EducationWorld May 10

Ill be completing my law degree next year and am interested in signing up for an intellectual property rights study programme through distance learning. Which institutions offer this course?Sridhar Swamy, Bangalore
Among the institutes offering study programmes in intellectual property rights through distance education are the National Law School of India University, Bangalore (www.nls.ac.in); IGNOU […]

The Indian economy has changed significantly in the past decade resulting in corresponding change in the nature of work and demand for skills. While more than half of Indias GDP is contributed by services, more than two-third of the population is still employed — or more accurately under-employed — in […]

Thanks to Autar Nehru and Summiya Yasmeen for their informative cover story on IGNOU (EW April). Because governments in New Delhi and the states have criminally neglected investment and capacity building in education — particularly higher education — wasting taxpayers money on public sector enterprises and useless government servants, IGNOU offers the only hope of […]

Like a hardy annual ritual, the higher tuition fees issue has returned to haunt school mana-gements and parents alike in Indias national capital. Last April, the generous award of the Sixth Pay Commission (2008) which jacked up the pay packages of government school teachers by 40 percent (with retros-pective effect from January 2006), obliged the […]

Maharashtra’s three premier universities of Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur, will be downsized to create new universities. This decision was announced by Rajesh Tope, the states minister for higher and technical education, on April 7 in the legislative assembly. Describing the present structure of the three universities as unwieldy, Tope said that bifurcation or downsizing will […]

Following the passage through Parliament of the Right to Free & Compulsory Education Act 2009, aka Right to Education Act (RTE), which came into force on April 1, the Tamil Nadu state government has commenced a statewide drive to enrol out-of-school children and drop-outs aged six-14 into school. The state government has legislated its own […]

The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM)-led Left Front government of West Bengal has achieved another dubious distinction. It has failed and neglected to tap the huge cache allocated by the Central government to promote secondary school education in the states. Christened the Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA, ‘national secondary education drive), this centrally sponsored project […]

Once one of the countrys most promising post-independence varsities, Bangalore University, (BU, estb.1964) whose techno-savvy graduates powered the spectacular growth of Indias globally respected IT industry, is in a tailspin. Since the early 1990s when a new genre of peasant leaders began calling the shots in the Vidhan Soudha, Bangalore — the ornate epicentre of […]

“Today, what I am, I am because of education. So, I want that the light of education should reach to all… The government is committed to ensuring that all children irrespective of gender and social category, have access to education and fund constraints would not be allowed to hamper implementation of the Right to Education […]