Regretably as the Expert Comment column (written by Dr. Neeraj Kaushal of Columbia University, USA) in this issue of EducationWorld highlights, the teachers community in India doesnt enjoy a good reputation. Several studies and surveys have confirmed that on any given school day, 25 percent of government school teachers countrywide dont show up for work. […]
Cautiously but inexorably, historic ideological barriers and hurdles impeding close educa-tion — particularly higher education — collaboration between the worlds oldest and most populous democracies are being dismantled. The Indo-US Educa-tion Council is looming increasingly large on the agendas of the two coun-tries, and theres a distinct possibility of prime minister Dr. Manmohan Singhs recent […]
The reputation of Bangalore University (BU, estb. 1964), already muddied by consistently falling teaching-learning and research standards, crumbling infrastructure and persistent government interference, was further muddied in mid-November. An ugly confrontation with caste overtones brought students out on the streets in protest on November 16, and halted all classes in one of Asias largest universities […]
“We must find ways of attracting the best talent as faculty in our premier institutions. We today face difficulty in finding top level professors and lecturers in the newly created IITs, IISERs and other such insti-tutions. This state of affairs cannot be allowed to persist and I urge all of you to work to address […]
After graduation I plan to enrol in an MBA programme with specialisation in human resources (HR). Do all business schools offer HR as a specialisation? What are my career prospects in this field?Nalini Sawant, Pune
All prominent B-schools offer HR as a specialisation. With manage-ment of human capital becoming increasingly important in all organi-sations, demand […]
Armoogum Parsuramen is the new head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco, estb. 1945) in New Delhi, supervising this highly-respected bodys operations in India, Bhutan, Maldives and Sri Lanka.Beginning his tenure in the national capital in September with a flurry of activity, on November 16 Parsuramen flagged off Unescos 64th anniversary […]
Ghaziabad-based Manoj Kumar Gohil, screenplay writer and theatre artist, made his directorial debut this year with Accept Me, a film on albinism, an inherited group of disorders resulting in the absence or decreased production of melanin, the colouring pigment present in the skin, hair and eyes.The 144 seconds silent film which took only a day […]
Americas Harvard University remains top of the Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings for the sixth year running. But the UKs University of Cambridge is now second, pushing Yale University into third place. Fourth place is taken by University College London, up from seventh last year. Fifth place is shared by Imperial College London, up […]
And what was the minotaur? The ten-year-olds scribble their answer onto tiny whiteboards and hold them up for the teacher to see. Once each has got a nod, they repeat together: half-man, half-bull.By the time these fifth-graders at the Basis School in Scottsdale, Arizona, reach 8th grade they will have the option of taking Advanced […]
School textbooks in China have a habit of bending the truth to suit Communist Party dogma or to reinforce moral messages. Rarely does anyone challenge them. Exams require rote learning, and children are not encouraged to question received wisdom. A group of 20 or so teachers from across China, however, has recently caused a stir […]
Arab world falling behind issue of science, the weekly journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, was devoted to research into ‘Ardi or Ardipithecus ramidus, a 4.4 million-year-old hominid species whose discovery deepens understanding of human evolution. These latest studies suggest, among other things, that rather than descending from a closely related […]
A new report by the UN Childrens Fund (Unicef) says most children in Bangladesh are subject to physical abuse at school, at home or where they work. The study entitled Opinions of Children of Bangladesh on Corporal Punishment covered nearly 4,000 families and was published on October 8.In all regards, the children of Bangladesh are […]
Indian Institute of Technology Madras’ (IIT Madras) Centre of Excellence for Road Safety (CoERS) has launched a landmark ‘Data Driven Hyperlocal Intervention’ (DDHI) programme to .....Read More
At least five people, including three children, were killed and several others injured in a suicide attack on a school bus in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan .....Read More
