CHAPTER 17

Education Reporting

Urmi A. Goswami

CHAPTER INSIGHTS

What does reporting on education mean? What are the challenges and the opportunities that education reporters are likely to experience? What are some of the critical information sources that need to be accessed and developed to report on this sector? This chapter answers these three critical questions. To do so, it assesses the space that education occupies in the reporting pantheon and different ways to report on the sector from a narrow focus to a much broader one encompassing political, legal and social dimensions. It provides a nutshell view of the sector—the different players, agencies/regulators, the role of the judiciary in shaping the education system and the complex ...

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