In the end, it was something of an anticlimax. Last year Samajwadi Party (SP) supported candidates had swept the Lucknow University Students Union polls with the blessings of chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav and son Akhilesh Yadav, MP, in particular publicly stating that student intimidation and violation means boys will be boys. But in the […]
Human Development Report 2005; United Nations Development Programme; Price: Rs.575; 372 pp
Every summer when theUnited Nations Development Programme publishes its brilliantly written and data-laden Human Development Report, one can’t help acknowledging a profound debt to the late Pakistan-born economist Dr. Mahbub-Ul-Haq (1934-1998). Acutely aware of the great infirmity of per capita national income statistics (which ignore […]
Hampi — testimony to a golden ageOne of the 16 Unesco recognised World Heritage sites in the country, Hampi is getting an overdue infrastructure facelift for the imminent Hampi Utsav scheduled for early November Hampi, a world famous heritage tourism destination is getting an overdue infrastructure facelift for the forthcoming Hampi Utsav scheduled to be […]
One of my dearest friends of collegevintage, recently suffered a seizure while on holiday with her family. It was her first ever attack and it came without any warning. In a nightmare sequence a tumour was discovered, a surgery performed, compulsory bed rest and speech therapy followed. All this happened suddenly in fast-forward. Within moments […]
In 1997 when the Mahindra United World College of India became the first exclusively plus two school to offer the IB diploma study programme, it created a minor sensation in haute bourgeois India. Since then 27 schools countrywide have signed up affiliation agreements with the International Baccalaureate Organization, Geneva, showing the growing popularity of […]
Vocational education alternativeManjeet KripalaniTo experience the reality of India‚s education system, travel a moment with me to the Dharavi Transit Camp School in Dharavi, Asia‚s largest slum, located in Bombay. The school gates are unguarded, and the school building, four stories high, is shorn of paint. The 6,000 children here study in five different languages […]
University top-up fees whichbecome operational next year, are already beginning to make an impact. Student enrollments have risen dramatically in a bid to avoid paying higher fees next year, prompting the government to re-examine its policies on the matter. And flaws in thinking behind the top-up fees proposal are being unearthed.
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New paradigm in engineering educationDr. R, NatarajanChange is a distinctive characteristic of the 21st century ‚ not only in absolute terms but also at the accelerated pace at which it is occurring. Who would have believed 30 years ago that Germany would be re-unified, the Soviet Union would implode, apartheid would be history in South […]
To the deadly toll of the devastating earthquake of October 8 in the disputed territory of Kashmir which killed an estimated 40,000 people on both sides of the LoC (line of control) where armed troops of India and Pakistan have squared off for half a century, add one more casualty. On the morning of October […]
Your counsellor repliesI‚m a final year BA student interested in a career in teaching. Please provide details of full-time and part-time B.Ed courses.Shirin Wadia, BangaloreBachelor of education (B.Ed) is a one-year postgraduate programme. Graduates/ postgraduates are eligible for enrollment. Graduates with a B.Ed degree are qualified to teach in secondary schools while postgraduates are qualified […]
Though academics and rationalists dismiss it as mumbo-jumbo, there is a bright future in star gazing as few celebrities and opinion makers sign major contracts or make career moves without consulting astrologers-a flourishing tribe
Rationalists believe it’s mumbo-jumbo or pure hokum. But try telling that to the swelling tide of film stars, high-flying politicians, industrialists, […]
Mainstreaming of the LeftRajiv DesaiTalk about topsy-turvy. Sitaram Yechury, the Left‚s acceptable face, meets with Mukesh Ambani, whose family if you accept the communist myth, manipulated the innocent government of India to emerge as the biggest capitalist enterprise in the country. Brinda Karat, the fire-spewing communist, appears on BBC‚s Hard Talk programme to defend her […]
After more than a decade in the wilderness US-based multi-millionaire Satyen (‘Sam’) Pitroda, widely acknowledged as the author of India’s astonishing telecom revolution has been recalled to head the National Knowledge Commission. Its mission impossible: to transform the world’s most illiterate nation into a knowledge society. Can Sam Pitroda spark India’s overdue knowledge revolution? Dilip […]
A recent Supreme Court directiverequires a new subject called “environmental education” to be taught compulsorily in school at all levels. Moreover the court has decreed that school leaving class X and XII students be examined in the subject. But is it too much of a good thing?
Four socially-conscious youth- M. Mayur and S. Karthik, final year information technology students of SSN College of Engineering, Chennai; V.S. Arjun, (also an alumnus of SSN College of Engineering who has recently joined Caritor Inc.) and Ashwin Kumar, a graduate of the Panimalar College of Engineering who has signed up with the blue-chip Infosys Technologies- have […]
Like the tightening coils of a python, statutory bodies continue to strangulate higher education in India. A recent survey of higher education systems worldwide conducted by the London-based Economist evaluated the degree of regulatory control in countries with major tertiary education systems. The survey confirmed that the universities of western Europe are virtually free from government control; […]
Four decades since it was promoted in the 1960s, york university has established a global reputation and is consistently ranked among the top 10 uk varsities on most quality parameters
Promoted in the 1960s during the expansion period of higher education in Britain, the University of York has since established a global reputation and is consistently ranked […]
One of the oldest government promoted hotel management institutes in India, Institute of Hotel Management, Lucknow’s 23 batches of graduates occupy important positions in the hospitality and allied industries
Spread over four lush acres in the heart of the city, the Institute of Hotel Management, Lucknow (IHML), is the fifth oldest government established hotel management institute in […]
Push and pull in Indian educationAshima GoyalContemporary India is a society of startling contrasts ‚ 35 percent of its populace cannot read or write, but it is rapidly acquiring a global reput-ation as a reservoir of technical skills. Have India‚s failures in education been due to poor supply of education ‚ the absence of push […]
Lotus Valley International invites student applications for pre-nursery to class IX for the academic year beginning April 2006. Spread over 12.5 acres on a lush green campus on the outskirts of Delhi, Lotus Valley International School, Noida (LVIS) is a global school offering facilities of international standard. The school propagates “Indian culture and values […]
They said it in October”The talent pool from which India draws its best is so limited, yet we feel smug and defensive about our best. Imagine how much better and greater in number our bets would be if they were selected from a larger pool.”Krishna Kumar, director, NCERT in The Hindu (October 18)”The educational progress […]
Although the septuagenarianUnion minister of human resource development (aka education) Arjun Singh has numerous infirmities — he never answers letters or telephone calls and reportedly dozes off during meetings — his commitment to secular tenets enshrined in the Constitution is unquestionable. From the day he took charge of the ministry […]
The cover story titled “Professional education freedom verdict sparks constitutional crisis” (EW October) was perhaps the most comprehensive article written on the subject. The history of the case, traced from Unnikrishnan’s Case to Inamdar’s Case was elaborate and impressive, revealing the meticulous nature of the learned author.
While the article sympathises with private college managements, it offers no […]
It’s symptomatic of a cruel and irrational mindset.On October 2, 42 school children press-ganged into a cultural programme in Kanpur to mark the 136th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, fainted due to exhaustion. The children assembled at 7:30 a.m for Gandhi Jayanti celebrations organised by the education department of the Uttar Pradesh government, were […]
It’s a happy coincidence that on the anniversary which marks six years of uninterrupted publishing, our cover story should feature Satyen (‘Sam’) Pitroda, a technology-driven visionary who typifies creativity, courage, persistence, and relentless pursuit of superordinate goals. Commonly acknowledged as the prime mover of India’s astonishing telecom revolution of the past two decades which has leapfrogged […]
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