The Rajasthan state government signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Vedanta Foundation and Hindustan Zinc under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (Education for All) programme on July 16. Under the terms of the MoU, the foundation and the company will provide e-content to 482 government primaries which will benefit 50,000 children per […]
Incredibly, but entirely in keeping with the national habit of ignoring mountainous problems while focusing on political trivia, the United Nations World Population Day (July 11) came and went almost totally ignored in the worlds second most populous (1.18 billion) and demo-graphically fastest growing country. According to projections made by the Washington-based Population Reference Bureau, […]
The eagerly awaited — and feared — verdict of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) against La Martiniere for Boys School, Kolkata (estb. 1836) in the Rouvanjit Rawla corporal punishment case, which resulted in this 13-year-old class VIII student of the school allegedly committing suicide at home on February 12, was delivered […]
“Once this Act (Right to Education Act) is enforced, any child will have to be allowed into school and share the classroom with your child… another child could beat up your child, smoke on the campus, misbehave with a girl or a teacher, and the school will have to watch helplessly.”
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The Delhi-based Pearson Education India — a subsidiary of Pearson Education, UK, a global leader in integrated education publishing — launched its first ‘Online Bookstore with retail partner, VRVBookshop in Mumbai on July 28. The online bookstore will offer the complete catalogue of all Pearson Education Indias books, including books published under the Addison Wesley, […]
– Lina Ashar, founder-chairperson of Kangaroo Kids Education Ltd, a trans-national organisation with pre-schools and K-12 institutions in 18 cities across India, Dubai and the Maldives.
“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of […]
Early childhood education (ECE) programmes in India range from formal pre-primary education offered in pre-schools, to informal and home-based activities. ECE programmes are run by private individuals, NGOs, corporates and franchisees.At present, early childhood education in India is in a state of flux. The recently enacted Right to Education Act guarantees free and compulsory education […]
Im interested in a career in automobile design, after completing class XII (science) in 2012. Please advise.Shailesh Rane, Pune
You should do well enough in your Plus Two exam to qualify for admission into the bachelor of product design programme offered by NID, Ahmedabad (www.nid.edu) or Symbiosis Institute of Design (www.symbiosis design.ac.in) or MAEERs Institute […]
On playing fields and sports arenas, the quality of leadership is as critical to success as it is in politics, business and education. Great captains and leaders can inspire, motivate and galvanise average players and athletes into performing like champions and winners. The role and duties of leader have to be discharged at some time […]
A heavyweight — and undoubtedly welcome — advertiser on several national 24×7 English language news channels, the Noida-based Sharda University (SU, estb.2009) is riding high on the professional education boom. One of the new genre private universities empowered by state government legislation, SU is the brain child of Pradeep Kumar Gupta (44), a first generation […]
Globalisation has driven governments to give higher education a greater share of education spending in a search for skilled labour — cutting primary educations share as a result. That is the thesis set out in a paper by Thushyanthan Baskaran, an economist at the University of Heidelberg, and Zohal Hessami, a lecturer at the University […]
A major European union-funded project attempting to overcome the problems of validity and rigour in university rankings has fallen at the first hurdle, according to a paper published in end June. The European Commission has launched two new ranking projects, U-Map and U-Multirank, aimed at reflecting the diversity of universities.The paper, drawn up for the […]
School-leaving examination stress and the scramble to make it into the countrys much-too-few excellent colleges is not a peculiarly Indian phenomenon. For millions of Chinese teenagers awaiting the outcome of their final high school exams, known as the gaokao (literally high-test) for university entrance, written in June, papers are as tough and stakes as high. […]
International recruiters in china are fed up with the Australian governments attitude to immigration and are directing students to the US and UK instead, according to an Australian agent, John Findley. According to Findley, Australia is becoming less popular because of its exchange rate, high tuition fees, less attractive commissions for agents and the greater […]
Karnataka’s School Education Minister Madhu Bangarappa on Wednesday said that the education department will impart sex education for students between Classes eight and 12. The .....Read More
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