While autonomous (driver-less) automobile technology is being tried and tested worldwide, a 13-member team from India’s premier Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Kharagpur is making waves nationwide with its ground-breaking dual-mode (manual + autonomous) bicycle.
The IIT Kharagpur team comprising Ayush Pandey, Subhamoy Mahajan, Adarsh, Dhananjay, Aniket, Vikas, Shubh, Aashay, Hrishyank, Sourabh Dash, Arnab Mondal, P.N. […]
Mark Dorman is president of McGraw Hill Education International and Professional, a division of McGraw Hill Education, the well-known multinational teaching development and learning solutions company based in New York (successor to The McGraw Publishing Company, estb.1888). As divisional president, Dorman manages the company’s international operations and professional reference business, which includes a 6,000-titles ebooks […]
Ratnesh Kumar Jha is the Delhi-based managing director (South Asia) of Cambridge University Press India Pvt. Ltd (CUP). An alumnus of JNU and Delhi universities and the Kellogg School of Management, USA, Jha began his professional career with Citibank, USA, and served with GE Capital, Reliance Telecom, Vodafone and Educomp Solutions (2010-2013) prior to signing […]
Mumbai-based Bhupendra Acharya and Bhavana Sharma are founder-directors of Taj Eduglobe Ltd (TEL, estb.2015), a new-age company offering aptitude testing and career development services to students individually and through educational institutions. Under its Discover Brain programme, the company offers psychometric testing services — Dermatoglyphics Multiple Intelligence Tests (DMIT) and mark enhancement techniques (MET) — which […]
Instead of focusing their attention on the country’s crumbling dysfunctional 1.2 million government primary-secondaries, politicians and bureaucrats of the Central and state governments are tying up the nation’s private schools in swirls of red tape even as admission queues lengthen outside their gates – Summiya Yasmeen
India’s private schools — some of them of centuries’ vintage which have […]
Despite the steady devaluation of post-independence India’s human capital, the BJP/NDA government’s second full-fledged budget shows no awareness that agricultural productivity and rural regeneration are intimately connected with improved learning outcomes in education
Ever since EducationWorld was launched on the eve of the new millennium with the mission to “build the pressure of public opinion to […]
Given the recent amendment of the Juvenile Justice Act, 2014 our expectation was that the budget for child protection which is less than 0.4 percent (of the total budgetary outlay) should have been prioritised to strengthen the JJ system. As this is the first year of the United Nation’s new development framework — the Sustainable […]
Even though some informed monitors of the economy maintain that the infirmity of Indian education is inefficient spending rather than adequacy of education outlays, your editors have steadfastly maintained that the two prescriptions are not mutually exclusive.
We believe greater expenditure on infrastructure, landscaping, buildings, classrooms, teacher training and development, sports facilities, and especially libraries, laboratories […]
The vice-like — and tightening — chokehold of the Central and state education bureaucracy over primary and secondary education has made promotion of private greenfield schools a formidable challenge which can only be broken by very determined and persistent edupreneurs. From the stage of land acquisition, obtaining permissions from civic planners, securing electricity and water […]
Licence-permit-quota raj, which was the dominant development blueprint of post-independence India and devastated the country’s economy reducing the average annual rate of GDP growth to 3.5 percent (cf. the Asian average of 7-10 percent) for over four decades until liberalisation and deregulation in 1991, is alive and flourishing in Indian education. Although the ease of […]
According to chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar, the two-day Haryana Global Investors Summit 2016, which concluded on March 8, was a great success. Over 2,300 delegates from 12 countries attended, and foreign and domestic memoranda of understanding valued at Rs.5.84 lakh crore were signed.
Such unbridled optimism and unique inability of politicians to make realistic assessments […]
The cover feature ‘The Shirpur Rural Regeneration Model’ was informative and enlightening (EW March). Engineering this one-of-its-kind success story in the rural hinterland is a truly remarkable achievement of Amrish Patel. His development model combining education, water management and conservation, employment generation and environment sustainability is the magic formula for transforming India’s 600,000 villages into […]
FOR THE SECOND YEAR in a row, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government — which swept to power in the Delhi state legislative assembly last year routing the fancied BJP — tabled an education-focused Budget 2016-17 on March 29. Deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, also the finance and education minister, announced an outlay of Rs.10,690 […]
THE BJP-SHIV SENA government of Maharashtra (pop.112 million), which swept to power with a huge majority in the state’s legislative assembly election of October 2014, is set to make Marathi a compulsory subject for primary (class I-VII) children in all schools, no exceptions. Hitherto primary-secondaries affiliated with the pan-India Delhi-based Council for the Indian School […]
THE MANAGEMENTS OF TAMIL NADU’S 580 CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education) and 52 Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE) schools got a respite on January 28 when the Supreme Court passed an interim order restraining the Justice S.R. Singaravelu Private Schools Fee Determination Committee (PSFDC) from interfering with tuition fees charged by […]
AN ELECTRONIC DATABASE engineered to track the number of children in government primary schools with the objective of controlling wastage of social benefits — free mid-day meals, textbooks, uniforms etc — has yielded unexpected data. Of the total 159,625 state government primary-secondary schools, 6,898 have less than 25 students on their muster rolls while 22,959 […]
CAMPAIGNING IS IN FULL swing in West Bengal for the state’s 16th legislative assembly election which begins on April 4 and concludes on May 5. During its first term in office, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government led by the fiery trade unionist Mamata Banerjee, who improbably ended the uninterrupted 34-year rule over the state of […]
“Sedition is an anachronistic crime but it is unfortunate if a country starts using it more actively.”
Amal Clooney, human rights lawyer, addressing the India Today Conclave in New Delhi (March 18)
“What we give to the poor are called subsidies but what we give to the rich is known as incentive. The government gives thousands of crores […]
Odisha
Aiding & abetting teachers arrested
Three teachers, including a headmaster, were arrested for allegedly messaging answers through a mobile phone to a student examinee during the recently concluded class X state board examinations in Ganjam district. The teachers have been charged under several sections of Odisha’s Conduct of Examinations Act, 1988, police informed mediapersons in […]
Boca Juniors Football School India (BJFSI), an affiliate of the Argentina-based Club Atletico Boca Juniors, one of the premier football clubs in the world, launched its Mumbai academy in collaboration with The Sports Gurukul, Mumbai on March 1. The BJFSI Academy was launched by Club Atletico’s technical director Petros Sideris, who announced that Antonio Lopez […]
Nirmal Kumar Mahapatra (16) and Sailesh Ranjan (15) — class X students of Mother’s Public School (MPS), Bhubaneswar — were crowned champions at the National CBSE Science Exhibition 2015-16 staged in Delhi on February 8-10.
This annual science competition — open to class VI-XI students — conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education, drew 400 […]
Its focus on holistic education — Jamnabai Narsee School is ranked among the country’s Top 10 co-ed day schools and #3 in Mumbai — has won it the patronage of Mumbai’s cognoscenti – Dipta Joshi
Located in Mumbai’s tony JVPD Scheme area — a favoured address of Bollywood stars — over the past half century,
This science and technology university (Imperial College London) is routinely ranked among the world’s Top 10 institutions by all major rating agencies – SUMMIYA YASMEEN
Scattered across nine campuses in London, Imperial College (estb.1907) is routinely ranked among the world’s Top 10 universities for its high-quality academic programmes and research. Times Higher Education (THE) and Quacquarelli Symonds […]
This 21st century career, which involves creating computerised commercial artwork and designs, is a hot and happening career option – Swati Roy
To the ever-growing list of tech-driven careers spawned by new IT and computer technologies, add digital art. This 21st-century career, which involves creating commercial artwork and designs using the computer, has emerged as a hot […]
I’m a class XII (science) student interested in studying medicine. If I don’t qualify for medical school, what related specialisation should I choose in my B.Sc degree programme?
Raju Iyengar, Chennai
Your best options are pharmacy and biotechnology, which offer good employment opportunities. You may also want to consider microbiology, life sciences, genetics, and zoology. To […]
I returned to India in 1968 after graduating from Cambridge and 11 years of teaching physics at Gordonstoun — the well-known British public school. I was immediately struck by the glaring lack of hands-on learning in India’s best schools. Science is an observational subject, and doing, observing and interpreting are integral to the scientific […]
Gaurav Surana is founder-director of the Kolkata-based Tutors Circle Education Pvt. Ltd (TCE, estb.2011), a company providing education consultancy services including test preparation and application assistance to students aspiring to study abroad.
Currently, TCE’s team of five alumni of top-ranked universities (London, IIT-Kharagpur, IIM-Bangalore) provide counseling to students to facilitate their admission into undergrad, postgraduate and […]
When US presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders painted a picture of the perfect model of higher education, he didn’t reference Harvard, Yale or Stanford; instead he cited universities in Germany and Scandinavia. He held up their education systems as ones the US should emulate when pledging to make tuition free at public colleges and universities last […]
A rise in indigenous (aboriginal, equivalent to India’s scheduled castes and tribes) student enrolments in Australia should not obscure the need for “culturally appropriate and continuous support” to improve low completion rates, an academic has cautioned.
Recent federal government figures show that aboriginal and Torres Strait islander enrolments grew 7.6 percent in the first half of […]
The UK leaving the European Union (‘Brexit’) would create “a huge problem” for British universities in new barriers to European research collaboration while damaging higher education across Europe, according to senior officials in German education.
Universities UK (UUK) has been running a campaign to highlight the benefits of membership to the nation’s universities that will gain […]
Is it realistic for an academic programme to set out with the explicit aim of identifying, educating and, crucially, networking future world leaders, as a business school might do for future company chief executives? This is the ambition of Schwarzman Scholars, a new scholarship programme that is backed by American money, based in China and […]
First they came for the statues. Last year students in Cape Town sparked national protests by calling on the University of Cape Town (UCT) to remove a statue of Cecil Rhodes, a Victorian imperialist who, like most Englishmen of his time, held racist views. The statue was removed but students were still angry. Many marched […]
Dr. Siva Kumari is director-general of the International Baccalaureate Organisation (IBO), Geneva, which has 3,800 affiliated schools in 147 countries worldwide. An alumna of Cincinnati and Houston (USA) universities, Dr. Kumari was formerly provost of K-12 initiatives at Rice University, Houston before to being appointed regional director (Asia-Pacific) of the IBO in 2009. In January […]
More than three decades of research shows that focus on effort — not intelligence or ability — is the key to success in school and in life
— Carol S. Dweck
Psychologists involved in studying the motivation and achievements of sportspersons over the past three decades are now almost unanimous that the traditional winner-takes-all philosophy does […]
On my terms: from the grassroots to the corridors of power by Sharad Pawar tiger publishing; Price: Rs.699; Pages: 264
One of post-independence India’s most durable and dominant figures in national politics is Maharashtra strongman Sharad Pawar. In his long — and still enduring — career as an MP/MLA which began in 1967, Pawar has never lost an […]
Ashok Wasu, Founder-director, Summer Valley Group of Schools, Dehradun
Where would you place education on your national list of priorities?
Education is core to creating a capable and vibrant India and to bring about economic and social transformation.
How best to upgrade government schools?
Ensure adequate quality manpower supported by continuous teacher training and […]
Less than five years ago, the Delhi-based Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM, estb.1973), fronted by its flamboyant pony-tailed promoter-director Arindam Chaudhuri, was one of the biggest advertisers in the mainstream press with a penchant for full-page ads in the Times of India which trumpeted IIPM as one of the Top 10 B-schools in […]
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New opportunity in early years education
Dr Jeremy Williams is the academic director of Asian International College (India)
India — like many other countries — is in the midst of a paradigm shift in education driven by the very economic and technological forces that have transformed Indian industry. Learning via the Internet — formerly known as ‘e-learning’ — started to become popular in […]