Our educational system needs a radical reboot if it is to equip the next generation to seize the future — Sumeet Mehta, Co-founder & CEO, LEAD School
The world around us is changing at an unprecedented rate; while our laptops and smartphones continue to update in real time, our human operating systems – our beliefs, our assumptions and our […]
Rakesh Gupta is Managing Partner of LoEstro Advisors which advises clients on strategy, fund-raising and M&A. An alumnus of IIT KGP and ISB, Hyderabad, Rakesh Gupta was former head of finance and strategy, People Combine Educational Initiatives and management consultant with McKinsey & Co.
Imagine you owned a boat and set sail for a distant […]
Coding education evangelist Karan Bajaj is the Mumbai-based founder-CEO of WhiteHat Jr Pvt. Ltd (estb.2018, headcount: 200), an edtech start-up offering individual subscribers aged 6-14 years age-appropriate computer coding programmes designed to enhance their reasoning, problem-solving, logical and analytical thinking skills. The company’s online live one-on-one study programme is accessible on a laptop using a […]
Abhishek Kumar is the Delhi-based regional director (South Asia) of ONVU Technologies, a Switzerland-based IT solutions provider with three business verticals — ONCAM (surveillance solutions), ONVU Learning (video/AI-enabled teaching-learning solutions), and ONVU Retail (consumer behaviour analytics). In 2019, the company’s ONVU Learning made a big bang entry into Indian K-12 education with its video […]
Engineer turned film director Hitesh Kumar is founder of Splat Media Pvt. Ltd, a Delhi-based new media and design company with a headcount of 50 employees including graphic designers and VFX editors. Last September, Kumar launched the company’s Art Illume project to bring media students, artists and designers on one platform to create illumination art, […]
Espoo-based Pia Jormalainen is the CEO and co-founder of New Nordic School (NNS, estb.2018), a Finland-registered education solutions company offering turnkey pre-primary to secondary education solutions to clients worldwide. The company’s objective is to introduce the Nordic Baccalaureate programme that has the famed Finnish school curriculum at its core.
Newspeg. NNS has drawn up a plan […]
Kavita Sahay Kerawalla is the Mumbai-based vice chairperson of the VIBGYOR Group of Schools (estb.2004), which currently runs a chain of 39 K-12 schools (27 Vibgyor Kids & High and 11 Vibgyor Roots & Rise) in seven states countrywide with an aggregate enrolment of 55,000 children.
Newspeg. Kavita Kerawalla was in Bangalore in December (2019) to […]
Ajit Chauhan is chairman of the Noida-based Amity University Online (AUO, estb.2005), the online education division of the top-ranked private Amity University (AU, estb.2003) which has nine campuses in India and 13 abroad. AUO is a global online university offering UGC-approved undergrad, postgrad degree and diploma study programmes in management, media and journalism, arts, […]
To compile the league tables of India’s Top 300 budget private schools, C fore field researchers interviewed 2,458 BPS teachers and SEC (socio-economic category) C, D and E parents with children enrolled in budget schools countrywide. They perceptually rated BPS in their states and cities on 11 parameters of school education excellence.
Shocking, but true. Although […]
Despite the country’s 400,000 BPS schooling a staggering number of 60 million children, they are anathema to the establishment including the academy. However, your editors believe BPS provide poor households a preferable alternative to dysfunctional government schools and should be celebrated. Here are the EW India Budget Private School Rankings 2020 – Dilip Thakore
The phenomenal […]
At the 10th consecutive EW ECE National Conference, over 400 ECCE professionals, academics, principals and teachers from 70 cities across the country congregrated in Mumbai last month. They discussed best practices in ECCE and ways and means to universalise early childhood care and education in India – Summiya Yasmeen
A decade ago in 2010, EducationWorld hosted the […]
– Siddharth Chaturvedi is executive vice-president of the AISECT group
India has vast potential for economic growth and development, considering it is the youngest country in the world with a median age of 29. While a young population is potentially a productive workforce, the fact that less than 5 percent of the country’s 420 million workforce […]
Burhaan Rasheed Zargar and Raghav Khajuria — class X students of the CBSE-affiliated Jodhamal Public School, Jammu — were recently crowned champions of News Wiz Quiz 2019.
In the national finals staged last December in Delhi, the winning duo exhibiting calm demeanour and high level of preparedness, outsmarted teams from Bishop School, Pune and The […]
At 6 ft. 5 inches, Kapurthala (Punjab)-based Harsimran Kaur (16) towers over most of her peers, not only in terms of height but also in achievement. Last November, this lanky teen achieved the distinction of becoming the first Asian woman selected for training at the prestigious National Basketball Association Global Academy, Canberra (Australia), an […]
I have just returned from the first-ever I CAN Children’s Global Summit supported by the Vatican and attended by over 3,000 children from 40 countries speaking 17 languages, who assembled in the Di Congressi Hall in Rome on November 27 last year. The summit simultaneously celebrated a decade of Design for Change (DFC) and Gandhiji’s […]
How to win an Indian election: What political parties don’t want you to know – Shivam Shankar Singh
Penguin/Ebury press Rs.240, Pages 201
Shivam Shankar Singh’s How to Win an Indian Election is an insider’s candid account of how political parties leverage voters’ data and digital technologies for political campaigning. Singh headed data analytics and campaigns for […]
Gun Island – Amitav Ghosh; Penguin Random House, Rs.699, Pages 287
Amitav Ghosh is back with a fictional work after he declared in The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2016) that “the age of global warming defies both literary fiction and contemporary common sense” and therefore, such improbabilities are rarely “accommodated […]
The EducationWorld India Preschool Grand Jury Awards were introduced in 2018 to encourage and felicitate pre-primaries which have introduced contemporary pedagogies and practices in early childhood care and education (ECCE), especially in smaller non-metro towns and cities. To shortlist progressive preschools countrywide for the EW Preschool Grand Jury Awards 2019-20, we invited nominations from educationists, individuals […]
Ten years of uninterrupted British Raj in the blue-chip The Doon School, Dehradun (TDS), routinely voted India’s premier all-boys legacy boarding school in the annual EW India School Rankings, has ended. Citing “personal reasons”, Matthew Raggett, the British headmaster of TDS for the past five years, has resigned and exited India. Prior to Raggett’s appointment, […]
By any yardstick, the Republic Day (January 26) parade down Delhi’s Rajpath presided by President Ram Nath Kovind and his special guest Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, at which representative contingents of India’s 1.3 million army, navy and air force staged a march past, was a grand spectacle. The hour-long parade featuring generals, admirals and air […]
Distance lends perspective. That’s perhaps why in a cover story titled ‘Intolerant India — How Modi is Endangering the World’s Biggest Democracy’, the London-based weekly The Economist (January 23) has produced an incisive analysis detailing how the BJP, now in its second term in office at the Centre, is committing slow harakiri through a painful […]
EducationWorld felicitated and celebrated India’s top-ranked preschools in 16 cities — as per the outcome of the EW India Preschool Rankings 2019-20 conducted by well-known Delhi-based market research company Centre for Forecasting and Research (C fore) — at an awards ceremony at the Sahara Star Hotel, Mumbai. Staged coterminously with EW Early Childhood Education National […]
New Delhi, January 10. Honda Cars India has partnered with Juana Technologies to launch India Innovate — Wheels to Fly, the India chapter of an international STEM (science, technology, engineering & mathematics) and a ‘Race to the line’ competition. This fun-win-learn initiative is the country’s first STEM-based Model Rocket Car Making and Racing competition which […]
Muzaffarpur, January 5. Speaking at a college seminar on ‘Quality education and teachers condition in Bihar’, Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Union minister of state for health and family welfare, said acquiring knowledge of English language is more important than clearing an exam on the subject. “The current education system is focused on passing examinations and getting […]
“The shocking violence at JNU should convince you of one simple proposition: India is governed by a regime whose sole raison d’etre is to find an adversarial rallying point and crush it by brute force.”
Pratap Bhanu Mehta, former vice chancellor of Ashoka University, on the recent attack on JNU students by masked goons (Indian Express, […]
Nationwide protests on college and university campuses against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) 2019 and the proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC), exacerbated by the brutal attack on Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University students by masked intruders who assaulted and grievously wounded office-bearers of the JNU Students’ Union on January 5, and police excesses on […]
It doesn’t augur well for the future growth and prosperity of the western seaboard state of Maharashtra — India’s most industrialised state accounting for 20 percent of national industrial output — that less than 6 percent of candidates who have written the state’s teacher eligibility test (TET) — a prerequisite of being allowed to teach […]
Inevitably, the gathering storm of countrywide protests against the BJP/NDA government legislated Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 (CAA) and the proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC) has struck a resonant chord in college and university campuses in West Bengal — especially in Kolkata — which has a long tradition of students politics and activism. Students of […]
The country’s show-piece Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU, estb.1969) sited on a 1,000 acre campus in the heart of New Delhi which has 7,369 postgraduate students mentored by 614 faculty and offers 148 study programmes, is limping back to normalcy. For the past three months since a steep hike in hostel fees — albeit on a […]
Your cover story ‘Smooth launch of India’s pioneer interwoven arts and sciences university’ (EW January) gave an impressive account of south India’s first liberal arts Krea University. It’s a venture of great potential. In particular its unique interwoven curriculum which combines arts and sciences education is an exciting innovation in Indian higher education. Let’s see […]
A nationwide confrontation is brewing between the country’s 30 million strong community of students in institutions of higher education and the BJP/NDA 2.0 government at the Centre which was re-elected to power with an improved majority in the Lok Sabha less than a year ago.
On January 5, with the tacit approval of the Delhi police […]
Since we convened the first National Conference on Early Childhood Education in 2010, EducationWorld (estb.1999) has been in the vanguard of a lethargic national movement to accord high importance to early childhood care and education (ECCE) for children in the age group 0-5. Unfortunately, but unsurprisingly, in a society in which the establishment has accorded […]
An initio since the very first issue of EducationWorld was somewhat hesitantly launched in 1999 — we celebrated our 20th anniversary last November — your editors have always supported private initiatives in education. Although following the ill-advised grafting of Soviet-inspired Nehruvian socialism on the Indian economy soon after independence it became fashionable to rubbish private schools, […]
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Alarming state violence against universities
Sudheendra Kulkarni
There is something troubling, even scary, about the manner in which the Narendra Modi government is handling the critical education sector, specifically higher education. The dreams of Young India cannot be realised unless the government pays focused and sustained attention to introducing much-needed improvements in all facets of education — quality, affordability, […]