Managements of a multiplying number of cool alternative schools take a broader view of education than mere academic excellence and are providing a varied mix of experiential and life skills learning, cognitive development, environment awareness and co-curricular and sports education – Summiya Yasmeen
Within India’s 60 million upwardly mobile middle class households which have some idea […]
This celebratory event was a sequel to the annual EducationWorld India Higher Education Rankings 2018-19 league tables published in May in which 10,264 sample respondents ranked the country’s Top 100 private universities, private engineering institutes, B-schools and arts, science and commerce colleges – Dilip Thakore
The second EducationWorld India Higher Education Rankings 2018-19 Awards Nite staged in […]
The low-profile EDHEC Business School with campuses in Lille, Nice, Paris, London and Singapore and an aggregate enrolment of 8,117 students, offers excellent infrastructure and English language curriculums at almost half the price of Americas top B-schools -Paromita Sengupta
For business management education, America with its globally-renowned blue-chip B-schools — Harvard (estb.1908), Chicago Booth (1898), MIT […]
In the EW India School Rankings 2017-18, St. Georges College, Mussoorie is ranked among the country’s Top 10 boys boarding schools. Moreover the school has been awarded the highest student-parent satisfaction rating in India in a recent survey conducted by Great Place to Study, UK – Sruthy Susan Ullas
St. George’s College was promoted in 1853 by […]
NYIT enjoys an international reputation for offering career oriented programmes to over 10,000 students enrolled in its three campuses in New York and three overseas
Founded in 1955, the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) enjoys a transnational reputation for providing career-oriented professional education to over 10,000 students enrolled in its three campuses in New York […]
Bridging the gap between old and new IIMs
The IIM community comprises 20 IIMs spanning 20 states. IIM-Calcutta came into existence as the first national institute for postgraduate studies and research in business management in 1961, followed by IIM-Ahmedabad the same year. IIM-Bangalore was established in 1973 and IIM Jammu, the last to be added to […]
Why Indian graduates are unemployable
India produces over 10 million graduates from 39,000 colleges every year. These are youth who have received 15 years of education in schools and colleges across the country. Therefore, they should be ready to quickly transform into productive employees of the millions of companies, firms and business enterprises in India. Instead […]
Explaining India’s higher education decline
Let’s look at the underlying causes that have contributed to the decline and steady deterioration of India’s public higher education system during the past seven decades after independence.
The first question to ask is why should government invest in higher education at all. Two answers come to mind. The first is that higher […]
Placing India on the global research map
All the world’s top-ranked universities in the league tables of Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), Times Higher Education (THE) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, excel in research. The logic of great universities focusing on research is simple — it attracts good faculty, higher grants and funding, but most important, it signals that […]
Corporate intervention compulsion
As India transforms into a developed nation and a $5 trillion economy during the next decade, the education system will require major overhaul. Currently, almost 40 million youth are enrolled in the country’s estimated 800 universities and 39,000 colleges. Moreover, 150 million school-leaving children sign up for some form of education or training […]
For those of us who graduated from schools of hard knocks — the undersigned survived eight years in a boys boarding school in which forced learning, cold showers, frequent caning and bloody face-offs behind the chapel, were normative — the liberal culture of new-age co-ed alternative schools seem like very heaven. Although routine corporal punishment […]
Decades of neglect of primary-secondary education and continuous under-investment in the police-justice system have converted post-independence India into the quintessential soft state, resulting in a steady descent into anarchy. The most obvious manifestations of anarchy being let loose are lynch mobs proliferating countrywide, stringing up and murdering randomly selected strangers in local communities on suspicion […]
On May 14, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance government at the Centre completed four years in office. This is a good time to assess its performance and make a judgement of the extent to which it has redeemed its promise made in the run-up to General Election 2014 of radically reshaping the Indian economy. In […]
I enjoyed reading your cover story ‘Life skills: new mantra of Indian education’ (EW June). It’s regrettable that the majority of parents in India are reluctant to spend time or money developing the life skills of their children, and are obsessed with academic grades.
Recently, an IAS aspirant ended his life hours after he was denied […]
Preschool education for children in the 0-6 age group, hitherto the exclusive domain of unregulated private edupreneurs, may soon experience government regulation. The Delhi-based National Council of Educational Research & Training (NCERT), the country’s largest school textbooks publisher and K-12 education think tank of the Union ministry of human resource development (HRD), is ready with […]
It’s an unwritten rule of Indian politics that in the final year before general and state elections, leaders of all political parties experience an acute need to do justice to the country’s scheduled castes, tribes and other backward castes and classes. With the legislative assembly election scheduled to be called within the next 14 months in […]
Since under her leadership, the unfancied Trinamool Congress (TMC) party famously routed the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM)-led Left Front government, which ruled West Bengal uninterruptedly for 34 years (1977-2011), in the historic assembly election of 2011, chief minister Mamata Banerjee has come a long way. But, even though TMC was re-elected in 2016, and […]
Government regulation of tuition fees has become a major headache for private schools and higher education institutions in the southern seaboard state of Tamil Nadu (pop. 72 million). Complaints to the effect that they are spending more time and money in courts of law than in administering their education institutions, are becoming louder.
On June […]
The JD(S)-Congress coalition government of Karnataka (pop. 68 million), cobbled together after much parleying and deliberation following an inconclusive election in May, intends to “streamline private schools” during its tenure. As a first step, the new government is reportedly set to deny NOCs (no objection certificates) to private school promoters for three years. The objective: […]
“The 21st century illiterates are not those who can’t read and write; they are those who can’t learn, unlearn and re-learn. Things change so fast by the time you master something, you have to relearn again.”
Byju Raveendran, founder of Byju’s The Learning App (Outlook, June 4)
“It is utterly myopic to hold that students should not […]
CHANDIGARH, June 2. Girl students enrolled in government secondary and higher secondary schools statewide will be offered sanitary napkins at a subsidised price of Re.1 from August. Women from BPL (below poverty line) households will also be covered under the scheme, says a state government communiqué.
This decision was taken by Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar […]
MUMBAI, June 21. Texas Instruments (TI) announced its next edition of the DST-TI India Innovation Challenge Design Contest (IICDC) open for registration from June 20 until August 31, 2018. A dedicated TI-IICDC page was launched on the MyGov portal. Students can register for the contest at https://innovate.mygov.in/india-innovation-challenge-design-contest-2018/.
The Union department of science and technology (DST) and Texas […]
Noida-based Mrigank Pawagi (14) is the latest teen to join the platoon of precocious gaming app developers of the country. One of five national champions of Google India’s version 3.0 online Web Rangers Contest 2017, the results of which were declared on Internet Safety Day (February 6), Mrigank was feted and awarded a Samsung tablet […]
An electrical engineering graduate of Uttarakhand’s reputed University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, Meerut (UP)-based Archit Agarwal (24) is among 55 awardees of this year’s prestigious Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) Award for inventing an On-Board Diagnostic Data Analysis System (OBDAS).
OBDAS is to a car what a black box is to an airplane. […]
In May Prof. James Tooley and I were at a conference in Rome organised by the University of Notre Dame, the well-known American Catholic university in association with the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences of the Vatican. One of the main speakers at this conference was Fr. Jose Paul, secretary of the Agartala (Tripura)-based Holy […]
Jesus in Asia, R.S. Sugirtharajah, Harvard University Press; Rs.1,652, Pages 320
Jesus in Asia is a significant contribution from an Asian perspective to Christology, the author being a professor of biblical hermeneutics at the University of Birmingham (UK). It comes as a corrective intervention in the cultural adaptation and appropriation of Jesus of Nazareth by western academic theologians. The […]
I am indeed their brother: loving & serving Allah’s poor, Fr. Bob McCahill, Gujarat Sahitya Prakash; Rs.150, pages 158
This is one of the most inspiring books I’ve read and it’s about a truly inspiring person: a US-born Catholic priest who has spent over 40 years tending to the indigent and sick in Bangladesh, where he continues to […]
Dr. Mukti Mishra
President, Centurion University of Technology and Management & Chairman, Gram Tarang, Bhubaneswar
Where would you place education on your national list of priorities?
Gandhiji said, “What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts but right education.” My priorities are education, health and livelihood in that order.
How best to upgrade […]
There’s a conspicuous conspiracy of silence on the subject of wasteful government expenditure within the Indian establishment including the intelligentsia and media.
In this connection, it’s pertinent to note that for years, the Union budget didn’t disclose the salary and wages bill of the Central government. This glaring omission prompted your editor to file an RTI […]
The glaring failure of the Air India privatisation initiative of the Central government — not a single bid was received for the 74 percent equity stake of this bloated public sector airline offered to all investors worldwide on May 31 when bidding closed — is further proof that the country’s neta-babu brotherhood ensconced in the […]
The intensive media trial of ICICI banK chief executive Chanda Kochhar for presiding over a committee of this blue-chip private sector bank which granted huge loans aggregating Rs.3,250 crore to Videocon Industries in 2012-15, after which the latter had paid a Rs.391 crore consultancy fees to a firm promoted by Kochhar’s husband, and reluctance of […]
Earlier last month (May) Peking University played host to perhaps the grandest global gathering ever of the higher-education business. Senior figures from the world’s most famous universities — Harvard and Yale, Oxford and Cambridge among them — enjoyed or endured a two-hour opening ceremony followed by a packed programme of mandatory cultural events interspersed with […]
More universities are expected to consider adopting Sweden’s “block teaching” system after a pilot at an Australian institution exceeded expectations.
Melbourne’s Victoria University says that it will roll out across all undergraduate year groups the model of making students focus on one topic at a time for four weeks, rather than the traditional Australian approach of […]
In many ways Zhang Dayin, a 30-year-old doctoral student of finance at the University of California, Berkeley, is living the American dream. He grew up in a small town in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu, the son of a physically challenged seller of lottery tickets. A decade ago he became the first person in […]
For almost 30 years, branch campuses set up by foreign universities have been a central part of Malaysia’s higher education strategy, and it now hosts outposts of 12 overseas institutions. It’s an approach that has helped to establish the country as a leading international education hub, boosted by its proximity to south-east Asia’s star education […]
Having “good” researchers teach undergraduate students does not improve their grades, according to a study in the Economics of Education Review, which also found that students rated highly-cited researchers as poor teachers.
The study analysed the grades and teacher evaluations of thousands of students from the University of Maastricht’s School of Business and Economics, where students […]
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Karnataka: Poor SSLC results put students at disadvantage in PUC admissions - Reshma Ravishanker The results of Karnataka’s SSLC exams will be disadvantageous for state syllabus students seeking admissions into Pre-University ... 
