The Covid pandemic has impacted life in ways we could not imagine just a year ago. Education was severely disrupted due to the limitations imposed on movement, meetings and gathering. Divya Lal, Managing Director of Fliplearn Education Pvt. Ltd explains her views on why schools should prepare for a shift to Phygital learning in […]
Dhwani Jaipuria: Director – SRJ Edu Services Pvt. Ltd
Do you think women in leadership roles are still a minority in India? What is the situation in the education space? How can we increase the number of Indian women in leadership roles?
Women are surely taking up more leadership roles than before, even though […]
Dr. C.N. Kamalarathnam is professor and head of the department of neonatology, Institute of Child Health, Egmore, Chennai
My eight-year-old son has lost his appetite. He often complains of stomach aches and nausea. Help!
— Harika Reddy, Hyderabad
If your son is of healthy weight and height, this particular problem might be transient. Changing his daily […]
The exoneration on February 17 of columnist Priya Ramani by a Delhi sessions court in a criminal defamation case filed against her by once much-celebrated author and hitherto cabinet minister in the BJP/NDA government at the Centre, has further damaged the already tattered reputation of M.J. Akbar, who over four decades had built a reputation […]
The BJP/NDA government’s transformation of the puerile tweets of two girls hardly out of their teens into a vast international conspiracy to topple the government of India with a defence establishment comprising over 1,100,000 personnel and a nuclear arsenal at its command, exposes the small-town patriarchal mind-set of its leadership. In the almost one million […]
The unwritten rule and convention of Indian journalism is dog doesn’t eat dog. Despite fierce competition for advertising and readership, the established norm of Indian media is to refrain from direct criticism and ridicule. However, sometimes exceptions have to be made to this rule of media propriety.
For the past few years, an enterprise operating under […]
A computer science and business management alumnus of Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bengaluru and IIM-Bangalore, Sridhar Pabbisetty is founding director of the Kautilya School of Public Policy, Hyderabad (estb.2020). Its mission is to “empower leaders who solve 21st century problems through rigorous public policy education”.
Earlier, Prof. Pabbisetty was chief operating officer of the Centre for […]
Lokesh Ohri (The Book Review)
The Chipko movement: A people’s history; Shekhar Pathak
Orient Blackswan; Rs.895; Pages 390
In the year 1974, when the womenfolk and children of village Reni, under the leadership of the gutsy Gaura Devi, were chasing away labour contractors and their crony forest officials bent upon felling trees for commercial exploitation, writing perhaps […]
Dilip Thakore
My good school: Where passion meets education; Sandeep Dutt
Rupa publications; Rs.295; Pages 169
The objective of this first edition of My Good School authored by Dehradun-based Sandeep Dutt, described as a school coach, bookseller, runner, mountaineer and social entrepreneur with the mission “to help schools deliver better”, is to advise parents to choose quality […]
Australian universities’ new recruits are taking advantage of online education by ‘sampling’ degrees before committing to them, in a trend that complicates planning and pressures universities to deliver good experiences from the outset.
Charles Sturt University’s acting vice chancellor, John Germov, says incoming students are becoming “a bit more savvy” by trying out multiple courses before […]
Russian academics have expressed alarm about sweeping legal amendments that propose government regulation over “educational activities”, fearing that the change could hit international collaboration, stop scholars making public lectures and podcasts and place the humanities under “ideological control”.
The country has grand plans to rebuild its university system after decades of stagnation and to launch five […]
A university has apologised for its handling of an online course that was based on lectures by a professor who had died, in a case which highlights the risk of encroachments on intellectual property, made more likely in the Coronavirus era.
The art history class at Montreal’s Concordia University surprised and distressed second-year […]
The number of international students applying to US universities for the coming academic year has jumped by 11 percent, according to initial estimates, raising hopes of a quick rebound under the Biden administration.
The data from Common App, a non-profit provider of college admission services, bolster a growing sense in academia that President Biden will […]
In exam-obsessed China, educators have long struggled with the problem of overworked schoolchildren. Attempts to do away with some test-oriented teaching often face resistance from parents, who worry their offspring could lose out in the race to get admitted into a good university. Some enlightened officials are taking a new tack. In the south-western province […]
No one is ever truly ready for lockdown. But when the Netherlands closed its schools last December, the Herman Wesselink College, a government high school in a well-off suburb of Amsterdam, was readier than most. About half its students have parents who completed higher education. Nearly all have their own bedroom to study in. The […]
Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)
Highly articulate educator and serial entrepreneur Kavish Gadia is the founder-CEO of Gurugram (Haryana)-based Stones2Milestones Pvt. Ltd (S2M, estb.2008, headcount: 300). This edtech start-up offers schools, teachers and parents diagnostic, affordable and research-based English reading and literacy solutions for children in the 5-12 age group.
Through its globally benchmarked flagship fREADom mobile app […]
Autar Nehru (Delhi)
Delhi-based Shikha Agnihotri is state president of the Delhi Public Safety & Security Council (DPSSC) of the Women’s Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (WICCI), a representative organisation of women entrepreneurs and business leaders countrywide. A seasoned travel professional, she is also promoter of Young Edsplorer Pvt. Ltd (YEPL, estb.2015), an education consultancy […]
Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)
Amit Agrawal is founder-CEO of Gurugram (Haryana)-based Whiz Kidz Media Pvt. Ltd (estb.2015). Whiz Kidz is an edtech company that offers preschools, primary schools and parents of tier-II-III cities and towns, digital English learning lessons in seven vernacular languages.
Through its flagship product OckyPocky, an English self-learning application launched in 2017 that can […]
Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
Kolkata-based entrepreneur Kamal Prakash is co-founder of Dakshini Prayash (DP, estb.1994), an NGO which runs the free-of-charge Madurdaha Satyavritti Vidyalaya (MSV), a primary school in South 24 Parganas district.
Founded in 1994 with four students learning under trees cover, MSV is now housed in two buildings in which 400 pre-primary to class VIII […]
The major understated casualty of the massive damage caused by the globally rampaging Coronavirus pandemic are India’s 500 million youngest citizens in 0-24 age group. But the recently presented Budget 2021-22 has provided no relief for the world’s largest and most high-potential child and youth population – Dilip Thakore
Unsurprisingly, the prime objective and focus of […]
Promoted with modest academic goals ten years ago, the Chettinad-Sath Sadhana is rapidly transforming into a model school for children and youth with disabilities – Shivani Chaturvedi
Sited on a tree-lined two-acre campus in the heart of Chennai (pop.7 million), Chettinad-Sath Sadhana (CSS, estb.2011) has earned an excellent reputation in this southern port city for providing […]
Amrita Ghosh (Bengaluru)
Although he is only 12 years of age, Arnay Agarwal, a class VII student of Bengaluru’s top-ranked Greenwood High International School, has authored two e-books — Most Amazing Dussehra Vacations Ever on Kindle in 2019 and Adventure of Juno and Ira for Juggernaut Books in 2018 — with his first paperback Happy […]
Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)
Gopalchetty Brahma (21) is the latest to join India’s exclusive club of outer space celebrities. An aerospace engineering undergrad at the Jalandhar-based Lovely Professional University, Punjab — ranked Punjab’s #2 private varsity in the latest EW India Higher Education Rankings 2020-21 — he was among the Top 100 of 6,500 participants from […]
With an academic tradition stretching back in time to over 400 years, Scotland’s pride hosts 13,000 international scholars from 160 countries among its 44,510 students – Summiya Yasmeen
Once upon a time, best quality higher education in Britain, and indeed the Commonwealth, was synonymous with Oxford, Cambridge and London universities. But in the millennium, Scotland’s
This new-age pre-primary to class V co-ed day school sited in the shadow of Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, has quickly established an excellent reputation within the emirate’s expatriate parents community – Summiya Yasmeen
Sited in the heart of Dubai — the commercial capital of the United Arab Emirates and one of the world’s most […]
Mumbai, February 9. The Aditya Birla Education Academy (ABEA) has signed a collaboration agreement with the US-based Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY) to offer scholarships in India for CTY’s online programs for advanced learners.
Under terms of the agreement, ABEA and CTY will identify and support bright young learners in India through these online […]
Guwahati, February 11. State governor Jagadish Mukhi, ex officio chancellor, suspended Ranjit Tamuli, vice chancellor of Dibrugarh University with immediate effect following allegations of misuse of public funds.
Earlier, the Dibrugarh University Teachers’ Association and several employees unions of the university, and MLA Rituparna Baruah had petitioned governor Mukhi to investigate Tamuli’s financial irregularities and […]
“There needs to be recognition that socialism is not the only ideology that has copyright on welfare. When the economy does not do well and wealth isn’t generated, then social good suffers and so does the welfare state. So, we have now called the bluff that wealth creation is in conflict with welfare.”— Nirmala Sitharaman, […]
Runa Mukherjee Parikh (Ahmedabad)
With the number of covid positive cases and fatalities in Gujarat falling from a peak of 97,894 and 1,132 on September 16, 2020 to 16,577 and 120 on February 25, 2021, the state government has permitted schools across the state to reopen in a phased manner.
On January 11, class X and XII […]
Aditi Maheshwari (Bhopal)
The issue of fees payable by parents of children in private unaided schools during the pandemic close down which is convulsing the nation, has not bypassed the Hindi heartland state of Madhya Pradesh (pop.73 million), India’s largest state by land area (308,245 sq. km). On February 12, following a public march by agitated […]
Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
The election Commission of India has announced that West Bengal’s legislative assembly election will be conducted in eight phases between March 27 and April 29. Therefore acrimony between the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the BJP, which has replaced the CPM (Communist Party of India-Marxist) that ruled the state uninterruptedly for 34 years […]
Bandana Brahmin (Bengaluru)
An early year notification to all private schools in Karnataka to collect only 70 percent of tuition fees for the current extended academic year ending May 31, provoked an unprecedented protest shutdown of over 100 private unaided schools statewide on February 23. On the same day, a protest rally led by a newly-formed […]
Dipta Joshi (Mumbai)
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) of Mumbai, India’s wealthiest local government with an annual budget of Rs.39,000 crore, is making final preparations to inaugurate ten free-of-charge KG-class XI schools affiliated with the Delhi-based Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) examination board.
Supervised by the Union education ministry but certified as autonomous, CBSE is […]
Autar Nehru (Delhi)
In a major step towards internationalisation and upgradation of the country’s higher education system, on February 17, the University Grants Commission (UGC) circulated a draft of the University Grants Commission (Academic Collaboration between Indian and Foreign Higher Education Institutions to offer Joint Degree, Dual Degree and Twinning Programmes) Regulations, 2021 for public comment […]
Congratulations for your detailed cover story ‘Pandemic Thunderbolt Endangers Early Years Education’ (EW February). It sends out a strong message to the Central and state governments to walk the talk — the National Education Policy 2020 accords high importance to early childhood care and education (ECCE) — and provide a pandemic relief package to India’s […]
Recent intemperate and ill-considered statements of Rahul Gandhi (RG), de facto chief of the Congress party, on the military stand-off on the sensitive India-China border issue, signal that it’s high time RG retires from politics in which he has sporadic interest. Following a statement made in Parliament on February 10 by Union defence minister Rajnath […]
Even if belatedly, the leadership of the BJP has begun to differentiate itself from the Congress Party which ruled free India for over half a century during which it grafted inorganic socialism learned by Jawaharlal Nehru, post-independence India’s first prime minister in fashionable drawing rooms of the idle rich in Bloomsbury Square, London, upon the […]
Writing an analysis of the Union Budget and its impact on Indian education every year for the past two decades has been an anguishing and frustrating — nevertheless necessary — obligation of your editor. For 20 years, we have been featuring post-Budget cover stories highlighting the low priority given by successive governments and finance ministers […]
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Rajiv Desai is president of Comma Consulting and a well-known Delhi-based columnist
Long years ago, I was at lunch with Michael McGuire, foreign editor of Chicago Tribune, a newspaper that published and syndicated my columns. The venue was Sayat Nova, an Armenian restaurant on Ohio Street in the buzzy Streeterville neighbourhood, a lively […]