EducationWorld August 10

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.”
Experts from a circular […]

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 […]

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 […]