A December 27 judgement of the Gujarat high court upholding the Gujarat Self-Financed Schools (Regulation of Fees) Act, 2017 which prescribes absurdly low fees ceilings for all primary, secondary and higher secondary schools, has come as a thunderclap for private independent schools countrywide – Dilip Thakore
For the more clued-up among the managements of India’s 320,000 […]
In 2013 towards the end of its second term in office, the UPA-II government approved a National Early Childhood Care and Education (NECCE) Policy. This was widely welcomed as it reinstated early childhood care and education on the national agenda, especially in light of the exclusion of the 0-6 years period from the Right of […]
The movement to mandate learning of the dominant official language of states as a compulsory subject has acquired momentum again. In 2017, West Bengal, Karnataka and Telangana took measures to make learning of their official vernacular language in all private schools compulsory irrespective of the boards with which schools are affiliated. Similarly, Punjab and Maharashtra […]
In Maharashtra, over 3,000 private independent (unaided) schools have refused to set aside 25 percent capacity for poor children as mandated by s.12 (1) (c) of the Right of Children to Free & Compulsory Education (aka RTE) Act, 2009, until the state government clears the Rs.800 crore outstanding payment due as RTE admission reimbursements for […]
Michael O’Sullivan is chief executive of the Cambridge (UK)-based Cambridge Assessment International Education (CAIE) — formerly known as Cambridge International Examinations (estb.1858) — which has 10,000 schools in 160 countries including 436 primary-secondaries in India affiliated with it. The 160-year-old exams board bills itself as the world’s largest provider of international education programmes and qualifications […]
The 12th Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2017 titled ‘Beyond Basics’ — published by the highly reputed Mumbai-based NGO Pratham — which for the first time focuses on the learning attainments of children in the age group of 14-18 years in 28 districts across 24 states countrywide, has shaken educationists in Tamil Nadu. For […]
Science education evangelist and Ashoka Fellow Lewitt Somarajan is the Pune-based founder and CEO of Life-Lab (estb.2013), an initiative of the Keonjhar (Odisha)-based non-profit WOSCA (Women’s Organisation for Socio-Cultural Awareness), promoted by Dharitri Raut. Life-Lab provides underprivileged schools activity-based, low-cost innovations to develop scientific curiosity and critical reasoning skills in young children.
Through its flagship two-year […]
The recently concluded year marked the bicentenary of the Hindoo College, Kolkata, which was renamed Presidency College in 1855. The college, affiliated with the University of Calcutta, was accorded the status of an independent university in 2010. The sesquicentennial celebrations of Presidency University (PU), which started on January 5, 2017, with a lecture by Prof. […]
The eighth consecutive EW ECE National Conference attracted over 300 delegates including principals, promoters, and educators from India’s top-ranked preschools who discussed ways and means of extending professionally administered ECCE to cover all of Indias 164 million children in the 0-6 age group – Summiya Yasmeen
The eighth annual EducationWorld Early Childhood Education National Conference 2018, […]
The compulsory admission of children from poor neighbourhood households (defined as households earning less than Rs.3.5 lakh per year) into private independent non-minority schools under s.12 (1) (c) of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009 has always been a sore point for Karnataka’s 11,918 private schools. This provision of […]
“There are many wise men saying many wise things in this country. We don’t want wise men saying 20 years from now that all four senior-most judges sold their souls.”
Justice J. Chelameswar, one of the four Supreme Court judges who alleged the administration of SC was not in order (January 12)
“States shy away from recruiting […]
Neurological research studies from around the world show that provision of age-appropriate education in the early years, plays a critical role in childrens brain development. In fact, infants begin to learn about the world around them during the prenatal, perinatal and postnatal period.
According to Unesco, Early childhood, defined as the period from birth to […]
The state government plans to introduce career counseling workshops in all secondary and higher secondary schools statewide, technical education minister Charanjit Singh Channi informed the media in Chandigarh on January 28.
After a meeting with senior officials of the Union ministry for skill development and entrepreneurship (MSDE) on January 27, the minister said the National […]
The National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) signed a memorandum of understanding with Generation India Foundation, a non-profit founded by McKinsey & Co, USA, on January 11, to provide world-class skill training to Indian youth.
The objective of the collaboration agreement is to reach out to unemployed youth, aged between 18-29 years, and skill them through short-term […]
If the mother tongue (MT) versus English as medium of instruction argument was grossly oversimplified, it would have two competing sets of arguments. On the one hand are what can be broadly termed as the cognitive, socio-emotional and rights-based arguments concerning the learning and well-being of the child. On the other, are the socio-economic and […]
Mumbai-based woman cricketer Jemimah Rodrigues is receiving excellent notices in the national and international sports media. On February 5, this plucky 17-year-old skipper of Mumbai’s Under-19 and Under-23 teams will make her debut for India in the one day international (ODI) series against South Africa, organised by the ICC (International Cricket Council), Dubai. A right […]
By 2030, India will host a massive population of 600 million youth below the age of 25 — the worlds youngest population. This can be an asset and valuable human capital, provided these young people are educated, trained and skilled. To attain these objectives, we need to start from the foundation level i.e, early childhood […]
In an exemplary display of culinary skills, Delhi-based pastry chef Mohit Dudeja (21) bested participants from 28 countries including South Korea, China, Switzerland, Canada, Japan and the UK, to be adjudged silver medallist (patisserie and confectionery), ending India’s dry run since 2007 at the three-day WorldSkills 2017 competition, staged in Abu Dhabi last October.
This biannual […]
The Indian Spy,Mihir Bose, Aleph Book Company;Rs.599,Pages 350
This is a remarkable tale of a remarkable man who went by several names, was trained in espionage by the brother of the celebrated writer Ian Fleming and who undertook, among other things, the safekeeping and travels of Subhas Chandra Bose as a fugitive.
The life of Bhagat Ram […]
Sandeep Goenka -Chairman, CP Goenka Group of Institutions Mumbai
Where would you place education on your national list of priorities?
It is my #1 priority.
How best to upgrade government schools?
The most important area that needs upgradation is professional development of teachers. Only when teachers are well-trained will they be able to transfer knowledge effectively to […]
Inspired by the holistic development philosophy propagated by Art of Living guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Sri Sri Academy, Kolkata has quickly established an excellent reputation and is ranked among West Bengals Top 10 co-ed day schools in the annual EW India School Rankings – Baishali Mukherjee
Established in 2010 with the objective of creating a […]
Its not every day that one finds cause and effect answers on the same page of a daily newspaper. Its as rare an event as sighting a UFO or a comet, and therefore worthy of comment. Yet two coincidental headlines in the Times of India (Bangalore edition) of January 7 (page 3) revealed the sorry […]
In EducationWorld, our mission statement formulated on the eve of the new millennium, a time of universal euphoria and great expectations, was — and remains — to build the pressure of public opinion to make education the # 1 item on the national agenda. We believe that developing human capital is the most important priority […]
One of the ten campuses of the University of California’s public education system, University of California, Irvine is ranked among Americas Top 10 public universities by the US News & World Report.
Founded in 1965, University of California, Irvine (UCI) is consistently ranked among the Top 50 universities of the US. One of the ten […]
If despite a mountain of evidence proving the contrary, there is a persistent belief that post-independence India’s judiciary is an institution to be proud of, its because of the upper judiciary, particularly the Supreme Court of India. In several brave and well-reasoned judgements and interpretations of the Constitution its judges have safeguarded the fundamental rights […]
Decades of neglect of education has resulted in the multiplication of large swathes of citizens who have lost their powers of logic and reason. This is the cause and effect of the riots, destruction of public property and murder and mayhem in several states of north India over the scheduled release of the feature film […]
Indian education is poised at an interesting juncture. On the one hand, there is a growing focus on learning outcomes, while on the other, technology is being adopted quickly and content is being rewritten and redesigned to adapt to a variety of emerging media. But among all latter-day developments, ‘technology’ has clearly emerged as the […]
I read your cover story on the lack of safety for women students in Uttar Pradesh with much anger and despair (EW January).
The primary duty of university managements is to provide safe and conducive environments for all students including women, to access equal study and co-curricular education facilities and opportunities.
Shockingly, even in higher education institutions […]
Mumbai-based Vickaash Agarwal is chairman of Kids Campus Education Pvt. Ltd (KCEPL, estb.2008) which operates 120 owned and franchised Kids Campus preschools in 57 cities and towns including Bangalore, Mumbai, Jammu, Patna, Bhubaneswar, and Kolkata with an aggregate enrolment of 4,000 children. These preschools offer ISO 9001-2008 certified curriculums, cheerful classrooms, well-equipped libraries and sensorial […]
In a refreshing and intelligent departure from past practice, the 12th Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), published by the Mumbai-based NGO Pratham Education Foundation (estb. 1994) and released in Delhi on January 16, focuses on adolescents and youth in the 14-18 years age group who have completed elementary (class I-VIII) and secondary or even […]
Chitra Ravi is founder-CEO of the Chennai-based Chrysalis Pvt. Ltd (formerly EZ Vidya, estb.2001), a company focused on improving teaching-learning practices in schools across the country. Over the past 16 years, Chrysalis has grown into a multi-service, multi-product company offering ICT curriculums, teacher empowerment and learning programmes under which 450 schools have already transformed their […]
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Encourage independent ECCE affiliation/accreditation boards: Swati Popat Vats
– Dr. Swati Popat Vats is founder-president of the Early Childhood Association and president of the Podar Education Network
All class I-XII schools in India boast state, national and/or international exam/education board affiliation. However, preschools countrywide are not required to affiliate themselves with any board or accreditation authority which can certify their curriculums, child safety and […]