“Not reading specific ideas or text can be a layman’s way of dealing with contrarian thoughts. The academic style of demolishing an idea is by presenting a more logical and robust theory or idea.”
Dilip Mandal, senior journalist, on Delhi University’s proposal to drop three books written by Dalit activist Kancha Ilaiah from its MA syllabus […]
Mumbai, november 27. Renowned as one of Britain’s best universities for teacher education, the University of Worcester (UK) has teamed up with former Bollywood star and educationist Dr. Swaroop Sampat-Rawal — an alumna of UoW — to offer its in-service teacher training programmes in India. A diploma programme in personal social education will be launched […]
Over the past three months, more than 100 field personnel of the Delhi-based market research and opinion polls company C fore interviewed 8,245 sample respondents including SEC (socio-economic category) ‘A’ parents, preschool principals and teachers to rate and rank proprietary and franchised pre-primaries separately in 16 cities countrywide – Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen
Nineteen years […]
With its liberal outward looking culture and capability to quickly adopt best industry and business practices, India’s commercial capital was also quick to take to professionally administered early childhood care and education
India’s commercial capital and the country’s most respected epicentre of business and finance, the western seaboard city of Mumbai, aka Bombay (pop. 18 million), […]
In this booming metro which retains some of its charm in several wards and suburbs, a multiplying number of new genre internationally benchmarked preschools have sprung up to meet the demand of its expanding middle class population. Here are Bangalore’s best preschools 2018-19
Widely known as the Silicon Valley of India for the several large multinational IT […]
Field personnel of the Delhi-based C fore interviewed 563 well-informed parents of preschool children and 67 principals/teachers in Noida to rate and rank 22 pre-primaries in the proprietary/owned and franchised categories across ten parameters of ECCE excellence. Here are Noida’s best preschools 2018-19.
The New Okhla Industrial Development Authority aka Noida, sited in the Gautam Buddha Nagar […]
With rising awareness of the vital importance of high-quality ECCE within Delhi’s expanding middle class, C fore field researchers interviewed 755 sample respondents (preschool parents, principals and teachers) to rate and rank 41 sufficiently well-known proprietary and 25 franchised preschools in the national capital
Awareness of the critical importance of professionally administered early childhood care and […]
Fortunately the ECCE sector has been spared the heavy hand of government interference which has ruined K-12 and higher education institutions of West Bengal. Therefore insulated from government regulation, preschools dispensing good, bad and indifferent ECCE are flourishing in the City of Joy
Though the number of pre-primaries (39) ranked in the eastern metropolis of Kolkata […]
To meet the demand for high-quality early childhood education from Gurgaon’s growing pool of professionals employed in the manufacturing, IT/ITES among other industries, new-age pre-primaries have proliferated in this satellite city
Since 1981 when Maruti Suzuki Ltd, India’s #1 automobile company established its first manufacturing unit in Gurgaon (pop.876,900), this satellite city of Delhi — sited […]
Grudging budgetary support disables India’s 1.4 million anganwadis from providing proper early childhood care and education to India’s 84 million children in the age group 0-5 years from poorest households
In 1976, former prime minister Indira Gandhi launched the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) programme under which anganwadis — essentially nutrition centres for lactating mothers and […]
Given its historical error of neglecting English language learning, there’s rising clamour within middle class households in Gujarat for privately provided early childhood care and education. Here are Ahmedabad’s best preschools 2018-19.
The western seaboard state of Gujarat (pop. 60.4 million), where prime minister Narendra Modi served as chief minister for three consecutive terms before leading […]
With 33 percent of its residents under the age of 30, Pune is the third largest provider of hi-tech jobs after Bangalore and Delhi. Therefore it’s experiencing a high demand surge for professionally administered early childhood care and education
With India’s Silicon Valley, Bangalore, reaching near saturation point in terms of road infrastructure and affordable office […]
Over the past decade this de facto capital of Telangana and de jure capital of Andhra Pradesh has witnessed an upsurge in the promotion of internationally benchmarked pre-primaries to meet growing demand from new-age industry professionals. Here are Hyderabad’s most admired preschools 2018-19.
The administrative capital of India’s newest state of Telangana (estb.2014) and de jure […]
To enable the city’s middle class parents to select the most suitable preschools for their children, C fore field personnel interviewed 622 preschool parents and 75 principals/teachers in Chennai to rate and rank 55 proprietary and franchised pre-primaries
Households in the southern city of Chennai (pop. 9.8 million) have always placed a high premium on good […]
Vadodara-based Rishiraj Behki (12) is a member of Team Zepto Rira-Heartz which cleared a rigorous elimination round in September to be crowned national champion. As such, the youngster will represent India at the World Robot Olympiad (WRO), scheduled to be staged (at the time of writing) from November 16-18 in Chiang Mai (Thailand). Teams […]
Varanasi-based Vishal Tripathi, a research scholar at the Institute of Environmental and Sustainable Development of Banaras Hindu University (BHU), is among 25 scholars worldwide awarded the prestigious Green Talent Award 2018 of the ministry of education of the Federal Republic of Germany. The annual Green Talent competition is organised to encourage youth around the world […]
Ahmedabad, November 3. Three lakh first-year college students across Gujarat will be given tablet computers christened ‘Namo e-tab’ valued at Rs.11,000 each at a token sum of Rs.1,000 for the second consecutive year. Chief minister Vijay Rupani made this announcement in a recent address to Gujarat Technological University students.
“The objective is to enhance students’ […]
In the western seaboard state of Maharashtra — India’s most industrialised state — the tuition fees of government and private aided schools are prescribed annually by the state government. In 2011, against the backdrop of parents complaining against arbitrary fee hikes by the state’s private unaided schools, the state government enacted the Maharashtra Educational Institutions […]
After an interregnum of six years, the Delhi-based Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE, estb.1962) — the country’s largest pan-India school examination board — issued revised affiliation and regulatory byelaws for its 20,299 affiliated schools in October.
Revision of the board’s byelaws (first notified in 1988 and revised in 2012) was ordered by its parent Union […]
The official claim of the bjp-led NDA coalition government at the Centre is that the 7 percent-plus annual GDP growth of the Indian economy is the highest worldwide. This claim is confirmed by the prestigious London-based weekly, The Economist, although it’s not clear whether this confirmation is based on its own independent assessment, or the […]
Completion of construction of the 182 metre (597 ft)-high Statue of Unity — the world’s tallest and twice the height of the Statue of Liberty in New York harbour — in Gujarat in commemoration of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (1875-1950) at a massive cost of Rs.3,000 crore is a belated, even if not fitting, tribute to […]
Perhaps the most heartbreaking injustice that has been visited upon the citizens of free India is the open, continuous and uninterrupted neglect of its youngest children. The statistics are grim and pitiful. Of the country’s 164 million children under age five, 48 percent suffer severe malnutrition and are in danger of stunting and brain damage. […]
The dawn of the knowledge economy era has brought research universities to centrestage. Apart from disseminating knowledge and providing higher education, universities discharge a pivotal social role and contribute significantly to the national development effort. Moreover, research universities contribute to culture, technology and society and facilitate global linkages. Little wonder that all major World University […]
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel: India’s iron man, Balraj Krishna, Rupa publications; Rs.995, Pages 316
One of the profound injustices of post-independence India is that the huge role played by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (1875-1950), an important member of the triumvirate or trimurti of Gandhi, Nehru and Patel in the freedom movement, has been obfuscated and obscured.
It’s important to remember that […]
A flood of memories relating to one of the greatest entrepreneurs of post-independence India rushed through your editor’s mind on November 26, which was half-heartedly celebrated as National Milk Day in memory of the late Dr. Verghese Kurien (1921-2012), promoter-chairman of the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd (GCMMF) and the National Dairy Development Board […]
Undoubtedly, considerable discomfiture is being experienced by former Hindi television news anchor Vinod Dua whose news and current affairs video show on The Wire platform has been suspended indefinitely following his “trivialisation” of sexual harassment charges pertaining to 1989 made against him by Nishitha Jain, a film producer.
Jain recently outed Dua for stalking and attempting […]
India’s democracy experiment and especially the ill-advised decision to introduce universal adult franchise without any education qualification, has enabled the worst elements of urban and rural elites — a lumpen bourgeoisie driven entirely by self-interest and aggrandisement — to rise to the highest offices of the nation.
If not, how does one explain that as soon […]
On November 5, a Karnataka state government order has notified ten of the country’s 29 major languages for the purposes of qualifying as linguistic minority-promoted primary schools. They are Urdu, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Marathi, Tulu, Lamani, Hindi, Konkani and Gujarati.
For the country’s 320,000 privately promoted schools, the religious or linguistic minority tag confers several advantages. […]
Linguistically proud dravidian governments which have ruled the south-eastern seaboard state of Tamil Nadu (pop. 72 million) since the mid-1960s, after the disastrous attempt of the then almighty Congress party to impose “Hindi imperialism” on the southern states proved a dismal failure, have continued since then to insist on Tamil being the compulsory first language, […]
Born 20 years ago in 1998, the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) is the only Indian National Congress breakaway party to experience steady political success. It has twice formed governments in West Bengal (pop. 91 million) and its supremo Mamata Banerjee has been a Union cabinet minister three times in her political career of 25 […]
Congratulations on completing 19 years of uninterrupted publishing and producing a splendid 19th anniversary issue. I fully agree with your analysis that the Narendra Modi-led BJP/NDA government has failed to fulfill its education promises.
Your critique of the government’s demonetisation initiative is also accurate. Demonetisation failed to achieve its primary objective of unearthing black money. It […]
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Building world-class universities
India’s aspirations to build world-class universities that promote excellence in teaching, research and knowledge creation are as overdue as they are laudable. The early history of higher education institutions in India and the contribution of Indian civilisational heritage to the world is truly remarkable.
Against this backdrop, there is palpable disappointment that contemporary India doesn’t host […]