The blame for the triple coordinated bomb blasts triggered by yet unidentified terrorist groups in Mumbai on July 13, which has taken a toll of 24 lives and inflicted severe injuries, shock and trauma upon 131 lay citizens, must be laid squarely at the door of the scams-tainted Congress-led UPA-II government which has lost its […]
Your cover story on the affordable schools gold rush (EW July) was an enlightening read. Congratulations to Rumi Education for taking the lead in reaching out to ‘middle-of-the-pyramid private schools which offer quality schooling at affordable prices. In fact public demand for private schools offering tuition at Rs.500-1,000 per month is much higher than your […]
Achieving expansion, equity and excellence in higher and technical education through increased public spending, private initiatives and institutional and policy reform were objectives of the Eleventh Plan (2007-12). But now in the final year of the Plan, its clear none of these objectives have been meaningfully attained. Policy formu-lation has been piecemeal, lacking consensus and […]
Despite the haphazard planning, noise, poor infrastructure, abysmal vehicular traffic management, ubiquitous slums, pavement-dwellers and sheer chaos interspersed with a few islands of cleanliness and order which are defining characteristics of Indias half a dozen metropolitan mega-cities and 7,900 other cities and towns, schools of architecture and planning have been churning out graduates for over […]
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are — Ara Parseghian, former football coach.In my many years as a nba player and coach, I have heard genuinely interested and committed teachers lament, Some students are totally unmotivated. They simply dont care. They are good kids, but […]
Lt. Gen. (Retd) Arjun Ray, PVSM and VSM — a much decorated and admired leader of the Indian Army — culminated his long career (1963-2002) in the defence services by conceptualising Operation Sadbhavana which pioneered army-people contact through the use of civilian volunteers in Ladakh. In 2002, he took premature retirement from the Indian Army […]
Naveen Parak (30) and Manish Dongra (40) are co-founders of Aniguru Animation Pvt. Ltd, a Hyderabad-based company offering first-of-a-kind animation education and training programmes for K-12 schools in India. Promoted in June last year, Aniguru is the sole Indian education licencee of Toon Boom Animation Inc, a Canada-based Emmy award-winning animation software production com-pany which […]
Yale Universitys old campus is a genteel assortment of Gothic, Gothic-revival and Georgian architecture circling a graceful lawn, with a flash of Tiffany stained glass. It was also here, in the black chill of an early autumn night this academic year, that the quiet was punctuated by a single line of young men in white […]
Decades of war and international sanctions have turned Iraq into one of the worst countries for children in the Middle East and North Africa, with around 3.5 million living in poverty, 1.5 million under the age of five malnourished and 100 infants dying every day, warns the UN Childrens Fund (Unicef).It is the responsibility of […]
The origins of Activity Based Learning (ABL) pedagogy can be traced to David Horsburgh, a British Royal Air Force officer posted in India during World War II. Stationed in Chittagong, East Bengal (now Bangladesh), Horsburgh was enchanted by the regions idyllic village schools set amidst paddy fields, and returned to India after the war to […]
Urvi Pansari is a Grade 12 student of Ecole Globale International Girls’ School, Dehradun. She also serves as the Head Girl. Having chosen the Commerce .....Read More
Mita Mukherjee Heads of state-aided colleges in Bengal have urged the state higher education department to start the process of admission of students to undergraduate .....Read More