EducationWorld December 2022

Mukeshbhai R. Patel Military School & Junior College: Preparing students to Lead and Succeed

– Dineshkumar Rana, Principal, Mukeshbhai R Patel Military School & Junior College, Shirpur

Located 12 km from Shirpur city of Dhule district, Maharashtra, Mukeshbhai R. Patel Military School & Junior College (estb.2003) is a well-reputed residential education institution that offers students a diverse and challenging curriculum. A grant-in-aid school of the Government of Maharashtra, the school […]

Delhi Public School, Azaad Nagar: Holistic development focus

Delhi Public School, Azaad Nagar is one of the most prestigious and prominent educational institutions of Kanpur that aspires to shape young individuals into potential achievers through development of their intellectual, social, physical and creative faculties. Each child gets to discover their true calling through a systematically crafted pedagogy aided by a plethora of avenues […]

Importance of School Education

– Harinder Chhabra, Director, The Infinity School, Greater Noida West

What is the objective of school education?

Success in life, whichever way we define it, depends on how, outside of a formal education system, we can keep ourselves on a path of sustained learning and development. The objective of 15 years of school education therefore should be […]

A launch pad for new age business leaders

Dr CS Shylajan, Dean, ICFAI Business School Hyderabad

ICFAI Business School (IBS) Hyderabad is one of the largest business schools in Asia. It has been consistently ranked among the leading business schools in India. It has earned international accreditation from the prestigious AACSB international in February 2020 for three of its programs –BBA, MBA and PhD. […]

Collaborative learning: A life skill

– Saurabh Modi, Founder-Chairman, Neerja Modi School, Jaipur

One of the foremost tenets of today’s classrooms is collaborative learning, which involves making students work in small groups to collaborate on projects, answer problems, and learn from one another.

The principle of collaborative learning or skill building is not new; a significant amount of the early research […]

EW India Budget Private School Rankings 2022-23

Left academics and intellectuals excoriate them as profiteering enterprises exploiting the poor and gullible. Yet India’s unique budget private schools which provide low-priced education to children of aspirational lower middle and working class households have played a very important role in the half-hearted national development effort, writes Dilip Thakore

IN THE LEXICON OF LEFT academics and […]

Girl power compendium

In this book published by the Malala Fund established by Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai, girl children who have struggled to acquire education write first-hand accounts

WHENEVER I imagine war, images of the aftermath come to mind. Everything is scattered and I can see only people and things that have somehow survived bombings. I can feel the […]

Mythology influence

RENOWNED mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik has selected 72 tales, mainly from India’s rich mythology, and used them as a canvas on which to paint the 21st century.

THE STORIES WE TELL: MYTHOLOGY TO MAKE SENSE OF MODERN LIVES
Devdutt Pattanaik
ALEPH BOOK COMPANY
Rs.499 Pages 199

This collection of engaging anecdotes originates from Pattanaik’s webcast Teatime Tales. Why […]

Seth Anandram Jaipuria School, Ghaziabad, provides global learning experience with Cambridge curriculum

In line with its progressive vision to provide learners with holistic development in a global context, Seth Anandram Jaipuria School, Ghaziabad, has adopted the Cambridge International Curriculum that will run concurrently with the CBSE curriculum in the new academic session 2023-24.

This thoughtfully planned move makes the school an important part of the world’s largest international […]

Second fiddle editors

FIFTY YEARS AGO, INDIA’S FREE PRESS WAS indeed the fourth estate of the Republic. Powerful editors such as Frank Moraes, Sham Lal, Girilal Jain, Khushwant Singh and C.R. Irani strode the national stage. However in 1975, when prime minister Indira Gandhi declared India’s first — and thus far only — State of Emergency and imposed […]

Civic dead horses

UBIQUITOUS POTHOLES; MONSOON FLOODING; traffic jams and gridlocks; power and water shortages; runaway omnibuses; no parking space; itchy-palmed traffic policemen and municipal corporation employees. To that list add noxious air quality and millions of viruses looking for warm bodies. The weight of evidence is overwhelming: 21st century India’s chaotic, ill-governed cities are in meltdown.

As slums […]

Atonement & absolution

THERE’S NO SHORTAGE OF MARXIST AND socialist intellectuals within Indian academia ready, willing and able to argue that European powers of 18-19th centuries plundered and pillaged third world countries so thoroughly — the Indian subcontinent in particular — that we haven’t been able to recover our pre-colonial glory and momentum. These faux intellectuals conveniently forget […]

Effective financial management in hard times

It’s equally important to examine financial challenges confronting India’s private schools because 48 percent of the country’s children — and all middle-class children — are enroled in them

THE 82-WEEK LOCKDOWN OF SCHOOLS countrywide during the Covid-19 pandemic accentuated the fragility and brittleness of India’s K-12 education system. Questions have arisen not just about how education […]

EW India Preschool Rankings 2022-23

The objective of EWIPR 2022-23 is to enable young parents to choose suitable pre-primaries for their children, and introduce a spirit of healthy competition between preschools and stimulate their managements to improve under all parameters of pre-primary education excellence, writes Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen

SUSTAINED NEGLECT OF EARLY childhood care and education (ECCE) has been […]

Environment education for Google-savvy children

19th Anniversary Essay

NCFFS 2022: Ghost of early literacy

EARLIER THIS YEAR WE LOST INDIA’S stalwart campaigner for sane policies that affect little children’s education. If Mina Swaminathan were around and active, I wouldn’t have ventured to critique the recently presented (October 20) National Curriculum Framework for Foundational Stage (NCFFS) 2022.

NCFFS aims to integrate anganwadis with early primary classes. The stated purpose of this […]

Education Briefs

St. Gobain-IIM-A concordat

Ahmedabad, november 16. Saint- Gobain India — a subsidiary of the Paris-based St. Gobain — has signed an MoU with IIM-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) to conduct a study titled ‘Creating Biodiversity Habitat at the IIM-A campus’. The MoU has been facilitated with the support of the IIM-A Endowment Fund, a dedicated philanthropic and fund […]

Education Notes

JHARKHAND

Room to Read project

Ranchi, november 5. Students of government primary schools across the state will soon have access to child-friendly libraries to develop the reading habit and enhance learning capabilities, said Kiran Kumari Pasi, director of the Jharkhand Education Project Council (JEPC).

In association with Room to Read, a San Francisco (USA)-based non-profit working for […]

Happy Minds International

The Day Care Centres and Preschools Are Operating In Full Swing Post Pandemic!

COVID is settling with time and so is life returning to normalcy. Certain sectors were badly affected during the pandemic; education was one of these. The pandemic taught each of us a lesson; to be prepared for the worst! Preschools and daycares […]

Tamil Nadu: Early learning caveat

What is the most appropriate age for infants to be inducted into the formal education system? A 13-member committee constituted to formulate a state education policy (SEP), chaired by Justice D. Murugesan, a former chief justice of Delhi high court, is reportedly ready to prescribe a common age for admission into pre-primary learning.

Despite the Right […]

West Bengal: Steep fall

Even as west bengal’s humongous teacher recruitment scam in which bribes aggravating Rs.400-500 crore changed hands is being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the West Bengal Board of Primary Education (WBBPE) has scheduled a new Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) on December 11. This year, 690,931 candidates will write the 150-minutes exam at […]

Karnataka: Education neglect spanner

With the tempo for state legislative assembly elections scheduled for next May building up, Karnataka’s ruling BJP government is pulling out all stops to ensure that it is returned to power in this southern state which is critical for the BJP high command — now in its second term at the Centre — to make […]

Maharashtra: Unwarranted euphoria

Maharashtra — india’s most industrialised state which accounts for almost 25 percent of the country’s annual industrial production — has experienced huge political upheavals in recent times. On June 30, the Shiv Sena, Nationalist Congress Party and Congress coalition government which had assumed office in 2019 was toppled in a coup engineered by the BJP […]

Delhi: Quota upon quotas

In a landmark 3-2 majority judgement delivered on November 7, the Supreme Court of India upheld the 103rd Constitutional Amendment, 2019, under which the BJP government at the Centre introduced additional 10 percent reservation in public higher education institutions (HEIs) and government jobs for economically weaker sections (EWS) from the general category.

To appreciate the historic […]

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Timely cover story

I HAVE been a reader of EducationWorld for over a decade now. Congratulations on your 23rd anniversary issue (EW November). I particularly like the insightful cover story ‘Reviving the lost art of philanthropy and fundraising’.

The number of HNI (high networth individuals) and unicorn companies in India are multiplying rapidly as reported by several […]

Harsh country for little children

In 1957 Jawaharlal Nehru, independent India’s first prime minister, designated November 14 — his birthday — as Children’s Day, because he wanted to “create an atmosphere in the country where the attention is constantly focused on children and their welfare”. Yet in this editorial written on Children’s Day 55 years later, it is the lamentable […]

Reconsider 103rd Amendment Verdict

A recent (November 7) judgment of the Supreme Court upheld the 103rd Amendment to the Constitution. By a three-two majority the learned justices validated a patently politically motivated additional 10 percent reserved quota in higher education institutions and government jobs for economically weaker sections (EWS) from the general category. This apex court verdict requires reconsideration […]

Letter from the Editor

Smooth induction of infants into the education system so they develop genuine love of learning, spirit of enquiry and problem solving capabilities is an issue of utmost importance which has not received the attention it deserves. In the latter half of the 20th century, it was normative practice to start drilling and skilling children to […]