EducationWorld May 15

Every person on this planet either is or should be involved in team building! Because  species homo sapiens is designed to be connected, interdependent in relationships with people. Every human being is designed to become a team player. A family is a team, an athletics squad is a team, corporate employees constitute a team, and […]

That China has a œforum on improving ideological work in universities and colleges reveals something about the nature of the relationship between the State and universities. At the forum in January, education minister Yuan Guiren warned the country™s universities and colleges œto maintain political integrity and never let textbooks promoting Western values appear in our […]

University staff SHOULD be free to criticise senior management and expose wrongdoing without fear of dismissal or disciplinary action, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. In a momentous verdict which confirms the right to freedom of expression at work, the Strasbourg court found that a professor at a Latvian university had been unfairly […]

The president of Saudi Arabia™s flagship graduate research university has rejected calls for him to condemn restrictions on freedom of speech in the country. Jean-Lou Chameau, the president of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), told Times Higher Education that universities have to reflect the societies within which they exist, and that the […]

The results of the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings 2015 released in March show that the UK boasts 12 of the 100 most renowned higher education institutions in the world (up from ten last year), while its two strongest performers, the universities of Oxford and Cambridge have improved their positions. The US remains dominant […]

Examination malpractice and resigned tolerance thereof is by no means an exclusively Indian phenomenon. One in seven Russian students readily admits to cheating in university exams, reveals a national poll of undergraduates.
One in 25 students reports having paid someone else to write at least one mid-term or final-year paper, according to the annual Monitoring […]

William Bowen, a former president of Princeton, calls it œHarvard envy. Other American universities try to emulate the Ivy League, which raises costs. They erect splendid buildings, lure star professors with fat salaries and hire armies of administrators. In 1976, there were only half as many college bureaucrats as academic staff; now the ratio is […]

An emeritus professor at the London School of Economics and a highly-respected economist of Indian origin, Lord Meghnad Desai a life peer of the House of Lords, the second chamber of the British parliament is well-known in India as a television panelist and commentator popular for his forthright views on political and economic issues.
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After the BJP-led NDA coalition government was sworn in at the Centre a year ago, religious arguments on television and public platforms have become shriller and often hostile. Indeed even before the general election of last summer, in February 2014, The Hindus: An Alternative History, written by prominent American professor of Indian religions Wendy Doniger, […]

I™ll be graduating in mechanical engineering next year. I am confused whether to sign up for an M.Tech or MBA postgrad programme. Please advise me on which study programme is more financially rewarding.
Ashok Rao, Chennai

Make the decision based on your aptitude and interests rather than monetary considerations. An M.Tech degree programme will provide technical […]

Duly qualified gynaecologists find ready employment in government and private hospitals, nursing homes, pharma companies, and private clinics   Indra Gidwani
FOR THE SIMPLE REASON that contemporary India provides a mere 500 professionally qualified allopathic doctors per million population, the medical profession is one of the country™s most sought after career options. Moreover it™s noble, […]

Premchand Palety is the chief executive of the Delhi-based multidisciplinary research company C fore
All universities have the potential to catalyse massive industrial and socio-economic change in their local environments. A case in point is Stanford University. When the university was established in 1885 in Northern California™s Bay area, it was known primarily for its […]

In March when the annual World University Rankings (WUR) league tables of the London-based rating agencies QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) and THE (Times Higher Education magazine) were released, there was palpable and pervasive despair and disappointment in India ” in the media, politicians, government, academia, students, and the general public. Although the Indian subcontinent has a […]

A project paper titled ˜3D Geo-Data Management in Geo-RDBMS in Multi-user Access and Creation of Web-based Environment for Semantic Query Execution™ ” a smart city development blueprint ” has won engineering students Poorvak Kapoor (23), Dhruv Bajpai (22), Akshay Bhasin (20) and Abhinav Bhadoria (20) of IMS Engineering College, Ghaziabad, the first prize in version […]

The Bangalore-based UL (Underwriter Labs) Pvt. Ltd ” a subsidiary of the US-based UL LLC (estb.1894) which offers a wide range of industrial, fire suppression, home and other safety auditing, inspection, test and validation services ” announced a partnership with Youth Service America (YSA) to launch two ˜Safer Roads, Safer India™ youth leadership programmes in […]

Arunachal Pradesh
Engineering education drive
The Union human resources development ministry has cleared the decks for setting up Arunachal™s first government engineering college at Toru in Papum Pare district, technical education minister Tapang Taloh informed media personnel in Itanagar on April 2.
œThousands of students from Arunachal travel to other states every year to pursue […]

œI thought of her as a breath of fresh air. Her predecessor from NDA-I, Murli Manohar Joshi, a professor of physics in Allahabad University and my contemporary, arguably was the worst HRD minister India has seen. But now I feel Smriti is giving even him tough competition.

An anonymous vice chancellor quoted in a cover story […]

Six years after an expert committee first recommended the trifurcation of Karnataka™s showpiece Bangalore University (BU, estb. 1964), one of Asia™s largest varsities with 600 affiliated colleges boasting an aggregate enrolment of 700,000 students, the Congress government in the state has given the go-ahead for splitting it into three universities. Coincidentally on March 20, the […]

An april 23 directive of the Supreme Court stating that any college or university not accredited by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) by 2017 will be derecognised, has cast a shadow over 401 state-aided colleges in West Bengal. The Bangalore-based NAAC (estb.1994) is an autonomous institution that assesses and accredits institutions of higher […]

The control and command mindset of Maharashtra™s politicians will take a long while to be eradicated. Thirteen years after a full bench of the Supreme Court in a historic verdict in T.M.A. Pai Foundation vs. Union of India (2002) ruled that private unaided higher education providers have a fundamental right to establish and administer institutions […]

Unesco (united nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) released its annual EFA Global Monitoring Report (GMR) 2015, simultaneously in Delhi, Paris and New York on April 9, forty days before a new agenda is scheduled to be adopted at the forthcoming World Education Forum in Incheon (Republic of Korea) from May 19-22.
In 2000, at […]

Your cover story ‘22 Extraordinary Education Innovators’ (EW April) was extraordinary. The inspiring accounts of these innovators who have persevered to ideate and implement solutions which are changing the way education is being delivered in schools, are the only hope of Indian education.

I was particularly inspired by Geeta Ramanujam’s creative idea of using story-telling as […]

œA DISPASSIONATE EXTERNAL observer would be bewildered by middle-class India™s capacity to look away when confronted with enormous injustice and suffering; by our society™s cultural comfort with inequality, writes former civil servant turned social activist Harsh Mander in his latest book Looking Away ” Inequality, Prejudice and Indifference in New India. This observation is an […]

The fact that not a single one of the 693 universities recognised by the Delhi-based University Grants Commission is listed in the Top 200 World University Rankings (WURs) published annually by the London-based rating and ranking agencies Quacquarelli Symonds and Times Higher Education, or even in the listing of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, is […]

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