Delhi-based Naveen Jindal is the antithesis of the dyed-in-the-wool industrialist, despite being an executive director of the ten-strong Jindal Group of companies (aggregate annual sales: Rs.5,500 crore) with interests spanning sponge iron, steel and power. When he isnt attending to his duties as the executive vice chairman and managing director of Jindal Steel & Power Ltd […]
Despite the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1990) specifically stipulating that the views of children be given due weightage, their opinions on subjects of national importance are seldom solicited. EW compiled their views on the Rs.400 crore India Shining campaign. Summiya Yasmeen reports
It’s widely being hailed as the masterstroke which will sweep the major constituents of […]
Perils of the pulp tradeIt‚s a paradox which requires some investigation and explanation. On the one hand contemporary India is the world‚s largest market for the printed word. On the other the country‚s book publishing industry has been on oxygen for years, if not decades. Hope sprang in every breast with the arrival on Indian […]
Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss; Profile Books Ltd; Price: Rs.195; 209 pp
It’s an eyesore to which my eye is unfailingly drawn every morning before I hunker down to the task of parsing, phrasing, dressing up and generally rendering EducationWorld intelligible to our half-a-million readers of whom at least one will hopefully do a Moses and lead the people […]
Multiple charms of Madhya PradeshSituated in the heart of India, the country‚s largest state offers visitors the temples of Khajuraho, the serenity of Marble Rocks, stupas of Sanchi, and tigers of the Kanha National ParkLakshmana Temple KhajurahoAs its name implies the state of Madhya Pradesh (central province) is situated in the heart of India. The […]
Letter from London
Stormy top-up fees debate
It is amazing how quickly subjects which dominate the British press for a time, suddenly disappear from the front pages of newspapers. A case in point is the stormy ‘top-up’ fees for university students debate which almost brought down the Tony Blair government.
The objectives of the Bill as enunciated […]
Some four decades after it bequeathed its mantle to the Delhi-based Council for Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) which conducts the prestigious ICSE school leaving examination for 1,286 secondary schools scattered across the country, the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES), is all set to make a comeback to Indian shores. In mid-February a top-level […]
Your counsellor repliesAfter completing my Plus Two (science) this year I would like to read for a degree programme in physiotherapy. Please advise.Nalini Shah, AhmedabadPhysiotherapists employ a regimen of exercises, electrotherapy, manipulation and massage to heal the injured, disabled, sick and convalescent of all ages. They prescribe and interpret tests and measurements for building muscle […]
Brand management is a newly evolved specialised function which involves creating and nurturing a brand with the objective of enhancing its image, recall and longevity in a competitive environment
Brand Bollywood, brand India, brand Vajpayee, brand Sonia Gandhi. Increasingly products, places and people are being branded. Hardly surprising given that global brands like Adidas, Nike, Coca Cola, […]
Often when I am doing nutrition consultation for a ‘spoilt Indian’, I am confronted with the grave realities of the disparities in our society. Who is a spoilt Indian? A person who in spite of all the resources to eat sensibly, be aware, and live a balanced life, gets into a pattern of eating anything and […]
Not so dead woodBittu SahgalIn the next few months I will be interacting with hundreds of teachers throughout India and through them with over 1,000,000 children across the country. This is under the aegis of the Kids for Tigers, the nature education programme that is helping to transform teachers and students into India‚s most effective […]
There is a general awareness that contemporary education is a totally different ball game from what it was earlier. Increasing inroads into students’ minds by the broadcast media day in and day out, vastly differential lifestyles and severe peer pressure have very disturbing consequences and implications. In academia too, new courses make headlines everyday, focusing on […]
The wholly unsolicited reduction in the annual tuition fee of the six Indian Institutes of Management decreed by Union human resource development minister Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi has drawn an unprecedented storm of protest from industry, academia, students and the media. Dilip Thakore reports
A ministerial bolt from the blue has thrown the six Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) […]
Ask your 1to1help.net counsellors1to1Help.net CounsellorsI am worried about my nine-year-old son watching too much television and missing out on more creative pursuits like reading and sports. How do I wean him off this habit? Meghana Malhotra, JaipurFirst and foremost, you need to realise that this problem of children spending far too much time before the […]
Learning community modelLionel CranenburghCommitted educators know that change for students at risk requires extraordinary will to overcome the pressure to do nothing. Educators can be like Shakespeare‚s Macbeth “letting I dare not wait up I would” and like Hamlet in their search for reasons to “lose the name of action”. A few innovative educators dare […]
Oz’s largest Monash University with six campuses in Australia and two abroad enjoys an enviable reputation for its excellence in teaching and research
The largest university in Oz in terms of student enrollment (48,000) Monash University enjoys an enviable reputation in the sixth continent and beyond for its international focus and excellence in teaching and research. The Good […]
Housed in two magnificent buildings with a built-up area of 1.7 million sq. ft, BGS International School, Bengaluru is a thoroughly contemporary CBSE affiliated school offers holistic, culturally enriched education driven by universal human values
The dawn of the new millennium has witnessed the establishment of a spate of new, nexgen capital intensive primary-cum-secondary schools on the […]
Education in india has many shortcomings. One limitation that is often glossed over is that students, at the undergraduate as well as the postgrad levels, are not taught how to develop and improve their communication skills. It is not uncommon to come across individuals who are supposed to have studied literature for five years but […]
Coca-Cola India announced the launch of its Olympic Torch Bearer nomination programmes to select 42 torchbearers and seven escort runners to represent India in “one of the most far-reaching participatory events in human history” — the first global relay of the Olympic Flame, on February 24. These programmes include an essay competition for school children, […]
Uttar Pradesh
Educational gimmickry
With the general election just a month away and governments at the centre and in the states handing out largesse in the form of subsidies, tax cuts and handouts, Uttar Pradesh’s wrestler-turned chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav has joined the rush. And many pre-poll sops have been offered to the education sector. From […]
The great enthusiasm of the Union ministry of human resource development and AICTE (All India Council of Technical Education) to monitor and regulate the entry of foreign universities offering their degrees in India is a grand design to extract bribes and inducements from them. Instead they could easily issue warnings in the press about shady […]
The conclusion of purchase negotiations last month (January) by the Union government of the 45,000 tonne Russian-built aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov at a reported price of Rs.7,000 crore is a good indicator of the warped development preferences and priorities of the myopic collection of supra nationalists who rule contemporary India, and their fellow travellers within the establishment. Negotiations […]
One of the most compelling arguments for democratic government based upon universal adult franchise, is that duly elected leaders are obliged to keep their ears close to the ground and be responsive to public opinion. But the arbitrary and whimsical behaviour of India’s unique tribe of politicians particularly in matters related to education which directly […]
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