Abhinav Menon (17), a class XII student of the Dubai International Academy (DIA, estb. 2005), bagged a silver medal in the 21st International Philosophy Olympiad staged in Odense, Denmark from May 16-19. The Olympiad attracted 90 high school students from 40 countries who wrote essays on philosophical themes during a time window of four hours. […]
Between them the Central government-owned IIMs admit only 2,880 of the 214,000 graduates who write the CAT (Common Admission Test) annually. EducationWorld commissioned the Delhi-based C fore to assess and rank India’s most respected non-IIM B-schools. Dilip Thakore reports
Conterminously with the onset of the south-west monsoon and the commencement of the new academic year, 214,000 […]
Spread over 14.56 acres in the heart of scenic Srinagar, Sri Pratap College‘s contribution to the socio-economic progress of Jammu & Kashmir through its thousands of alumni is immense
Established in scenic Srinagar in 1905, Sri Pratap College is a pioneer higher education institution of monumental importance and historical significance in the Kashmir […]
Conceptualised by industrialist-politician dr. Stze-Yuen Chun and former governor Sir Edward Youde, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology has quickly built itself a formidable global reputation
Promoted in 1991, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has quickly built itself a formidable international reputation, and has barged […]
To provide readers, especially aspirant business managers, a comprehensive profile of India’s most respected ‘other’ (excluding IIMs) B-schools, the Top 50 national league table is supplemented with Top 10 national rankings on the basis of parameters of excellence.
To compile the rankings league table of the country’s Top 50 B-schools, C fore field researchers interviewed 532 […]
With a large number of the country’s non-conformist youth entering the agriculture and social sectors, the EW-C fore survey presents a league table of not-strictly-business institutes
With a growing number of the country’s youth taking to untrodden ways and careers in agriculture and the social sector, your editors decided it would be in the interest of […]
The managements and faculty of the best among India’s ‘other’ B-schools believe that despite being obliged to compete academically with the government-backed B-schools without the benefit of subsidies and handouts, they are closing the gap which separates them from the IIMs
Long accustomed to playing second fiddle to the country’s Central government-promoted and heavily subsidised six […]
To enable higher secondary school students and graduates to make informed choices about institutes offering new- age professional education, EducationWorld commissioned the Delhi-based market research agency C fore to rate and rank India’s best professional colleges in 2013 through a perceptual survey. Summiya Yasmeen reports
Until the onset of the noughties a decade ago, professional education […]
Inevitably the NLSIU, Bangalore, promoted in 1987 by the Bar Council of India, was placed on the top rung of the podium in a survey of India’s top-ranked Law Schools, 2013:
In almost all democratic nations governed by the rule of law, the legal system and legal profession are citizen friendly. India, the world’s most […]
Here are India’s best hotel management institutes for the year 2013.
Promoted way back in 1966 by the Oberoi Group, the Oberoi Centre of Learning and Development, Delhi is top-ranked on all four parameters of excellence
The Oberoi Centre of Learning and Development (OCLD), Delhi is ranked India’s #1 hotel management institute in the inaugural EducationWorld-C fore India’s […]
Over the past 27 years since it was promoted by the Union textiles ministry, NIFT-Delhi has set new benchmarks in fashion education and produced some of the country’s top designers, securing a position among India’s top 20 Fashion Design Institutes 2013.
Given its status as India’s pioneer institution offering professional degree programmes in fashion design, it’s […]
As Indian companies and foreign media conglomerates continue to make massive investments in print, television and online media platforms, job opportunities for professionals are exploding. Here are India’s best Mass Communication Institutes for the year 2013:
With over 500 television channels, 50,000 newspapapers and magazines, hundreds of advertising agencies and public relations firms, the media and […]
With a 30 percent annual growth rate, this new age industry’s revenue is expected to exceed $1,623 million (Rs.9,738 crore) by 2015, provoking leap-frogging demand for trained animators. Here are India’s Top 10 Animation Design Institutes for the year 2013:
Of the several new age professional education vocations featured in this inaugural EW-C fore survey, animation […]
Although it seems axiomatic that the bottom-rank status of India on every metric of national development — early childhood nutrition, infant mortality, primary school dropouts percentage, learning attainments of 15-year-olds, literacy, enrolment in tertiary education, employability of graduates, poor productivity and low per capita income — is rooted in the country’s neglected, and dysfunctional education […]
The grim spectre of mass unemployment is beginning to haunt the Indian economy. Belatedly, mainstream media and the political establishment have woken up to the reality that the prime purpose of encouraging investment — foreign and domestic — in the Indian economy, is to create jobs for the huge army of youth entering the jobs […]
Congratulations on your out-of-the-box ranking of India’s best engineering colleges, not including the IITs (EW June). Your logic of excluding IITs makes perfect sense. An estimated 500,000 students write the IIT-JEE exam every year, of whom a mere 10,000 are admitted into them. For the large majority of Plus Two students, getting admission into an IIT […]
Even as passage of the Foreign Educational Institutions (Regulation of Entry and Operations) Bill introduced in 2010, is blocked in Parliament by opposition parties, India-US collaboration in higher education is proceeding on a parallel track. Several important agreements to enhance cooperation in higher education were signed during the second Indo-US Higher Education Dialogue held in […]
Although Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, now in his third term in office and recently confirmed as the leader of the national poll campaign of the BJP in the general election due next year, is an individual liberals love to hate, there’s no doubting the Gujarat strongman’s propaganda capability. On June 13, the entire Modi […]
Somewhat belatedly the Mumbai police seems to have discovered the technique of using plain-clothes police personnel or undercover agents — an elementary policing technique foreign even to highly-qualified IPS (Indian Police Service) officers. On June 7, officers of the Thane rural police uncovered a huge fake certification racket run by the well-known Mumbai-based Swami Vivekananda […]
When Kiran Kumar Reddy (KKR), a low profile member of the legislative assembly was appointed chief minister of the south-eastern coastal state of Andhra Pradesh (pop. 84 million) following the sudden resignation of then chief minister K. Rosiah, who had taken charge after the death in an air crash of Congress chief minister Y.S.R. Reddy […]
It’s the start of the new academic year in Tamil Nadu (pop. 72 million) and harvest season for touts, agents and representatives of top managers, owners and promoters of government and private colleges and universities, who routinely demand huge sums for exercising their discretionary powers to admit ineligible but wealthy household students into their classrooms. […]
“If the government moves away from development to treat this strictly as a law and order problem, it is not going to be a solution. It will only worsen the problem, as experience so far has shown.”
E.A.S. Sarma, former bureaucrat, on Maoist terror (Outlook, June 10)
“The next election will not be between the Congress […]
Jharkhand
Sweeping ed reforms call
The opposition Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation which has one MLA in the Jharkhand legislative assembly, has demanded sweeping changes in the education delivery mechanism in the state, and more teeth to recall non-performing panchayat (village council) members.
According to Vinod Kumar Singh, the party’s sole representative in the legislative assembly, even […]
The Bangalore/Manipal-based Manipal University invites admission to its international engineering twinning programme known as ICAS (International Centre for Applied Sciences). In this programme, students study for the first two years in the engineering faculty of Manipal University (Manipal campus) and for the next two years in one of 74 universities in six countries with whom […]
Criminal Investigation Department: Information and Data Analysis System— a live cloud computing project — has won MCA (Masters in computer applications) students Gaurav Kumar (23) and Kumari Shilpi (22) the first prize in version 4.0 of the Bangalore-based Unisys India’s Cloud 20.20 online technical project contest conducted in August 2012, whose results were announced recently.
Kumar and Shilpi, natives of […]
Given the small number of graphologists and professionally certified handwriting experts in India, their services are in high demand, writes Indra Gidwani (Mumbai)
“There’s a great future for graphologists and handwriting experts in India. People are becoming increasingly aware that hand-writing analysis is not a mystical craft but a science which uncovers an individual’s personality. Development of […]
What are my job prospects after I complete M.Sc in biotechnology next year? Please also suggest a few job-oriented part-time courses I can sign up for after postgraduation.
Shekhar Iyer, Chennai
Job opportunities are excellent for biotech postgrads in chemical and pharmaceutical companies. If you wish to study further, a course in clinical research is a good […]
India’s low ranking in international literacy league tables reflects a gross betrayal by the Central and state governments, bureaucrats, principals and teachers of the lofty national “each one teach one” mission announced way back in 1988. Clearly, the country’s children are not getting the education they deserve.
The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) […]
In addition to being a board member of the Delhi-based Berlias-owned multi-crore business conglomerate Apeejay Stya & Svran Group, Aditya Berlia (28) is pro-chancellor of the recently established Apeejay Stya University, Gurgaon, and joint secretary of the Apeejay Education Society which manages 13 primary-secondary schools and 16 professional education institutions with an aggregate enrolment of 32,000 students. […]
An alum of IIT-Kharagpur and the prestigious Harvard Business School, Bikram Dasgupta is the founder and executive chairman of the Kolkata-based Globsyn Group (estb. 1997). Currently the group runs the Globsyn Business School, Globsyn Finishing School (for engineers and corporates), Globsyn Blue (offering economics, finance and manag-ement degree programmes in collaboration with the London School of Economics) […]
An accomplished serial entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in education, Madhumati Narayanan is the founder-chief executive of Mpower Learning Solutions Pvt. Ltd, an m-learning (mobile technology to aid learning) education services company started in 2011, and formally launched in February this year. The mission of this Chennai-based start-up is to offer trainer-led video coaching to make […]
Ravi Shankar is CEO and chairman of Bangalore-based BrainSTARS (Brains for Science and Technology Aided Reforms in Society) Services Pvt. Ltd (estb.2004), an education solutions company offering well-researched, innovative and activity-based maths and science learning programmes for class III-XII students. With a current headcount of 25 — comprising researchers, educationists, artists, technocrats, and psychologists — BrainSTARS […]
In parliament, the press and the academy, France is bitterly divided over whether its universities should be allowed to teach courses in English. However, recent findings show that the use of English is widespread in French higher education, suggesting that the intense debate has been overtaken by events.
On May 28, the French National Assembly passed […]
The first massive open online courses (moocs) on the UK-based Futurelearn platform will go live in autumn and are being developed for use on mobile devices, the company’s chief executive has revealed.
Simon Nelson says he believes his company, which has 21 UK university partners signed up to offer free online courses, will gain an advantage […]
Located in the heart of high-tech silicon valley, San José State University is a combination of early 19th century red-tiled Spanish Revival-style architecture and modern, shiny research, teaching and library buildings. It is also at the centre of one of the biggest debates in US higher education, thanks to an experiment that is combining conventional […]
In 2006, Michael Shattock, visiting professor at the Institute of Education, University of London, travelled to Ghana to advise what was probably the country’s most prestigious institution.
What he discovered at the University of Ghana, he says, was “absolute chaos”: it had 151 separate bank accounts, up to 10 students sharing a bedroom and not even […]
“Fly-in, fly-out” academics are a source of frustration for Chinese students taking UK degrees in their own country, a new report says. Around 38,000 students in China were studying for qualifications taught by a total of 70 British higher education institutions last year, either through a branch campus, partnerships with Chinese universities or via distance […]
When a fresh face enters a vice chancellor’s office, a revised strategic plan invariably emerges from under the door a few months later. But the University of South Australia’s new vice chancellor David Lloyd has decided to break with this closed-door tradition and instead host a giant 48-hour online brainstorming conversation about university strategy with […]
The widespread disrepute the Vatican-based Roman Catholic Church has suffered because of child abuse by ordained priests, has created a crisis within the pioneer and oldest Christian church with an estimated 2 billion followers in faith around the world.
Informed opinion is almost unanimous that the church’s major problem is a leadership challenge. The issues that […]
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B-school profs need industry experience
Vasudev Murthy is visiting faculty at IIM-B and managing partner, Focal Concepts, Bangalore
It’s the time of the year when an estimated 500,000 college and university graduates and/or early and mid-career business managers are getting ready to enter India’s 4,500 B-schools. They have been pumped up by parents, teachers and the media that an MBA (Master […]