EducationWorld November 2019

Sharanya Narayani International School, Bengaluru

Within a short span of four years, this day-cum-boarding school affiliated with the most respected international exam boards has quickly made a favourable impression on the parents community of the IT city – Shraddha Goled

Sited on a sprawling 60-acre campus shaded by eucalyptus groves in east Bangalore’s fast-growing industrial suburb of Hoskote, the new-age Sharanya Narayani […]

Aabir Sarkar and Rishiraj Behki

Vadodara-based early teens Aabir Sarkar and Rishiraj Behki — members of Team ARM (advanced robotics for manufacturing) 9 — are the newly crowned champions of the World Adolescent Robotics Contest (WARC) 2019 staged on August 11-17 in Chongqing, China. Team ARM9 was among 60 teams invited from 30 countries to compete in WARC 2019 by […]

Aswatha Narayana Sanagavarapu

At the annual WorldSkills 2019 competition staged in Kazan (Russia) from August 22-27, Bhubaneswar (Odisha)-based electronics engineer Aswatha Narayana Sanagavarapu (25) bested participants from ten countries including South Korea, China, Germany, Russia, Iran and Brazil to be adjudged India’s first gold medallist in the water technologies management skills category (individual). The 48-member Indian contingent competed […]

19th Anniversary Essay

Death of scientific temper

Absence of any experimental component in science teaching is common even among private schools. This is teaching science without encouraging any interest in the subject.

Those who wonder why Jawaharlal Nehru’s dream of scientific temper becoming a popular social value hasn’t come true, should examine science teaching in our schools. A friend’s niece who has now […]

FLAME – Amherst MoU

Pune, October 30. FLAME University (estb. 2015), a pioneer Pune-based liberal arts varsity, signed an MoU (memorandum of understanding) with the top-ranked Amherst College, Massachusetts (USA) for collaboration on academic and student initiatives, sharing best practices and generating cutting-edge research.

“This partnership signifies an important step forward in our mission of making FLAME a truly global […]

Karnataka — Common school strategy

An amendment of a rule under the Karnataka Education Act, 1983, decreeing a formula for computing tuition fee increases, has aroused widespread anger within the state’s 13,000 independent (unaided) private schools with an aggregate enrolment of 4.5 million children. Several private schools associations, including the influential Associated Management of Private Unaided English-Medium Schools of Karnataka […]

West Bengal – Unexpected bonanza

Public education (and health), widely accepted as the prerequisite of economic growth and development, was grossly neglected during the 34-years of uninterrupted rule (1977-2011) over West Bengal of the CPM-led Left Front government. The outcome is that West Bengal (pop. 91 million), which right until the mid-1970s was a major industry and manufacturing hub of […]

Tamil Nadu — NEET fraud epidemic

A national eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) 2019 scandal exposed in Tamil Nadu on September 19, has sent shockwaves across the country and compounded the state’s woes with NEET — the sole national entrance exam for admission into undergraduate and postgrad medical and dental study programmes countrywide. From the time NEET was introduced in 2016, there’s been […]

Maharashtra — BJP/SS 2.0 hopes

With the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its alliance partner, the Shiv Sena (SS) having won 161 seats in the state’s 288-member legislative assembly in the recently concluded election and likely to form the government, the new BJP-SS government of Maharashtra would do well to thoroughly revamp its education policy initiatives. Since […]

Delhi – AAP’s education gamble

Unusually, the top leadership of the AAP (Aam Aadmi Party), which uncomfortably rules Delhi state jointly with the BJP-led NDA government, seems to believe that education (and health) is an election-winning issue. Ever since it was unexpectedly swept to power in the state legislative assembly with a massive majority in […]

Assam — IIT-G-AICTE agreement

Guwahati, October 1. The Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati (IIT-G) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) for inducting higher-secondary school-leavers of the newly promulgated Union territory of Jammu & Kashmir as interns. The objective of the MoU is to expose Kashmiri […]

They said it in October

“India’s child wasting rate is extremely high at 20.8 percent—the highest wasting rate of any country in this report for which data or estimates were available.”

Global Hunger Index Report 2019 released by Concern Worldwide and Welt Hunger Hilfe (October 15)

“It is the responsibility of our historians and people to preserve and rewrite […]

Delhi — Welcome new index

The release on September 30 of the School Education Quality Index (SEQI) by Niti Aayog — the Union government’s think tank — marks a new chapter in education development reportage and restoring competition between the states of the Indian Union after a gap of several years.

Among the several initiatives that […]

Great tribute

I was delighted to read your cover story ‘Mahatma Gandhi’s prescription can revive Indian education’ (EW, October). It is superbly written, insightful and exhilarating to read about the Mahatma’s organic and still relevant education philosophy.

Apart from being a highly accomplished political leader and social reformer, Gandhiji was a highly influential […]

Professionalise country’s banks

The money withdrawal restrictions imposed upon the 1.6 million customers of the Mumbai-based Punjab-Maharashtra Cooperative Bank (PMCB) following discovery that the bank’s management has advanced Rs.6,500 crore of its total deposits of Rs.8,880 crore to one borrower, is yet another scam which has shaken the faith of the public in the country’s […]

GHI 2019: Shameful indictment

For all the triumphalist speechifying about steady progress towards transforming the country into a $5 trillion economy by 2025 and putting a man on the moon in the near future, the latest evidence that contradicts prime minister Narendra Modi’s statement repeated in eight languages in Houston, Texas, before a cheering audience of diaspora Indians that […]

Letter from the Editor

Twenty years ago on the eve of the 21st century when this publication was launched in modest circumstances but with the vaulting ambition to “build the pressure of public opinion to make education the #1 item on the national agenda,” it was an inflection point of euphoria and great expectations. Globally there was a surge […]

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