EducationWorld August 11

Urban population set to almost double in 20 years

Of the current urban population of 350 million, 70 million are poor

Indias urban population will increase by 300 million in 30 years

In 2031, three of the ten largest mega-cities in the world will be […]

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 […]