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Feature: Dev Lahiri on Educational Reform

`Schools today are not about education, they are about certification`  Highly intelligent. Quicksilver character. Maverick. Impassioned. Born educationist. All these words fit Devapriya Lahiri , former Headmaster of Lawrence School, Lovedale as well as  Welhams Boys, Dehradun, to a T. It has been an eventful, even chequered career for the educationist who has recently written…

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Feature: It Takes a Village

It takes a village An education camp held in a remote hamlet of Uttarakhand dispelled some long-held notions about people and about education. In India, the dispensation outlining a Rs. 40,000-crore programme for primary education was concomitant with the United Nations urging governments around the world to spend around six to eight billion US$ (Rs….

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