Sheebani Chothani (15) has been a topper since she was in class I of Mumba’s highly rated Bombay Scottish School. Not surprisingly last summer she was awarded a scholarship” open to all school students in India” by the British Council to attend school in Britain for a month. “The council awarded five scholarships last year including […]
Sahara shiningPerhaps the most unkindest cut of all is that an emerging epicentre of the millennial boom in blatant conspicuous consumption is Lucknow, capital of Uttar Pradesh (UP), the largest and arguably poorest state of the Indian Union. Over the past decade or so UP and Lucknow in particular, has been transformed into Sahara country […]
Ask your 1-to-1-help.net counsellors1to1Help.net CounsellorsI would like to send my son to a summer camp where he learns something. But with many summer camp programmes advertised these days, I‚m confused. How do I choose the right summer camp for my child?Reena David, BangaloreWith the commencement of the summer holiday, camps and classes are attracting children […]
Masters of Illusion — The World Bank and the Poverty of Nations by Catherine Caufield; Macmillan; Price: Rs.280; 432 pp
This is one of the most important books written in recent years. Though first published in 1997, Masters of Illusion — The World Bank and the Poverty of Nations has received scant attention in the Indian media. Which is rather surprising […]
The enduring charm of Kolkata and its environsFor the discerning Kolkata (aka Calcutta) remains a city with a glorious imperial past which retains its old-world flavour and Marxist coffee house cultureHowrah Bridge over the HooghlyIt‚s rare to encounter an informed individual who is neutral about Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), described as the ‚Ëœcity of dreadful night‚ […]
Over the past three years the Azim Premji Foundation and the Wipro Applying Thought in Schools programme have been playing pioneering roles in raising teaching standards in the school system by convening teachers’ workshops and school education upgradation seminars. Summiya Yasmeen reports
A persistent and growing criticism of Indian industry is that despite it being the greatest user/ […]
Letter from London
Slow death of science
Despite the announcement made by Gordon Brown, chancellor of the exchequer, in this year’s March budget, that schools, universities and colleges across the UK will be given an extra £8.5 billion (Rs.68,850 crore) over the next three years, many universities are quietly closing academically heavyweight departments.
Universities are discovering that to […]
Artlab Madras, a Chennai-based training institute, is all set to launch a new concept in digital media education next month (June). Promoted by Sunny and Sharon Natrajan, the institute offers short-term digital communication and creative arts courses to graduate students of visual communications and fine arts in partnership with the College of Communications, University of Nations, […]
Your Counsellor RepliesI‚m a class XI student. I want to pursue a career in communications. Please advise. Nalini Sawant, PuneYou could enroll for a bachelors‚ degree in mass media and later for a Masters in communication studies/ mass communications. Or you could complete your graduation in any subject of your choice and sign up for […]
With corporates becoming increasingly conscious of their social responsibilities and public image, the demand for qualified environment managers and advisors is steadily increasing
The 7 percent plus growth of the Indian economy in the recently concluded year is not only raining a shower of capital and consumer goods and attracting investment from around the world, but […]
For me, infant nutrition is a very special subject because that’s how I became involved with this profession. It wasn’t a subject of my choice in college. In any case in those days besides courses in dietetics, not much else was available. Unless of course one wanted to study alternative medicine or naturopathy. Even today, study […]
Half a century after it started funding the massive expansion of post-independence India’s much-envied higher education system, the University Grants Commission is gearing to engineer a quality revolution within India’s down-at-heel colleges and universities. Dilip Thakore reports
These days a visitor to the nondescript five-storey typically government-style headquarters of the University Grants Commission (UGC) sited on Delhi’s Zafar Shah […]
Conversion to nature worshipBittu SahgalThere are numerous and multiplying problems confronting teachers and school managements these days, what with all kinds of people including ministers, the Supreme Court and political parties presuming to prescribe how schools should be run, even as politicians try hard to indoctrinate kids early in life by forcing them to learn […]
Since its establishment in 1850, this pace-setting all-women’s college has evolved into one of America’s most famous and academically challenging liberal arts education institutions
The recently released Hollywood movie Mona Lisa Smile, set in Wellesley College and featuring America’s sweetheart Julia Roberts, has somewhat annoyed the alumnae of this highly rated all-women’s college. The movie set in the 1950s […]
Founded in memory of one of independent India’s most prominent industrialists, SPSEC has built itself a formidable reputation which extends beyond the country’s leather goods capital
In the two decades since it admitted its first batch of students in 1982, the Sir Padampat Singhania Education Centre (SPSEC), Kanpur (pop. 4.3 million) has built itself a formidable reputation […]
Widener library, Harvard University’s pride, is surely one of the most enduring memorials any mother has constructed for a lost child. As you climb its stairs, pass its imposing columns and enter the main door, you are poignantly reminded of this great institution’s origins. Eleanor Elkins Widener had the library constructed in 1915 in memory of […]
Shloka Joshi (13) has just completed her class VII at Delhi’s Modern School and is taking a breather from the hectic regimen that she has been following everyday for the past five years. The only child of Capt. S.C. Joshi of the Indian Navy and services golf champion and Sangeeta, a former maths professor, the […]
London Metropolitan University (lmu) headquartered in central London which established its India office in New Delhi in 2001, recently inaugurated its second India office in Chennai. LMU’s Chennai office offers support services relating to admissions, application processes, accommodation, visa, etc to students signing up for its study programmes, in conjunction with the British Council, Chennai.
Established […]
Twin leakage scam
Once considered among the most prestigious universities in India, boasting illustrious alumni like B.R. Ambedkar and Nani Palkhivala, Bombay University, aka University of Mumbai (est.1857), has witnessed its reputation taking a serious hammering of late. While the past decade has witnessed scandals aplenty reeking of malpractice and financial shenanigans, the university experienced […]
This is to thank you for many things. Firstly, for publishing my viewpoint in your cover story ‘Joshi’s IIM grab angers middle class India’ (EW March). Secondly, for giving attention to education through your excellent magazine. Education is the most backward sector among the organised sectors. It has refused to change, still sticking to the organisation […]
The vital disconnect between Indian industry and Indian education is being belatedly highlighted by the prolix fees subsidisation battle between the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and the Union ministry of human resource development. Despite the faculty and particularly students, who actually assume the fee payment burden being stridently opposed to the 80 percent reduction […]
Everyone knows that it exists at the public expense; but it’s difficult to ascertain what exactly the Delhi-based University Grants Commission (UGC)does, apart from doling out obviously inadequate grants to colleges and universities if their shabby, crumbling premises and labs and libraries are any indication. Therefore the golden jubilee celebrations of the commission which concluded […]
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