Crisis is a state wherein everyone gets the chance to extract opportunity to make the best use of time. It is in these moments that we get chance to test our own abilities. We become potentially strong to grab the opportunity presented to us through the Almighty. One should always be strong enough to change […]
Rapid technological change and new global challenges are pushing the boundaries of the traditional domains of social science analysis. In the new BA Honours program in Political Science at the Jindal School of International Affairs (JSIA), O. P. Jindal Global University (JGU), we take a holistic, interdisciplinary, and skills-focused approach to the study of politics […]
Endowed by American philanthropist Amos A. Lawrence (1786-1852), LU is an exclusive undergrad liberal arts and music university routinely ranked among the Top 200 in THE World University Rankings
Promoted 173 years ago — a year before the state of Wisconsin was promulgated — Lawrence University (LU, estb.1847) is one of America’s oldest co-ed higher education institutions. A residential liberal […]
Promoted a mere six years ago with a first batch of 96 students, the IB (Geneva) and CAIE (UK)-affiliated BIS has quickly established an enviable reputation as the most admired international day school of Rajasthan – Paromita Sengupta
An extraordinary latter day success story in K-12 education is Bodhi International School, Jodhpur (BIS, estb.2014). Promoted a mere six […]
To compile the EW India Private Engineering Colleges Rankings 2020-21, 150 field representatives of the Delhi-based Centre for Forecasting and Research Pvt. Ltd interviewed 1,063 faculty, 1,368 final year engineering students and 423 industry representatives countrywide – Summiya Yasmeen
Engineering education in India is facing an unprecedented over-supply and graduate unemployability crisis. During the past five […]
The paradox of India’s multi-layered structure governing higher education is that some of the country’s most admired undergrad colleges, which should have been awarded academic autonomy decades ago, are tied to the apron strings of their affiliating universities. These colleges are ranked separately in EWIHER 2020-21
Even in the 21st century, India’s higher education system is […]
It’s a sobering reminder to a nation being swayed by antiminority rhetoric that four of the Top 5 private autonomous colleges are institutions promoted by various orders of India’s minuscule Christian community
In these troubled times when the damage inflicted upon the economy and society by the rampaging coronavirus aka Covid-19 is being compounded by […]
It’s important to note that among (state) government promoted colleges countrywide, autonomous institutions enjoy special standing and privilege by virtue of their UGC conferred autonomous status.
Since 2018 when EducationWorld introduced its inaugural EW India Arts, Science & Commerce (ASC) Colleges Rankings, we focused on rating and ranking private colleges. However this year, on the advice […]
To create level playing fields, in this issue we present EW India Higher Education Rankings 2020-21 ranking private autonomous, government autonomous and Top 100 non-autonomous colleges separately on five common parameters of collegiate excellence – Dilip Thakore
Perhaps the greatest tragedy of post-independence India’s failed national development effort is that even the brightest and best of […]
Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India; K.S. Komireddi; HURST; Rs.314; Pages 224
In 1964, Rajni Kothari wrote about the unique nature of the Indian party system describing it as a “one-party dominance” characterised by the existence of a multiparty system dominated by one party, the Indian national congress. It was an umbrella organisation […]
India, Empire & First World War Culture: Writings, Images & Songs Santanu Das; Cambridge University Press Rs.1,774; Pages 466
Winner of The Hindu literary prize (2019) in the non-fiction category, this history of the first World War and India is a deeply researched, well-structured retrieval of unconventional archival material that revolutionises ways of understanding transnational human […]
An alumnus of Osmania, Hyderabad and Cambridge (UK) universities and founder-chairman of Cobra Beer Partnership Ltd, a premier brewing company in the UK, India-born Lord Karan Bilimoria CBE, DL, is chancellor of the University of Birmingham (UoB), UK — a Russell Group (i.e, research-intensive) varsity. Sarah Berry interviewed him in Delhi.
Excerpts:
You are visiting India as chancellor of UoB. What […]
For Rana Kapoor, former high-flying promoter-chairman of the private sector Yes Bank whose Rs.10 face value equity share was quoted at Rs.285 in its heyday and attracted public deposits of Rs.227,610 crore, the fall from grace was swift and vertiginous. It has come as a great setback for monitors of the floundering Indian economy — including your editor […]
Shoot first and investigate later. This seems to be the modus operandi of the BJP/NDA government, vaulted to power at the Centre with a landslide victory in 2014. Two years later, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a dramatic announcement on November 8, demonetising high value currency notes. The unstated prime objective of the demonetisation initiative was to delegitimise large cash […]
– Usha Pandit is the CEO of Mindsprings, educational consultant, teacher trainer, expert in gifted education, and author
If India’s education policy formulators take a few leaves from prominent educators, we would have a clear roadmap to re-evaluate and solve the nation’s chronic education deficit. From Piaget’s Constructivism schema, they could learn how children connect with prior knowledge, and learn by […]
Ridhima Pandey (13), a class IX student of the CBSE-affiliated BMDAV Centenary Public School, Haridwar, Uttarakhand is the Indian counterpart of Swedish teenage green warrior and environmental activist Greta Thunberg, who was recently named Time magazine’s Person of the Year 2019. She persuaded the Supreme Court to review her 2017 petition complaining of government inaction […]
Aranyo Ray and Vaishnavi Pandey — higher secondary students of Kalyani Public School, Barasat (West Bengal) and Tagore International School, Delhi respectively — were adjudged national winners of the Pramerica Spirit of Community Awards (PSCA) 2020 at a glittering ceremony held in Delhi on February 24. Both were presented with a gold medallion, certificates of excellence, a cash prize of Rs.50,000 and round trip […]
With a third of the global population and K-12 and higher education institutions in 185 countries including India,
locked down since mid-March to prevent the spread of the coronavirus aka Covid-19 pandemic, educators worldwide are confronted with the greatest disruption since the Spanish flu outbreak of 1918. Consequently, education institutions are responding to this disruption by shifting […]
Kohima, March 4. Speaking at a function to mark the launch of digital education in 15 state government colleges, Nagaland’s chief minister Neiphiu Rio said Smart classrooms will improve the quality of education in the state and make teaching-learning interactive and engaging.
Also speaking on the occasion, Temjen Imna Along, minister for higher education and tribal affairs, said Nagaland is the first […]
“Education must deal with the deeper anxieties of the young in order to retain its own sanctity and credibility. The hatred that found open expression for some days in north-east Delhi has put a question mark on the capacity of the system of education to nurture the core values a democratic order demands.”
Krishna Kumar, former director of NCERT, […]
The upside of the global rampage of the Coronavirus, aka Covid-19 pandemic, which at the time of writing (April 2) has infected 1 million people worldwide and caused 53,238 deaths — and 2,567 and 72 respectively in India — is that it has vastly improved the business prospects of India’s hitherto struggling edtech companies. Although an estimated 380 ed tech companies […]
Although neither chief minister Mamata Banerjee nor any leader of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) has publicly articulated it, the top brass of West Bengal’s ruling party — a breakaway of the now disintegrated Congress party which led India to independence from British rule 72 years ago — is viewing the Coronavirus aka Covid-19 threat sweeping the country, […]
With all 62,303 k-12 schools in Tamil Nadu (pop.72 million) shut down since March 16, prior to the national lockdown decreed by the Central government on March 25 due to the danger posed by the Coronavirus pandemic, the state government has announced promotion of 7 million classes I-IX children to the next grade without their having to write […]
Maharashtra’s five-months-old three-party (Shiv Sena, Congress and Nationalist Congress) Maha Vikas Aaghadi (MVA) government is under fire for having pressed ahead to complete the school-leaving exams of the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE) until March 21, despite
the state government itself having issued ‘work from home’ orders to industry and ordering shutdown of all […]
Last December after final year students of the Central government-funded Delhi University (DU) wrote their fifth semester exam, the results, under normal circumstances, would have been declared in end January (2020). But owing to a combination of unforeseen circumstances — the national lockdown on March 25 following the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic, and a prolonged university teachers strike that began on December […]
The breakout of the global Coronavirus, aka COVID-19, pandemic has brought education systems around the world to a grinding halt with lockdowns and stay-at-home orders prompting mass closure of education institutions. In India, since the March 25 mandatory nationwide lockdown, all teaching, assessment and evaluation work in education institutions has been adversely impacted and in most cases deferred. All major examinations, including public entrance exams such as […]
The cover story ‘Union Budget 2020-21: Small change for human capital development’ (EW March) highlights the step-motherly treatment of Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman to education. While defence, corporate and middle-class subsidies enjoy undeserved priority, human resource development is an unwanted orphan.
The Draft National Education Policy (NEP) 2019 provides a visionary blueprint that sets out the template for liberal education and holistic development of […]
The outbreak of the coronavirus aka Covid-19 disease is essentially the revenge of animal species against humankind. As detailed by Prof. Yuval Noah Harari in his best-seller book Homo Deus (2017), unspeakable cruelty against nature and animals has been committed in the process of mankind asserting its dominance on Planet Earth.
In particular, during the past half century since invention of […]
Although the three-week national lockdown of the Indian economy ordered by the Central government on March 25 is undoubtedly well intentioned, it is likely to prove a good prescription overdose — a cure that’s worse than the disease, in the memorable phrasea of US President Donald Trump. During the past three months since it claimed […]
This letter is being written from our editorial office in Bangalore on the tenth day after the March 25 national lockdown proclaimed by the Central government following the global outbreak of the novel Coronavirus aka, Covid-19 pandemic. During this period of disruption and enforced idleness, the EW team has been fully engaged in putting this issue together, despite […]
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Making NIRF more credible
Dr. R. Natarajan is former director of IIT-Madras and former chairman of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)
In mid-February China’s ministries of education and science and technology jointly issued a notification to reform the academic evaluation system to reduce “excessive reliance on the Science Citation and Social Science Citation indices” as key indicators for “academic […]