EducationWorld November 13

Students in countries affected by the Arab Spring are failing to get a proper university education because they still feel unable to challenge their tutors. Speaking at the annual conference of the European Association for International Education (September 10-13) in Istanbul, Khaled Fahmy, professor of history at the American University of Cairo (AUC), said the […]

Thousand of international students may be shunning the US, UK and Commonwealth countries in favour of continental Europe, where a growing number of courses are being offered in English. A total of 6,407 taught Masters programmes in the language were offered in continental Europe in June this year — a 38 percent rise on the […]

Several US projects launched this autums are expanding the availability of free electronic textbooks using open educational resources (OER), as commercial publishers scramble to make more of their own titles available digitally.
The activity comes in response to the mounting cost of textbooks — up 812 percent since 1978, much faster than even tuition fees, […]

The need for education systems dispensing globally accepted knowledge and skillsets is too well-known to bear reiteration. The emergence of a global marketplace for high order critical thinking, analytical and communication skills, the blurring of national boundaries in relation to life-and-death matters such as terrorism and environmental degradation, rapidly rising standards of educational achievement around […]

Can you tell me, Socrates — is virtue something that can be taught? Or does it come by practice. Or is it neither teaching nor practice that gives it to a man but natural aptitude or something else? — (opening question in Platos Meno)It has become normative for leaders and coaches to focus on the […]

On education seminars and workshops circuits in India and abroad, the new buzzwords are 21st century, new millennium, and communication and soft skills learning. Even in India, theres been a sudden shift in favour of developing critical thinking, analysis and problem solving skills. In particular, theres a new and welcome awareness that contemporary education requires […]

As digital age technology becomes increasingly integrated with the daily lives of people around the world, teachers will be working with a new generation which has been ‘born digital’ — a population of young people who use technology intuitively. Consequently schools will have to match the pace of change and teach students by using 21st […]

Following the proclaimed success of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (‘education for all) primary education programme introduced in 1999, the government of India has recently set its sights on rapidly expanding — indeed universalising — secondary education under its Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) programme. Given the nations massive population of 480 million children below age […]

An unforeseen silver lining to the dark cloud of partition hanging over the south-eastern littoral state of Andhra Pradesh (pop. 84 million), is the sudden awareness of student leaders, who have been at the forefront of the agitation for and against bifurcation, that English language proficiency is essential for airing their opinions in the national […]

The overwhelming majority of Indias 1.40 million schools — especially 1.30 million govern-ment primaries — are bleak, uninviting institutions defined by crumbling classrooms, insanitary conditions, corporal punishment and chronic teacher absenteeism. The countrys 200,000 fee-levying private schools which host almost 40 percent of all school-going children are relatively more inviting. But getting to school — […]