Promoted by the Education Today Foundation (ETF, estb. 2006) Little Aryans Pre-K is a network of six top-ranked preschools spread across Kalyan, Dombivali and Ambernath towns in suburban Mumbai. Founded by Bharat Malik, a nationally renowned edupreneur, ETF also runs two K-12 CBSE (Delhi) affiliated Arya Gurukul Schools in Kalyan and Ambernath, the K-10 […]
With more and more schools adopting virtual learning pedagogies since imposition of the Covid-19 induced lockdown in mid-March, here is an interview with Ms. Divya Lal, Managing Director of Fliplearn Education Pvt. Ltd, a company which offers K-12 schools a virtual learning platform to enable delivery of an unhindered learn from home school experience, while […]
UNESCO had declared in its World Social Science Report 2013, “The Social Sciences have a critical contribution to make, in helping us understand, imagine, and craft a more sustainable future for all.” That future is upon us, and the need for equitable and sustainable development is greater than ever before. Social scientists […]
With the Covid-19 pandemic and national lockdown forcing mass closure of education institutions, several state governments have issued circulars directing private school managements to defer/ waive tuition and other fees during the lockdown period. Moreover, some state governments such as Karnataka, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh have issued notifications prohibiting private schools from conducting online classes […]
In the thick of the unprecedented economic disruption following the ongoing national lockdown prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic, India’s powerful 20 million strong politician-bureaucrat brotherhood steeped in socialist dogma, seems to have discerned an opportunity to deliver a hammer blow to private education – Dilip Thakore
The country’s 375,000 private unaided schools, an estimated 400,000 budget […]
The abrupt halt to international travel is more painful for Australian universities than their counterparts in other English-speaking countries, because they lean more heavily on revenue from foreign students. More than 440,000 such students enrolled in Australian institutes of higher education in 2019. At the last count, they took up roughly 30 percent of capacity. […]
In some parts of Asia, masked but cautious students and faculty are beginning to fill up classrooms, laboratories and dormitories once more. If the spread of Covid-19 continues to be contained, most universities in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao and Singapore expect to be open for at least some in-person teaching in the 2020- 21 […]
While publicly dangling possibilities and preparations for campus reopenings, US colleges must keep a serious internal focus on strengthening their remote learning options, advises their chief quality assurance advocate. US colleges seem to be making good progress towards online proficiency, says Judith Eaton, president of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. “This is an opportunity […]
First-year students are set to be a priority across Europe when campuses tentatively reopen in autumn (September), to avoid an increase in dropout rates — but low reliance on tuition fees means there is less pressure to restart in-person teaching for some continental institutions.
There is a patchwork of different approaches across the continent. German universities […]
Of all the regions covered by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, Asia has arguably advanced the most in terms of higher education in recent years. Three Asian universities now feature among the Top 25 of the global league table — remarkable progress given that four years ago, in 2016, there […]
A survey has revealed that the French public has lost confidence in scientists during the coronavirus pandemic, largely because of a policy U-turn over face masks and the antics of a “populist” microbiologist who has vocally championed hydroxychloroquine, the treatment touted by US President Donald Trump. Since the crisis began, trust in […]
Katha’s pioneer initiative of providing alternative education and skills training to 9.8 million slum children in Delhi NCR is recognised worldwide – Dilip Bobb
One week after the Covid-19 pandemic induced national lockdown was implemented in end March, Geeta Dharmarajan, founder of Delhi-based NGO Katha (estb.1988), wrote a children’s book titled The Mystery […]
A spate of newly promoted globally-benchmarked private universities are set to highlight the severe inadequacies of government colleges and universities. Promoted through specially enacted legislation of state governments (education is a concurrent subject under the Constitution) which tend to be less nitpicking and fault-finding than the mandarins of the Union HRD ministry and its handmaiden […]
The latest news that the apples of discord have divided the London-based Hinduja brothers, one of the greatest entrepreneurial families of Indian business, has aroused mixed feelings in your editor who has interacted with them off and on for over four decades. On the one hand, it’s impossible not to admire their […]
The belated decision of Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL), the Indian subsidiary of the London/Amsterdam-based globe-girdling household and personal care consumer products behemoth (annual revenue: $5.4 billion/Rs.38,785 crore) to drop the descriptive ‘fair’ from its best-selling Fair & Lovely (F&L) skin-lightening face cream, has come as a vindication for your editors in EducationWorld. […]
Over the past decade, we have witnessed unprecedented churning in India. Iconic leaders of the freedom movement including Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru have been criticised and reviewed as never before. Different groups in Indian society project new icons to take their place in what a historian has described as “history wars”. Often, these new […]
Why bad things can’t happen to good people! Because apples can’t grow on mango trees; Atman in Ravi; Air Institute of Realization; Rs.122; Pages 175
It is the human condition for every person to want happiness and conversely, to avoid pain. Yet, why is happiness so elusive and pain so ubiquitous? Why is there so much […]
We are displaced: My journey & stories from refugee girls around the world – Malala Yousafzai (with Liz Welch); Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Rs.399 Pages 212+xi
Displacement — within and across countries — of large numbers of people, owing to political instability or civil strife, is a fact of contemporary life. UN statistics indicate that nearly […]
Nikhil Lemos (12), a class VII student of the Navrachna Sama School, Vadodara is one of eight winners from an estimated 2 lakh school children around the world who submitted entries for the May 2020 edition of the Coronavirus App Challenge of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.
Nikhil’s ‘Know the Corona’ app — […]
Within three years of taking to the shooting range, Kulesara village (Uttar Pradesh)-based teenage sharpshooter Shivam Thakur (17) bagged gold and silver medals in individual and group categories of the men’s 10m air pistol shooting event at the Indo-Malaysia International Championship 2020 organised by the Malaysia School Games and Activity Development Foundation in Kuala Lumpur […]
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The Sonipat (Haryana)-based Ashoka University hosted a ‘Shaping Organisations of the Future’, a virtual conference on June 27. The conference was addressed by business, finance and industry leaders including Pramod Bhasin, Genpact; Amitabh Chaudhry, Axis Bank; Deep Kalra, MakeMyTrip, and Ashish Dhawan, Ashoka University. The conference was attended by over 2,000 […]
Bhubaneswar, June 11. The Odisha government has cancelled undergraduate and postgrad final semester examinations of all study programmes except medicine, in light of the Covid-19 pandemic spike countrywide. However pending theory and practical examinations of medical courses will be conducted according to schedule, said a government spokesperson.
Addressing the media, the spokesperson said this decision was […]
“On one hand, a porous lockdown makes sure that the virus will still exist and as you said, it is still waiting to hit you when you will unlock. So you have not solved that problem. But you have definitely decimated the economy. You flattened the wrong curve. It is not the infection curve, it […]
The Madras High Court has passed strictures against the AIADMK-led state government for restraining private schools and colleges from collecting tuition fees from parents, as this has led to non-payment of salaries to teachers and non-teaching staff. A government order issued on April 20 under the Disaster Management Act, 2005, had directed […]
An out-of-the-blue statewide ban imposed by the Karnataka government on online teaching-learning in pre-primaries and lower primary (up to class V) schools on June 15, provoked mass outrage within middle class parents and teachers’ communities and resulted in a writ petition filed in the Karnataka high court by several private schools grouped […]
The coronavirus aka covid-19 pandemic has swooped down on the country’s 375,000 private unaided (independent) schools and estimated 400,000 budget private schools (BPS) like a totally unexpected black swan calamity. With the economy in total lockdown for 68 days and a large number of employees and workmen in MSMEs (micro, small and medium) firms and […]
Maharashtra’s teachers’ community has become the unsuspecting casualty of the state’s messy post Covid-19 lockdown education system. Scores of preschool to higher secondary private school teachers have lost their jobs with school managements citing financial inability to make even partial payment of salaries because parents haven’t paid children’s school fees for the past four months.
The […]
The fifth edition of the NIRF (National Institutional Ranking Framework) Rankings 2020 released by the Union ministry of human resource development on June 11 has generated considerable excitement in some higher education institutions (HEIs), especially government colleges and universities.
This year, a total of 3,771 institutions (294 universities, 1,071 engineering […]
I’m sure your brilliant cover story ‘50 leaders who can revive Indian education’ (EW June) has brought considerable cheer to many parents like me who are disillusioned with the quality of the education system. Now with the Covid-19 pandemic forcing closure of all education institutions, the future of our children and youth is uncertain.
I was […]
With the unlock 2.0 strategy of the country announced by the Union government on June 29, it’s now official. All education institutions which have been closed since mid-March will be obliged to remain shut until July 31. This means that children in preschool-class XII in north and western India where the school year begins in […]
The troop skirmishes in the Galwan River Valley sector of the 3,488 km undemarcated India-China border which extends from Aksai Chin in the north-west all the way to Arunachal Pradesh in the northeast, that resulted in the brutal clubbing to death of a colonel and 20 men of the Indian Army on June 15, is […]
The capacity of the people of this country to endure suffering and official ineptitude is matched by a analytical skills deficit and chronic incapability to derive logical conclusions. How else can one explain India’s sustained love affair with Soviet-style socialism which has collapsed in its country of origin and around the world?
Jawaharlal Nehru, post-independence India’s […]
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Decoupling & crash of civilisations
Sudheendra Kulkarni was aide of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1999-2004) and currently the Mumbai-based founder of Forum for South Asia
“The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to shake off our ancient prejudices, and to build the Earth.” — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955)
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