The third Dr. Rajaram Jaipuria Memorial Lecture, to be held virtually on March 5, 2022, promises inspiring insights into a very pertinent topic: Building Strong And Resilient India Through Visionary Leadership. The lecture will be delivered by the event’s chief guest, Swami Swaroopananda, Global Head of Chinmaya Mission.
An initiative started in 2019 by Seth Anandram […]
Birla Balika Vidyapeeth, Pilani’s principal Dr. M. Kasturi (centre) receives awards from Arun Rajamani, managing director, Cambridge University Press & Assessment, South Asia (left) & Rishabh Mehta, CEO, GrayQuest (right)
Seth Anandram Jaipuria School, Kanpur’s principal Shikha Banerjee receives awards from Dr. Kannan Gireesh, founder of LiveLife Education Pvt. Ltd
Laurel […]
There is growing awareness about the adverse impact of prolonged schools’ closure caused by the raging Coronavirus pandemic on the lives of students worldwide. International and national research findings indicate that learning loss apart, students have suffered mental and physical health issues as well.
The need to reimagine Indian education has never been more critical now […]
Prof. (Dr.) Derick H. Lindquist Professor & Dean, Jindal School of Psychology & Counselling (JSPC) O.P. Jindal Global University
Across the world, psychology is consistently ranked as one of the top fields of undergraduate study. As an academic discipline, psychology provides insight into why people think, feel, and act the way they do. The […]
Amanveer Singh Co-founder at SchoolPad
In my eight years with SchoolPad, I have had the opportunity to work closely with hundreds of reputed schools across India in managing their report cards and results. From setting up examination structures for different grades and boards to making entries of marks and generating report cards, it has […]
A January 17 decision of the Telangana government to decree Inglish the medium of instruction in its 30,000 primary-secondary government schools statewide, should be welcomed by all committed to the unity amid diversity aspiration of post-independence India. Earlier in 2019, the YSR Congress government of neighbouring Andhra Pradesh had also decreed Inglish as the medium […]
A January 23 news item to the effect that a Gujarati-Indian family of four including two children, froze to death in sub-zero temperatures on the Canada-US border while attempting to illegally migrate to the US, has been reported in a surprisingly matter-of-fact manner in Indian media. As an inevitable accident.
Yet the elephantine question that neither […]
The ravages of several waves of the Covid-19 pandemic notwithstanding, the Mumbai-based TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) Ltd, seems to be going great guns. The management of India’s most valuable company by market capitalisation (Rs.13.9 lakh crore) recently announced a massive Rs.18,000 crore equity shares buy-back programme. Moreover, it’s all set to become the title sponsor […]
Reproductive Politics & the Making of Modern India
Mytheli Sreenivas
Women Unlimited
Rs.875 Pages 274
Politically correct, influential people in policy making circles in the West don’t talk any more of the ‘yellow peril’, or use phrases such as ‘population explosion’ and metaphors like the population bomb. At the same time, partly due to the very […]
Santosh Kumar, Co-founder & CEO and Yeshwanth Raj Parasmal, Co-founder & Director share the aims and objectives of 21K School, India’s #1 online school.
Santosh Kumar, Co-founder & CEO and Yeshwanth Raj Parasmal, Co-founder & Director, 21k School
What is the future of online learning and what opportunities do you see in the Indian market […]
Home in the World: A Memoir
-Amartya Sen
Allen Lane
Rs.899
Pages 464
Nobel economics laureate (1998), and quintessential argumentative Indian, Amartya Sen comes across as a true citizen of the world in his newly penned memoir. Traversing continents, he is as much at home in Harvard, Berkeley, Stanford, Trinity College Cambridge, as in […]
India’s prolonged 82 weeks lockdown of schools from pre-primary onward is unprecedented in history. Even during the Spanish flu of 1918-20 which took a toll of 18 million lives, schools did not shut down for more than 20 weeks. Extraordinary challenges require extraordinary response – Summiya Yasmeen
Out-of-school children: grave judgement error
The latest diktats […]
Allan Andersen
When students return to school following the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown, the focus of institutional managements shouldn’t just be on academics. They will also need to help children with the transition back to in-person classes while supporting their mental health and well-being. According to several authoritative studies, anxiety and unhappiness rose among youngsters throughout the […]
South Korea university graduates: birth rate threat
Nearly half of South Korea’s universities could close in the next quarter-century as the country’s population continues to shrink, with regional institutions especially hard hit, a respected academic warns.
Dong-Kyu Lee, professor of disaster management at Dong-A University, says he expects only 190 out of 385 existing universities […]
As the chapter closes on the 2019 killing of Bangladeshi student Abrar Fahad, advocates say universities should be doing more to prevent violent behaviour still rampant on the country’s public campuses. Last December, a Dhaka court issued death sentences to 20 students at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) for Fahad’s murder. But […]
President Macron: continental identity quest
A French proposal to create a ‘European Academy’ could help to rejuvenate efforts to build a common continental identity. Under France’s presidency of the Council of the European Union, which runs to June 2022, President Emmanuel Macron has proposed “a European Academy bringing together a hundred or so intellectuals […]
Covid-19 has elicited creative solutions to food poverty on Australian campuses, as students — particularly from overseas — find inventive ways to beat hunger.
Foreign students are now reserving refrigerator racks in shared kitchens to deposit leftover food for friends in need. Other stratagems include “clubbing together” to cover membership costs at bulk food retailers such […]
Thousands of women were forced to leave their classrooms after the Taliban took over Afghanistan — and now, months later, they have little hope of resuming studies under the extremist regime. But the president of the University of the People (UoPeople) believes online courses may offer means of reaching them.
This non profit university offers online […]
Secondary class in Sobral: rebooting model
When Amaury Gomes began teaching history in Sobral in the mid-1990s, its schools were a mess. The city of 200,000 people lies in Ceara, a baking-hot north-eastern state that has one of Brazil’s highest rates of poverty. When local officials ordered tests in 2001 they found that 40 […]
Vaxxing at Georgia University: compulsion blocked
Even as the Covid Omicron variant surge is shutting down US campuses, dozens of institutions have quickly reversed mandatory vaccine policies after a federal judge blocked a Biden administration requirement for them. These institutions, mainly in politically conservative southern and western parts of the US, suggest that the […]
Bindu Subramaniam: post-pandemic scaling drive
Music education evangelist Bindu Subramaniam — daughter of globally-renowned violin maestro L. Subramaniam and Indian classical and playback singer Kavita Krishnamurthy — is the Bengaluru-based co-founder and CEO of the Subramaniam Academy of Performing Arts (SaPa, estb.2007). SaPa provides joyful age-appropriate education in Carnatic, Hindustani classical and Western music. […]
Batheja: 5,000 loans per month
Mayank Batheja is co-founder and director of Delhi-based fintech startup, Credenc Web Technologies Pvt. Ltd (estb.2017) which offers higher education loans to students. Over the past four years, Credenc has disbursed education loans valued at Rs.160 crore to over 3,000 students.
Newspeg. Recently, Credenc received equity and debt investment of […]
Raina: ambitious future plans
Edupreneur Shveta Raina is the Mumbai-based founder-CEO of Advantage Leadership Solutions Pvt. Ltd, which owns Talerang, a proprietary career training brand and platform that is the combination of two words — Talent, and Boomerang. Talerang offers school students, college graduates and professionals well-designed short duration and long-term programmes to make […]
Nitesh Jain is the founder-CEO of the Gurugram-based Best Edventure Pvt. Ltd (estb.2019), a company that runs the BeSingular education platform.
Jain: future technologies focus
This online platform provides K-12 students study programmes in future technologies such as robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), game design, coding, IOT (Internet of Things), […]
KLD University, Vijaywada campus. Inset: Satyanarayana: industry-ready graduates
Koneru Satyanarayana is president of the private, low-profile Vijaywada- (Andhra Pradesh)-based KL (Koneru Lakshmaiah) Deemed University (estb.1980). Sprawled across a green 100-acre world-class campus, KLDU is providing high quality undergrad, postgrad, doctoral and post-doctoral study and research programmes in design, architecture, fine arts, engineering, law, management, […]
In 2004, when this publication was a mere five years of age, we featured a cover story titled ‘Dirty Dozen Corrupt Practices Destroying Indian Education’. Almost two decades later, not only are the dirty dozen corrupt practices of the early millennium omnipresent, several new ones have been added to the list. – Dilip Thakore
There’s a […]
With some belt-tightening, resources can be found for substantial investment in digital technologies and other interventions which would improve children’s learning outcomes
-Geeta Kingdon
The feel-good factor of the 11.86 percent increase in the outlay for education in Union Budget 2022-23 presented to Parliament and nation on February 1 is an optical illusion. Sure, the allocation of […]
Unlike most young children who like being told stories by their parents, Ahmedabad-based Kuvam Gupta (7) insists on narrating stories to his parents! And, these stories have culminated in the release of his first book titled Elpu and his Friends published by Notion Press, a self-publishing platform, last December. Thus far, 410 copies of the […]
Voices raised against gender prejudice and inequality are growing louder and stronger around the country. Especially of Delhi-based social activist Divya Sijwali (17), who is determined to “advocate acceptance of marginalised communities and focus on providing employment to acid attack victims and members of the LGBTQIA+ community”.
A class XI student of Delhi’s high-ranked Tagore International […]
This 30-year-old varsity with an enrolment of 50,000 students has consistently been ranked among Britain’s Top 15 for five years (2016- 2020) by the Guardian University Guide
Coventry city campus: four other UK campuses
Sited in the West Midlands, Coventry University (CU, estb.1992) is a nationally respected public research higher ed institution providing undergrad […]
Promoted in 1999 by US-returned educationist the late Sudheer Phatak and his wife Vaidehi, this CBSE-affiliated school has acquired a good reputation for providing holistic ICT-enabled education rooted in Indian values
-Paromita Sengupta
MNS snapshot: ICT-enabled education rooted in Indian values. Inset: Anvit Phatak
Sited on a green 25-acre hillside campus in suburban Pune — Maharashtra’s […]
New Delhi, January 5. The Union ministry of education has started registrations for its Vidyanjali Higher Education Volunteer Programme (VHEVP). The programme intends to build a robust team of volunteers to positively impact the nation’s higher education system by contributing with academic, training, and infrastructure support.
To participate in this programme, volunteers and institutions can sign […]
Kavaratti, January 1. On a two-day state visit to the Union territory of Lakshadweep, India’s vice president M. Venkaiah Naidu inaugurated two arts and science colleges affiliated with Pondicherry University (PU) in the Kadmat and Androth islands.
Also chancellor of PU, Naidu said the courses offered will enable students, especially girl students, to overcome the region’s […]
“This is a country where in a range of exams marks are calculated to the seventh decimal place to decide who will get selected. Every single place where we have an exam, from IIT to CLAT, is pressure ridden because of the law of numbers. So the idea that this exam will be a relief […]
The Tamil Nadu government school teachers Association (TNGSTA) has submitted a petition to chief minister M.K. Stalin to cancel the state’s unique class XI board exams. This exam is scheduled to be written in March-April by 1 million students enrolled in 39,300 government and government-aided schools affiliated with the Tamil Nadu Board of Secondary Examinations […]
For a state that prides itself on its intellectual prowess and cultural refinement, West Bengal (pop.91 million) — or specifically the state’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) government which was re-elected for a third term in May 2021 — is exhibiting a curious reluctance to reopen its schools after an epic 82-week lockdown prompted by the Covid-19 […]
Barred students: minority backlash
Hitherto one of India’s most secular states with a 8-million strong and prosperous Muslim minority, Karnataka (pop.68 million) is experiencing slow spread of religious communalism with headscarves row.
Since December 31, 2021, six hijab (headscarf)-wearing Muslim girl students of the Government Girls PU College (classes XI-XII), Kundapur in the state’s coastal […]
The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is gearing to hit the streets with statewide protests against the incumbent Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition government’s proposal to curb the powers of the governor in 11 state government universities. By law and convention, state governors appointed by the Central government, are ex-officio chancellors of all public universities […]
Delhi University: full circle. Inset: Dinesh Singh
The wheel is set to turn full circle for Delhi University (DU, estb.1922), one of India’s largest (82 affiliated colleges and 400,000 students) and most popular universities. In 2013, DU became the first university to introduce four-year arts, science and commerce undergrad programmes.
Reacting to widespread reports about […]
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After the pandemic: shaping a new roadmap
There’s no indication yet that a committee will assess the different types of adverse impacts the pandemic has made on institutions, parents and children. Such an inquiry must constitute the first step to shape a roadmap. – Krishna Kumar
To say that post-Covid problems in education present an opportunity to reform the system is to beguile […]