EducationWorld June 16

WHEN YOUR CORRESPONDENT WAS A LAW student in London over four decades ago, if someone had predicted that the day would come during my lifetime when a Paki Muslim would be elected lord mayor of London, I would have dialled 100 for the men in white coats to come and take him away. But that’s […]

India’s Broken Tryst by Tavleen Singh harper collins; Price: Rs.699; Pages: 414

Well-known political columnist and author Tavleen Singh’s fourth book begins with the author relaxing in the garden of her luxury home in Alibaug, the retreat of Mumbai’s rich and famous — a mere three miles across the sea from dirty, teeming Mumbai in which all except […]

An alumna of Hyderabad University and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Dr. Leena Srivastava is the newly-appointed vice chancellor of TERI University, Delhi — India’s premier postgrad institution for environment and sustainable development studies. Dilip Thakore interviewed her over e-mail. Excerpts:

What are the main objectives for which Teri University (TU) was established?

TERI University was […]

Universities in Canada will receive up to C$2 billion (Rs.10,312 crore) to help them modernise their infrastructure, the government has announced.

The new Post-Secondary Institutions Strategic Investment Fund, which will be given to higher education institutions over three years from 2016-17, was announced on March 22 in the first budget of Canada’s new Liberal government, led […]

“Some of my friends think I’m a snob,” admits Christopher Karp, a 20-year-old aviation management student. Karp attends the business school at the International University of Applied Sciences (IUBH) in Bad Honnef, a spa town in Germany. Rather than enroll in a free public university like his friends, Karp borrowed money from his parents to […]

It may not be quite the country for the usual university experience: moving out of home; experimenting; dating. Nor does it have Egypt’s long history of scholarship, with the likes of the Al Azhar University, reputed since the 10th century. But Saudi Arabia is gaining an unlikely reputation for learning in the Middle East. Earlier […]

Since the turn of the millennium, South Korean universities have been trying to improve their research capabilities by attracting scholars from around the world to shake up a somewhat insular education system. But a study has found that in at least one of the country’s top institutions, foreign faculty feel disempowered and usually leave a […]

New rules to combat extremism in UK universities are inhibiting students from speaking up freely. Adrian Lee, an academic quality officer at the University of York, says his institution is “receiving reports of students… feeling apprehensive about what they can and cannot say” in class since new Prevent duties (under the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act […]

On his deathbed in 1638, John Harvard bequeathed half his estate, about £800 and his library of some 400 books to a new college in present-day Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard’s founders decided to name their new university after its first big benefactor. About 370 years ago, the first Harvard scholarship to help “some poor scholler” was […]

Ram Gollamudi is founder-CEO of the Hyderabad-based Edutor Technologies Pvt. Ltd (estb.2010), an edutech company offering digitised textbooks and related learning solutions to schools and higher education institutions (HEIs) in India, the Middle East and South Africa. Through its flagship product Ignitor, a textbook learning application/platform which can be loaded on most branded Android and […]

More than ever before, school leaving students and their families, are expressing interest in enrolling in universities and higher education institutions (HEIs) abroad. Therefore, school principals and counsellors need to raise their knowledge and awareness of HEIs overseas and connect with their admission representatives and offices. Simultaneously, they need to develop the skill-sets of their […]

After completing my B.Sc degree in 2017, I’m interested in a career in healthcare management. What are the opportunities?
Ashok Ramnath, Chennai

Healthcare management is a very promising career path with a great future. The health sector is experiencing double-digit growth in India and several other emerging economies. For those willing to take the risk, there […]

With national ad spend expected to grow by 15.5 percent in 2016 to Rs.57,486 crore, there’s continuous demand for fashion, product and services models: Paromita Sengupta

With consumer product, automobile, fashion, banking, telecom and e-commerce companies jacking up advertising and sales promotion budgets year after year, product/fashion modeling has transformed from a part-time pin money vocation into […]

Two two-member teams comprising Nudhara Yusuf (class XI) and Meha Gandhi (class X), and Oviya Vendan and Pranav Sakthivel (class XII) — of the CIE (UK)-affiliated Vaels International School, Chennai —were recently crowned champions in the marine sciences and creative animation categories respectively of the Advance to Australia (A2Oz) Schools Video Competition 2015. The jury […]

The British School, Delhi and  University of Warwick (UK) will present the second edition of the prestigious Warwick Summer School in Delhi on July 6-10.

According to a Warwick University spokesperson, the summer school has been designed for students entering years XII-XIII (British system) and classes XI-XII (India) who have completed their IGCSE, CBSE, ICSE or […]

Uttar Pradesh

Suspect mid-day meal

Sanya (4) and Besma (5) died and 46 other children were hospitalised after consuming milk served during their mid-day meal at the Junior High School in Kanshi Ram Colony near Mathura. Samples of the suspect milk and water have been taken, a police spokesman informed the media on May 5.

“The children first […]

“Step by step, brick by brick, the edifice of India’s legislature is being destroyed… With the manner in which encroachment of legislative and executive authority by India’s judiciary is taking place, probably financial power and budget making is the last power that you have left.”

Arun Jaitley, Union finance minister, speaking in the Rajya Sabha urging […]

It continues to be now-on, now-off for Karnataka’s undergrad government medical (MBBS) seat aspirants this year despite the Union government promulgating an ordinance on May 25 which was expected to smoothen out medical and dental college admissions in the state.

The ordinance allows states to opt out of the Supreme Court-mandated National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) for […]

Corruption, scandals, rise of party-cadre syndicates under its watch and the alliance of the Communist Party of India-Marxist with the Congress notwithstanding, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) scripted history in West Bengal, routing the opposition and bagging 211 of the 294 seats in the West Bengal assembly elections which concluded on May 5.

Although all opposition parties […]

Although leaders of the ruling BJP-Shiv Sena alliance in Maharashtra — the country’s most industrialised state — claim credit for the Central government’s May 24 ordinance which defers applicability of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) by a year, the battle is far from over for students aspiring to enter the state’s medical and dental colleges. […]

An estimated 20,000 teachers of 640 private professional education colleges (including engineering, technology, business management, architecture, town planning, pharmacy, applied science and applied arts & crafts institutes) affiliated with Lucknow’s Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University (AKTU) in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous — and arguably most lawless — state, are fictitious or ‘ghost’ entries […]

Breaking a well-established tradition under which the AIADMK and DMK — Tamil Nadu’s two major political parties with roots in the make-believe world of popular Tamil cinema — have won state legislative elections by rotation, AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa created history by sweeping to power in Fort St. George for a second consecutive term, winning 134 […]

It’s an ominous portent of the country’s accelerating slide into primaeval chaos. On May 6, Aditya Sachdeva, a teenager driving a family sedan in Gaya district, Bihar playfully overtook a Rs.1.3-crore Land Rover SUV driven by Rakesh (‘Rocky’) Yadav, son of a powerful MLC (member of the legislative council) of India’s most educationally and socio-economically […]

Reviewing its july 18, 2013 order against the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET), the Supreme Court upheld a review petition filed by the Medical Council of India (MCI) and reinstated NEET on April 11. Performance in this common entrance test will determine admission into public and private medical and dental colleges countrywide which offer 52,000 undergraduate […]

I disagree with your logic for ranking private higher education institutions in India separately and exclusively (EW Private Higher Education Rankings 2016, EW May).

Your league tables provide a one-sided and biased view of Indian higher education. India hosts several public universities and colleges which offer high quality education at affordable price. Many of the private […]

In 2009, a batch of students from government and private schools in Himachal Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, selected by the Union human resource development (HRD) ministry, wrote the objective, standardised PISA (Programme of International Student Assessment) test of the Paris-based OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) which evaluates the reading, maths and science capabilities […]