I’m interested in a career in sports and fitness. Please advise. — Sarika Gupta, Lucknow
You can explore a range of careers in the sports and fitness industry such as sports coach, psychologist, scientist, nutrition and diet specialist, personal trainer, sports manager and physical education instructor.
I’m a class XI student determined to make a career in […]
According to Indian aviation experts, there’s a requirement of 10,000 commercial pilots per year against the current supply of 8,000, of whom 1,100 are women – Paromita Sengupta
The nationalisation of Tata Airlines and its transformation into the public sector monopolies Air India in 1948 and Indian Airlines in 1953, heralded a new […]
With India’s metros fast reaching saturation point, the expansion of small town India’s neo middle class has fuelled demand for high-quality globally benchmarked K-12 English-medium schools, especially in tier II-IV cities – Summiya Yasmeen
With the Indian economy growing at 7 percent-plus annually — the highest annual growth rate of all large economies worldwide, according to […]
A striking feature of pro tem finance minister Piyush Goyal’s 100-minute budget address to Parliament and the nation on February 1 was that the word ‘education’ was mentioned only once and the allocation for education at Rs.93,807 crore was marginally higher than last year – Dilip Thakore
A major infirmity of the Indian State is that its […]
Last December, Study Gold Coast invited a group of 15 delegates from India, including EducationWorld’s Mumbai correspondent Dipta Joshi, to acquaint them with the state-of-the-art campuses, aims and objectives, impressive curriculums, infrastructure and student body diversity of the city’s three show-piece universities
A sombre geo-political climate sparked by tightening visa policies, limited jobs market, the […]
With GDP growing at 7 percent-plus per year, the Indian economy is the fastest growing worldwide, China included. This claim is being made from every available roof top by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which is readying for General Election 2019. But while this claim is accepted by the IMF, World Bank and even The […]
The Pune-based Bajaj family which owns and manages the eponymous Bajaj Group of companies is riding high these days. In January, the Delhi-based Business Today certified it the country’s fourth biggest business group in terms of market capitalisation (Rs.3.77 lakh crore). Moreover on January 23, the House of Bajaj was voted the country’s #1 family […]
Fiery trade unionist, socialist and former Union minister George Fernandes who passed away on January 29 was given an indulgent, even laudatory send-off by the editorial writers in the media. The reality that he was one of the most self-serving and turncoat politicians in the history of post-independence India, was interred with his bones. Your […]
Inside the Mind of Xi Jinping, Francois Bougon CONTEXT; Rs.599, Pages 181
Xi Jinping is now the all-powerful leader of China. A country of 1.4 billion people, it has some 90 million members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It is the world’s second largest economy with a 2017 GDP estimated at US $12 trillion (Rs.857.33 lakh crore) […]
Of Counsel: The Challenges of the Modi-Jaitley economy, Arvind Subramanian, Penguin Random House, Rs.699, Pages 347
The abrupt manner of his departure and flimsy excuse he proferred for quitting his high office as chief economic adviser (CEA) to the government of India (family matters including the birth of a grandson), for spiriting himself to the bowers of Harvard University, […]
China’s surge in global university rankings has come largely at the expense of its neighbours, with competitors shunted backwards by the momentum of the world’s most populous nation. But for its diminutive half-sibling, China’s hulking presence is a launch platform for new opportunities.
Hong Kong’s university leaders say the benefits of living next door to China […]
Academics say that the violent crackdown on protests in Zimbabwe has squashed any optimism for the future of universities in the country that remained after the ousting of former president Robert Mugabe in 2017.
Zimbabwe has experienced its worst violence in over a decade as the forces of Emmerson Mnangagwa, Mugabe’s successor as president, brutally suppress […]
University leaders in Venezuela have called on the United Nations to intervene in the country’s political crisis amid warnings that deterioration of the higher education system is approaching the point of no return.
After years of political turmoil resulting in sky-high inflation and scant public investment, some 3 million Venezuelans are said to have left the […]
In a restaurant in the backstreets of Beijing, 12 Pakistanis and Afghans studying at the China University of Communications tell scary stories of their arrival in China. But any ill feeling about those early days has long since dissipated. They agree that apart from some taxi drivers, the Chinese are very helpful. Friendly relations between […]
From hot dogs, to automobiles, to diesel fuel, Americans have been touched by plenty of German inventions. Kindergarten (‘children-garden’) is one of them. The programme for educating youngest children through play and social interaction, meant to ease transition from home to formal schooling, was first brought to America in the 1850s and spread quickly. Kindergarten […]
In my last Letter from London I discussed the continuing and accelerating decline in the financing and quality of tertiary education in the UK, and promised to examine some of the fundamental principles on which our higher education system is based.
For a start, there is nothing sacrosanct about the three-year university course. The private University […]
Asha Kaul, professor and chair, communication area and former chairperson, placements, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. Adapted from Harvard ascend.com)
With contemporary India experiencing the phenomenon of jobless growth, particularly in the organised sector or formal economy, competition for the shrinking number of best jobs at the entry and middle management levels is intensifying. Here […]
I’m interested in a career in sports and fitness. Please advise. — Sarika Gupta, Lucknow
You can explore a range of careers in the sports and fitness industry such as sports coach, psychologist, scientist, nutrition and diet specialist, personal trainer, sports manager and physical education instructor.
I’m a class XI student determined to make a career in […]
According to Indian aviation experts, there’s a requirement of 10,000 commercial pilots per year against the current supply of 8,000, of whom 1,100 are women – Paromita Sengupta
The nationalisation of Tata Airlines and its transformation into the public sector monopolies Air India in 1948 and Indian Airlines in 1953, heralded a new age of commercial […]
Registered as Canterbury College in 1863, University of Canterbury, New Zealand admitted women students in its very first batch and produced the first woman graduate of the British empire. In 1961 University of Canterbury, New Zealand was granted autonomous university status
The University of Canterbury (UC, estb.1873), New Zealand’s second-oldest institution of higher education, is […]
Established 18 years ago in Sector 10, Dwarka to offer high-quality primary-secondary education, Venkateshwar International School, Delhi has experienced steady rise in enrolments year-on-year, from 200 to 2,700 students including 1,079 girl children because of favourable word-of-mouth publicity – Autar Nehru
Established in 2001 in the then newly notified suburb of Dwarka, Venkateshwar International […]
A team comprising Bhavya Raninga (class XII) and Nihar Shah (class X) — students of the CBSE-affiliated St. Kabir’s School, Vadodara — was recently (November) crowned national champions of the TCS IT Wiz (TCSITW) 2018. In the national finale staged in Mumbai, the duo outsmarted teams from St. Paul’s English School, Bangalore; St. Jude’s, […]
A class XI student of City Montessori School, Gomti Nagar, Lucknow — ranked Uttar Pradesh’s #1 co-ed day school in the EW India School Rankings 2018-19 — Apurva Chauhan (15) is the youngest Indian to join the elite group of world-renowned opera singers such as Cecilia Bartolli (Italy), Renee Fleming (USA), Montserrat Caballe (Spain) […]
Mumbai, February 3. More than 330 students of 30 schools across the United Arab Emirates and seven schools from India attended a two-day inaugural Diplomathon UAE 2019 conference in Dubai city on February 1-2.
“Diplomathon is a unique platform for constructive leadership and engagement of youth in real time dialogues via new technologies to become ‘world-ready’ […]
Gangtok, February 1. The Sikkim state government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with megacorp Microsoft Inc, to prepare youth to become future-ready and transform its e-governance and core sectors, said R.B. Subba, the state’s minister for education.
Under the agreement, Microsoft will support the state to integrate IT (information technology) content in the curriculum […]
“I daresay that humanity hasn’t matured.”
Pope Francis, acknowledging Catholic priests’ sexual abuse of nuns after a mass in Abu Dhabi (February 5)
“My resignation is not an attempt to be heroic or to make a statement. It is simply the only thing I felt anyone in this position must do. It is not just for […]
As the country waits for the Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora to visit the troubled state of Jammu and Kashmir on March 4-5 after which he will announce the Lok Sabha election schedule, West Bengal’s fiery chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who is a prime ministerial possibility should the united anti-BJP parties (mahagathbandhan) win General Election […]
In the new globalised world, it was inevitable that the freedom of speech on campus debate, which is sweeping across university campuses in the US and Europe, would be echoed in India.
On February 12, a motley group of 20 students of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) gathered in the university circle to protest an invitation […]
Despite the landmark right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009 mandating that every child aged 6-14 should be in primary/elementary school, 70,016 of the estimated 14.4 million children in the southern state of Karnataka are out of the formal education system, according to a Union human resource development ministry survey released […]
An indefinite strike called by the Joint Action Council of Tamil Nadu Teachers’ Organisation and Government Employees Organisation (JACTTO-GEO) on January 22, supported by over 700,000 government school teachers and public sector employees ended with a whimper on January 30. The incumbent Edappadi K. Palaniswami-led All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) state government firmly […]
Faced with a steady exodus of students from its 1,192 schools, the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) — the wealthiest local government in the country (budget: Rs.30,692.59 crore for 2019-20) — has drawn up an ambitious plan to revamp them. To attract and retain children, the budget for this fiscal is 6 percent higher […]
There’s a virtual unanimity among political pundits and educationists that no political party countrywide is as committed to improving and upgrading K-12 public education as the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which has an overwhelming majority (67 out of 70 seats) in the Delhi state legislative assembly. Despite this huge majority, the AAP government has not […]
Your February cover story ‘Institution development mantras of India’s top-ranked schools’ was interesting and revealing. I enjoyed reading the interviews with promoters/principals of India’s top-ranked schools and their prescriptions on how to develop great schools and sustain them. Successful management of education institutions is the unwritten precondition of ensuring high achievement in academics, co-curricular and […]
The dastardly attack on one of the buses of a convoy of 78 vehicles deploying 2,500 CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) personnel at Pulwama on the Srinagar-Jammu highway on February 14, which has resulted in the murder of 44 jawans by a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) suicide bomber — the Pakistan-based JeM has acknowledged responsibility — confirms […]
The air of mystery, confusion, corruption and malfeasance surrounding the purchase of 36 MMRCA (medium multi-role combat aircraft) Rafale fighter jets by the Indian Air Force (IAF) for a humongous €7.8 billion (Rs.59,000 crore), is an indicator of the extent to which pernicious corruption and abuse of power has seeped into the arteries of post-independence […]
Decades of under-funding and neglect of public K-12 education has sparked a private schools revolution across the country. With public/government schools anathema to the country’s fast-expanding middle class, a multiplying number of education entrepreneurs, aka eduprenuers are running the gauntlet of incorrigibly corrupt government bureaucrats to promote well-equipped, new genre private preschools to primary-secondaries offering […]
Karnataka: Poor SSLC results put students at disadvantage in PUC admissions - Reshma Ravishanker The results of Karnataka’s SSLC exams will be disadvantageous for state syllabus students seeking admissions into Pre-University ... 
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School boards in India: types and differences -Riya Ganguly CBSE, ICSE, NIOS, CAIE, IB- what are the differences between these boards and how do you make the ... 
Canadian International School students raise 60 lakh funds, distribute to two NGOs Students of Canadian International School in Bengaluru put a smile on the faces of students from the Government Higher Primary ... 
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Budgetary allocations in India are not just a parade of numbers, they represent a parable of messages articulating a regime’s logic of welfare and its vision of the future. Budgets also provide a sense of how a government senses the nature of citizenship. When one reads budgetary allocations, one summons not the accountant but the […]