EducationWorld June 06

Emotional Intelligence — Why it can matter more than IQ by Daniel Goleman; Bantam Books; Price: Rs.220; 413 pp

Not a few knowledgeable social scientists among others have often remarked that India’s global reputation for spirituality and piety is not entirely deserved, and that beyond this facade the subcontinent has always been a cruel and violent arena with […]

Growing popularity of cruise holidaysContemporary vacationers are increasingly opting for leisure cruise holidays, now an option available around the world. A wide array of choices are offered by cruise liners sailing to 1,800 ports of callOnce upon a time before the invention of jumbo jets which sharply reduced the cost and time of international travel, […]

One of the advantages of having been a pioneer nutritionist is that many of the aware people who walked into my very first health food store in Mumbai in 1990, have since become friends. My current business, although without a retail outlet, still prompts enough off-the-beaten-track people to search me out. It’s one of the […]

While on the way to a wild animal park with three of my grandchildren (Christian (9), Cayleb (7), and Cara (5)), we got into a discussion about which sport each of them liked best. The boys recited their predictable list — football, basketball, wrestling, etc — until Cara spoke up.

“I like baseball best,” she […]

Your Counsellor RepliesAfter completing B.Sc next year, I want to do an MBA in the US. Please provide information about admission requirements and fees. Also, which are the top ten universities for business studies in the US?Arun Kolhatkar, PuneTo qualify for admission into an American B-school, you need to write the GMAT and TOEFL exams. […]

A booming capital market, flood of foreign investment, frantic mergers and acquisition activity and indigenous corporates targeting foreign takeovers have made investment banking a hot new career

Even India’s modest two-steps-forward-one-step-back economic liberalisation initiatives of the past two decades have transformed the nation into the second fastest growing economy worldwide. A booming capital market, a […]

Slowly, perhaps imperceptibly but inexorably, awareness that quality education for all is the prerequisite of national development — and the uninterrupted publication of EducationWorld for the past six years may have something to do with it — is impacting itself upon the collective conscious. Consequently in spite of the worst efforts of the political class and other […]

Once the son of a millionaire asked his father: “Papa, since we have enough money, what will education do for me? Will it teach me how to earn more money?”

The father replied, “Son, education will prepare you for life; earning money is only one of the things it will teach you.”

Preparing for life […]

On April 5, Union human resources minister Arjun Singh proposed an additional 27 percent quota in Central government promoted institutions of higher education including IITs, IIMs and Central universities for OBCs (other backward castes) to uplift them educationally, economically and socially. If this proposal is accepted, the new quota will be in addition to the 22.5 […]

The Pune-based Dina Institute of Hotel and Business Management (DIHBM) has signed an agreement with the Academy of Carver Aviation Private Ltd, Mumbai (estb. 1997) to offer professional training programmes for air hostess/ flight stewards, and travel and tourism studies for undergraduates and graduate students.

“Many young girls dream of becoming air hostesses and […]

They said it”It is often said that caste is a reality in India. I couldn‚t agree more. But your government is in the process of making caste the only reality in India‚¦” — Pratap Bhanu Mehta, member convener of the National Knowledge Commission, in his resignation letter to the prime minister protesting OBC reservations (May […]

Delhi

Clouded Peoples Report

The May 22 second anniversary celebration of the Congress-led UPA government which against all expectations and predictions (EducationWorld excepted), was voted into power at the Centre two years ago, proved to be a damp squib. In particular the UPA government’s much-hyped initiative of transforming 21st century India into a knowledge society under the […]

I read your detailed cover story on reservation for OBCs (in institutions of higher education) in your latest issue (EW May) with great interest. Congratulations for the rare degree of objectivity with which you have analysed this complex issue.

After reading the cover stories in EW and India Today (May 15), some things have become very clear. First there is […]

The outcomes of the legislative assembly elections in the five states (West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and Pondicherry) which went to the polls in April-May reflect the growing public demand for balanced, equitable economic growth. There is a discernible sentiment — as reflected in the triumph in West Bengal and Kerala of the coalitions […]

One of the beneficial fallouts of the intense additional reservations-for-OBCs debate which has convulsed the nation is that it has focused the most active and intelligent minds countrywide upon the numerous problems and infirmities — which were hitherto swept under a now very-bulging carpet — of India’s moribund education system. While as yet there is no […]