As evidenced by the country’s plunging female-male ratio (933:1,000), open, continuous and seldom interrupted violence, prejudice and disrespect against the second sex is practised not only overtly by way of pervasive sexual harassment and molestation of women (casually dismissed as ‘eve teasing’ in the local argot), rape, dowry murders and workplace discrimination, but also more […]
Great Speeches of Modern India edited by Rudrangshu Mukherjee; Random House; Price: Rs.395; 446 pp
In the history of all nations there’s no shortage of examples which prove that great orators and oratory can move mountains and multitudes. In ancient India, the profound discourses of the philosopher-prince Krishna — as recorded by the poet-sage Vyasa — became the […]
International Children‚s Festival of Performing Arts The Mumbai-based Ryan International Schools Group (RISG), promoted in 1976 in a small shed with an initial batch of five students by education entrepreneur Dr. Augustine Pinto, has since metamorphosed into India‚s largest privately owned school chain. Currently, RISG comprises 107 primary-cum-secondaries with an aggregate enrollment of 200,000 students […]
The original sin of failure to build sufficient teacher training institutions is being compounded by the imposition of under-qualified and untrained teachers upon the school system. Almost half of the country’s 4.7 million elementary school teachers have not studied beyond class XII. Summiya Yasmeen reports
Suddenly education of india’s 450 million children (below 18 years of age) — […]
In my column on this page last month,I promised more information about the Isha Yoga Foundation, flowing from having attended a two-day Inner Engineering workshop conducted by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev in Mumbai. But my participation in the follow-up workshop was not to be. It was jinxed again, as it has been for the past three […]
OECDPISA learning outcomesSpooked by the effects of globalisation on their low-skilled citizens, rich countries have been pouring money and political energy into education. In the industrial countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), average spending on primary and secondary schooling rose by almost two-fifths in real terms between 1995 and 2004.Oddly, this […]
Although shopping mallsoffering a plethora of goods and services under one roof is a familiar and well-established concept in post-liberalisation 21st century urban India, a well-administered education mall offering a variety of high quality degree and certification programmes under one roof is a new proposition. That’s the objective of education entrepreneur Robert Donison, promoter-managing […]
Your Counsellor RepliesI want to learn the art of floral arrangement. Please advise.Mukesh Manek, MumbaiSeveral colleges with home science study programmes offer classes in floral arrangement/design. Ikebana courses are conducted in most metros by Indo-Japanese Associations with the Indo-Japanese Association in Mumbai located at Oricon House, Kala Ghoda, Tel: 22873027/ 22844772. Moreover the Floral Art […]
With inter-firm competition hotting up in the post liberalisation Indian economy, and India Inc under increasing pressure to exercise corporate social responsibility, there‚s growing demand for savvy public relations professionals, who can aid and advise companies on image management ‚ how to present their best face to the public to win friends and influence customers. […]
Last juneI was deputed to India and specifically to the Bangalore Management Academy by the Northern Consortium of United Kingdom (NCUK) ‚ a group of higher education institutions which includes Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds universities ‚ to conduct a pre-Masters programme for graduate students admitted into NCUK member universities. During my one month tenure at […]
Being a supportive sports parent entails much more than driving your child to and from practice, and cheering from the stands on game day. An enriching sports education requires a three-way partnership between parent, child, and coach. It requires building of a sports community devoted to the physical and mental well-being of each and every […]
A brewing storm is gathering momentum countrywide following a proposal voiced by union health minister anbumani ramadoss to make rural service mandatory for all medical students. the proposal will impose a year’s hardship posting in the under-provided outbacks of rural india. Dilip Thakore reports
A gale of hurricane proportions which could devastate thecountry’salready grossly inadequate and fragile healthcare […]
Chennai-based Sai Shravanam’s (26) gradual transition from an infant percussionist (tabla) to music composer happened quite naturally. Drawn to the tabla at the tender age of six, he was spotted by maestro Zakir Hussain four years later. Early percussion lessons from Hussain and his brother Fazal Quereshi burnished his talent and he performed on stage […]
Branch campuses, twinning arrangements, and other manifestations of cross-border higher education are booming. Universities in Europe, Australasia, and North America see a huge market for their degrees in other countries. Simultaneously, Singapore and several of the states in the Arabian Gulf have identified themselves as educational centres and are attracting international higher education providers. In […]
TCS conferred literacy innovation awardThe Mumbai-based Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS), India‚s largest IT software development and consultancy services company with a client base spread across 35 countries (annual revenue: Rs.16,000 crore; no. of employees: 80,000), was awarded a gold trophy at the Entrepreneurship & Management Processes International (EMPI)-Indian Express Innovation Awards function held in […]
The Eleventh Plan, approved bythe National Development Council (comprising chief ministers of all the 29 states and five Union territories of India) on December 19, which envisages an aggregate ‘plan outlay’ (i.e capital investment) of Rs. 36,44,147 crore over the next five years (2007-12), has made stellar provision for education. […]
I read your cover story ‘Reviving the sick child of Indian education’ (EW December) with consuming interest. EducationWorld deserves the gratitude of the nation for its comprehensive analyses of vital issues in education month after month. It’s only a matter of time before you achieve your ambition of making education the premier item on the national agenda.
The resounding victory ofBJP and hindutva hardliner Narendra Modi in the Gujarat state legislative elections which concluded on December 24, reflects poorly on the value premises and judgement of the people of this western seaboard state (pop.50 million), which it is difficult to believe gave birth to and nurtured Mahatma Gandhi, the first and original […]
A peculiar contradiction of the centrally planned Indian economy is that it is characterised by pervasive shortages and inter-sectoral imbalances. The demand for food, clothing, shelter, education, healthcare and transport, among a plethora of other goods and services, is far greater than supply. Moreover in direct negation of the very purpose of central planning, the […]
Down-to-earth, energetic and enthusiastic Alish Pekha, a class XII student of Dehradun’s SelaQui World School, won honours while representing the Indian squad which bagged the winners’ trophy in the six-a-side cricket tournament sponsored by the Cricket Federation of Nepal, last August in Kathmandu (Nepal). Alish Pekha was handpicked from among 60 […]
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