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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
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
Success Stories
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
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
