# EDUCATION AFTER LOCKDOWN

(massive reverse migration - posted 31st March 2020 on Devinder Sharma blog)

## impact on students
(students returning home, bangalore - photo by Sanketh)

https://caravanmagazine.in/education/online-classes-a-hurdle-future-uncertain-up-delhi-college-students
colleges as a site of mixed access students, decisions taken with digital being only alternative, leaves no consideration for students without access, so who are you creating policies for? unfair disadvantage to many? how do we hear about their stories, problems?

https://scroll.in/article/967553/as-classes-go-online-how-can-the-right-to-education-be-guaranteed-for-students-without-net-access
important piece! talks about digital divide, problems with kashmir, the responsibility to provide digital infra+resources is on the state, kerala started a classes that are aired on tv programme which gives wider reach although not monitoring

*means of registering protests are online, how do you hear about grievances that cannot access social media?*

## exams
many entrance exams postponed https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/news/story/list-of-exams-postponed-in-india-due-to-coronavirus-covid-19-outbreak-1658108-2020-03-21

UGC and online-- who are these solutions for?
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/ugccancelonlineexams-what-we-know-so-far-on-the-raging-debate-over-ugc-guidelines-on-final-year-exams-5556681.html

## internet shutdowns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2jRwP0hGGs
2kms thru dense forest travelling for signal, assignments on WA, only when they get internet for which they need to travel (close to LoC sometimes), online classes on 2G is a prob

https://caravanmagazine.in/education/i-see-my-dreams-vanishing-kashmiri-researchers-about-the-internet-blockade
mostly about researchers and their problems, no access to databases, results, exams + little grant money + no funds so can't migrate + a lot have fieldwork in the region so migration isn't the answer always

## policy measures
HRD rules limits on class hours, max 4 hours https://www.patrika.com/education-news/mhrd-released-new-guidelines-for-online-classes-in-school-6270151/

https://www.thequint.com/news/india/govt-to-launch-pm-evidya-for-access-to-digital-education
bold ideas about using broadcast radio, comm radios, TV and podcasts

https://www.thequint.com/news/education/dd-bihar-up-odisha-to-broadcast-daily-education-lectures
recorded, live programmes, DD news of states covering, info through sms, helpline numbers for student doubts

https://www.thequint.com/news/education/nios-launches-live-tv-education-classes-for-students-amid-lockdown
free channels from National Institute of Open Education on all dth services

**kenya's example**: https://www.africanews.com/2020/07/09/kenya-cancels-2020-school-year-classes-to-resume-next-year/
kenya has <10k cases and its cancelled school year already!

## other/gig work
* https://www.medianama.com/2020/05/223-bridging-india-digital-divide-covid19-part-1/
* https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/78-rural-indians-saw-their-work-coming-standstill-during-lockdown-survey-130624

## This document flow

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Todo:

- [ ] how do we bring the student narratives
- [ ] repo of alternative and interesting education material
- [ ] yashas to add stuff
- [ ] Activities based [enerpreneurial excercises](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tOPR10jCPmJ4YeOYd-dIQNznxu0RXYrbEyYSp-PTj80/)

broadly:
* one thing to look at urban areas with access, another in low+mixed income urban areas. are schools called off? youtube, etc what are people doing? what about students who cant access these while being in schools that assume access? what about students and teachers who cant access it at all? what about fees, who should bear burden
* are states talking about any policy measures
* internet shutdowns
* colleges
* opinions, ethnography, extreme cases
* ugc controversy
* KENYA!!!!
* also possible to look at interaction between students and AV classes, the extra reproductive+care labour involved
* impact on women, trans communities, displaced communities -- how are people at the margins dealing with this
* what do the new big tech investments mean if anything?