Vision
“In today’s world where knowledge is the greatest asset, the benefits of the information-rich, technology-enhanced, Connected Learning environment must be extended to empower students, teachers, parents, schools and entire communities to learn without limits”
As we stand on the cross roads between the Industrial Age and the Knowledge Age, we can reflect on the quote from […]
History has shown us that pandemics have the potential to bring about fundamental changes in many critical areas of our life. Some of the most visible changes seen over the last year have been in the education space. The COVID-19 crisis has forced education systems across the globe to find alternatives to face-to-face instruction. In […]
Professor Arjya B. Majumdar
– Professor Arjya B. Majumdar, Dean, Admissions & Outreach, O.P. Jindal Global University
It is often at the cusp of different perspectives that the greatest discoveries, innovations and solutions are found. The brilliant Leonardo da Vinci was an epic exemplar of the capability of the human mind to transcend boundaries in […]
The EducationWorld Grand Jury India Preschool Rankings 2020-21 were introduced in 2018 to felicitate pre-primaries which have introduced contemporary pedagogies and practices in early childhood care and education (ECCE).
To shortlist and select progressive preschools countrywide, we invited nominations from educationists, individuals and schools themselves supported by evidence of best practices in nine categories — teacher-parent-student […]
The annual EducationWorld Grand Jury India School Rankings were introduced in 2016 to acknowledge and felicitate schools — especially newly-promoted, low-profile primary-secondaries — that excel under parameters other than the 14 under which schools are rated and ranked in the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings which are based on field-based countrywide interviews.
In August-September advertisements in […]
In the income tax department under the Union finance ministry, arrogance mixed with intellectual inertia is discernible in abundance. The destructive power that the department enjoys is on full display in the Vodafone and Cairn Energy cases in which highly reputed international tribunals have held against the Government of India for acts of omission […]
Some people — actually the majority — never learn. Right until 1980, some pundits say 1990, the GDP of the neighbouring — too close for comfort — People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Republic of India was on a par. Three decades later, PRC’s GDP is $15 trillion and India’s $3 trillion. That’s because from […]
Is India the most over-taxed country of the contemporary world? If one adds up all the taxes paid by the tiny fraction of the upper and middle classes (only 14.6 million citizens earn over Rs.5 lakh per year) obliged to pay income tax, it is arguable that India is the world’s most over-taxed nation.
For instance, […]
– Dr. D. Srikanth Rao is director of the Manipal Institute of Technology
The global Covid-19 pandemic which has taken a toll of more than 1.79 million lives worldwide and has shutdown academia for over eight months, has confronted every domain of engineering with unprecedented challenges. Academics and corporates the world over are exploring how these […]
The persistent failure of police personnel countrywide to rise to bad occasions and discharge their duties with minimal competence has raised disturbing questions about police recruitment, education and training. Numerous police reform commissions and committee reports are gathering dust in government offices
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Police Academy graduates: governed by Police Act, 1861
– Dilip […]
Tianjin University students: anti-bureaucracy revolt
A series of victories for student-led activism against controversial professors suggests that the cult of the supervisor in China is increasingly being challenged. A 123-page report of evidence compiled by Lyu Xiang, a former postgraduate student of Zhang Yuqing at the School of Chemical Engineering and Technology at
Researchers have exposed widespread PhD plagiarism among Russian regional governors, which they say is part of a broader culture of academic corruption in a country where ghostwriters are routinely hired to win the rich and powerful the prestige boost of a doctorate. Checking hundreds of dissertations online against other text revealed that half the governors […]
Pakistani students in Australia: home ministry hurdles
Dozens of Pakistani students have been waiting up to 30 months to learn whether they will be allowed into Oz for doctoral studies as the pandemic exposes Australia’s dismissive treatment of people who fortify its research training community.
Some 50 Pakistani postgrads say they have received scant word […]
Pak Knowledge City: widespread scepticism. Inset: Imran Khan
Experts are sceptical of the merits and feasibility of the Pakistan government’s plan to create a new ‘knowledge city’. Prime minister Imran Khan tweeted that it was his “dream to build Pakistan’s first knowledge city”, after launching the first phase of the project last October. It […]
UK universities have made thousands of staff redundant since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Data, obtained by educational platform Edvoy using Freedom of Information requests and seen by Times Higher Education, show that over 3,000 staff were made redundant between March 1 and September 20 this year by the 104 universities […]
US research universities have tempered hopes for a Biden administration boost in their budgets and overseas partnerships, seeing security and political complications well beyond Donald Trump’s anti-science and nativist antagonisms.
In part, according to the main grouping of US research universities, this is because President Trump caused far less harm to their operations than he threatened, […]
Minority children in the US: worsening learning gaps
Closed schools are bad for all children, but especially bad for poor and disadvantaged pupils. This basic pattern recurs wherever and whenever researchers look for it — in the wake of a polio epidemic in America in 1916, after teachers’ strikes in Argentina in the 1980s, […]
I recently completed my Plus Two (science) but I’ve taken a gap year because of the Covid-19 pandemic disruption. Please suggest ways I can make the maximum use of my gap year.
— Prerna Kumar, Nagpur
Use this time to hone your skills and gain valuable experience. Scout for internships and apprenticeship opportunities on LinkedIn, Internshala, […]
Registered medical practitioners of allopathy under the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956, are eligible to practice telemedicine from any location in India – Paromita Sengupta
Gupta: adverse ratio compensation
The Coronavirus pandemic — which has strained public and private health systems, infected over 35 million people and caused 1 million fatalities worldwide — has generated […]
Fogla: enjoyable homeschooling modules
– Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
Shraddha Fogla (35) is founder of 2monkeysandme (estb.2018), a Kolkata-based online portal for parents of children aged six months to nine years. Parenting advice apart, the portal features home activities, games, science experiment modules, STEM and DIY activities to boost children’s sensory, motor skills and cognitive […]
Raturi: online teacher training focus
– Autar Nehru (Delhi)
An alumnus of North-Eastern Hill and Lucknow universities, Sushma Raturi is the first dean of the newly launched Saamarthya Teachers Training Academy of Research (STTAR), Ghaziabad. The academy provides online teacher training modules in 12 domains including content development and structural planning, leadership and assessment […]
Grover: remedial education initiative
– Summiya Yasmeen (Bengaluru)
Ekta Grover is founder of the mint new Shunya Impact Pvt. Ltd (estb.2020), Bengaluru, which has designed the Shunya Intelligent Classroom Learning Management System (LMS) mobile app for K-12 students. Based on latest machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies, Shunya LMS enables students and teachers to […]
Mehra: comprehensive health education curriculum
– Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)
Delhi/Canon City, Colorado (USA)-based public health evangelist Dr. Rahul Mehra is the founder-promoter of Tarang Health Alliance (THA, estb.2016), a non-profit promoted with the mission to develop innovative content and train teachers to implement THA’s comprehensive health education curriculum — covering physical, mental and social […]
The malignant winds that have blown the Coronavirus over the Indian polity devastating industry and business, have also blown some good. They have thrust adoption and adaptation of new digitally-enabled techonologies into the country’s reluctant classrooms – Dilip Thakore
Two facets of Indian education: Covid-19 pandemic exposes deep digital learning inequality
Although infection rates and […]
– Dipta Joshi (Mumbai)
Plucky Siya Tayal (15), a class X student of the millennium city’s highly-ranked Shri Ram School, Aravali, Gurugram is making waves in social media circuits worldwide through her online ‘Project I Am Enough’ campaign.
Launched on Instagram in July, the objective of this campaign is to contest ‘perfect body’ […]
– Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)
It’s raining encomiums for Pune-based whizkid Chirag Falor (18). In October 2019, he aced SAT (formerly the Scholastic Aptitude Test) with a score of 1,560 out of a maximum 1,600 to win annual admission-cum-financial aid valued at 82 percent of tuition and boarding fees from the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), […]
Bengaluru, December 17. Cambridge Assessment English, a department of Cambridge University (UK), has teamed up with the Bengaluru-based Enguru Live English Learning to launch Upskill, a new smartphone-based test of English. Upskill will enhance the employability of graduates aspiring for entry level jobs in corporate organisations and covers four skills — speaking, listening, reading and […]
New Delhi, December 3. The civil engineering faculties of 18 IITs, 26 NITs and 190 other reputed engineering colleges countrywide have signed collaboration agreements with the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI). Under the terms of these agreements, each institution will be permitted to ‘adopt’ a stretch of a national highway to enable its faculty, […]
“When people come out on the streets to protest against a law, they are not merely disagreeing but are questioning the legitimacy of the government. This is why the government sees dissent as a foundational attack on the very basis of the state. ” – Dr. Pratap Bhanu Mehta, professor of political science at Ashoka […]
M.J. John Arokia Prabhu
– Shivani Chaturvedi (Chennai)
The AIADMK government has cancelled half-yearly examinations in all 39,300 government and government-aided schools in the state. Over 6.7 million children enrolled in these schools statewide who normatively would have written their half-yearly examinations in December won’t be tested. Earlier, quarterly exams usually held in September were […]
– Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
With the state legislative assembly election a mere four months away, political jousting in West Bengal (pop.91 million) is getting more fierce by the day. The ruling Trinamool Congress party led by stormy petrel chief minister Mamata Banerjee contesting for a third term in office, is confronted by the BJP, which rules […]
Rajendra Singh: tough stand warning
– Dipta Joshi (Mumbai)
From mid-January onwards, 8,000 private unaided schools across Maharashtra will block online classes for students with unpaid fees. The state’s independent schools say they have been forced to resort to this action as a survey conducted by them indicates 38 percent of financially unhurt parents have […]
Nursery admissions scramble in Delhi: postponement rumour heartburn
– Autar Nehru (Delhi)
The state government’s dithering over notifying guidelines for nursery admissions in Delhi for the academic year 2021-22, is generating confusion among young parents and school managements. Normatively, the admission process is spread over the months of December-January. However, this year because of the […]
Heritage Girls School, Udaipur is ranked #9 in the country among girls boarding schools in the EW India School Rankings 2020-21 (EW December). Needless to say, I’m extremely disappointed.
We take these rankings very seriously and had worked extremely hard to ensure we smoothen out the wrinkles in our performance to move up a notch or […]
The on-going farmers’ agitation on the borders of Delhi NCR, now in its 44th day (January 8), has thrown a spanner into the recovery process of the Indian economy in the wake of the devastation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Unfortunately, there is a great deal of confusion about the agriculture liberalisation and deregulation legislation. Together […]
For the indian economy the recently concluded year 2020 has been an unprecedented annus horribilis. Over 18 million employees in private industry have been rendered jobless and an estimated 100 million (of 300 million) citizens who had been pulled out of extreme poverty since the economic liberalisation and de-regulation of the dirigiste centrally planned Indian […]
It’s an ill-wind that blows nobody good. This ancient adage comes to mind even as the malignant ill-winds bearing the deadly Coronavirus, sweeps the world raining disease and death. Although the Coronavirus, aka Covid-19 pandemic which forced the Central government to lock down industry and businesses for over five months beginning March 25, severely disrupted […]
10 oldest cities in the world Every city in the world has a story to unfold. The ancient cities have all the more tales engulfed with ... 
Bengal: Madhyamik pass dropouts want to return to Class XI for Rs 10000 scheme Mita Mukherjee A decision taken by Mamata Banerjee government to provide Rs 10,000 each to Class XI students from the ... 
Benefits of waking up early every morning Early to bed and early to rise makes one healthy, wealthy and wise. This saying taught in primary school is ... 
Australia: New higher ed regulatory agency When former University of South Australia vice chancellor Denise Bradley in her landmark 2008 report recommended that Australian higher education ... 
