EducationWorld January 11

The recent initiative of the government of India to reform school education has witnessed some bold measures launched by the Union human resource development (HRD) ministry. One such initiative is the continuous and comprehensive evaluation system (CCE), introduced in the countrys 10,000-plus schools affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). While the ministry […]

An international study published on December 7 indicates that the reading skills of British secondary school pupils have fallen behind those of children living in France and Germany. Attempts to raise standards to match the best — South Korea and Finland, among members of the OECD, a club of rich nations — have yielded little. […]

The number of overseas students in the US is continuing to rise, with recent growth driven by a surge in recruitment from China. According to figures released in mid-November, the number of Chinese students in the US rose by 30 percent last year, an increase seen as evidence of growth in the Asian nations middle […]

Read about Microsoft’s education initiatives: userfiles/Microsoft education.pdf

It might be alarmist to say so, but the accumulating body of evidence seems to suggest that mischief is afoot in the form of an orchestrated conspiracy to murder Indias democratic system of governance. The conclusion of the winter session of Parliament on December 13, during which due to daily disruption of both houses of […]

The Union HRD ministrys decision to confer greater autonomy on the IIMs should have come long ago (cover story ‘IIMs: Overdue auto-nomy bonus, EW December). Over the past four decades the pioneer ‘ABC IIMs in Ahmed-abad, Bangalore and Calcutta have established excellent reputations, with their grad-uates being offered mind-boggling pay packages by top companies. They […]

“You were talking about the other ministries I am involved in, but I can tell you that this (the HRD ministry) is my first love and my last love… because there is nothing more important than building Indias future.”
Union HRD minister Kapil Sibal, who has recently been given additional charge of the telecom ministry, […]

For India to realise its demographic dividend it is imperative that a significant proportion of the countrys workforce, currently employed in the informal sector, upgrades its skill-sets and shifts to more productive and secure occupa-tions. The relative supply of workers with vocational skills has been on the decline since the early 1990s. Although India has […]

Against the dismal backdrop of stasis in Indian education, the widening and deepening involvement of Microsoft Corporation — the world’s most valuable corporate enterprise — with Indian K-12 and higher education sectors, comes as a ray of sunshine piercing the gloom. Dilip Thakore reports

For India’s moribund education sector, within which over 250 million children and youth and an estimated […]

Registered in the year 2000 following the merger of William H. Gates Foundation (estb. 1994) and the Gates Learning Foundation (estb.1997), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was constituted as a charitable trust with a transfer of the stock (equity shares) of Bill and Melinda Gates valued at $16 billion (Rs.72,000 crore) in Microsoft Corporation. […]

A passion and commitment to deliver quality education has transformed Suman Gulati, the sexagenarian founder principal and director of the Gurgaon-based Blue Bell Group of Schools (BBGS) into a celebrated role model edupreneur in private school education. An uprooted refugee after the partition of India in 1947, Gulati graduated from Dayal Singh College, Karnal with […]