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1. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Krishna Kumar

   School education has lost its way - The Tribune (opens the original)

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   SCHOOL infrastructure has once again claimed some space in the media. The last time it stayed in the news long enough to matter was in the mid-1980s, when a sensitive education secretary at the Centre put into effect Operation Blackboard. The idea was to enable primary schools to have the minimum requirements for practising active pedagogy. It was the first time that plastic globes, tablas and children’s literature found a place in the supply list for primary schools. Small scissors and hand-hel

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2. Article · Aug 4, 2026 · Krishna Kumar

   NEET is flawed to the core - The Tribune (opens the original)

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   THE problem with NEET (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test) is not simply its tendency to leak. A far greater issue is that it is so crude. The lofty goal thrust upon it does not match its inner primitive core. NEET is supposed to find, among millions, who might best deserve to be admitted to a medical college. The method of performing this arguably difficult task is incredibly naive. It consists of listing 180 questions drawn from the three sciences, i.e. physics, chemistry and biology. Thes

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