Student Well-being

Across nearly four lakh students surveyed by NCERT under the Manodarpan initiative, one pattern stood out again and again: well-being is tightly linked to academic pressure, peer relationships, confidence, concentration, and coping skills. Academics topped the list of reasons students cited for anxiety, followed closely by exams and results. A recent article, “How infrastructure can […]

Educators across the board agree that curiosity is the common characteristic found in eager, effortful and successful learners! They also agree that this particular trait – spurs growth, mastery and over time, innovation. And that this curiosity-trait is closely linked to ‘intrinsic motivation’. Despite this correlation, researchers are still investigating this complex and multifaceted phenomena-curiosity!

At the turn of each year, we tend to think about ‘change’ – a word that can be both empowering and daunting, at the same time. Empowering because it signals the fact that we want to, and we are ready to make a shift. Daunting because we know how hard it is to break those