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…
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…
Decades ago, when I studied educational theory abroad, one of the many startling things I learnt was the presence of reading in the daily time table of schools from the…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
NUI 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…
Started as a Hindi-medium UP state board-affiliated school in 1978, NWS has transformed into a progressive English-medium K-12 institution offering CBSE and Cambridge International (UK) curriculums to its 1,540 students…
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…
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…
As a consequence of global warming and melting polar ice caps, underwater archaeology has emerged as a highly specialised vocation – Paromita Sengupta With rising awareness of the importance of…
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…
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…
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),…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Students made to wear cardboard boxes to avoid cheating during exams About 50 students of a pre-university college in Karnataka were forced to wear cartons to avoid copying in exams, an ... 
The importance of school education in child development The children of today are gearing up to become adult citizens of tomorrow. The growth is parallel to the future ... 
10 corruption scandals that shook the nation According to a recent study by Transparency International — a Berlin-based NGO working against corruption, India is the ‘Most Corrupt ... 
Popular games that originated in ancient India India has been the land of many globally renowned inventions such as Yoga, Ayurveda, Zero etc. The country’s inventions are ... 
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