Theophane D’Souza, Principal, Navrachana International School, Vadodara – IB
Amidst the sprawling campus of Navrachana International School Vadodara, where every corner resonates with the spirit of learning and growth, history was made as the inaugural Nav Kreeda Fiesta Tournament unfolded from April 16th to 19th, 2024. This pioneering event, tailored exclusively for children under the […]
Shreenath S Lohana
Shreenath S Lohana, a nature enthusiast born and brought up in the busy city of Mumbai in India, is driven by his boundless curiosity to learn. He is pursuing Bachelor of Design, majoring in Product Design at Anant National University (Anant) and has recently ventured into making value-based card and board games. His […]
– Bhawna Prakash, PGT Biology, Environment Club In-charge, Ecole Globale International Girls’ School
2024 is unfolding as a year marked by increased climate change impacts and therefore the importance of environmental education has never been greater. In the face of enormous difficulties, we must combine our core values and beliefs with the essential lessons learned from […]
Dr Rita Chatterjee, Director Principal, The DN Wisdom Tree Global School
Debates on bags and backpacks are as old as learning. The jhola that the early kids of Gurukuls must have carried were equally in question. Where is the knowledge contained, in bags and jholas, or minds? Well, a lighter body can fly to greater heights. […]
In this General Election-eve story, we assess the track record of the Modi government — the first non-Congress government to have completed ten years in office in independent India — in early childhood, primary-secondary, skilling and higher education writes Summiya Yasmeen
Prime Minister Narendra Modi: eventful decade for Indian education
Exciting & promising beginning
Praveen Raju […]
In this General Election-eve story, we assess the track record of the Modi government — the first non-Congress government to have completed ten years in office in independent India — in early childhood, primary-secondary, skilling and higher education writes Summiya Yasmeen
Prime Minister Narendra Modi: eventful decade for Indian education
Significant achievements & notable challenges
In this General Election-eve story, we assess the track record of the Modi government — the first non-Congress government to have completed ten years in office in independent India — in early childhood, primary-secondary, skilling and higher education writes Summiya Yasmeen
Prime Minister Narendra Modi: eventful decade for Indian education
ECCE given high priority
Dr. […]
In this General Election-eve story, we assess the track record of the Modi government — the first non-Congress government to have completed ten years in office in independent India — in early childhood, primary-secondary, skilling and higher education writes Summiya Yasmeen
Prime Minister Narendra Modi: eventful decade for Indian education
Speed & scale reforms
Shishir Jaipuria […]
In this General Election-eve story, we assess the track record of the Modi government — the first non-Congress government to have completed ten years in office in independent India — in early childhood, primary-secondary, skilling and higher education writes Summiya Yasmeen
Prime Minister Narendra Modi: eventful decade for Indian education
Education brought to forefront
Dr. […]
In this General Election-eve story, we assess the track record of the Modi government — the first non-Congress government to have completed ten years in office in independent India — in early childhood, primary-secondary, skilling and higher education writes Summiya Yasmeen
Prime Minister Narendra Modi: eventful decade for Indian education
NEP 2020 a pathbreaking landmark […]
The 67th SGFI National Table Tennis U-19 Boys and Girls Tournament 2023-24 was successfully hosted by the Indian Public Schools’ Conference (IPSC) at The Emerald Heights International School from January 15th to 18th, 2024.
This marked the first time in the history of Indore that such an event was organized, attracting over 350 players from 33 […]
-Autar Nehru (Delhi)
Burnwal: scholarships website
Ashutosh Burnwal is Founder-CEO of Buddy4Study.com, a scholarships aggregator firm promoted by the Noida-based Smiling Star Advisory Pvt. Ltd. Moreover, he is director of Buddy4Study Foundation and Mentor of Change, the Atal Innovation Mission of Niti Aayog since 2020.
Established in 2011, Buddy4Study.com is an online platform that aggregates information […]
-Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)
Provost of the reputed Bengaluru-based multidisciplinary CMR University (CMRU), an institution awarded private university status by special legislation of the Karnataka state government in 2013, Dr. Tristha Ramamurthy is also founder-director of the Bengaluru-based Ekya Schools — a chain of five K-12 progressive schools. CMRU with its constituent technology, business management, law and […]
-Reshma Ravishanker (Bengaluru)
Gadiraju: industry-aligned programmes
Kali Prasad Gadiraju is chairman of the Hyderabad-based EThames College (estb.2009) affiliated with Osmania University which offers three undergrad programmes (BBA, B.Com and BCA) to upskill students to make them industry-ready and secure well-paid employment.
Newspeg. To celebrate its 15th anniversary, on February 19, Gadiraju launched the EThames Global School […]
The Viceroy’s Artist
Anindyo Roy
hachette india
Rs.599
Pages 284
A 19th century travelogue across India of Edward Lear, a nonsense- verse writer and sketches painter, is pieced together by academic-turned- novelist Anindyo Roy
Who is the Viceroy and who is his artist is played out over 284 pages of this historically contextualised tour de force fictionalised […]
Smoke and Ashes
Amitav Ghosh
harper collins
Rs.699
Pages 318
The unwritten history of how the British forcibly grew opium over vast swathes of the Gangetic plain and dumped it on a weak imperial China
Environment and climate warrior and author of the Ibis trilogy of novels centred around the history of the Indian diaspora in Mauritius, […]
Blade Nzimande: kickbacks allegation
Ahead of the start of the academic year in February, South African higher education is mired in crisis, amid claims of corruption and questions over the ability of the country’s student funding scheme to manage payments. Higher education minister Blade Nzimande has been on the ropes for weeks following publication […]
China’s move to take more direct control of university governance is likely to presage a further crackdown on academic freedom, experts warn. University presidents have long complained of a lack of autonomy stemming from the influence of government-appointed party secretaries on campuses, but these parallel governance structures are now being merged in institutions across the […]
Al Israa University under fire: intentional plan?
Israel has been accused of deliberately targeting universities and academics in Gaza as part of a strategy branded “educide”. Following the controlled demolition of Al-Israa University, Israeli army footage of which was widely shared on social media, every single higher education institution in Gaza is believed to […]
President Lula: wage increases & scholarships
High-profile “exiled” academics have returned to Brazil after a “change in atmosphere” in the year since Jair Bolsonaro lost the presidency. But the polarised country could now face strikes as higher education continues to suffer from years of underfunding.
Hampered by a hostile legislature and spending restrictions, Luiz Inacio […]
Coronavirus has taken the sheen from Australian universities’ golden goose, with discounting, offshoring and other factors slashing the per-student value of international education at many institutions.
A Times Higher Education analysis shows that while overseas enrolments took a battering from Covid-19, so did, tuition fees. Compared with 2019, per-student earnings for almost half the sector are […]
Macke Raymond
A year ago, New York’s governor, Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, proposed to adjust a state cap on charter schools, publicly funded but privately run schools that have become a locus of innovation and controversy in American education. Ms Hochul’s plan was not ambitious, but it would have allowed dozens of new charter […]
Dr Larry Arnn, President, Hillsdale College, USA
Hillsdale College, where I am employed, sponsors over 100 schools across the United States. These are ‘classical’ schools — they look back to a ‘classic’ age for direction and inspiration.
One feature of classical schools is they aim to build ‘character’. It is a big word. It emanates from an […]
-Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
Chopra (centre): new-age study programmes
Co-founder of the Kolkata-based PS Group of Companies with interests in real estate, Pradip Chopra is also chairman of the Institute of Leadership Entrepreneurship & Development (iLEAD, estb.2010) — a CSR initiative of the PS Group — established with a capital outlay of Rs.50 crore and built […]
Rural India has been shortchanged from reaping the gains of freedom and national development by way of continuously adverse terms of trade between town and country. A visitor from another planet is likely to identify rural Bharat as a totally different country from urban India with its swish motorcars, glitzy shopping malls and big weddings […]
In this General Election-eve story, we assess the track record of the Modi government — the first non-Congress government to have completed ten years in office in independent India — in early childhood, primary-secondary, skilling and higher education writes Summiya Yasmeen
Prime Minister Narendra Modi: eventful decade for Indian education
There’s no shortage of report […]
Green shoots indicate that Indians, who had to endure the rule of pale-skinned foreigners for 500 years, are recovering their self-confidence and ethnic pride. According to a Nielsen IQ 2023 market research study, volume sales of ‘fairness’ creams have declined for the first year ever.
Brainwashed for centuries by light-complexioned invaders including unprepossessing Brits that their […]
The Congress government of Karnataka which was unexpectedly elected to power in the state legislative assembly election of 2023, is destroying the future of this high-potential state (pop. 67 million) by populist pandering. As soon as it was sworn into power last summer, it set about fulfilling five promises it had somewhat recklessly announced in […]
The passing of senior Supreme Court lawyer Fali Nariman on February 21 provoked fulsome tributes paid to him by the Chief Justice of India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and several eminent commentators in the media and society. This also brings to mind another extraordinary now forgotten counsel of the Bombay Bar — Nani Palkhivala — […]
LINA ASHAR
Education is not merely about knowledge delivery… Conscious learning is a new-age pedagogy that prompts students to develop deep awareness of their thoughts, emotions and action
In the fast-evolving education landscape, there is a notable shift towards a holistic approach to nurturing young minds. Education is not merely about knowledge delivery but […]
Somasekhar Mulugu (Hyderabad)
Paderborn (Germany)-based equestrian Anush Agarwalla (24) was among 26 sportspersons conferred the prestigious Arjuna Award, 2023 for outstanding performance in sports by President Murmu on January 9. Anush won a gold medal in the team event and a historic bronze — India’s first — in the individual equine dressage event at the Asian […]
Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
For building the world’s tallest (11ft 4 inches) freestanding structure showcasing four iconic buildings of Kolkata — St. Paul’s Cathedral, Writers’ Building, Shaheed Minar, and Salt Lake Stadium — in 41 days using 143,000 playing cards without tape or adhesive, city-based Arnav Daga (16) merited an entry into Guinness World Records last December […]
BITS-Pilani design school
Mumbai, february 15. Certified as an Institution of Eminence by the Government of India, the multi-campus Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS) Pilani, launched its BITS Design School (BITSDES), Mumbai. BITSDES combines technology, business, and entrepreneurship with the creative arts to nurture a new generation of future-ready design professionals.
“Design is shaping […]
Tamil Nadu
IIT-M sports quota
New delhi, february 2. From the new academic year beginning July 2024, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Madras will introduce two supernumerary sports quota seats in every undergrad program, announced director V. Kamakoti. The idea was mooted by IIT-Madras before the IIT Council in 2023.
Addressing a press conference, the director said: “IIT-Madras […]
“It’s a democratic right of the farmers to protest and come and be heard in the national capital. I don’t think the border with China is fortified the way this city is fortified. The government should have learnt a lesson from the previous farmers’ agitation — consult the stakeholders. Last time it took a year-long […]
Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
Sabuj Sathi beneficiaries
Ahead of the forthcoming lok Sabha polls scheduled for April-May, Chandrima Bhattacharya, minister of state (independent charge) for finance, tabled a Rs.3.66 lakh crore budget on February 8, announcing a slew of social welfare policies including sops for women and children.
While continuing with existing welfare schemes such as the […]
Aditi Maheshwari (Bhopal)
The annual status of education Report (ASER) 2023, published by the independent not-for-profit Pratham Education Foundation (estb.1995), assessed the learning outcomes of 1,514 teenage children aged 14-18 years from 1,193 households in Bhopal and 60 villages in Bhopal district.
ASER 2023 reports 62 percent of teens struggle with basic arithmetic tasks, such as division […]
Nasrin Modak Siddiqi (Mumbai)
Mumbai pre-primary students: sleep deprivation concern
A circular dated february 8 issued by the state government’s education ministry advising change of pre-primary to class IV school timings to 9 a.m onwards, has divided the educators and parents communities statewide. Expressing concern over the issue of children not getting adequate sleep because […]
Reshma Ravishanker (Bengaluru)
Protesting forestry students: “right to feel wronged”
Over 700 students from three state government-run forestry colleges in Karnataka who — were on a month-long protest in their college campuses, congregated in Bengaluru to stage a protest between February 26-29. Their demand is the state government stipulates that only forestry sciences graduates will […]
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Poor human capital development record
– R.N. Bhaskar, senior journalist, educationist, and researcher
For chest-thumping hyper-nationalist government and ruling BJP spokespersons claiming that India is the world’s fastest growing economy, the third largest global economy and set to become a viswaguru (world teacher), UNDP’s latest Human Development Report 2022-23 is a rude awakening. India’s ranking has slipped from #130 in […]