It is the misfortune of the world’s largest child and youth population that like its predecessor governments, the BJP-NDA government at the Centre and in several major states has failed to sufficiently comprehend that nurturance of the country’s abundant human resource is the prerequisite of national development – Dilip Thakore elaborates on the BJP education report […]
Once the epicentre of India’s freedom struggle and the alma mater of three prime ministers, two vice-presidents and a president of India as well as of authors, artistes and senior bureaucrats, this 131-year-old university has experienced a steady descent into a whirpool of student violence, corruption, caste politics, faculty recruitment scams and lawlessness – Autar […]
An assessment of the education development track record of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government which completed four years in office at the Centre in May and is now readying for General Election 2019, seemed the apposite choice for the cover story of this anniversary issue of EducationWorld (estb.1999) which completes 19 years of […]
The sesquicentennial (150th) birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi on October 2 was half-heartedly celebrated in New Delhi and with even less enthusiasm in the rest of the country. With the passage of time and post-independence India’s academy dominated by communist, socialist and left-liberal intellectuals, the epochal contribution of Gandhi to the freedom movement and the […]
When the bharatiya janata Party (BJP) was elected to power at the Centre following a sweeping victory in General Election 2014, and subsequently triumphed in several state legislative assembly elections, notably in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Goa and Tripura, the popular expectation was that the party would provide robust governance and rule of law after […]
Your October cover story ‘Why boarding schools are becoming popular again’ was interesting and information-packed. It’s true that our cities and towns are becoming highly-polluted gas chambers with children having to brave crowded streets and heavy traffic to commute to school.
As the parent of a six-year-old suffering from asthma, I have experienced the dangers of living […]
A year after it produced its SDG 4.7 review report titled Rethinking Schooling at the 39th session of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) held in Paris, the Delhi-based Unesco-Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) released a policy brief document of the review report on October 16. […]
The vintage mumbai university (MU, estb.1857) has been at the receiving end of a fusillade from the Bombay high court for “abdicating” its responsibility of conducting independent law examinations and suo motu introducing a proposed 60:40 evaluation pattern in affiliated law colleges from the current academic year. Hearing writ petitions filed by students and law […]
Popularly known as the rte quota, the compulsory admission of children from poor neighbourhood households into private non-minority day schools under s. 12 (1) (c) of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009 has always been a sore point in Karnataka. Under this provision, private unaided schools — other than […]
Against the backdrop of an estimated 31 million youth registered as unemployed in official employment agencies across the country and the BJP/NDA government at the Centre having abandoned all claims to generating 12 million new jobs per year, students in the country’s 39,000 colleges and 900 universities are becoming increasingly militant. The eastern seaboard state […]
Three years after the jayalalithaa-led all india Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) government of Tamil Nadu promulgated India’s first code of regulations for play schools (aka pre-primaries/preschools), and also drafted an activity-oriented syllabus for children in the 1.5-3.5 years age group, the incumbent E. Palaniswamy-led AIADMK government released a new draft syllabus for the state’s […]
“Teacher education programmes should underline active engagement in public life, and dispositions and sensibilities for living in plural societies with a commitment to social cohesion and solidarity.”
Seema Sarohe, assistant professor of education, University of Delhi on the role of teacher education programmes (Economic and Political Weekly, October 6)
“Yes, we are broken. We are now mere […]
New Delhi, October 1. Haryana’s Maharashi Dayanand University is India’s ‘Cleanest Public University’ in 2018, according to a Union human resource development ministry survey. The Swachh (‘clean’) Campus Rankings in three different categories were announced by Union HRD minister Prakash Javadekar on the eve of Gandhi Jayanti (October 2). The other top-ranked varsities are Guru […]
Bangalore, October 4. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between Manipal ProLearn, a professional learning arm of the Bangalore-based Manipal Global Education Services (MaGE), and Atlanta (USA)-based Equifax Inc, a global information solutions company. The MoU aims at creating industry-ready professionals specialised in data science and analytic skills for the banking financial services and […]
In June R. Praggnanandhaa (RP), a class VIII student of the Velammal Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Chennai, took the chess world by storm when he outsmarted Italian Grandmaster (GM) Luca Moroni Jr.in round eight of the Gredine Open staged in Ortisei (Italy), to be crowned the world’s second youngest (12 years ten months) and India’s […]
There’s no telling the tonnes of evidence budding archaeologist Arsh Ali (18) may unearth, given his knowledge of 15 ancient written scripts including Egyptian Hieroglyphics. Currently, Arsh is busy deciphering the nuances of the Indian subcontinent’s ancient Harappan script, dating back to the Indus Valley Civilisation.
“It’s very unusual and highly commendable for such a young […]
The government of Uttar Pradesh — India’s most populous state (215 million) — is headed by a violent and bigoted godman. He was the subject, and probably the source of inspired propaganda that suggested he is a contender to replace Narendra Modi as prime minister. But like Modi, Ajay Singh Bisht (aka Yogi Adityanath) has […]
National University of Ireland, Galway enjoys an excellent national reputation for teaching and research. It was conferred the Sunday Times University of the Year Award for the third time in 2018
Founded in 1845 as one of three queen’s Colleges established in Belfast, Cork and Galway, the National University of Ireland (NUI), Galway, enjoys […]
Started as a Hindi-medium UP state board-affiliated school in 1978, Nehru World School, Ghaziabad has transformed into a progressive English-medium K-12 institution offering CBSE and Cambridge International (UK) curriculums to its 1,540 students – Autar Nehru
Established in 1978 as a neighbourhood school in Shastri Nagar, a suburb of Ghaziabad in Delhi NCR, […]
The Union human resource development (HRD) ministry’s proposal to scrap the University Grants Commission (UGC, estb. 1956) and replace it with a Higher Education Commission of India (HECI) has sparked a spirited debate in academia and industry. Faculty and industry leaders are divided on whether this initiative which will bifurcate UGC’s grants disbursement and academic […]
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The high rankings awarded to China’s universities in the annual WUR (World University Rankings) of the highly-reputed London-based higher education institution rating agencies Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) and Times Higher Education (THE) in their latest (2018) league tables — three Chinese universities are ranked by QS and two by THE among the global […]
As a consequence of global warming and melting polar ice caps, being maritime archaeologists has emerged as a highly specialised vocation – Paromita Sengupta
With rising awareness of the importance of preserving and protecting coastal cities and towns, which could well be overwhelmed by rising sea levels due to the impact of global warming and melting […]
I am a class X student and want to explore career options which don’t require study of maths. — Vishesh Kumar, Noida
Knowledge of mathematics at least of basic level is becoming increasingly necessary in all professions and vocations. However several career options are available for students with no love lost for maths. They include law; […]
I am writing this essay in Rome and it has aroused indelible memories of a previous visit to this Eternal City six years ago. The rush of memories is stimulated by news that India has begun Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary celebrations. Moreover, EducationWorld is also celebrating its 19th anniversary with this special issue. These […]
Currently on a prolonged sabbatical in India, Dr. Sunder Ramaswamy, distinguished professor of international economics at Middlebury College (MC), USA, is the newly appointed vice chancellor of Krea University (KU), a greenfield liberal arts and science private university assuming shape and form across a 200-acre campus in SriCity, Andhra […]
Bhavesh Thakkar is the Mumbai-based founder and managing director of Phoren Kampus Pvt. Ltd (PKPL, estb.2005) and its subsidiary Ed Infra (2008), which provide a gamut of education consultancy services including school expansion, mergers, acquisitions, turnkey projects, fund-raising, foreign collaboration and associated services to KG-Ph D institutions. The companies’ client list includes […]
Mehran Akhtarkhavari is director of the Hiranandani Upscale School, Chennai (HUS, estb.2011) promoted by Surendra Hiranandani, founder-managing director of the Mumbai-based House of Hiranandani, a big name in real estate development. Sited within a major Hiranandani housing complex on Old Mahabalipuram Road, this is a class I-XII IB school providing the primary, […]
Priyamvada Agarwal is founder-director of Education & You (E&Y, estb.2014), a Kolkata-based education technology company which provides college admission guidance, career planning advice and training for collegiate and university entrance examinations. Since it began operations four years ago, the firm has facilitated admission of 500 students into 14 top-ranked universities abroad, including the London […]
Nigel Viegas is the Barbar (Bahrain)-based executive director of Bahrain Institute of Hospitality and Retail (BIHR) which offers high quality hotel and tourism management and retail study programmes accredited by the Hotel and Tourism Management Institute (HTMI), Switzerland, American Hotel and Lodging Education Institute, USA and Australian Retailers Association.
History. Promoted in 1999 by the Dadabai […]
An alumna of Maharishi Dayanand University, Rohtak and IMT, Ghaziabad, Anju Dhawan is founder-director of the Delhi-based SMS Consultants (estb.2003), a human resource company placing principals and teachers in schools across the country.
Starting her career as a teacher in the ICL School, Rohtak, she switched tracks to work for a division of the US-based […]
A new book The Fourth Education Revolution: Will Artificial Intelligence Liberate or Infantilise humanity? (2018) co-authored by Sir Anthony Seldon and Oladimeji Abidoye, is creating waves within the community of educators worldwide. It predicts that artificial intelligence will create ‘holographic teachers’ who will ‘individuate’ learning for every child. Earlier, Seldon, one of the world’s most […]
There are some very sinister and deliberately introduced influences in our society, especially in education, much of it flowing from the global failure of Marxism that will lead to social catastrophe if we don’t confront them squarely. This is not to say that capitalism is a perfect ideology — there is an unacceptable face of […]
Proposed changes to regulations on campus sexual misconduct in the US are a backward step in the fight against sexual violence and risk turning universities into court-rooms, according to observers. The planned Title IX rules, which were obtained by the New York Times, will narrow the definition of sexual harassment and hold universities accountable only […]
Even in a country used to academic fraud scandals, the past few months in Spain have been remarkable — it would perhaps be easier to list the Spanish politicians who don’t have questions hanging over their degrees.
Spanish newspapers are full of fevered discussion about what level of coincidence on Turnitin (an Internet-based plagiarism detection […]
The position of Nazarbayev University, named after Kazakhstan’s president, is unique. Established in 2010 as a “beacon” for higher education in this central Asian country, it has far more autonomy than neighbouring institutions — for whom the inherited Soviet system of centralised governance still lingers — but also far more government funding. Loretta O’Donnell, the […]
China has stepped up its ascent of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, with the country now hosting the top institution in Asia for the first time under the current methodology.
Tsinghua University has overtaken the National University of Singapore (NUS) to become the best university in Asia in the THE World University Rankings 2019 […]
Arabic is a “perfect, smooth and rich language”, wrote Ernest Renan, a 19th century French thinker who praised its “extensive vocabulary, the accuracy of its meanings and the beautiful logic of its structures”. Today Arabic is the second-most-spoken language in France, and the source of rich street slang. An estimated 5 million French citizens have […]
The number of academics working past the age of 65 in UK universities has more than doubled since the compulsory retirement age was abolished seven years ago. About 7,090 scholars aged 66 or over are now working in UK higher education, representing 3.4 percent of the 206,870-strong academic workforce, according to data published by sector […]
His Excellency Sheikh Nahyan Bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of State for Tolerance in the UAE government, conferred Global Education Leaders awards upon nine eminent education leaders from India for their exemplary contribution in various spheres of education and social development during the second edition of the India-UAE Partnership Summit convened in Dubai on October […]
The people vs. democracy, Yascha Mounk, Harvard University Press; Rs.2,220, Pages 400
In 1944 economic historian Karl Polanyi wrote The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time. Troubled by the collapse of European peace twice in a quarter of a century, Polanyi sought an explanation in his unique, yet intuitive, understanding of the co-dependence between market […]
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