English education
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Sneha Santra Aug 07 2019 - 3 min readThe current youth unemployment rate in India is at 16%. This alarming statistic points to a grim reality – young Indians don’t have the required skill set to succeed in the workplace. Our current education system is failing our youth, who lack communication skills to express simple ideas or have basic conversations with customers, colleagues ...
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Franchise India Bureau Dec 29 2018 - 1 min readWest Bengal government will start English medium teaching at primary and secondary levels in around 65 state-run schools from the next academic session. Out of these 65 schools, 44 are in the primary section while 21 are in the secondary section. Partha Chatterjee, Education Minister of West Bengal, said, "Now the state-run government schools will ...
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Franchise India Bureau Jul 10 2018 - 2 min readA war of words has erupted between Biocon chief Kiran Mazumdar Shaw and Kannada Development Authority after she called the KDA "an insignificant group of naysayers" for opposing the state government's proposal to introduce English medium classes in 1,000 primary schools. "Media always portrays a small & insignificant group of naysayers as 'activists' - these ...
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Uttara.J. Malhotra Sep 29 2017 - 3 min readA latest study and data compilation spearheaded by the National University of Education, Planning and Administration (NUEPA) confirms that the number of children studying in English-medium schools has spiraled to a 274% between 2003 and 2011 (that is literally over 20 million students). Currently, only 25 percent schools out of government run schools across India are using ...