EducationWorld March 05

Leisure & travel: Orissa

Where Emperor Ashoka once converted and reigned, contemporary Orissa offers the tourist nature in all its glory with beaches, rivers, waterfalls, hills, forests and tribal life plus a rich tradition of architecture, monuments and sculptural art. Orissa is most well known for being the epicentre of the ancient Kingdom of Kalinga. Emperor […]

Far from being the worker bees of a rapidly ageing global population, India’s children may well mature into sickly low productivity adults requiring life-long medical care — a scenario which has global doomsday implications. Summiya Yasmeen reports

In perhaps the most damning indictment of post–independence India’s oft repeated claim of being a socialist welfare state, The State of the World’s […]

Until a year ago I always wore footwear produced by a particular company in Mumbai. But the last couple of times I had to order my shoes, especially since they had stopped production. However, last year I resolved to be less fussy and bought my footwear from another store. My requirement besides comfort is that my shoes […]

Letter from London

Importance of being foreign

The announcement by Oxford University that it is planning to cut the number of UK and EU (European Union) undergraduates from 10,400 to 8,500 to expand its non-EU overseas under-graduate intake from 825 to around 1,400 per year, has prompted screaming headlines in Britain’s notorious tabloid press. ‘Oxford axes […]

Success sits lightly on the shoulders of young Chennai-based scientist, Dr. Madan Babu Mohan (25), the youngest recipient of the prestigious Max Perutz prize for outstanding research conducted at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK in October last year.

“The focus of my research is study of molecular proteins within living cells which dominate cell function. […]

Which institutes offer Chinese and Japanese language learning progra-mmes? Please advise.Neera Bajaj, MumbaiJNU, New Delhi (www.jnu.ac.in) offers a BA (Hons) study programme in foreign languages to students who have completed their Plus Two. The languages offered include Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Korean, Spanish, French, German, Arabic and Persian. The University of Mumbai as well as several […]

This is an untapped service industry which is growing gradually and the possibilities of extroverted customer service-oriented self-starters with an eye for detail keeping the cash registers ringing are great 

The London-based steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal’s daughter’s wedding venue was the grand Versailles Palace, Paris and featured an international guest list, complete with elaborate soirees […]

The UK-based Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) and its parent, the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES), seem determined to re-establish their presence in the Indian subcontinent. The pre-eminent English medium school-leaving examinations board in India right until the mid 1960s, it devolved its mantle upon the Council for Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE which offers […]

Understanding technology in educationAshis K. PaniRam Kumar KakaniOur experience of coordinating management education programmes in virtual classrooms at the XLRI School of Management, Jamshedpur, has impacted upon us the importance of highlighting that interactivity is what makes the internet really different. Over the past few years, terms like ‚Ëœinteractivity‚ and ‚Ëœcommunity‚ have suffered considerable abuse […]

Rumours are rife that under cover of the World Trade Organisation accords and the General Agreement on Trade in Services, cash-strapped western universities and educationists steeped in the art of infotech empowered pedagogies are massing to invade India, widely perceived as the world’s largest market for higher education. Dilip Thakore investigates

A shiver of apprehension is snaking its […]

The greater glory of KazirangaBittu SahgalRanjit Barthakur andI sat on a large log watching otters fish in the Diphloo river. We paused a while to take in the throb of life that is Kaziranga on our way back from Debeswari, where we had seen two Bengal Floricans rise and float down like balloons in a […]

One of the new millennium goals for education institutions in general, and technical institutions in particular, is to achieve world-class status and become internationally competitive. It is a matter of concern that very few India’s approximate 1,200 technical institutions have succeeded in commending global respect. With the coming into force of GATS from this year, and […]

Established a mere forty five years ago, University of Sussex, UK is ranked among the top 50 universities globally for the quality of its academic programmes and research activities

Sited on acres of rolling green downs of unspoilt countryside near the popular seaside resort town of Brighton, the University of Sussex is ranked among the top […]

Inventure Academy, a Bangalore-based internationally benchmarked CISCE affiliated class I-XII school promoted by the India Learning Foundation (ILF) is set to roll by admitting its first batch of class I to VI students in the academic year commencing mid July.

“Inventure Academy has been conceived as an outstanding institution to fulfill certain need gaps […]

Cloudy future

In a judgement delivered on February 11 which has far-reaching implications, a three judge bench of the Supreme Court forced closure of 97 self-financing, private universities functioning in the state of Chattisgarh with immediate effect declaring the state law which had allowed 112 private universities to spring up in the newly demarcated (November 2000) […]

I read with interest your cover story “Springtime for India’s private sector education heavyweights” (EW February). I agree with your basic proposition that it should be the earnest endeavour of every edupreneur to fill the huge gap in tertiary education by providing quality learning throughout the country to every segment of our society.

However, I was […]

By boycotting classes and taking to the streets in protest against the spate of kidnappings of school children, angry students in Patna, capital of the benighted state of Bihar (pop. 82.8 million), have done the nation a signal service. The Bihar students’ salutary lesson have reminded the Centre and the nation’s 31 state governments that their […]

Perhaps the greatest mistake of post-independence India’s ruling establishment was the low priority it accorded to education on the national development agenda. Although there was a general consensus that the national education outlay — Centre plus states — should aggregate to 6 percent of GDP per year, in none of the past 57 years since […]