Introducing ‘Dynamind’ which uses Artificial Intelligence
What is Dynamind?
It is a Universal e-Teacher and e-Trainer for distance education using AI (artificial intelligence) and the internet. It is 100% interactive and does one-to-one mentoring for each learner in any location on this planet.
What is special about this IT Product called Dynamind? Give some highlights in simple terms.
Every […]
From Mahatma Gandhi to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, many of the nation’s leaders pursued law overseas. Historically, most legal education for Indians happened outside India. At the time of independence, the government’s investment in higher education was oriented towards setting up institutions of agriculture, medicine, and engineering. Good legal education institutions were […]
Neelam Malik is the founder-chairperson of St. Mary’s High School, Kalyan, Mumbai (estb.1989), routinely ranked among the Top 3 Budget Private Schools (BPS) of India in the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings. Moreover, in the inaugural EW India Budget Private School Rankings 2020, St. Mary’s is ranked #3 in India and #1 in Maharashtra, India’s […]
President of the National Independent Schools Alliance (NISA), Dr. Kulbhushan Sharma is India’s foremost and most committed champion of budget private schools (BPS). These are low-fees primary-secondaries that provide affordable education – including English language learning – to children of low-income households. Currently, there are an estimated 400,000 BPS with a massive aggregate enrolment of […]
A sociology graduate of the top-ranked St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai with a postgrad degree in education, Bernadette Pimenta is principal of the Garden School, Mumbai (estb.1983), an informal child enrichment school. After providing children and youth supplementary curriculum enrichment programmes in the Garden School for over two decades, Ms. Pimenta scaled down the school and […]
A determined self-educated edupreneur with a diploma in electronics engineering awarded by the Chopra Radio and Electronics Institute, Mumbai, Indraman Sahadeo Singh, the founder and chairperson of the Pune-based Priyadarshani Group of schools and colleges, firmly believes in the philosophy of author Khalil Gibran who wrote: “The teacher who walks in the shadow of the […]
The Mumbai-based honorary secretary of the Unaided Schools Forum (USF) of Maharashtra for the past 18 years, Subhash Chandra Kedia is nationally respected for his relentless advocacy and campaigns to free the state’s unaided private schools from the heavy hand of government regulation. As honorary secretary of USF Shri Kedia has led and won many […]
The EducationWorld India Budget Private School Special Merit Awards 2020 have been introduced to acknowledge and celebrate low-profile budget private schools (BPS) that have implemented contemporary best practises in K-12 education. There are an estimated 400,000 BPS nationwide. In the inaugural EW India Budget Private School Rankings 2020, we were able to rank only the […]
Single by choice: Happily unmarried women – Kalpana Sharma
Women Limited; Rs.275; Pages 145
To be single by choice is not seen as choice. A few women I knew were kept single by their fathers so that the salary they brought home could provide for the son’s education. Others were promoted to the status of sons providing […]
The Anarchy: The relentless rise of the East India Company – William Dalrymple
Bloomsbury; Rs.511; Pages 397
If there is a deep antagonism to capitalism within the collective psyche of Indians, it can be traced back to the corporate excess, exploitation and pillage of this landmass by the London-based East India Company (EIC) — undoubtedly the most […]
EducationWorld’s first cover story of 2020 celebrated the newly-promoted Krea University (KU), peninsular India’s first American Ivy league style liberal arts varsity sited in Sri City, Andhra Pradesh, a two-hour drive from Chennai.
KU’s south Indian promoter-trustees — perhaps miffed that India’s first Ivy League model private universities (Ashoka, Jindal Global, Bennett) have sprung up […]
In mid-February four men in white linen attire walked into a liquor shop in the central business district of south Mumbai and demanded a list of documents and licences from the owner. After examining them, they highlighted several acts of omission and commission of proprietor Ashok Patel and demanded a bribe of Rs.7 lakh to […]
The unease of doing business in contemporary India is highlighted by the unfortunate experience of go-getting IIM-A alum Shantanu Prakash who spearheaded the digitisation of Indian education through Educomp Solutions Ltd (ESL), a company he promoted in 1988, and which for quite a while was the darling of the stock market when its Rs.10 paid […]
The death of Anucha Thasako was supposed to change everything. After several sharp blows to the head during a Thai boxing bout in 2018, the scrawny 13-year-old fell to the floor, unconscious. The referee rushed to his side, to no avail. There was no doctor in attendance. Anucha died soon afterwards from brain haemorrhage. He […]
One of Russia’s leading universities has banned its academics and students from identifying their institutional position when making public political statements. This ban is being interpreted as a further erosion of academic freedom in the country.
Critics claim that Moscow’s Higher School of Economics (HSE), known for its relatively liberal leanings, has clamped down on dissent […]
A leading German university has been plunged into scandal after it emerged that it had signed a contract binding it to abide by Chinese law while accepting hundreds of thousands of euros from China to set up a professorship to establish a Chinese teacher training programme.
German lawmakers have criticised the Free University of Berlin (FU) […]
Like any hotbed of scholarly activity, the University of California (UC) is no stranger to rows. Recently a debate over the use of SATS and ACTS, tests used in college admissions, has spilled out from campus into the courtroom. In December, a lawsuit denouncing UC’s use of the tests was filed in the Alameda County […]
It is a scary time to be ill in Wuhan. The city has one-third of all confirmed infections by the coronavirus and three-quarters of the deaths caused by it. People there are barred from travelling elsewhere (similar rules apply across Hubei, a Syria-sized province of which Wuhan is the capital). Since late January, military medics […]
At the first-ever celebration of budget private schools (BPS) staged in Mumbai on February 26, 400 promoters, trustees and principals of India’s most admired BPS congregated to celebrate the Top 300 rated and ranked in the EW India Budget Private School Rankings 2020 published last month – Summiya Yasmeen
Promoters and principals of India’s most admired […]
-Anjum Babukhan
Every parent and educator ponders over these questions: How can our children get smarter? What is that we can do to stimulate brilliance within our children and boost their creativity and critical thinking skills? If we believe the brain is the body’s central processing unit, then brain compatible learning (BCL) may be the solution […]
With growing awareness of the benefits of animal-assisted therapy as an alternative to traditional medical curatives, there is rising demand for qualified AAT practitioners – Paromita Sengupta
Although human beings have shared unique bonds with domesticated animals for over 10,000 years, only recently have healthcare professionals become aware that animal companions have a therapeutic effect on the […]
Against the backdrop of gathering clouds of gloom and despair that have blanketed the economy, the best option of the finance minister was to batten down the hatches, cut unproductive expenditure and invest in developing the country’s abundant and high-potential human capital. Unfortunately, this option wasn’t availed – Dilip Thakore
On February 1, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman […]
Founded 120 years ago by American steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie, who donated 90 percent of his vast fortune to charities and foundations, CMU is one of the world’s most admired institutions of higher ed and research.
Founded in 1900 as Carnegie Technical Schools by steel tycoon and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), who during the last 18 […]
During the past 45 years since it admitted its first batch of students, the reputation of this K-12 school, with 5,240 students and 169 teachers on its muster rolls, has spread beyond the steel city. – Baishali Mukherjee
Sited on an eight-acre campus in Durgapur (pop.581,000), West Bengal’s steel city, Dayanand Anglo Vedic Model School (DAVMS, […]
Jaisal Singh Bhati (15) aka Kanha’s Mowgli — the boy-protagonist of the popular Jungle Book (1894) by Rudyard Kipling — is no ordinary teen. Raised in Madhya Pradesh’s famous Kanha Tiger Reserve (formerly Kanha National Park), Jaisal has an important message for the world: Live and let live!
The only child of Tarun and Dimple Bhati, […]
2019 ended on a more than cheerful note for Kolkata-based rising table tennis star Krittwika Sinha Roy (26), currently ranked India #4. In December, at the 13th South Asian Games staged in Kathmandu (Nepal), she won the singles final besting Sri Lanka’s Erandi Waruswithana in straight games. Earlier in July (2019), Krittwika teamed up with […]
Noida, February 21. Sampark Foundation’s Sampark Smart Shala programme — a disruptive, inclusive programme to transform the learning outcomes for millions of children — has been selected one of the Top 100 entries of the prestigious John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation 100 & Change Competition. The winner to be selected from among the […]
Bhuj, February 14. Over 60 girl students of the Shree Sahajanand Girls Institute (SSGI) — an all-women’s college which offers undergrad and postgrad courses — in Gujarat’s Kutch district, were reportedly forced to strip by college hostel authorities to check for menstrual blood.
Darshana Dholakia, vice chancellor of the Krantiguru Shyamji Krishna Verma Kutch University with […]
“India’s learning outcomes remain stubbornly low. Quality concerns around education are seldom viewed as a political priority. But these concerns cannot be ignored for much longer, especially in light of India’s human capital crisis, reflected in unemployment statistics.”
Rohan Sandhu of the Harvard Kennedy School on why India needs a new education paradigm (Business Line, February […]
After sustained criticism from academics and educationists, Tamil Nadu’s AIADMK government has revoked its decision of last September (2019) to conduct public exams for children in classes V and VIII. An estimated 200,000 students statewide in the ten-13 years age group were preparing to write board exams in March-April.
In a statement issued on February 4, […]
With West Bengal’s legislative assembly elections scheduled for the summer of 2021, the municipal elections to be held next month (April) — the exact dates are yet to be finalised — in 110 cities and towns including Kolkata, will be an acid test for the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) government of the state. In 2011 […]
Private independent schools in Maharashtra which have dutifully admitted poor children in their neighbourhoods into primary/elementary school (classes I-VIII) under s.12 (1) (c) of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009, say that the state government owes them Rs.900 crore.
Under this provision, private (non-minority) schools are obliged to reserve 25 […]
Two years ago, a school health Programme (SHP) was launched as a joint initiative of the Union HRD and health and family welfare ministries under the Ayushman Bharat aka PM-JAY — national health programme — of the Central government. PM-JAY enables specified rural and urban poor families to obtain cashless medical treatment of up to […]
Thank you for publishing the inaugural EW India Budget Private School Rankings 2020 (EW February). I believe rankings are one of the most effective ways to encourage healthy competition in any sector as well as help consumers to make informed decisions. Where there is competition, there is excellence.
In the education sector, EducationWorld is doing a […]
The eruption of the coronavirus (Covid 19) epidemic in China’s Hubei province with Wuhan (pop.11 million) as its epicentre — which threatens to mutate into a global pandemic — and the efforts of the Central and provincial governments of the neighbouring People’s Republic of China (PRC), have important lessons to offer government and civil society […]
The stunning victory of the aam Aadmi (Common Man) Party (AAP) in the Delhi state election last month has changed the national political discourse. For the better. Development — especially human capital development — is on the national agenda for the first time. The sheer scale of the AAP victory — it won 62 of […]
No country worldwide makes as great a fuss about government budgets as much as we do in India. While state government budgets which should be given more thorough examination receive cursory attention, the Union budget of the Central government attracts banner headlines and invites reams of expert comment from academics, economists, businessmen and journalists in […]
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India’s unsung ECCE pioneers
In an era when educationists — including early childhood educators — are rightly encouraged to think and act ‘glocal’, i.e, global and local, it’s equally important to realise that at the formative age of 0-6 years, education rooted in a child’s mother tongue and local culture has a lasting impact on the cognitive and socio-emotional […]