Against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic and forced national/ state lockdowns which have accentuated the infirmities of India’s failing K-12 education system, we present recommendations of selected school leaders on ways and means to reinvent K-12 education in the post-Covid era – Summiya Yasmeen
The global Covid-19 pandemic and forced national/state lockdowns have highlighted the […]
One of the world’s most influential voices on higher education policy says tuition fees should be cut after coronavirus lockdowns removed the key reason students attend university — to meet top academics, mingle with interesting fellow students and to have a “great experience”.
Andreas Schleicher, director for education and skills at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation […]
Of the 1.5 billion children forced out of school by lockdowns around the globe, 700 million are in developing countries. Like pupils in rich countries, their education is suffering. But the consequences in poor places will be far worse. Before the pandemic, more children were in school than ever before, according to Robert Jenkins, head […]
In his four years as UK’s education secretary, Michael Gove has learned that no subject on the curriculum is as contentious as history. As he acknowledged in a speech in 2013, it can be an “ideological battleground” for “contending armies”. In the past few months, UK’s history wars have spilled onto the streets. Revisionism has […]
China has taken a much more assertive — some would say aggressive — global position in recent months as it defends itself against criticism on a host of issues, from the handling of the initial coronavirus outbreak to scrutiny of its technology companies and research ties. Stuck in the middle are its students, who may […]
Last year Kiana Jones took a summer job at a trampoline park, supervising birthday parties and keeping an eye out for overzealous bouncers. This season Ms Jones, an undergraduate in Tennessee, is spending seven weeks in a community centre drilling children in reading and maths. She is one of around 600 locals swiftly assembled by […]
US university leaders have been accused of “suffering from magical thinking” about their hopes of reopening campuses this autumn, as coronavirus cases surge across the country. Institutions have been forced to dial back plans to resume in-person teaching and to cut tuition fees as the US hits new records of over 50,000 infections per day, […]
Siddharth Mathur is director of the Mumbai-based National Academy of Science and Creative Arts Llp (NASCA, estb.2017, headcount: 60) which offers a unique hands-on STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) curriculum mapped with national and international boards to schools in India. Over the past three years since it was promoted, 48,000 students in […]
Praveen Tyagi is the Mumbai-based managing director of PACE (estb.1999) and co-founder (with Jatin Solanki) and CEO of EduIsFun Technologies Pvt. Ltd (ETPL, estb.2015). Involved with Indian education for the past 22 years, Tyagi is the driving force behind PACE’s good track record in preparing school-leavers for admission into the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) […]
Eminent educationist and former ISRO scientist Dr. Yogeshwar Kosta is the Rajkot (Gujarat)-based vice chancellor of Marwadi University (MU, estb.2016). Sprawled across a 52-acre world-class campus, this greenfield soft-launched private university provides 22 undergrad, postgrad and doctoral study programmes in engineering, law, science, business management, computer applications, pharmacy and physiotherapy to 9,000 — including […]
– Sarvesh Shrivastava is founder and managing director of Eupheus Learning, Delhi
In a country that produces millions of mint-new graduates, the ‘demographic dividend’ has yet to be encashed. In this situation, radical overhaul of the conventional education system has become an urgent national priority
When Ginni Rometty, chairman, president and CEO of IBM, visited India […]
Formulated after an interregnum of 34 years and crafted over four years following recommendations of two high-powered committees, the new education policy aroused great expectations. But NEP 2020 is an amalgam of high rhetoric clouded by implementation uncertainty because of its conspicuous failure to make a clean break from bureaucratic control-and-command – Dilip Thakore
The great […]
A class VIII student of St. Michael’s School, Siliguri — ranked among West Bengal’s Top 3 co-ed boarding schools in the latest EW India School Rankings 2019-20 — Shrivalli Ghosh (13) is national champion of the Classmate Spelling Bee Season 12. The first, second and third runners up were students of DPS, Ghaziabad, Army […]
Bangalore-based teenager Nikhil Ramachandran (17) offers a ray of hope in the grim era when the coronavirus outbreak has taken more than 600,000 lives worldwide. Nikhil claims he has developed an anti-viral inorganic polymer — a complex chemical — that can kill the virus.
Conceptualised and developed at an estimated cost of Rs.4 lakh using nano-technology, […]
– Rahul Singh, a former editor of Reader’s Digest, is a member of the Delhi Public Schools Society
EducationWorld will doubtless be covering the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 in all its facets. This column, however, is about one aspect of education, which has come to the fore recently with the physical closure of all schools: […]
Alumni include US Presidents James Madison and Woodrow Wilson and the former first lady Michelle Obama. Currently the university has 5,267 students mentored by 1,289 faculty – Akhila Damodaran
Established almost three centuries ago — 19 years before declaration of the United States of America as a sovereign nation — Princeton University (estb.1746) has matured into […]
Currently celebrating its 31st anniversary, the K-12 Central Public School, Udaipur is ranked among India’s Top 30 co-ed day-cum-boarding schools and # 3 in Rajasthan in the latest EducationWorld India School Rankings 2019-20 – Paromita Sengupta
Sited on an eco-friendly three-acre campus on the banks of River Ayad in Udaipur, Central Public School (CPS, estb.1989) […]
Puducherry, July 1. The decks have been cleared for upgradation of the state-run Pondicherry Engineering College (estb.1980) into a technological university with a Bill passed by the assembly having received presidential assent. The new varsity will be a teaching, research and affiliating university which will also facilitate and promote technology incubation and product innovation, says […]
“I always say it is intellectually lazy for people to advocate herd immunity, because basically it is giving up. It is saying we do not want to work hard on this, we know it is a problem, let us just let everybody get sick and lots of people die. I don’t think that should be […]
The third National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 approved by the Union Cabinet headed by prime minister Narendra Modi after four years of preparation on July 29, replacing the 34-year-old National Policy on Education legislated in 1986 by prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, has elicited mixed reactions across the country.
In West Bengal (pop. 91 million), the policy […]
Responding to insistent demand, an ordinance providing a 7.5 percent reserved quota in Tamil Nadu’s 41 government and private medical colleges for students of state government higher secondary schools who top the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for admission into the country’s 542 medical colleges, was issued on July 14
According to a government […]
With Karnataka’s 49,855 government schools shuttered for five months following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the state’s education ministry issued an order on July 25 directing the Karnataka Text Book Society (KTBS) to reduce the prescribed state board syllabus for the academic year 2020-21, which began in June, by 30 percent.
Addressing the media, […]
There is growing opposition within Maharashtra’s students and parents communities against a UGC (University Grants Commission) July 6 order directing universities to conduct final year exams of affiliated colleges for the academic year 2019- 20 by end-September. With Maharashtra recording the highest number of Covid-19 positive cases in India — 441,000 and […]
On the day (August 5) when the United Nations confirmed that the education of more than 1.5 billion children in 160 countries including India, has been severely disrupted and endangered by the Covid-19 pandemic and that in developing countries, an estimated 50 million may drop out of education permanently, India’s pre-pandemic affirmative action initiative […]
Your cover story ‘Neta-babu brotherhood destroying private education’ (EW July) is overdue and timely. Although government animosity towards private schools — which provide education to half of India’s school-going children — is several decades old, it has become more blatant in the Covid-19 era.
Several state governments are making the most of this unprecedented crisis to […]
It’s easy and normative to dismiss as a case of just desserts, the suspicious gunning down by policemen of gangster Vikas Dubey on July 10 in Kanpur, where a week earlier he had reportedly killed eight policemen in a late night ambush. Such encounter killings — police personnel gunning down suspected criminals on grounds of […]
The private schools in India report (PSIR) 2020, jointly released by the Delhi-based Central Square Foundation and Omidyar Network India on July 22 proclaims — for the first time — the huge contribution that India’s much maligned private schools have made to the national development effort.
The official line supported by the academy and media […]
The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 presented to the nation on July 29 after an interregnum of 34 years, expresses determined intent to revamp and universalise early childhood and primary-secondary education by 2030. In higher education, it has set the goal of doubling GER (gross enrolment ratio) from the current 25.7 to 50 percent of […]
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Edtech can empower NEP 2020
– Roshan Gandhi is director of strategy, City Montessori School, Lucknow and an international edtech consultant
The education sector is abuzz with analyses of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 released on July 29 to a flurry of excited and disappointed commentary nationwide. The new policy contains much that is praiseworthy — its forward-thinking advocacy […]