time people are faced […]
Encouraging community schooling
The separation of students from teachers, which hinders the actual class room teaching, due to lockdown for unexpected length of time has depressive for teachers despite switching over to online classes. Most of the teachers are eagerly waiting for the situation “which arose out of the covid-19 pandemic” to normalise so that the schools reopen […]
WORLD BLOOD DONOR DAY
By: Muntazir Mehdi & Faizan Nabi Every year, on 14 June, countries around the world celebrate World Blood Donor Day (WBDD). The event serves to raise awareness of the need for safe blood and blood products and to thank blood donors for their life-saving gifts of blood. It’s an honor for us to write something […]
Donate blood, save lives
June 14: World Blood Donor Day
By: Dr. Satyawan Saurabh World Blood Donor Day is celebrated on June 14 to express gratitude to blood donors, raising awareness about the need for safe blood and blood products that can save the lives of millions of people each year. This day celebrates the birthday of Carl Landsteiner who discovered the main blood groups […]
Young minds in dark times: Learners and a pandemic
About 7,57,96,975 students at the primary level across India are the hardest hit
By: Sabir Ahamed With the declaration of Covid-19 as a pandemic on March 12 following the rapid spread of the coronavirus across the world, several countries announced the closure of schools even before lockdown. The Unesco has estimated that 1.5 billion students — about 87 per cent of the world’s students in 165 countries — […]
June 12: Child Labor Prohibition Day
A constant threat to world’s future
The United Nations defines child labor as work that deprives children of their childhood, dignity, and potential, which is detrimental to their physical and mental health and interferes with their school life. Child labor exists as a threat to the world today. Today’s children are the future of tomorrow. The progress and development of the […]
The Night of Broken Glass
The day when original residents of Kashmir left in droves to safeguard their lives and honour, humanity stood defeated yet again. The exodus of Kashmiri Pandits tattered the social fabric of Kashmir, otherwise, the land of saints and sages.
Kashmiri Pandits accounted for around 4% of the population in Kashmir when militancy erupted in the Himalayan region. Pandits and Muslims were living a simple but safe life. Kashmir had earned respect and a name for its rich syncretic culture. And then, someone casted a spell that cursed the land of the Sufis. Gun culture […]
Will Trump be able to win under current conditions?
Recently violent protests against the death of a black man George Floyd in police custody in the United States have been seen in many other countries around the world, including in the United States. The United States has failed to protect parity, social justice and human rights after the death of an African American citizen. […]
The Future is a Desolate Place
We are trying to overcome this pandemic, loss of lives, stress, economic depression, poverty. I get that. I understand human pain and suffering. The world is lost and broken. But what is disheartening is that even amidst all this chaos, there are humans, our brothers and sisters, who go out of their way to invite […]
