Junior Picasso to his friends and family, Radhey Patel (11), a class VI student of the Gurgaon-based Scottish High International School, will be moving to the UK in July this year to continue his studies in one of three British public schools, which have offered him art scholarships. Merchant Taylors, Aldenham, and The John Lyon […]
ALTHOUGH THE CONSTITUTION OF India has endowed the fundamental right of electoral franchise upon all citizens and paeans of praise are heaped upon the Election Commission of India (ECI) for conducting 16 general elections in the world™s most populous democracy, exercising this fundamental right at ground zero level on the appointed day is dicey proposition. […]
DR. Ajeenkya D.Y. Patil
Chairman, D.Y. Patil Group of Institutions
Are you satisfied with the importance given to education in the national development agenda?
Education is so vital for human development, it can never be enough. However, I am pleased that governments at the Centre and in the states are beginning to appreciate the prime importance […]
Battles half won: India™s improbable democracy; Ashutosh Varshney; Penguin books; Rs.599; Pages 415
WHEN THE 525 PRINCELY states of the Indian subcontinent attained independence from the British Raj 67 years ago, most political pundits ” especially foreign savants ” predicted that the Centre wouldn™t hold and the newly cobbled together improbable Indian democracy would collapse […]
POSITIVE CHANGE IS seldom sudden or drastic. It takes time to modify your family™s lifestyle and develop sustainable healthy habits. The key to successful behavioural change is to take small steps ” and keep moving forward! Many people find it helpful to focus on one initiative per month, and transform it into a habit. Every […]
MARKS ARE NO JOKE IN India. According to the India Consumer Survey 2013, middle class households spend an average of 10 percent of their monthly income paying school fees and towards private tuitions to improve their children™s exam scores, with the objective of ensuring their admission into top-ranked universities, and lifetime success. This is true […]
I™m a second year BMM (bachelor of mass media) student keen on a career in sports management. What are my study options and career prospects?
Ashok Patil, Pune
A BMM degree is a good foundation for a career in sports management as it nurtures creativity, communication and organisational skills which are essential for success in […]
With India emerging as a major hub of this booming new-age industry, global demand for qualified animation professionals is ballooning
WITH THE AGGREGATE revenue of the global animation industry slated to exceed $277 billion (Rs.1,670,586 crore) by 2015, and India emerging as a major hub of this booming new-age industry, global demand for qualified animation […]
With the Ahmedabad-based MICA claiming it has been œmisclassified, the A.J. Kidwai Mass Communication Research Centre, Delhi has been conceded first rank
THE AHMEDABAD-BASED Mudra Institute of Communications (MICA), promoted in 1991, has been reaffirmed as India™s #1 mass communication institution in the second EducationWorld India Professional Colleges Rankings 2014. A sample respondents database comprising […]
Textile and fashion schools which offer the prospect of India reclaiming its international market share through design ingenuity, have assumed critical importance
ONCE UPON A TIME india™s silks and textiles were among the world™s most valued merchandise, and prompted intrepid explorers such as Marco Polo (1254-1324) among others to brave grave dangers to open up […]
With major international hotel chains betting big on India, there™s a huge rise in demand for qualified professionals in the hospitality sector
THE INDIAN HOSPITALITY (aka hotel) industry is experiencing a surge, powered by an increase in business and leisure travel among domestic and foreign tourists. According to data released by the Union tourism ministry, […]
Despite the legal profession being hugely overcrowded, the black-coats and tie-bands fraternity continues to attract youth from middle class households into this universally hated but indispensable profession
A PARADOX OF CONTEMPORARY India™s sclerotic legal system characterised by too-few courts and judges, court fees, garrulous judges and lawyers alien to written pleadings, and unsurprisingly the biggest […]
A sample respondents base comprising 1,483 industry managers, 721 faculty of professional education institutions and 626 students enrolled in them, rated India™s top law, hospitality, fashion, mass communication and animation institutes
RIGHT UNTIL THE 1990s, entry into colleges of engineering, medicine, commerce and law was the preferred choice of the overwhelming majority of youth from […]
To compile the national and state rankings of India’s most respected medical colleges, C fore field researchers interviewed 205 faculty and 234 final year medical students countrywide, asking them to rate medical colleges on six parameters, viz, competence of faculty, faculty welfare and development, research and innovation, pedagogic systems and processes, placements and infrastructure […]
Against a backdrop of uncertainty and confusion in medical education which has raised misgivings about the quality of graduates certified by India™s 355 medical colleges, 439 sample respondents have voted for stability in the 2014 league table
“PHYSICIAN HEAL THYSELF! This is an imperative India™s medical profession needs to urgently heed. Because the country™s medical […]
To provide readers, especially aspiring engineers, a comprehensive profile of India™s most highly respected ˜other™ (excluding IITs) engineering colleges, the Top 100 national and state league tables are supplemented with Top 10 national rankings on the basis of parameters of excellence.
To compile the national and state rankings, C fore field researchers interviewed 1,036 faculty […]
THE BIRLA INSTITUTE OF Technology and Science, Pilani (BITS-Pilani) and the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H) have been ranked India™s top two non-IIT engineering colleges for the second successive year in the EducationWorld India Rankings of next-best engineering colleges by a specially constituted sample database of respondents comprising 1,036 engineering faculty and 1,220 […]
Although some engineering education institutions ” notably the IITs ” enjoy great national and even offshore reputations, India™s 3,400 engineering institutes have not been able to produce graduates technically equipped to conceptualise and execute monumental engineering projects
EDUCATIONWORLD™S second rating and ranking league tables of India™s most highly regarded non-IIT engineering colleges are being published […]
MUMBAI-BASED Angad Daryani (15) is the latest teen to join the brigade of precocious global IT (information technology) entrepreneurs. With parental support, this self-styled open source software and hardware developer promoted Shark India Pvt. Ltd in 2012, and is getting ready to launch the country’s most cost-efficient, fastest, and most robust desktop 3-D printers. Priced […]
India™s general elections have a touch of the circus. There is a sense of performance, of spectacle but also a comedy of distractions. If one looks for real issues, there™s little about sustainability, knowledge, innovation or justice. Education is not a priority and is hardly seen as part of the core competence of citizenship. Because […]
Founded in 1885, Georgia Tech has matured into a globally renowned university famous for science and technology research and education
Sited on a sprawling 600-acre campus in Atlanta, the Georgia Institute of Technology (aka Georgia Tech, estb. 1885) is globally renowned for science and technology research and education. In its annual league tables, the U.S. […]
OIS is an exclusively offshore exams-board affiliated K-12 institution routinely ranked among Mumbai™s Top 3 international schools
Curiously, although mumbai has long been acknowledged as the commercial capital of the country with a greater density of millionaires and high net worth (HNW) households per square mile than any other metro, high-end international primary-secondary schools with […]
Griffith University™s Gold Coast City (Australia) campus is in the final stages of a A$500 million (Rs.2,773 crore) construction programme. The construction of tennis, basketball and beach volleyball courts, a $20 million extension to the campus library, and a new $150 million Griffith Health Centre, have been completed. A $37 million Business Building which includes […]
Odisha
Lecturer suspended for poll violation
A TEACHER OF A government-aided higher education institution was placed under suspension for violating the Election Commission of India™s model code of conduct by campaigning for a Biju Janata Dal (BJD) party candidate in the Pattamundai assembly segment of the Kendrapara district. Sridhar Behera, a lecturer of Pattamundai Women™s […]
œWhen America steps back… trouble will fill that vacuum.
Condoleezza Rice, former US secretary of state, alleging that America™s œweariness over foreign entanglements enabled Vladimir Putin™s land grab in Crimea, among other diplomatic crises (Time, April 14)
œLet it be said of Narendra Modi that he is petty, that he does not forget easily, and […]
ONE OF THE MANY promises made by the Trinamool Congress (TMC) party in the run-up to the 2011 assembly elections in West Bengal was a pledge to œdepoliticise higher education. Accordingly, in May 2011 after TMC routed the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM)-led Left Front government which had (mis) ruled West Bengal (pop. 91 million) […]
THE SUPREME COURT has sought the response of the Centre, all states and Union territories to a petition filed by the Delhi-based National Coalition for Education (NCE) alleging widespread violation of the Right to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009 in schools countrywide. On April 11, a constitution bench of the court headed by […]
MEDICAL STUDENTS IN andhra Pradesh wrote the Post Graduate Medical Entrance Test (PGMET) 2014 administered by the state government for a second time in the last week of April. Following a probe ordered by Andhra Pradesh governor and chancellor of the NTR University of Health Sciences, E.S.L. Narasimhan, and an investigation by the state™s Crime […]
THE CONSEQUENCES OF arbitrarily increasing the number of engineering colleges and capacity in popular study programmes for over a decade, are beginning to manifest in the south-eastern seaboard state of Tamil Nadu (pop. 72 million). Ahead of the admission season, 20 private engineering colleges in the state have sought permission from the Delhi-based All India […]
THE IMPRIMATUR GIVEN by President Pranab Mukherjee to the Maharashtra Educational Institutions (Regulation and Collection of Fees) Act, 2011 on March 21, has cheered parents in the state and particularly in Mumbai where they have been protesting the steep rise in tuition fees of private schools. Under provisions of the Act, fees ” including tuition, […]
ON MARCH 31, the landmark Right to Free & Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009 which guarantees free and compulsory education to every child in the 6-14 age group completed its fourth anniversary. Although the Union government and major political parties locked in a high voltage combat to elect members of the 16th Lok Sabha had […]
I READ THE APRIL issue of EducationWorld with great interest, and was happy to learn that vocational education is being written about and discussed among various other issues in the magazine. This will contribute positively to the perception of vocational education as a career option among students, teachers and schools.
I refer in particular to […]
IN THE RUN-UP to india™s 16th general election, several issues of vital importance to the future well-being of the country have become obscured in the din and cacophony of the hustings. None of the major political parties have spelt out their programmes and positions on the critical issues of universal public health services, quality education […]
Despite the large number ” estimated at 1 million per year ” of certified engineers India™s 3,400 engineering colleges churn out, there™s growing dissatisfaction within Indian industry and society with their quality, professionalism and productivity. Although it™s now dismissed as a misinterpretation, an infamous Nasscom-McKinsey World Institute study (2005) concluded that 75 percent of our […]
Pressure from the entertainment and glamour industries and the corporate sector is driving the demand for qualified skin care specialists, aka dermatologists
ACCORDING TO INDUSTRY estimates, aggregate annual expenditure on the skin and beauty care industry in India is currently $950 million (Rs.5,770 crore per year) and increasing at a CAGR (compounded annual growth rate) of […]
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Lok Sabha Speaker Birla urges youths, seers to spread awareness about education Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on April7, urged the seers and the youths to come forward to create awareness about ... 
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