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Closing the Gap: A Working Model for First-Generation Learner Equity in Education
Sunitha Peter (Vice Principal, Ankur) Inside Ankur’s NIOS Bridge Programme, what it takes to close a learning gap in one year India’s foundational literacy gap is not a fringe problem. The ASER 2024 national survey found that 76.6% of Class III children in rural government schools still cannot read a
Sports Excellence at Ankur
Sunitha Peter (Vice Principal, Ankur) Every quiet morning of our residential school campus begins with a blow of whistle. At Ankur, that quiet has, over the past few years, been giving way to something louder and far more joyful, the thud of a volleyball, the squeak of basketball shoes on
Cultivating Saplings into Orchards
Sunitha Peter (Vice Principal, Ankur) How Nurturing Environments Catalyze Educational Equity: A Case Study on the Transforming Impact of the Ankur Program In a nation of over 300 million children, talent is distributed evenly, but opportunity is not. When children from highly deprived backgrounds enter the educational ecosystem alongside
You can do it too…
Suparna Chattarji (Ex-Principal, Ankur) Once there was a little boy who came from a village. He had his parents and grandparents, his aunts and uncles, it was a large family. Even though he was very little his father had big dreams for him. Therefore, he decided to move him to
A quiet social revolution
Suparna Chattarji (Ex-Principal, Ankur) The girls of Grades IX-XII assembled in the large space that was previously used as the self-study room for girls in Ankur hostel. Almost all of them knew me, therefore we started to talk without an introduction. I had a mission, however. I wanted to know
Reigniting the Love for Reading
Suparna Chattarji (Ex-Principal, Ankur) On the first day of my job at Ankur, a comprehensive residential education programme, I was taken around the campus by a staff member. It was then that I first came across this large, whitewashed room—the children’s library. It was a quiet afternoon and the slanting
