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West Bengal to set up Digital Content Creator Labs in 500 government schools

July 18, 2026 2:08 pm

Digital Content Creator Labs are aimed at equipping around one lakh students annually with future-ready skills in animation, gaming, visual effects, storytelling and other allied disciplines.

The move follows Norway's 2024 decision to restrict smartphone use in classrooms amid concerns about declining student performance and excessive screen exposure. (Representational Image)

Norway restricts AI use in schools, cites concerns over learning and cognitive skills

June 20, 2026 5:00 pm

Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre has announced a near-ban on generative AI in elementary and middle schools to protect students' cognitive development and core learning skills.

Ghaziabad deaths: On Wednesday morning, the sisters, aged 12, 14, and 16, had jumped from a window of their ninth-floor flat in Bharat City township allegedly after their phones were taken away

Ghaziabad sisters’ deaths: UP women's panel chief flags risks of mobile phone use among children

February 07, 2026 2:29 pm

Women's Commission chairperson Babita Chauhan said for students up to Class 5, schools must refrain from sending homework or activities over phones.

Is this AI generated? This question shouldn't determine a student's critical understanding

January 01, 2026 8:28 pm

Institutions demand responsible AI use from students but ignore the risks of uncritical reliance on detection software by faculty

Digital push, especially in the classroom, reveals cracks in access and empathy

August 12, 2025 11:03 am

Digital technology has come to occupy so central a place in the imagination of educational planners that they can no longer perceive what all its force can damage in an already fragile systemic environment

Express View on ASER report: Success in the classroom

January 29, 2025 7:19 am

It shows foundational learning skills have recovered post-pandemic. That's cause for cheer -- and redoubling efforts

Digital learning is an immense boon. But the computer is not a magic wand. Some types of material and pedagogic practice lend themselves to digitisation, others do not. (Express File Photo)

Why there can’t be a classroom at a click

February 06, 2024 11:16 am

Digital learning is an immense boon. But the computer is not a magic wand.

Covid exposed what we always knew: Delhi's students face a digital divide

January 30, 2023 7:32 am

From a lack of access to mobiles to poor internet connection — for students attending online classes during the lockdown in city schools in 2020 and 2021, the issues were many. A new study by the Delhi govt sheds light on how some were affected more than others

UNESCO report, UNESCO 2021 State of the Education Report for India: No Teachers, No Class, school education, teacher workforce, TET, government schools, pupil-teacher ratio

Only 19% schools across India have access to internet: UNESCO report

October 07, 2021 10:41 am

The teaching workforce has a deficit of over 1 million teachers and the need is likely to grow, given the shortages of teachers in certain education levels and subjects such as early childhood education, special education, physical education, music, arts, and curricular streams of vocational education.

FREE live-online IAS counselling sessions by Rau’s IAS on 22nd and 29th May

May 18, 2021 6:34 pm

With interaction and superior learning being top priority, Rau’s IAS Online classes bring classroom experience to your home. Here's why you need to enrol.