– Mary Shanti Priya, Principal, Vista International School
A school is the temple of education and children are equivalent to Gods. I feel honoured and privileged to partake in the operations of an educational institution. In the course of its evolution over a decade, Vista has witnessed an impressive transformation from a conventional school with a […]
– Suprabha Menon, Principal, Navrachana School, Sama, Vadodara
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better. At Navrachana School, Sama, the story has a narrative that dates back 57 years. The school’s motto ‘Fostering the spirit of Excellence’ embodies this very idea practised and pursued for five decades and counting.
The results of the […]
– Swoyan Satyendu, COO, ODM Educational Group
A modest school built on the traditional foundations of education that has transformed into a trusted institution delivering imparting education and futuristic learning experience to students, ODM Educational Group’s strong belief and passion for evolving and unleashing the immense innate potential present in every child has […]
Head of School James Costain’s educational philosophy and leadership vision are wholly aligned with the vision and passion for education at Legacy School, Bengaluru. He feels a great honour and privilege in leading the continued journey of Legacy School and its learning community. “Our goal is to authentically progress the journey of the school towards […]
– Shishir Jaipuria, Chairman, Seth Anandram Jaipuria Group of Educational Institutions; Chairman FICCI Arise (Alliance For Reimagining School Education)
A tectonic shift is underway in the world of education. The cumulative forces of modern technology, new-age pedagogy, and emergence of future learning systems are persistently nudging the 21st century education towards a new paradigm.
Educators, learners, academics, […]
– Mukesh Sharma, founder-CEO, Prometheus School, Noida
“When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience.” – His Highness- Dalai Lama
Compassion is a virtue that cannot be cultivated through dictum but can be sowed, nurtured and developed. You might know all […]
Dr. B. Ebenezar, Principal & Head, SVKM School, Jadcherla
With decades of rich experience in education right from preschool through higher education, Shri Vile Parle Kelavani Mandal (SVKM), Jadcherla endeavours to bring in an altogether different dimension to school education. Our school aspires to emerge as a centre of excellence that provides a conducive environment for […]
Meet the two gifted artists of Delhi Public School Sector 45 Gurgaon — Divyanshi Singhal and Anushka Daw. Both are making waves internationally and have brought laurels to their school and country!
Ten-year-old Divyanshi Singhal was adjudged winner in the International Children’s Mangrove Calendar Competition 2022. She was also one of 34 winners of the Illustration […]
-Divya Lal, Founder and CEO, Fliplearn Education Pvt. Ltd.
The power of data is exponential. In recent times, data usage has become increasingly vital. As the role of technology becomes multifold, it generates huge amounts of information that can yield meaningful insights on any domain. This has resulted in a data industry boom over the past […]
Work on formulating the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 presented to the nation after an interregnum of 34 years, began in 2016 when the TSR Subramanian Committee working at manic speed, presented the first draft. Evidently, the committee’s report to liberalise and deregulate the education sector on the lines of liberalisation of the Indian economy […]
An Afghan lecturer and human rights activist has described being beaten daily by Taliban prison guards, amid mounting warnings about the prospects for academia in the country. Scholars teaching contentious subjects have expressed concern that they will be targeted since US forces’ hurried retreat in August 2021, but although fears of imprisonment and beatings are […]
Even as caste discrimination continues to plague Indian higher education, debate about the best way to tackle the issue in universities abroad — and even over its very existence — continues to polarise academia.
India’s caste system traditionally grouped people by four major castes based on their ancestry, with the lowest class, Dalits — formerly known […]
Filipino academics have called for the protection of historical rigour as they steel themselves for Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr’s assumption of the country’s presidency later this month. The electoral victory of Ferdinand Marcos’ son represents a dramatic turnaround for the family after its return from exile in the 1990s. The rule of Ferdinand Marcos between […]
Education is not always an unalloyed good. Over the past few decades, East Asia has seen a stunning rise in the incidence of myopia, aka short-sightedness. And a growing pile of evidence suggests that the main underlying reason for this is education — specifically, the fact that children spend large parts of the day in […]
Nepal’s emergence as Australia’s biggest source of offshore students has fanned fears that the visa programme has been subverted into an “unsponsored work permits” scheme.
Immigration expert Abul Rizvi says ballooning numbers of successful student visa applications from the Himalayan nation suggest that lax rules may be luring migrant workers Down Under on study pretexts.
This could […]
Several UK universities are raising their headline postgraduate fees by 10 percent or more next year, suggests an analysis of the latest course data for 2022-23. By benchmarking data on individual courses collected from institutional websites, The Knowledge Partnership (TKP) suggests that ten institutions will raise tuition fees by 10, with many more increasing fees […]
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine nears its fourth month, much of the focus remains on fighting and survival. When can we talk about the reconstruction of Ukrainian higher education? “Now, I think, because we have to understand that reconstruction will be taking place in stages,” says Inna Sovsun, professor at the Kyiv School of Economics […]
According to the latest data of the Union education ministry, 23,000 Indian students are reading medicine in China, 18,000 in Ukraine, 16,000 in Russia, and 15,000 in the Philippines. Every year, thousands of aspiring medicos are driven out of the country because of a huge demand-supply imbalance in medical education, writes Summiya Yasmeen
The Russian invasion […]
National education policy 2020
On the second anniversary of the presentation of NEP 2020 to Parliament and the nation, grave doubts have arisen about bona fide implementation of this policy formulated after an interregnum of 34 years, writes Dilip Thakore
Launched with great expectations and considerable fanfare on July 29, 2020 after an interregnum of 34 years, […]
“The RSS has done this at their shakhas for years now, catching hold of children at a very young age, implanting in them the story of a narrow ‘Akhand Bharat’, killing their scientific temperament and replacing it with extreme edicts — an action plan entirely based on the idea that young brains are more malleable…”
-M. Somasekhar (Hyderabad)
In sharp contrast with BJP governments at the Centre and in several states which are acquiring a reputation for neglecting and even dumbing down early childhood and primary-secondary education, Telangana’s state government headed by high-profile chief minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao and his son and heir-apparent the US educated K.T. Rama Rao, is winning […]
Karnataka’s school textbooks revision row shows no sign of dying down and could become a major issue in the state legislative assembly elections scheduled for next summer. Despite the state’s BJP government having consented to make addenda to new textbooks already distributed to class VI-X students for the academic year 2022-23 which began on May […]
-Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
A teacher recruitment scandal dating back to 2016 continues to haunt the state’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) government, now in its third term in office.
On May 18, a single-judge bench of the Calcutta high court ordered a CBI probe into the process of the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) for recruiting teachers for […]
-Dipta Joshi (Mumbai)
Dramatic events on the political stage in end-June which culminated in the resignation of chief minister Uddhav Thackeray and end of the tripartite Shiv Sena, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Congress party coalition government after 31 months in office, has clouded the future of 2,088 aspirants for the coveted position of assistant professors […]
-Autar Nehru (Delhi)
Despite widespread criticism of the BJP government at the Centre and the Union education ministry for lethargic implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, which was presented to Parliament and the nation on July 29, 2020, early childhood care and education (ECCE) professionals are deriving some comfort from the roll-out of the […]
-Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
Established in 2002, Nanritam (‘truth’) is a Purulia (West Bengal)-based NGO promoted by Ranjana Sengupta, founder-secretary, and Prof. P.K. Giri, president of Nanritam Society, together with five like-minded professionals — Dr. Shyamal K. Datta, Dr. Osman Ghani, Milika Datta, Ranjit Mukherji, and Dr. Bharati Bakshi with Prof. Kaushik Basu, former World Bank chief […]
A key ingredient that parents seek from academic institutes is international exposure and global pathways and to provide their children with a well-rounded education.
JBCN Education runs 4 International schools in Mumbai, and has been actively working toward creating a global curriculum for its students. To that effect, students of the graduating IBDP and A levels […]
Sited on a green 12-acre campus in Nagpur (pop.2.5 million) — Maharashtra’s third largest city — Delhi Public School, Mihan, (DPS Mihan, estb.2018) has quickly established a sterling reputation for progressive K-10 education provision. Within the short span of four years, this CBSE-affiliated co-ed day school has emerged as one of the orange city’s premier […]
-Autar Nehru (Delhi)
With incidents of religious, caste and communal violence rising countrywide, protest voices of the post-millennial generation are becoming louder. A case in point is Gurugram-based Riaan Kumar (18) who is determined “to promote inter-faith communal harmony through enlightenment and public policy.”
A class XII arts student of the high-ranked The Shri Ram School, Aravalli, […]
Watershed: how we destroyed india’s water & how we can save it, written by Mridula Ramesh, published by Hachette india is priced at Rs.699. A compelling narrative that traces India’s water history over 4,000 years to highlight a grave crisis confronting latter-day India, writes Mohammad Imtiyaz
Mridula Ramesh’s compelling work traces the trajectory of India’s water […]
A Brief History of Equality, written by Thomas Piketty, published by Harvard University Press is priced at Rs.799. Economist Thomas Piketty summarises his previous works to make his research accessible to a wider audience, writes TCA Ranganathan
Professor of economics at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences and associate chair at the Paris […]
Although the mighty British Empire on which the sun never set has been reduced to the status of a lonely nation exiled to the periphery of Europe following Brexit in 2020, there is something admirable about the tenacity with which Brits are hanging in there by drawing on their indisputably momentous history and soft power. […]
The seemingly placid implementation pace of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, which has provoked EW’s July cover story, is deceptive, according to a deep-dive investigation conducted by the Delhi-based daily Indian Express (June 21).
Twenty-four obscure academics with strong links with the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh), the ideological mentor organisation of the Bharatiya Janata Party […]
Readers acquainted with the voluminous features written by your editor in disparate publications including Business India, Businessworld and EducationWorld (estb.1999) are certain to be well-aware that I’m not an admirer of the country’s 256 Central government public sector enterprises (PSEs). And an equivalent number of PSEs promoted by state governments across the country. Continuous investment […]
In 20 bachelor’s and 150 Masters degree programmes, English is the medium of instruction in this public research institution consistently ranked the Netherlands’ #1 varsity, writes Reshma Ravishanker
The Netherlands’ third oldest varsity, the University of Amsterdam (UvA, estb.1632) is internationally reputed for teaching and research excellence. A publicly-funded research institution, UvA is consistently ranked the […]
Under the mentorship model unthrea-tened by audit-style evaluation teachers are likely to experiment, innovate and improve classroom management and lessons planning and delivery, Prachi Bhardwaj
Upgrading the quality of teaching-learning in India’s 17,000 teacher training colleges is one of the most important prerequisites of introducing academic rigour and improving students’ learning outcomes. This is acknowledged in […]
Korea tourism invitation
Bengaluru, June 23. Korea Tourism Organisation (KTO), India, an agency of the Republic of Korea (RoK, South Korea) under its ministry of culture, sports and tourism, organised a webinar in collaboration with EducationWorld to invite schools across India to visit Korea for education tours.
“South Korea is an educationally advanced country which spends […]
Delhi: Major digital skilling drive
New Delhi, June 6. Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan launched a class VII-graduation digital skilling initiative for 10 million students. The programme will provide skilling, reskilling and upskilling education to students via internships, apprenticeships and employment in emerging technologies.
“This is the first-ever collaboration on a national scale between the ministries […]
Distinguished philosopher
My compliments to you for the highly insightful and comprehensive cover story ‘Why every educator should revisit J. Krishnamurti?’ (EW June). Krishnamurti was the sole Indian existential philosopher who advocated individualism in education development. The spirit of his education philosophy needs to be replicated in India’s faltering K-12 education system.
You have elevated EW […]
-Dipta Joshi (Mumbai)
Mumbai-based sex education evangelist Anju Kish is the founder-director of UnTaboo Education Pvt. Ltd (estb.2015). The company conducts age-appropriate and gender inclusive safety and sex education workshops for children in the 8-18 years age group. Over 30 progressive primary-secondary schools including Dhirubhai Ambani International School, Oberoi International, Mumbai, Mayo College, Ajmer and The […]
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