The price the Indian economy has paid for under-investment in VET has been catastrophic. Shopfloor productivity in industry is one-third to one-tenth of China and OECD countries.
PERHAPS BECAUSE of deep-rooted prejudices buried in the pernicious Hindu caste system, hands-on vocational education which would have upskilled the population, didn’t receive any worthwhile attention during the first […]
Although the country boasts 37,000 colleges and 735 universities, the fundamental problem of post-independence India’s higher education system is excessive Central and state government control
UNSURPRISINGLY ALL THE accumulated sins of omission and commission of the past six decades in preschool, primary and secondary education have risen to an ugly froth in India’s higher education system. […]
AS AUGUST 15 draws near and the newly-elected prime minister Narendra Modi prepares to deliver his first Independence Day address to the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort, Delhi, he has a great opportunity to outline a new programme for the redevelopment and rejuvenation of a nation eager to make amends for errors […]
In Kozhikode, Kerala “India’s most literate state” a tripartite public-private partnership between an MLA, municipal corporation and the Faizal & Shabana Foundation (estb. 2012) offers an inspirational model for the revival of India’s failing government schools
ONE OF THE GREAT paradoxes of post-independence India™s national development effort is the sustained neglect of 1.20 million government primary-secondary […]
With India emerging as a major hub of this booming new-age industry, global demand for qualified animation professionals is ballooning
WITH THE AGGREGATE revenue of the global animation industry slated to exceed $277 billion (Rs.1,670,586 crore) by 2015, and India emerging as a major hub of this booming new-age industry, global demand for qualified animation […]
The great sin of sustained neglect of primary, secondary and higher education in post-independence India has been compounded by continuous neglect of vocational education and training. But a quiet skills revolution is gathering momentum countrywide
TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY India’s dysfunctional education system, defined by crumbling infrastructure, multi-grade teaching, massive dropouts, truant teachers and abysmal learning outcomes, is […]
A Bangalore-based social enterprise has developed a unique VET model which has the potential to transform hundreds of millions of rural youth into employable living-wage earners
A modestly appointed four-bedroom house converted into an office in Jayanagar, a green and pleasant suburb of Bangalore, is the head office of Head Held High Services Pvt. Ltd (H3S, […]
Centurion University’s Gram Tarang initiative has provided employment-yielding vocational training to 40,000 rural youth in the insurgency-infected Red Corridor districts of Odisha
In 2006, a team of professional educationists comprising professors Dr. Mukti Kanta Mishra, D.N. Rao and D. Nageshwara Rao took over the Jagannath Institute for Technology and Management, a failing engineering college in Parlakhemundi, […]
Over the past 17 years, this trust has provided free-of-charge vocational education including advanced computer training and English language learning to 18,000 children and youth with disabilities
Although post-independence India’s record of providing globally comparable quality education to the world’s largest child population (480 million) is pathetic, its record of provisioning special education for the country’s […]
Illiterate gatherers of forest produce transformed into businesswomen
The evolutionary outcome of a 1992 World Bank Institute project to design microenterprise management curriculums and delivery methodology for poor, illiterate and semi-literate women producers in backward states of India, the Intel-Udyogini School of Entrepreneurship (I-USE) was established as a block-level training institution with a 2009 grant of […]
Founded in 2006, LabourNet has developed a sustainable end-to-end 4 E solution — empowerment through education, employability and employment — for the informal sector labour
The low-profile Bangalore-based Movement for Alternatives for Youth Awareness (Maya, estb.1989) is a “development organisation working to address systemic issues of child labour through building empowered human institutions of the poor”. […]
It’s a tragedy that the great international institution christened Visva-Bharati (India-World) University in which literature Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore invested the “cargo of my life’s best treasure” and which he gifted to India, has been reduced to the status of a provincial university. Reports Gargi Banerjee with Dilip Thakore
The recently-concluded year 2013, especially November 14, […]
Visva-Bharati (later University) was inaugurated on December 22, 1921 at a ceremony presided by Dr. Brajendranath Seal, one of India’s foremost philosophers. Rabindranath Tagore donated the land, buildings, library, copyrights of his books and interest from the Nobel Prize money to Visva-Bharati.
The constitution drawn up by Dr. Prasanta Mahalanobis, a pioneer of statistical research in […]
Gargi Banerjee interviewed Dr. Sushanta Dattagupta, vice chancellor of Visva-Bharati University, in his office on the VBU campus. Excerpts:
Rabindranath Tagore often described Visva-Bharati as the greatest achievement of his life. Yet to this day there is confusion about Tagore’s educational philosophy and the goals he set for VBU…
In his formative years, Tagore was deeply disappointed with the […]
Santiniketan Griha. Originally constructed by Rabindranath Tagore’s father Dwarkanath in 1863 for meditation, it became the poet’s base when he first came to Santiniketan in 1901 with the intention of setting up a school. Most of his famous poems from Gitanjali for which he won the Nobel Prize in 1913, were composed in this house. Today […]
The forthcoming season of peace and goodwill is also a period of considerable anxiety for legions of young parents aware of the critical value of high quality and professionally administered early childhood education, for orderly growth and development of their children into successful and socially beneficial adults. This is the time when the country’s top […]
For the fourth year in succession, a carefully selected sample base of young parents and principals/teachers have ranked The Magic Years, Vasant Vihar, Delhi’s #1 followed by Step by Step, Panchsheel. Here are Delhi’s best preschools 2013:
Judged by the Quantum of Media coverage that the annual scramble for admissions of precious infants into the capital’s […]
A representative sample of 303 SECA preschool parents and teachers/principals has voted Podar Jumbo Kids, Santacruz the city’s #1 preschool ending the three-year reign of Kangaroo Kids, Bandra. Here are Mumbai’s top ranked preschools 2013:
Until the Advent of the New Millennium, awareness of the vital foundational importance of professionally administered early childhood care and education […]
The carefully selected 251 sample respondents comprising preschool parents and teachers/educationists of the EW Kolkata Preschool Rankings 2013 table have engineered radical proportion to last year’s Top 20 league table. Here are Kolkata’s top ranked preschools 2013:
This Year the EW League Table of Kolkata’s Top 20 preschools has experienced a major make-over. The carefully selected […]
In the league table of Chennai’s top ranked preschools 2013, Vruksha Montessori, Alwarpet has ended the three-year reign of Vaels Billabong High-Kangaroo Kids, Neelankarai
The Three-Year (2010-12) Reign of Vael’s Billabong High-Kangaroo Kids, Neelankarai (KKN) as Chennai’s #1 pre-primary school has ended. This year’s sample respondents comprising 276 parents with preschool of children and 62 principals/teachers […]
Despite its youthful demographic profile, the garden city’s citizenry is as appreciative of vintage pre-primaries as it is of new genre, new millennium early childhood care and education institutions. Here are Bengaluru’s top ranked preschools for the year 2013:
With its Large and Growing population of young professionals in the IT, biotech and science and technology […]
While coping with continuous agitations, protests and strikes, a mix of parents of preschool children and teachers/principals have voted for stability in the EW Hyderabad Preschool Rankings 2013. Here are the best preschools of Hyderabad 2013-14
The 292 Sample Respondents comprising a mix of parents of preschool children, and teachers/principals interviewed by Delhi-based market research company […]
In the first-ever rating and ranking of Pune’s Top 10 pre-primary schools 2013, Leapbridge International, Kalyani Nagar, is ranked #1 closely followed by Serra International Preschool, Aundh
In the fast-growth city of Pune (pop. 5.5 million), which has emerged as the second largest academic and industrial hub (after Mumbai) of Maharashtra, over the past decade, a […]
Acknowledgement of the importance of English-medium preschool education is rising rapidly within Gujarat, a laggard state in English language education. Here are Ahmedabad’s top ranked preschools for the year 2013:
A laggard state in English language education, acknowledgement of the importance of English-medium preschool education is rising rapidly within Gujarat, whose economic development model has aroused […]
In the inaugural EducationWorld league table of Gurgaon’s Top 10 preschools 2013, a representative sample of 230 parents and teachers voted Pallavan, Sohna Road #1 in the new steel and glass city.
Situated on the periphery of Delhi, the new steel and glass city of Gurgaon (pop.876,824) — India headquarters of several multi-nationals including GE, […]
A representative sample of 197 SEC A preschool parents and teachers rated and ranked Noida’s Top 10 pre-primaries 2013 for the first time.
A satellite township of Delhi NCR (National Capital Region), Noida (pop. 642,381) — an IT and industrial hub — is one of four new cities (in addition to Pune, Gurgaon and Ahmedabad) included […]
A.K. & Sanjay Agarwal
MDN Edify Education, Hyderabad
Both commerce graduates of Osmania University, siblings Anjani Kumar (AKA) and Sanjay Agarwal (SA) are directors of the Hyderabad-based MDN Edify Education Pvt. Ltd. Since the company was incorporated in 2009, it has signed content and curriculum provision and management contracts with 164 preschools and 16 K-12 schools […]
Although only the intellectually honest — and this excludes the vast majority of the country’s Left intellectuals who dominate the academy — will admit it, Indian education is steadily and inexorably being privatised. While post-independence India’s fast-expanding middle class seceded from the public/government school education system several decades ago, of late even aspirational lower middle […]
An eve-of-election statement of intent taken through the ordinance route by the Union HRD ministry inviting globally top-ranked foreign universities to establish captive campuses in India, has drawn lukewarm response from foreign higher education institutions wary of entering India’s over-regulated higher education system. Dilip Thakore reports
Despite alarming new millennium reports about the poor quality of graduates […]
The HRD ministry has sent proposals to the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion and the Department of Economic Affairs to permit foreign universities to open their campuses in the country as companies as provided under the Companies Act.
As per the powers vested with the Central government to make rules under the UGC Act, the […]
“We would certainly consider the option to establish a high quality, niche research campus in the country.” Anthony Smith, Vice-Provost, University College, London
“At this time, Stanford University does not intend to open any additional campuses within the US or abroad, in India or elsewhere. This is an institutional decision and not related to any actions taken by […]
One of the paradoxes of K-12 education in India is that while the overwhelming majority of the public — including parents within the socio-economically deprived households — is desperate to provide their children with English medium or at least high quality English language education, several state governments or more accurately neo-literate politicos and bureaucrats within […]
One of the few and perhaps most valuable upsides of almost 200 years of British rule in the Indian subcontinent during which the GDP growth rate was less than 1 percent per annum, is that it introduced the English language to the people of India. Modernisation ideals and the ideas of national freedom and democracy […]
The start of the new academic year marks the culmination of a season when parents are obliged to pull every string and use their influence with politicians, bureaucrats, high court judges and even media personnel to put in a word for admission of their wards into the country’s top-ranked day, boarding and international schools. Dilip Thakore […]
Between them the Central government-owned IIMs admit only 2,880 of the 214,000 graduates who write the CAT (Common Admission Test) annually. EducationWorld commissioned the Delhi-based C fore to assess and rank India’s most respected non-IIM B-schools. Dilip Thakore reports
Conterminously with the onset of the south-west monsoon and the commencement of the new academic year, 214,000 […]
To provide readers, especially aspirant business managers, a comprehensive profile of India’s most respected ‘other’ (excluding IIMs) B-schools, the Top 50 national league table is supplemented with Top 10 national rankings on the basis of parameters of excellence.
To compile the rankings league table of the country’s Top 50 B-schools, C fore field researchers interviewed 532 […]
With a large number of the country’s non-conformist youth entering the agriculture and social sectors, the EW-C fore survey presents a league table of not-strictly-business institutes
With a growing number of the country’s youth taking to untrodden ways and careers in agriculture and the social sector, your editors decided it would be in the interest of […]
The managements and faculty of the best among India’s ‘other’ B-schools believe that despite being obliged to compete academically with the government-backed B-schools without the benefit of subsidies and handouts, they are closing the gap which separates them from the IIMs
Long accustomed to playing second fiddle to the country’s Central government-promoted and heavily subsidised six […]
To enable higher secondary school students and graduates to make informed choices about institutes offering new- age professional education, EducationWorld commissioned the Delhi-based market research agency C fore to rate and rank India’s best professional colleges in 2013 through a perceptual survey. Summiya Yasmeen reports
Until the onset of the noughties a decade ago, professional education […]
Inevitably the NLSIU, Bangalore, promoted in 1987 by the Bar Council of India, was placed on the top rung of the podium in a survey of India’s top-ranked Law Schools, 2013:
In almost all democratic nations governed by the rule of law, the legal system and legal profession are citizen friendly. India, the world’s most […]
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