Against the depressing backdrop of privately promoted schools overwhelmingly preferred by the middle class including low income households, being persecuted countrywide, a positive development is the growth of private chain schools – Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen
Despite the overwhelming majority of post-independence India’s 300 million-strong middle class availing privately provided English-medium school education, its attitude towards […]
The appointment of three Indian origin members of Parliament in the UK as cabinet ministers in the new government of prime minister Boris Johnson has caused considerable heartburn within your editor. As a law student in London over four decades ago, I was fairly active in British politics, first as an office worker for the […]
On the subject of investment in equity shares quoted and traded on the stock exchanges which serve the socially beneficial purpose of channelling the savings of prudent citizens into nation-building enterprises and projects managed by the country’s most competent ‘capitalists’ who can multiply investors’ savings many times over, a caveat emptor warning needs to be […]
When the Narendra Modi-led BJP/NDA alliance was returned to power in New Delhi for a second term with a greater majority in General Election 2019, the general expectation was that the economy was set to experience a prolonged boom. Yet as the newly elected government’s first 100 days in office milestone is about to be […]
“Our objective is to provide students a child-centred, inclusive and broad-based learning environment focused on developing 21st century skills and nurturing confident, competent and responsible global citizens.” – Seema Sapru, Principal, The Heritage School Kolkata
Sited in the fast-expanding suburb of East Kolkata is the 19-acre green campus of The Heritage School (THS, estb. 2001), promoted by the […]
“We are committed to providing our students an enabling and contemporary learning environment to facilitate their holistic personality development through academic, co-curricular, sports, values and spiritual education based on the principles of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo.” – Ranjan Mitter, Principal
Inspired by the philosophy and teachings of Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950) and the Mother (1878-1973), The […]
“Our goal is to empower students with well-balanced 21st century education which blends academic rigour with sports and co-curricular education in a contemporary enabling environment. We are committed to nurturing confident, honest and responsible global citizens.” – A.K. Pansari, Chairman, Royal Global School Guwahati
Promoted by A.K. Pansari and A.K. Modi, co-promoters of Modi Pansari & […]
“We are committed to providing well-balanced education through varied learning experiences with special focus on developing 21st century skills. Our aim is to foster academic excellence by implementing best pedagogies, instilling scientific temper and developing appreciation of art, music and dance and encouraging sports education.” – Monisha Datta, Director of Vantage Hall […]
“Our goal is to create a community of motivated students and teachers deeply engaged in active learning through shared experiences, values and best use of modern technology. We are committed to nurturing lifelong learners and confident and responsible global citizens.” – Robindra Subba, Director Himali Boarding School
Promoted 40 years ago by World […]
“We are committed to providing a safe and supportive environment where children engage and learn according to their interests and capabilities through a wide range of experiences. Our aim is to develop strength of character to nurture responsible global citizens.” – Divya Dwivedi, Principal Unison World School Dehradun
The latest of five education institutions promoted by […]
“We are committed to promoting human values in a joyful and democratic learning environment. Leadership development and educational excellence are at the core of our ethos and our prime objective is to prepare students for life by developing mind, body and spirit.” – Rashid Sharfuddin, Headmaster of Selaqui International School Dehradun.
Promoted in 2000 under the […]
“Our goal is to provide holistic education experiences to develop young men of character and creative minds, with a sense of commitment and compassion for others and the courage to act on their beliefs.” – Bro. Tomy Varghese, Principal St. George’s College Mussoorie
St. George’s College, Mussoorie (SGC, Estd.1853) is one of India’s oldest all-boys […]
“Our goal is to nurture confident, compassionate and competent global citizens and critical thinkers endowed with the life skills to make a difference to society.”- Dr. N.K. Dutta, Founder-principal, Miles Bronson Residential School, Guwahati.
Sited on a 26-acre verdant campus near the Guwahati International Airport, the Miles Bronson Residential School (MBRS) was […]
Carved out of 13 Himalayan districts of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand (pop.10 million) became the 27th state of the Indian Union in November 2000. Divided into the Garhwal and Kumaon regions, Uttarakhand borders Tibet to the north, Nepal to the east, Uttar Pradesh to the south and Himachal Pradesh to the west. Top-ranked Schools of Uttarakhand […]
One of the seven sister states of north-east India, sited in the foothills of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak river valleys, Assam (pop. 30 million) covers an area of 78,438 sq. km. Dispur is its admin capital while Guwahati its cultural, educational and business hub.
The land-locked state’s first English-medium school was established […]
The eastern seaboard state of West Bengal (pop.91 million), currently witnessing a political battle royale between the Trinamool Congress and BJP, is India’s sixth-largest economy with GDP projected at Rs.13.14 lakh crore in 2019-20.
The state’s admin capital Kolkata (pop.14.5 million), formerly Calcutta, is a cosmopolitan metro which served for several years as the capital of […]
An appeal to the world: The way to peace in a time of division, The Dalai Lama (with Fraz Alt), William Collins; Rs.1,622; 172 pp
His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama and revered Buddhist spiritual leader, is one of the most widely-respected voices today for global peace and interfaith understanding. In this book, he […]
Paradise at war: A political history of Kashmir, Radha Kumar, Aleph Book Company; Rs.799; 416 pp
Radha Kumar’s Paradise At War is yet another addition to the large corpus of scholarship on politics. As is par for the course with much of this literature, starting from a discussion on Kashmiri self-understanding of being unique and exceptional, […]
Moves by the Pakistan government to cut higher education funding by 19 percent could prove “disastrous” for universities and harm teaching, research and the well-being of scholars, warn academics. In June, the government presented its first budget since Imran Khan, chairman of the centrist Pakistan Tahreek-i-Insaf Party, came to power last August.
A former international cricket […]
Mbar lifts up his trousers and points at the marks where the chains wore his skin away. He was 11 when his father sent him from his village to a religious school on the outskirts of Senegal’s holy city of Touba. His teacher made him recite passages from the Koran in the morning. Then Mbar […]
Many universities highlight the close interaction between students and faculty as a key element of their student experience. But the Copenhagen Business School (CBS) takes this approach to a whole new level. Each of the institution’s degree programmes has its own ‘study board’ made up of students and academics who collectively make decisions about curriculum […]
India seems set to overtake China as Australia’s top education market in a change of guard with potentially major ramifications for university finances. Growth in the number of Indian students in Australia was five times as fast as expansion of Chinese student numbers in 2018, and Australia hosted just 5,000 more Chinese than Indian students […]
When the Chinese government first sent students to America in the late 19th century, it could not decide whether their goal should be to acquire specific technical knowledge or to absorb new ways of thinking. More than a century later, over 300,000 Chinese students are enrolled in American schools and universities. Yet folks back home […]
The path of British universities opening branch campuses in Asia is a well-trodden one, littered with some successes and a few failures. There is far less travel in the opposite direction — but the dean of a Chinese business school with a UK outpost hopes this move will encourage other mainland institutions to follow in […]
I am sorry to inform my readers that a serious illness prevented me from writing my Letter from London last month, and even more disappointed that this will be my last one ever. Writing this monthly letter has been the greatest joy and honour of my past two years.
In my last despatch, I complimented EW’s […]
In the draft National Education Policy 2019 report submitted by the Kasturirangan Committee to the Union HRD ministry on May 30, the power of the Delhi-based National Council of Educational Research & Training (NCERT) to “shrink the curriculum content in each subject to its core,” has been substantially expanded. […]
A publicly-funded university, University of British Columbia, Canada boasts three former prime ministers of Canada, incumbent PM Justin Trudeau, 71 Rhodes scholars, 256 Royal Society of Canada members and 65 Olympic Games medal winners among its alumni
Spread across two campuses — Vancouver and Okanagan Valley — in Canada, the University of British Columbia, Canada (UBC, […]
The alma mater of Virat Kohli, captain of India’s cricket team, Vishal Bharti Public School, PaschimVihar has earned a good reputation for providing well-balanced, 21st century academic, co-curricular & sports education- Autar Nehru
Nestled within west Delhi’s residential suburb of Paschim Vihar is the 1.5-acre fully air-conditioned campus of the CBSE-affiliated Vishal Bharti Public School (VBPS, […]
Akshat Singh (14), a class X student of Birla Vidya Niketan, Delhi, was recently crowned champion of the Korea-India Friendship Quiz Competition 2019 staged in the national capital on April 24. This early teen outsmarted quizzers from Apeejay School, Amity International School and Delhi Public School among other prominent schools in the National Capital […]
Gurgaon (Haryana)-based Nikita Sahu (17) is creating waves in roller skating — one of India’s fast popularising sports.
In December last year, Nikita was crowned national champion at the 56th National Roller Skating Championship held in Visakhapatnam. This victory came in the wake of her record-setting performances at the 18th Asian Roller Skating Championship staged in […]
Bangalore, July 30. IFIM Business School, Bangalore (estb.1995), one of the few AACSB accredited management institutes in India, in association with the Academy of Indian Marketing (AIM) launched the first-ever index of Service Excellence in India (iSEI) and unveiled the IFIM-AIM Parasuraman Centre of Service Excellence in Bangalore which will function under the guidance of […]
Dholpur, july 1. In an exemplary punitive order, a district collector commuted the sentence of a class IX student found guilty of assaulting and injuring a classmate, to nurture five trees on his school campus for three months.
Neha Giri, district collector of Dholpur who chaired an enquiry committee into the incident at Jawahar Navodaya […]
“…the draft NEP 2019 itself lacks the very abilities it emphasises, namely critical thinking and deeper understanding. It is a badly written document which hides behind a plethora of terms that are half-understood and clubbed under the overarching master concept of “skill”. In short, the policy lacks depth and loses focus of the richness of […]
The constitution (124th Amendment) Bill 2019 passed by the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre on January 9 to provide 10 percent reservation in all government education institutions and jobs for economically weaker sections (EWS) within the upper castes from the academic year 2019-20, has created a furore in Tamil Nadu (pop.72 million). Individuals not […]
Over 50,000 government primary and higher primary school teachers in Karnataka struck work on July 9. They were — and continue — protesting an amendment made by the state government to Rules framed under the Right of Children to Free & Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009, two years ago.
According to Chandrasekar Nuggi, the Bangalore-based general […]
After general election 2019 in which Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) unexpectedly won 18 of the 42 seats allotted to West Bengal in the Lok Sabha, and the number of seats of Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) Party dropped from 34 to 22, a no-holds-barred war has broken out between TMC and a resurgent BJP in […]
The tata institute of social Sciences (TISS, estb.1936) is floundering in a sea of mainly financial troubles. A protest by students at its Hyderabad campus (the institute also has campuses in Mumbai, Tuljapur and Guwahati with an aggregate 4,297 undergrad to doctorate students) which began on July 8 has struck a resonant chord in all […]
Even as the draft national Education Policy (NEP) 2019 report submitted to Union human resource development (HRD) minister Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ on May 31, and the reportedly over 150,000 suggestions made by the public (including EducationWorld), are being closely studied by HRD ministry officials in Shastri Bhavan, Delhi, the indications are that training and […]
There’s no doubt that we live in a sleep-deprived society (‘Is sleep deprivation holding your child back’, PW July). Sadly, this adult disorder is now spreading to children and impacting their physical and emotional health. Children need more than the seven-nine hours of sleep recommended for adults. Signs of sleep deprivation in children are excessive […]
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Expert Comment: Positives of draft NEP 2019
Should India welcome foreign universities and colleges? Against the backdrop of only two of 21st century India’s 39,000 colleges and 1,241 universities ranked among the global Top 200 in the WUR (World University Rankings) of the London-based QS and Times Higher Education, this is a critical question for the country’s youth because they need — […]