Education | Citizen Matters, Bengaluru

Volunteering is cool: How Bengaluru’s youth are helping out orphanages, cleaning black spots, and more

August 13, 2019 Ekta Sawant

Are Bengaluru’s youth disconnected from social realities? Here is a look at the city’s young volunteers that prove they aren’t. From serving others to saving the planet, there’s much these volunteers are trying to do

Pasta or Pav bhaji? Roti or Ragi mudde? How Bengaluru’s schools and students deal with food

July 31, 2019 Tanika Deuskar

As children increasingly consume junk food, some Bengaluru schools have adopted strict policies to ensure that their students eat healthy. These schools’ policies range from providing food cooked at school itself, to replacing any junk food children bring from home

ಬಿಎಂಟಿಸಿ ಮರು ಪ್ರಾರಂಭಿಸಿದ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿ ಬಸ್ ಪಾಸ್ ಸೇವೆ ಕುರಿತ ಸಮಗ್ರ ವಿವರ: ಆನ್ ಲೈನ್ ಅರ್ಜಿ ಸಲ್ಲಿಕೆಯಿಂದ ಹಿಡಿದು ಸಂಗ್ರಹದವರೆಗ

July 12, 2019 Akanksha Choudhary

BMTC has relaunched its online student bus pass service, after a failed attempt last year. Read on to find what’s different about the process this time, and how you can apply for your pass

Bengaluru Buzz: Fine on garbage rule violators? | Plans to identify school dropouts | Varsity focus on green education…and more

July 6, 2019 News Desk

What’s likely to come up in the state-level SWM Policy being prepared by the Urban Development Department? How can we ascertain the level of school dropouts in the city more accurately? What do street vendors want from the BBMP? This and more in our weekly news round-up

“We were told our son wouldn’t get admission in college”

May 27, 2019 Manasi Paresh Kumar

Amidst the frenzy about tenth standard exam results and top scorers, what happens to the children who get average marks? In this conversation with Citizens Live, parents of Chiraag Shetty who scored 59 percent, talk about the pressure they face, the struggle to get college admission for Chiraag, and how the system could change

Navigating the English medium conundrum in Karnataka

February 15, 2019 Revathi Siva Kumar

State budget has announced that 1,000 Karnataka Public Schools will start English-medium sections in Class 1, in addition to the Kannada medium, in pilot mode, Is the vision behind English mediums schools justified?

RTE helpline: How to use it effectively?

December 22, 2018 Rahna Jacob

Earlier there were a lot of children in government schools, but of late the number has reduced, as parents prefer private schools. However commercial nature of this has also created school drop outs.

Parents, activists and academia divided while State Cabinet intends to modify RTE rules

December 11, 2018 Arjun Rajan

State Cabinet has decided to amend the Right to Education rules to go for private schools only where government schools do not exist. Legal precedence doesn’t support this. What are the implications of the amendment, and what are parents worried about?

BBMP can handle Bengaluru’s schools better, State just needs to help

November 19, 2018 Shashank Atreya

As part of the Bengaluru Solutions Series, the second installment looks at private and government schools in Bengaluru. This piece looks at the shortcomings of state-sponsored education, and ways to improve the quality of affordable private education

A school in the cloud contributes to quality of teaching and learning in Karnataka’s schools

November 16, 2018 Arjun Rajan

Learning outcomes in government schools and affordable private schools remain lower, due to the quality of teachers and other related issues. Can an app help teachers better their own skills of teaching? Meghshala is trying to crack the right formula for this.

How volunteer teachers are making a difference in Bengaluru’s govt schools

November 15, 2018 Navya P K

Teaching, helping with infrastructure support like labs and play areas has helped push enrollment and learning outcomes in a few schools. Can they scale and sustain?

What ails Bengaluru’s government schools?

November 14, 2018 Navya P K

With everyone including people belonging to high and low income sectors preferring private schools, government schools are seeing low enrolment and even closure. Who is to blame? What’s going on?

How industry-academia partnership can help increase employability in IT

October 9, 2018 Shree D N

The emergence of private organisations that offer skilling solutions is a perfect marker for the rising problem of unemployability among fresh IT graduates. What other solutions exist to the skill gaps clouding the job-worthiness of the new workforce in IT?

Skill gaps among fresh IT graduates in Bengaluru impact hiring numbers

October 5, 2018 Shree D N

2.11 lakh students were enrolled in engineering courses in 2017-18, only 34,506 students were placed in Karnataka, according to AICTE. This points to a dim overall hiring scene, though IT graduates are only a fraction of this number. Why aren’t fresh IT grads getting hired?

Aspirations of young urban poor: Bridging the employability gap

August 28, 2018 Manasi Paresh Kumar

Blue and grey collared workers are integral to the city – garment workers, domestic help, masons, plumbers, sweepers… But what will the future of their children be? In this article, we look at the challenges these youth face in getting the jobs they want and what could help overcome those.