Pooja Rai, Managing Director, Delhi World Public School, Ajmer
Best were the days when children enjoyed playing in the park, chuckling with joy, their faces radiating with energy. Nowadays, technology is subjugating the fun time of our kids. Smartphones and PlayStations have become more than gadgets, making them inactive. They have a negative impact on their […]
Kinjal Gajera, Trustee, Gajera Trust and Founder CEO, CSK Ventures
Education is no longer limited to textbooks and lectures. In today’s world, students need to be equipped with not just academic knowledge but also practical skills that will help them succeed in the real world. This is where Gajera Global School, Surat is making a difference. […]
Sarala Birla Academy, ranked the number 2 Boys’ Boarding School in the country by EducationWorld, is the brainchild of Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla, the chairman of The Aditya Birla Group. It is named after the late Dr. Sarala Birla, his grandmother. An eminent educationist, Dr. Sarala Birla has made immense contribution to the field of […]
The announcement of the CENTA® International Teaching Professionals Olympiad (TPO) 2021 results was enthusiastically welcomed by educators and school managements globally. Promoted and organised by the Bengaluru-based Centre for Teacher Accreditation (CENTA) Pvt. Ltd (estb.2014), a company that assesses, certifies and trains teachers and school leaders, the Centa TPO 2021 attracted 35,000 entries from over […]
Promoted by educationist-edupreneur Dr. Saroj Suman Gulati and BD Gulati, (founder-chairperson) to make progressive K-12 education accessible to the burgeoning middle-class of Delhi’s hitherto educationally underserved satellite township, the Blue Bells Group of Institutions (BBG, estb.1980) comprises five world-class schools in Gurugram that offer student-centred learning aligned with Indian ethos and globally acclaimed pedagogical practices.
For […]
The Boarding Schools Association of India (BSAI) held its third board meeting, first AGM and conference on January 27-29 co-hosted by Welham Girls’ School and Welham Boys’ School, Dehradun. The chief guest of the BSAI Conference was Manpreet Singh Badal, former finance minister of Punjab state. Badal delivered the keynote address on the first day […]
The management of Seth M.R Jaipuria schools routinely organise its annual Jaipuria Leadership Program (JLP) for all its school principals. The Leadership Program is an intensive two-day professional learning opportunity to help school leaders reflect on their practices, explore successful school improvement models, and learn research-based techniques to advance teaching-learning in classrooms.
2023 marks the 8th […]
Exams can be challenging in a student’s life. A little stress is good as it can serve as a motivational push to work harder towards achieving our goals. However, exam stress can give rise to anxiety, and hamper students’ social, emotional, and behavioural development. The consequences of exam stress are manifold. Not only students but […]
Over the years, the perception of international courses has changed dramatically. With the flexibility to choose subjects and the convenience of exams offered thrice a year, the Cambridge curriculum has become a top choice for students and parents alike. Gitanjali has been among the pioneers in providing world-class education for over a decade.
We are proud […]
Although Indian education is at a liberalisation and deregulation inflection point three decades after Indian industry was liberalised in the landmark Union Budget of 1991 — when licence permit-quota raj which had cabined, cribbed and confined the Indian economy for over four decades was substantially dismantled — better late than never.
Indians have a bad history […]
Winds of change reminiscent of the 1991 Union budget that catalysed liberalisation and deregulation of industry, are gathering momentum in India’s moribund education sector mired in dead habit, rote learning and rock-bottom learning outcomes writes Dilip Thakore
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Last year’s sale of the non-profit online course platform edX has left both parties short on value, with buyer 2U still hunting for paying customers, and vendors Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) still mulling how the proceeds will boost remote teaching.
Scientists at the two universities created edX in 2012 as a […]
When an enormous explosion rocked central Beirut in August 2020, it wasn’t just the estate of Lebanon’s oldest university that was badly damaged. The blast — which was caused by vast amounts of ammonium nitrate dangerously stored in Beirut’s port and killed 215 people — was also a huge blow to staff morale and the […]
London-based universities and post-92 institutions would be hit hardest if a crackdown on UK international student visas goes ahead. UK is more reliant on international student revenue now than it was the last time there were serious threats to overseas recruitment, during the prime ministership of Theresa May (2016-19). In 2020-21, tuition fees from non-European […]
When the president of the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) began posting photos of his daily life to social media in November, it was a gut reaction. A day earlier, Russian air strikes had hit Ukraine’s power grid, plunging the city into darkness. “I didn’t have a plan — I realised we had no heating […]
Boosting housing stocks could be Australian governments’ “biggest” contribution to alleviating ‘student poverty,’ a widely reported phenomenon Down Under. Eileen Baldry, deputy vice chancellor of UNSW Sydney, says that if government quarantines social housing for students, it would help them weather an accommodation squeeze and cost-of-living crisis.
Students could face weekly rents of A$200 (Rs.11,400) instead […]
The Chinese government has ordered universities in the east of the country not to use talent funding to poach academics from the nation’s mid-west and north east, which is causing an internal brain drain. The ministries of education and finance sought to offer some encouragement to university autonomy in funding management in a notice, but […]
In making one of the biggest professional and symbolic breakthroughs in all of US higher education — becoming the first black female president of Harvard University — Claudine Gay is getting some predictable help on identifying what comes next.
Dr. (Prof.) Gay, to be clear, brings top academic credentials to the job. She earned an undergraduate […]
Caste discrimination and exclusion in Indian universities: A Critical Reflection
N. Sukumar
Routledge
Rs.12,600 Pages 215
With comprehensive ethnographic research, Sukumar details how caste continues to shape the functioning of India’s universities
Knowledge, at least in its a priori form, promises to be liberating. The thought of being able to learn, question, unlearn and then relearn […]
Churchill and India: Manipulation or Betrayal
Kishan S. Rana
ROUTLEDGE
Rs.995
Pages 192
The author discerns four distinct phases in Churchill’s association with India between 1896 and 1965, when he was given a state funeral in London
While the title of his book Churchill and India: Manipulation or Betrayal? is puzzling (in that the alternatives seem to […]
Released last December, CASS 2022 indicts the country’s 1.48 million government and private schools for failure to sufficiently develop children’s social and emotional learning skills, positive attitudes, beliefs and values writes Summiya Yasmeen
Although mainstream media reports at the fag end of the academic year 2022-23 and on the eve of the new school year gloss […]
Some television news anchors and bristling retired army brass seem to be itching for a border skirmish, if not war, with troops of China’s People’s Liberation Army massed along India’s 3,488 km unsettled border with China stretching across almost uninhabited terrain from Kashmir in the north-west, to Arunachal Pradesh in the north-east. But the national […]
Runa Mukherjee Parikh (Ahmedabad)
When not reading Harry Potter stories, Ahmedabad-based Hanya Shah (11) prefers to practise chess moves. Both pastimes have proved useful. Recently (November), this class VI pupil of the city’s CBSE-affiliated Apple Global School, hit national headlines when she won bronze at the Commonwealth Chess Championships staged in Kalutara (Sri Lanka). To her […]
-Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)
Bengaluru-based pre-teen Tanishi Gupta is a promising competitive swimmer who already has 50 medals of state and national aquatic championships adorning her mantelpiece at home.
Late last year at the National Games of India staged in Gujarat, this sprint mermaid who specialises in the 50 and 100 metres freestyle and butterfly stroke events, was […]
One of the two flagship academies of the State University of New York, UB has been ranked among America’s Top 40 public universities for five years consecutively by the US News & World Report, writes Reshma Ravishanker
The state University of New York at Buffalo (UB aka SUNY, Buffalo, estb.1846) is one of two flagship varsities […]
Any citizen of India with a conscience cannot help but weep for the unfortunate condition of the industrious, uncomplaining and continuously short-changed people of the eastern state of Bihar (pop.104 million). Despite a mountain of evidence that liquor prohibition has failed in every country and society since it was promulgated in the US in the […]
Less than a decade ago, one read and heard proclamations of India’s tourism potential with a big dose of scepticism, if not derision. The plain truth was that beyond the front gates of 5-star hostelries, India was too chaotic and filthy, and if tourists ventured further into the hinterland, bad roads, unhygienic restaurants and dirty […]
While some learning loss is inevitable because of switch to online teaching-learning, many assumptions about learning loss suffered by students during the pandemic lockdown are exaggerated writes Rajesh Khanna
India’s education sector experienced a tectonic shift during the pandemic that forced schools and higher education institutions (HEIs) to re-think and re-invent the way mainstream education is […]
Within the short span of a decade since it admitted its first batch of 23 children mentored by five teachers in 2014, TGS has quickly won golden opinions. In EWISR 2022-23, TGS is ranked among Telangana’s Top 30 co-ed day schools, writes M. Somasekhar
Sited on a ten-acre ecofriendly campus in Gajularamaram in Hyderabad’s upscale suburb […]
Bayer Fellowship Programme
Mumbai, January 23. In collaboration with Bhubaneswar City Knowledge Innovation Cluster Foundation (BCKIC), the Thane-based Bayer Cropscience Ltd, a subsidiary of Bayer AG, Germany has launched the Medha Fellowship Programme, exclusively for students from economically weaker sections. Under this programme, Bayer will fund the education of 125 scholars engaged in agriculture and […]
Teacher training initiative
Chandigarh, january 20. The Punjab government has finalised a plan to send a first batch of 36 principals of government schools to the Principals’ Academy, Singapore for a specially designed training programme this month (February).
Addressing a press conference, education minister Harjot Singh Bains said: “Since teachers are nation builders who can […]
“Like in cricket, a batter focuses on the ball thrown to him ignoring shouts for fours and sixes from the crowd, students should also concentrate on their work. Do not be suppressed by pressures. Stay focused.”
Prime minister Narendra Modi’s advice to students at his annual ‘thoughts on examination’ interactive session (January 27)
“The President doesn’t […]
The war between Tamil Nadu’s DMK government and the BJP government at the Centre on education issues is intensifying. On several issues including NEET (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test), a central exam for admission into medical colleges; CUET (Common University Entrance Test) for admission into all Central government universities; three-languages learning in K-12 education and […]
For Karnataka’s beleaguered ruling BJP government fighting a spate of corruption scandals ahead of looming legislative assembly elections to be held in May, the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2022, released in the national capital on January 18 and authored by the highly-respected Pratham Education Foundation, contains bad news. The first household child-testing report […]
Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
According to the recently released Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2022 of the highly respected Pratham Education Foundation, which assessed the learning outcomes of 11,994 children in rural primaries in 18 districts of West Bengal, although classroom attendance has risen to 92.2 percent from a low of 72.9 percent in 2021, learning […]
Words of encouragement
As always, the latest issue of EducationWorld makes absorbing reading. I hope in this year, we will meet the extraordinary expectations and aspirations of all for a transformative change in our knowledge society enriched by erudite individuals like you. I appreciate your visionary oversight of this widely read magazine which is a […]
Contrary to alarmist headlines in mainstream media proclaiming steep learning loss experienced by children in elementary (class I-VIII) education in rural India, careful reading of the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2022 suggests the opposite. Although because schools in India were ill-advisedly shuttered for 82 weeks to check the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic […]
The clarion call of vice President Jagdeep Dhankar and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, for review of the Supreme Court’s judgement in the landmark Kesavananda Bharati Case (1973) in which (accepting the argument of eminent jurist Nani Palkhivala (1920-2002)), the Supreme Court held that legislation enacted by Parliament which violates the “basic structure” of the […]
Autar Nehru (Delhi)
With the university grants Commission (UGC) — the apex-level body that regulates higher education countrywide — releasing its draft UGC (Setting up and Operation of Campuses of Foreign Higher Educational Institutions in India) Regulations, 2023 on January 5, India moved closer to permitting foreign higher education institutions (FHEIs) to establish campuses on Indian […]
Progressive Education Movement revival The 1920s was a high point of the Progressive Education movement whose most famous proponent was American educationist John Dewey ... 
Uttar Pradesh Budget 2023-24: Education gets over Rs 20,000 crore allocation Nishant Saxena The Uttar Pradesh government has made education a top priority by allocating a whopping Rs 20,255 crore for ... 
Ten busiest railway stations of India Travelling in the Indian Railways is always fun with families and friends. In fact it is considered a unique travel ... 
NCRB report: 26% increase in crimes against children over two years Reshma Ravishanker India reported a 26% increase in crime against children over the last two years as per the recently ... 
Foreign branded schools cost-benefits
Foreign trusts and corporates rarely plan to operate licensed schools themselves. Whether a local partner renting the Harrow name can truly recreate the ethos of the original institution is doubtful, writes Roshan Gandhi
Indian school pupils will soon be able to follow in Jawaharalal Nehru’s footsteps by attending Harrow School, or spend their formative years ambling […]