Bangalore-based Pavan Chitta and Guru Sarjith Senthil — class XI students of the Cambridge International Examinations (UK)-affiliated Greenwood High International School — were conferred Cambridge Outstanding Learners’ Award certificates for topping CIE’s IGCSE (class X) examination in India. The awards were declared in November. Apart from trophies and medals, Pavan and Guru have also […]
On the 65th anniversary of promulgation of the Constitution, there’s little awareness within the smug middle class and academia of the extent to which mass illiteracy and sub-standard public primary and secondary education have impacted daily lives and endangered the future of the Republic: Dilip Thakore
For right-thinking citizens who find the time to make an honest […]
The grand promises made by the BJP and its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi in the run-up to General Election 2014 to reform and upgrade Indian education, have remained mere IOUs to the people: Summiya Yasmeen
2015 was a disappointing year for Indian education. The grand promises made by the BJP-led NDA coalition, which was voted […]
It’s a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. While it’s clear that post-independence India’s venal and self-serving political class isn’t interested in according high priority to public education and universal literacy because an educated electorate would never elect the type of politicians who have pushed not only themselves, but their kith and kin […]
Coming four years after the demise of Mahendra Singh Tikait, the powerful farmers’ leader in North India, the demise in Pune on December 12 of Sharad Joshi, a champion of farmers’ rights and founder-president of the Nashik-based Shetkari Sanghatana, has left the country’s long-neglected and continuously short-changed 700 million farmers leaderless. Joshi, who quit a […]
Chairman, Rungta Group of Institutions, Chhattisgarh
Where would you place education on your national list of priorities?
Among the top of my list. Education is the biggest enabler, it empowers youth to succeed in realising their true potential.
How best to upgrade government colleges?
Contemporary syllabuses/curriculums, well-trained faculty in sufficient numbers, industry–academia collaboration, introduction of skills development […]
Legal confidential: Adventures of an Indian Lawyer by Ranjeev C. Dubey, Penguin; Price: Rs.499; Pages: 299
Over three decades ago this reviewer qualified as a barrister and migrated from the UK to practice law in the Bombay high court and fulfil a subsidiary aspiration to enter public service through politics. At that time new entrants into the […]
Promoted by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, the Akshaya Patra Foundation, Bangalore (estb. 2000) has engineered a unique public-private partnership model to provide free mid-day meals to 1.4 million primary school children in ten states Paromita Sengupta
In the 15 years since it undertook to provide cooked mid-day meals to 1.4 million children in 10,600 primary […]
“Sex, sex, sexual intercourse, penis, penis, vagina.” More than 150 undergraduates are sitting in a lecture hall at China Agricultural University in Beijing, shouting loudly. Many are sexually active, or soon will be. Yet for most, it is the first sex education class they have attended.
Their instructor hopes that shouting such words will help youngsters […]
When Michael Buehler saw that his name was trending on Twitter, he realised an all-out vilification campaign against him had reached a new level. Dr. Buehler, a lecturer in comparative politics at the School of Oriental & African Studies (Soas), University of London, did not foresee the hostility he would face when he posted a […]
China has reinforced its dominance in the Times Higher Education BRICS & Emerging Economies Rankings 2016, claiming half of the top 10 places. Beijing-based Peking and Tsinghua universities have taken the top two spots for the third year in a row, while the University of Science and Technology of China, Zhejiang University and Shanghai Jiao […]
When this year’s essay title in Brazil’s national high school exam raised the question of violence against women, it opened up a nationwide debate. Cited as growing evidence of the country’s progress on women’s rights, it was equally condemned as a form of indoctrination by the hard-line evangelical caucus. Yet the controversy it provoked also […]
India will become the largest domestic higher education market by 2025, while China will remain the number one provider of international students globally, according to a British Council study. The study indicates that India will have the largest 18-22-year-old population in ten years — 119 million. The next biggest group will be in China, despite […]
On American college campuses, money talks. That empowers two very different groups: today’s fee-paying students, and graduates of yesteryear, whose affections (and wallets) are sought by their alma maters with an ardour that might make Casanova blush. Pity university chiefs, then, as a wave of campus protests breaks out involving the past. From the Ivy […]
In the corporate world, data sits at the very heart of business improvement. It can be used to inform decisions around anything from product development and marketing channels to what refreshments should be served in the canteen to maximise productivity.
To the uninitiated, data-driven decision making can seem a cold and impersonal concept — out of […]
After completing my graduation, I want to pursue a career in events management. Please advise.
Anita Sawant, Mumbai
With the entertainment industry booming, events management is a good career choice. The best option is to sign up for a postgrad course at the National Academy of Event Management and Development, Apeejay Institute, among others. Another option […]
With investment in India’s stem cell research industry having crossed Rs.1,000 crore, there’s exploding demand for research and product development professionals Indra Gidwani
Stem cell research and therapy is a promising new career option for bright youth with appetite for science and innovation. It is centred around advanced biological research conducted by scholars from diverse science backgrounds […]
Ranked #16 among America’s public universities by US News and World Report, Ohio State University, USA’s 15 colleges offer its massive cohort of 64,868 students a rich menu of study programmes: SUMMIYA YASMEEN
Established in 1870 as a land-grant university, the Ohio State University (OSU) is a top-ranked publicly-funded research varsity with a massive enrolment […]
Within a short span of ten years, this CBSE-affiliated K-12 co-educational school has won the plaudits and patronage of Jammu’s quality education-conscious parents – Autar Nehru
Spread over a nine-acre modern campus in the northern city of Jammu, the nexgen Heritage School (estb. 2005) is ranked among the country’s Top 100 co-ed day schools and #2 […]
Karate black belt Sai Kunthavi Senthil Kumar (11), a class VI student of the SSVM World School, Coimbatore, was recently crowned Under-12 champion in the Kata event — a sequence of karate stances practiced solo or in pairs against imaginary opponents — at the 8th Commonwealth Karate Championship staged in New Delhi on September […]
PwC India and NIIT University (NU) announced a strategic partnership to create a trained talent pool of cyber security professionals in India, on December 28. Academics from NU and senior professionals of PwC India have co-created a two-year work-integrated specialised Masters programme in cyber security. This postgrad programme is the first cyber security study programme […]
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Panjab-Birmingham concordat
Panjab University’s vice chancellor Arun Kumar Grover and University of Birmingham provost and vice principal Adam Tickell signed a collaboration MoU (memorandum of understanding) in Chandigarh on behalf of the two universities on December 8.
Under the terms of the MoU, the two universities will collaborate for research projects, faculty and student exchanges, stage conferences […]
“The 2015 draft NEP, however, will be far from the timely policy document that will provide the vision and way forward for a floundering Indian educational system. This document will be the product of a deeply flawed, secretive and ineffective approach to the formulation of education policy.”
John Kurrien, Director Emeritus, Centre for Learning Resources, Pune, on […]
In a first-of-its-kind event in India’s most populous state, a child parliament was convened on December 17-18 by the Uttar Pradesh State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (UPSCPCR). It was attended by 160 students (58 girls and 102 boys) aged between 12-18 years from 22 districts statewide. The Children’s Parliament received top level attention […]
A state government circular of October last year to all district officials of the school education department announcing a radical change in the character of class X and XII board exam question papers for students writing the school-leaving examinations of the Tamil Nadu State Board of School Education (TNSBSE) in February-March, has generated considerable anxiety […]
Education and health, widely accepted as mutually reinforcing by social scientists, were grossly neglected during the 34-year uninterrupted rule of the CPM-led Left Front government (1977-2011) in West Bengal, running the then most industrially and academically advanced state of the Indian Union into the ground and prompting a steady flight of capital and professionals.
Unfortunately incumbent […]
Despite the municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) being the richest local government institution countrywide (annual budget: Rs.33,514.15 crore), there’s steady flight of children from its 1,000 plus primary schools sprawled across expensive real estate in Mumbai.
According to a report Schools Run by the MCGM released on December 21 by the Mumbai-based non-government organisation Praja […]
The ruling aam aadmi party (AAP) piloted two education bills — the Delhi School (Verification of Accounts and Refund of Excess Fee) Bill 2015 and Delhi School Education Act and Rules 1973 (Amendment) Bill 2015 — through the Delhi state legislative assembly on December 3. Introduced by deputy chief and education minister Manish Sisodia as […]
Congratulations for raising awareness of early childhood care and education (ECCE). EducationWorld has done a great service by impacting the vital importance of ECCE upon the public through conferences and especially the EducationWorld India Preschool Rankings (EW December) and awards.
Re the new categories (franchised, owned and part of high school) into which all preschools have […]
The continuous disruption of the legislative business of Parliament in the winter session for 16 days consecutively by opposition parties led by the 130-year-old Congress, has cast a pall of gloom over the future of India’s democratic polity. It is pertinent to note that the winter session was a near deadlock without the conduct of […]
On January 26 the nation will celebrate its 65th Republic Day. That’s the day on which over six decades ago, the Constituent Assembly of India, comprising the sub-continent’s most eminent political leaders, intellectuals and legal professionals who had spent almost three years to draft, debate and shape the Constitution of India, declared the country a […]
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Education cess imbroglio
Ambarish Datta is MD & CEO of BSE Institute Ltd and founder-director of the BFSI sector skill council, a PPP promoted by industry and NSDC
Albert Einstein once said the hardest thing to understand in the world is income tax. This may not have been true earlier, but it’s certainly true now.
Take the case of education […]