There’s pervasive fear and panic within the parents’ community that the country’s 1.08 million government and 328,845 private recognised schools (and an estimated 300,000 unrecognised private budget schools) with 250 million children, are rapidly turning into danger zones lacking the most basic child safety and security measures – Summiya Yasmeen
June 12. A 57-year-old founder-trustee of an […]
In the recently published EducationWorld India School Rankings 2017-18, BCGS, which has an enrollment of 4,100 students mentored by 150 teachers, was ranked the #1 girls day school in Bangalore and Karnataka, and #11 nationally – Sruthy Susan Ullas
Long before the IT revolution put the sleepy city of Bangalore on the global technology map, and […]
A visit to a high-end school starts with a security guard in the school’s livery greeting your driver at the high well-wrought gate. As your car drives in, you notice the lovely gardens with smooth, plush lawns, neatly trimmed hedges, flowering plants in prim gamlas placed in symmetrical patterns, ornamental trees and so on. This […]
Amreesh Andrew Chandra is the Delhi-based group president of GEMS Education (India), a wholly owned subsidiary of the parent company based in Dubai, which is arguably the world’s largest provider of K-12 private education with 250 schools in 16 countries.
Newspeg. GEMS Education staged a two-day Festival of Education in partnership with the Rajasthan government in Jaipur […]
Istituto Marangoni, Milan (estb.1935) inaugurated its first educational facility in India in Mumbai recently. The new school will offer a wide set of training resources and tools designed to provide fashion students and industry professionals the most qualitative learning experiences.
The institute offers broad (i.e, 24 weeks) and short-term (one week) courses focused on fashion design, […]
Modestly launched in 1999 with the huge ambition “to build the pressure of public opinion to make education the #1 item on the national agenda”, EducationWorld has succeeded in moving education of the world’s largest child population from the peripheries towards the centre of the national agenda. In this special report we highlight the great […]
Although celebrated as a best-selling writer-intellectual by half-educated youth of the country who according to our cock-eyed politicians are the nation’s demographic dividend, there’s a simpleton quality about popular novelist/columnist Chetan Bhagat. Recently in a television interview, he discerned anti-Hindu bias in the Supreme Court order (October 9) banning the sale of fire crackers in […]
The recent death on September 27 of Playboy publisher-editor Hugh Hefner in his Los Angeles Playboy Mansion, surrounded by his trade mark bunnies, brings to mind the comparatively modest effort of the unlikely Mumbai businessman Sushil Somani and several editors, including your correspondent, to establish Debonair as India’s answer to Playboy.
The late Vinod Mehta, then […]
“The debate between public and private schools has raged for long. This is a false hiatus. Societies with rising aspirations need both equity and excellence. Seeking inclusiveness while ensuring acceptable outcomes is invariably challenging. Public policies must be designed to harmonise a possible asymmetry.”
NK Singh, former member of Parliament, on how the RTE Act and bias […]
Vamsi Krishna (34) is CEO and co-founder of the Bangalore-based Vedantu Innovations Pvt. Ltd (VIPL, estb. 2014), an edtech company which offers class VI-XII CISCE/CBSE students after-school supplementary learning solutions, including test preparation for admission into top-ranked engineering colleges.
On its patented software app which can be downloaded on any Android device, Vedantu tutors deliver course content […]
Shabdasharan Tadvi, Gujarat’s minister for tribal welfare, formally inaugurated the Birsa Munda Tribal University in the tribal-dominated town of Rajpipla in the Narmada district of Vadodara. Addressing the media on October 14, the minister said the university will function from the premises of Adarsh Nivasi Shala for a temporary period, and later shift to its […]
An evangelist for the deaf, Dr. Alim Chandani is associate vice president of the Delhi-based Centum GRO initiative (estb. February 2017), a leadership and entrepreneurial skills training centre that offers free-of-charge three-month certificate courses across five segments — deaf empowerment (for instance, courses in legal rights and policies for people with disabilities), English and communication skills, […]
Despite rising tuition and residential accommodation fees in foreign countries — especially the US, UK, Canada and Europe — the annual outflow of students from India who venture abroad for quality higher education shows no sign of decreasing.
However, it’s a mistake to believe that colleges/universities abroad are accessible by all who can afford the tuition and […]
An alumna of the top-ranked Jodhamal Public School and currently a first year humanities student of Jammu’s Government College for Women, Nandini Kapoor (19) made her debut in playback singing in regional producer Surinder Manhas’ Dogri film Doli, set for release next month.
Christened Jammu’s ‘nightingale’ by her growing legion of fans, this 19-year-old is elated […]
Any sentence containing the phrases “Donald Trump” and “campus sexual assault” could reasonably be expected to conclude with the word “outrage”. Yet when President Trump’s secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, announced her intention to “revoke or rescind” directives to universities on handling sexual assault issued by the Obama administration, the move was quietly welcomed by […]
Coimbatore-based Aahil Mubarak (6) is at his best after strapping on his roller skates and speeding on the rink with the wind in his face. At the Asian Roller Sports Open Championship staged in Pattaya, Thailand between May 11-17, young Aahil bested competitors from Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Thailand to bag two golds in the […]
Germany remains way ahead of other developed nations in terms of the share of new students who choose to study STEM (science, engineering, technology and maths) subjects, the latest data show.
According to the Education at a Glance report published by the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development), 40 percent of new higher education entrants […]
Since Independence, Indians have been seduced by the ideology of victimhood, best summed up in the worst song ever produced by the Hindi film industry: duniya mein hum aayein hai to jeena hi padega, jeevan hai agar zeher to peena hi padega. (‘Having come into this world, we must learn to live life. If life […]
India’s universities aren’t the only ones experiencing stress and turbulence. Scholars and students worldwide face a “continuing global crisis of attacks” driven by an “anti-democratic fear of universities” as bastions of free thought, according to an international network that promotes academic freedom.
Figures released by Scholars at Risk reveal that global higher education was subject to […]
Australia’s education minister has promised to be “pragmatic” in his bid to get controversial funding reforms over the line, but maintains that the package of spending cuts and tuition fee increases will not damage universities’ teaching and research.
Higher education institutions remain strongly opposed to the Liberal-led administration’s plans to cut sector funding by 2.5 percent, […]
Exactly 18 years ago, this monthly magazine was modestly launched with a hugely ambitious objective: “to build the pressure of public opinion to make education the #1 item on the national agenda”. Almost two decades on, I must admit we are nowhere near achieving this objective. Looking back, it didn’t seem like a hugely ambitious […]
This 230-year-old university is ranked among the Top 10 US research varsities by the Center for Measuring University Performance, Arizona
Founded in 1787, the University of Pittsburgh (aka Pitt) is one of the most respected research universities of America. Though a privately managed institution, the university is a member of Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth System of Higher Education […]
Catalonia’s referendum has brought into sharp focus the potential benefits of independence for science in the region, but it has also highlighted the potential pitfalls that researchers could face if relations between the separatist region and Madrid sour further.
Catalonia is one of Spain’s richest regions, providing 19 percent of Spain’s gross domestic product. It’s home […]
An open, continuous and uninterrupted tragedy is unfolding within Indian Railways (IR) with none so poor to find solutions to end the daily carnage on the metal rails of this public sector monopoly’s runaway killer trains. Twenty-nine train accidents were reported in the first six months of this calendar year which killed 57 people and […]
There’s growing concern in academia about checking quality deterioration in higher education. New initiatives, innovations and research require urgent attention. One of these initiatives was announced by prime minister Narendra Modi while addressing the centenary celebrations of Patna University on October 14. He promised an allocation of Rs.10,000 crore to 20 universities — equally distributed […]
Days before the start of the new school year, Merve, a class VIII science teacher, is flipping through the pages of her old biology textbook. A picture of a giraffe appears, alongside a few lines about Charles Darwin. Teaching evolution in a predominantly Muslim country where six out of ten people refer to themselves as […]
In a quasi-literate country where political parties thrive on opportunism and cheap populism, offering the public free water, electricity, schooling, food etc, one can’t single out the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which in a totally unexpected counter-wave to the BJP shortly after the latter swept General Election 2014, won the Delhi state election with an […]
New Zealand and Canada have been singled out as countries that best prepare students for the future, in a major study assessing the “effectiveness” of education systems. The Worldwide Educating for the Future Index, produced by the Economist Intelligence Unit for the Yidan Prize Foundation, evaluates education systems in 35 economies across 16 indicators, which […]
I am a regular attendee of the EducationWorld India School Rankings Awards ceremonies and I must say it gets better each year. It’s a great forum for school principals to meet and network. For us at the Jodhamal Public School, Jammu, it was a great feeling to be ranked the #1 school in Jammu & […]
Speaking at Patna University on October 14, prime minister Narendra Modi is reported as having voiced his dismay about none of India’s universities being ranked among the world’s Top 500. Actually, the PM was only voicing two views on the state of our higher education sector that are quite widely held in the country. The […]
Of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments held around the world, Wimbledon is the most prestigious. The other three, the Australian, French and US Open, pale in comparison. Wimbledon isn’t only the oldest of them all, it combines tradition and glamour – Rahul Singh
This summer was green and pleasant because despite the odds being against […]
Among the major recommendations of the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report 2017-18 released on October 24 in Paris by Unesco, are a call upon governments to design accountability systems for schools and teachers that are supportive of children and avoid punitive mechanisms especially those based on narrow performance measures, allow for democratic participation, respect media […]
Hitherto a voluntary service provided by women of the upper classes, nursing has morphed into a full-fledged healthcare professional vocation – Odeal D’Souza
Florence Nightingale aka the Lady with the Lamp (1820-1910), is widely remembered for tending to wounded soldiers during the Crimean War (1850-56) and introducing nursing education. Since then, nursing — hitherto a voluntary […]
How Pakistan got divided, Rao Farman Ali Khan, OXFORD university press; Rs.1,150, Pages 298
Rao Farman Ali Khan’s book under review is of interest because, as the Pakistani newspaper Dawn noted when he died in January 2004, he had been a “key player in the East Pakistan crisis”.
Commissioned in the Artillery regiment in 1942, Rao Farman Ali Khan served many […]
Maharashtra’s state education ministry has softened its stance on private agencies conducting extra-curricular competitive tests and talent search exams for primary-secondary students. On January 7 (2017), the government had imposed a complete ban on schools from participating in such competitive tests/exams. However, on October 4, through a revised GR (government resolution) it issued new guidelines […]
I’m a science (statistics) graduate interested in pursuing a career in the insurance industry. I am currently preparing for the licentiate examination of the Insurance Institute of India and wish to know about study programmes offered by the Chartered Insurance Institute of London. — Navin Bajaj, Mumbai
With your statistics background, you might consider training to become […]
Where would you place education on your national list of priorities?
Although education should be the top priority, in a country of a billion people where more than 20 percent of the population struggles to get a square meal, education takes a back seat.
How best to upgrade government schools?
I believe the public-private-partnership (PPP) model is the […]
An October 3 government circular asking private schools in the state to disclose salary payments made to their teachers, has sent the managements of Karnataka’s 19,593 unaided private K-12 schools into a tizzy. A decade after the state government made it mandatory for unaided private schools to pay their teachers a minimum monthly salary of […]
That the public schooling system is tragically broken hardly needs proof — the massive abandonment of government schools (despite their providing free tuition, books, uniform and mid-day meals) and migration to fee-charging schools, even by children of poorest households, is proof enough. The Union HRD ministry’s District Information System on Education (DISE) data show that […]
The Allahabad high court’s belated (as usual) ‘not guilty’ verdict in the Aarushi murder case of 2008 seems to have been taken as a personal setback by popular television news anchor Arnab Goswami. For those who have been living under a rock, 14-year-old Aarushi was murdered in her Noida home nine years ago, and her […]
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