Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp ShareIt 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…
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp ShareOnce 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…
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp ShareAn 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…
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp ShareThe 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…
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp ShareWhen 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…
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp ShareYour 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…
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp ShareA 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…
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp ShareThe 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…
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp SharePopularly 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…
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp ShareAgainst 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…
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp ShareThree 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…
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp Share“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…
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp ShareNew 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…
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp ShareBangalore, 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…
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp ShareIn 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…
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp ShareThe government of Uttar Pradesh — India’s most populous state (215 million) — is headed by a violent and bigoted godman. He was the subject, and…
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp ShareNUI 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…
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp ShareStarted 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…
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp ShareThe 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…
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp ShareThe 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)…
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp ShareAs a consequence of global warming and melting polar ice caps, underwater archaeology has emerged as a highly specialised vocation – Paromita Sengupta With rising awareness…
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp ShareI 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…
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp ShareI 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…
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp ShareCurrently 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…
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp ShareBhavesh 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…
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp ShareMehran 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…
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp SharePriyamvada 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…
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp ShareNigel 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…
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp ShareAn 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…
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp ShareA 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…
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp ShareThere 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…
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp ShareProposed 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…
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp ShareEven in a country used to academic fraud scandals, the past few months in Spain have been remarkable — it would perhaps be easier to list…
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp ShareThe 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…
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp ShareChina 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…
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp ShareArabic 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…
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp ShareThe 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…
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp ShareHis 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…
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp ShareThe 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…
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