Established by an act of parliament in 1946, Australian National University (ANU) is widely acknowledged as the sixth continent’s premier research and teaching institution of Higher Education, writes Summiya Yasmeen
Strategically located in Canberra, the national capital, the Australian National University (ANU) is widely acknowledged as the sixth continent’s premier research and teaching institution of higher education. […]
Rachad arrived from morocco two years ago. He supports Milan (“of course”) and wants to be an electrician, like his father. Manpreet is a Punjabi Sikh, who followed her lorry-driver father here five years ago. Her ambition is rather different — she wants to become president of India. Adama, from Senegal, is the shyest. At […]
Russian universities will keep their own system of entrance exams when the country introduces its long-delayed unified state exam, a nationwide scheme similar to A levels. Years of lobbying by rectors of top universities to halt a common school-leaving / university entrance exam seems to have paid off after the education ministry announced a […]
Fifty leading private schools were found guilty last November of running an illegal price-fixing cartel, which investigators said allowed them to drive up fees for thousands of parents. The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) published provisional findings showing that the schools, which include Eton and Harrow, exchanged detailed financial information in a regular report […]
A recent report shows that US students knowledge of other nations is “weak and increasingly dangerous” and urges more international educational and foreign-language requirements in lower grades and in higher education. The study, States Prepare for the Global Age, says US students “lack sufficient knowledge about other world regions, languages, and cultures and are in danger […]
By all accounts the selection of America’s golden couple, Bill and Melinda Gates as Time magazine’s persons of the year (with rock star Bono) for their philanthropy of earning and giving (the $ 29 billion Gates Foundation has saved 700,000 lives in third world countries through investments in vaccinations; provided internet access to 11,000 public libraries […]
Deng Xiaoping and the Making of Modern China by Richard Evans; Viking Penguin; Price: Rs.225; 315 pp
Whenever the done-to-death question of suitability of the democratic system of government for developing nations of the third world is discussed, it is politically correct to praise the innate wisdom and perspicacity of the Indian electorate, which we are reminded time […]
The welcoming charm of IndonesiaWith its pretty beaches, tropical terrain and well-developed culture, Indonesia is ideal for rejuvenating holidays. What it lacks in terms of economic progress, it compensates with exotic locales, mild climate and cultural affinity with Indian visitorsWith the decline of service culture and sky-high hotel room prices in the West, the clean, […]
The year 2005 was remarkable for unprecedentedly frenzied activity in the education sector. Like latter day Rip Van Winkles, India’s somnambulistic politicians seem to have woken to the reality that the rest of the world which was quick to discern the vitally important connection between education and national development, has left the sovereign, socialist, secular, etc […]
Letter from London
Students as custom
It is an unsettling thought that with the advent of top-up fees next September, universities are already being encouraged to view their new fee-paying students as customers. Sir Howard Newby, chief executive of Higher Education Funding Council for England, recently advised university managements that “students are consumers in other spheres of their […]
Dr. P.C. Thomas, founder-principal of the state-of-the-art Good Shepherd International School (GSIS), Ooty, was the genial host of the 48th annual conference of the Association of Schools for the Indian School Certificate (AIISC). The three-day conference (November 23-25) held in the verdant 90-acre Mt. Palada campus of GSIS was a slickly choreographed faculty-student event which […]
Your Counsellor RepliesAfter completing my B.Sc (information technology), would it be more rewarding to pursue an MCA or MBA? Also do I have to write an entrance exam for admission into the M.Sc programme of the IITs?Ravi Chauhan, Pune If you are interested in a career in software development, MCA is the better option. An […]
With no dearth of demand for packaged and processed foods in the marketplace, there’s a premium on food technologists, leading to a bright future for food techies and making it one of the more attractive career choices
In the fast-paced contemporary age with dual income urban families having little time for preparing elaborate home-cooked meals, […]
There is rising criticism of Right to Education Bill, 2005 that this new bill relies heavily upon the education bureaucracy which has conspicuously failed to improve the quality of learning in government schools and has imposed asphyxiating strangleholds on private education institutions. Dilip Thakore reports
Although with its 6-7 percent annual GDP growth of the past decade post-liberalisation […]
For the great majority of students, schools can be dangerous and even rather scary places where if the examination system doesn’t beat you down, the chances are that bigger kids will. Given that children spend most of their day in school, socialisation happens between commencement of assembly and the welcome ring of the last bell. The […]
The rising incidence of cross-border and internal terrorism resulting in bomb detonations which take a heavy toll of human lives, prompted two Chennai-based engineering students- S. Devadurai and J. Maria Alen Dioney Biju- to design a computer-controlled multi-functional bomb defusing robot. This electronic robot employs video and audio surveillance to investigate remote locations hazardous to human […]
The decision of the Congress-led UPA government to enact the 104th constitutional amendment to make it mandatory for self-financed, unaided colleges of professional education to reserve seats for economically weaker sections and scheduled castes and tribes will unleash a mutually damaging conflict between the Supreme Court and the Central and state legislatures, and may lead to a […]
Established by an act of parliament in 1946, anu is widely acknowledged as the sixth continent’s premier research and teaching institution of higher education
Strategically located in Canberra, the national capital, the Australian National University (ANU) is widely acknowledged as the sixth continent’s premier research and teaching institution of higher education. The Australian Good Universities Guide 2005 awarded it a […]
Since it admitted its first batch of boys in1869, this Jesuit promoted kg-class X St. Xavier’s High School Mumbai has produced an illustrious roll call of alumni. Today it is struggling to maintain its reputation
“I have inherited a long tradition of crafting the educational process as a holistic formation in a positive climate and I try to […]
Prof. Eleanor Duckworth, a Harvard University-based theorist/psychologist, who has done extensive research in the field of learning and education will be conducting a series of workshops and seminars in Bangalore between January 6-9, 2006 under the aegis of Delhi-based iDiscoveri, a well-known experiential learning, teaching and research company.
The three-day intensive workshop will […]
They said it in December”We believe this (call to ban women working in late night shifts) will be a retrograde step and everyone including women have a right to work any time they want.” — Nasscom president Kiran Karnik after a woman call centre employee was murdered by a cab driver in Bangalore (December 20)”I […]
Uttar Pradesh
Crumbling school system
In Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous (166 million) state where the ruling Samajwadi party government is more concerned with moral policing, engineered communal clashes and political vendettas, education is a low priority. Most of the state’s 122,835 government schools in 70 districts are characterised by crum-bling buildings designated as schools.
Unsurprisingly in […]
I read your cover stories “Can Sam Pitroda spark India’s overdue knowledge revolution?” (EW November) and “Swelling stream of corporate crossovers” (December) with great interest, indeed admiration. EducationWorld’s belated crusade to focus public attention on India’s education system which is going from bad to worse, is commendable.
However I regret to say that you are […]
Parliament’s unanimous approval of the 104th Constitution Amendment Bill which clears the ground for restoration of caste-based, state government determined quotas in private unaided institutions of professional education- and perhaps extends them to private schools- on December 21, is a severe setback for the orderly growth and development of education in India.
In Inamdar’s Case (August […]
To readers who complain that too many of our lead features are legal stories, an apology. But the fact is that the year 2005 was marked with unprecedented parliamentary activism which culminated in legislation. And given the ‘other income’ generation preoccupations of our duly elected representatives, it’s possible — indeed probable — that such legislation […]
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