Masood Ali Mir

Jan 11, 2025 | countercurrents.org | Maya John |Satvinderpal Kaur |Arun Mitra |Masood Ali Mir

Recently, the Union Minister of Education released the Draft UGC (Minimum Qualifications for Appointment and Promotion of Teachers and Academic Staff in Universities and Colleges and Measures for the Maintenance of Standards in Higher Education) Regulations, 2025.

Jan 8, 2025 | countercurrents.org | Arun Mitra |Masood Ali Mir |Zeeshan Nasir |Nilofar Suhrawardy

Online education to the school children is a new phenomenon which was started during the COVID period. Since the Novel Corona Virus was highly contagious and would spread fast in the crowded places, the schools were closed to avoid students mixing in groups.  However to avoid the loss of studies, the online education method was adopted. Several applications for online education were also developed during that period. This helped a section of the students to continue the learning process.

Sep 5, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Sanjay N. Parate |Bhabani Nayak |Masood Ali Mir

While most attention in conflict and war zones is understandably concentrated on the loss of human life, a silent crisis that accumulates over one or more years relates to the disruption of education. This can seriously harm and disrupt the future progress of children and the options open to them.

Sep 1, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Sanjay N. Parate |Bhabani Nayak |Masood Ali Mir |Bharat Dogra

The state of school education in Chhattisgarh can be judged from the fact that more than 3000 schools in the state do not have principals and 8194 posts of teachers, more than 22000 posts of assistant teachers and 2524 posts of lecturers are vacant. Out of 56333 schools run by the government, more than 300 schools are without teachers, while 5500 schools have only one teacher and 3978 primary, middle, high and higher secondary schools are being run in the same campus.

Aug 2, 2024 | dailygoodmorningkashmir.com | Masood Ali Mir

The Constitution of India as per Article 21 (A) recognizes the Right to Education as a Fundamental Right and provides that every child has a right to elementary education of satisfactory and equitable quality. Hence, as an auxiliary organ of state, every School (Teacher) is duty-bound to welcome and respect all students and to support each child to succeed in an environment of high expectations as per their individual ability.