The extent to which the incubus of effete epicureanism or love of luxury has permeated the Indian establishment would shock the conscience of right-thinking people, if there were any left in Indian society. The latest outrage perpetrated by the greedy consumers of the Delhi durbar is news which received uncritical coverage on September 21 in the media […]
The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman; Penguin Books; Price: Rs.720; 488 pp
In recent times no work of non-fiction has dominated the New York Times bestseller lists as consistently as journalist Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Globalised World in the 21st Century. That’s because it makes a determined and spirited attempt to explain […]
The enduring charm of SerendipWith one of the richest treasure troves of natural and man-made wonders and a history dating back to the dawn of civilisation, despite a civil insurgency and tsunami damage this island republic‚s well-oiled tourism industry is in business againThe pearl on the southern tip of the Indian subcontinent, Sri Lanka (pop. […]
Reading to young children is the best thing a parent can do for them. On the other hand, free licence to watch television could well destroy their creativity, present and future. Looking back upon my own child rearing days, I may have taken numerous wrong turns, but I read my son stories every night even before […]
Somewhat belatedly, educationists especially in urban schools across the subcontinent, have become acutely aware that teaching life/ soft skills for professional and personal success is as important as developing academic capability. Summiya Yasmeen reports
It’s the new buzzword in Indian education. Everybody — school and college managements, principals, teachers, educationists, parents, students, and even corporates — is suddenly […]
Letter from London
Widening participation debate
There is a specially positive feeling at the beginning of the academic year when university corridors and canteens are full of apprehensive first year students, and there is the whiff of fresh polish and enthusiasm. Meanwhile news-papers are busy analysing a barrage of statistics — how many students are from state (non […]
About a dozen years ago, schools salesman Sanjeev Bolia, then 21 and academically equipped with a modest B.Com degree from St. Xaviers College, Kolkata took a momentous decision. He decided to stop hunting for a job. “I faced a problem that frustrates millions of youth in this country and decided to start doing my own […]
Your counsellor repliesI‚m an above average Plus Two (science) student interested in studying medicine in the UK or US. Please advise.Lakshmi Iyer, ChennaiMedical training in theUK starts with acquisition of an under-graduate medical degree, also known as the pre-med. This five year study programme culminates in the award of a bachelor of medicine and surgery […]
Individuals with an eye for talent, commercial acumen and risk-taking ability have emerged within the fashion industry which has high potential for growth in the new quotas free textiles market
With Indian textiles and designs beginning to make an impact in the fashion capitals of the world and a steady stream of fashion designers pouring out […]
Professional education freedom verdict sparks constitutional crisis as a commonsense judgement of the Supreme Court has ruled that the Central and state governments have no right to appropriate admission quotas at arbitrary tuition fees in private professional colleges it hasn’t funded or financed, arousing the indignation of the nation’s powerful political class. Dilip Thakore reports
A unanimous judgement […]
The recent shenanigans in a high profile Delhi college provided the capital city with some much needed comic relief. The principal of the college suddenly resigned, accusing the ex-officio chairman of his board, who happens to be the CNI (Church of North India) Bishop of Delhi, of applying excessive pressure for an admission. In his resignation […]
Saatvik Agarwal (18) the student astronaut who made waves last February after spending a week at NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the centre for robotic solar exploration based in Pasadena, California, is maintaining contact with his colleagues of 11 other nations and the US-based Planetary Society through a newsgroup. Saatvik, also a Mars mission ambassador, […]
Parliament’s recent approval of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act is an overdue progressive step taken by India to address the vulnerabilities of the country’s poor majority. Nothing can be more humiliating for adults than chronic unemployment and not being able to put food on the table for family and children. While workers in the organised […]
Established in 1967 with a current enrollment of 29,000 students including 7,000 from 94 countries worldwide, this sydney-based varsity has acquired an excellent reputation for teaching and research
Set in a verdant campus amidst spacious Sydney parklands, Macquarie University is widely recognised as Australia’s most innovative varsity with an outstanding reputation for excellence in teaching and research. It has […]
Within a short span this self-financing college (estb.1992) has succeeded in impacting the educational establishment in Chennai in a big way through its teaching-learning innovations
Sited in Nungambakkam in the heart of the port city of Chennai on a modest 1.3 acre campus, the six-storey M.O.P Vaishnav College for Women has transformed into an epicentre of women’s […]
The Kolkata-based JIL Information Technology Ltd, an affiliate of the Jaypee Group made a presentation of Bhartiyavidya (described as India’s first digital classroom teaching aid) on August 24 at the city’s Hotel Hindustan International. Directors, principals and teachers of several schools including Loreto House, St. James, Julien Day, Pailan World School, DPS Mega City, […]
They said it”The National Rural Employment Guarantee Bill is the Left‚s biggest success to date. We worked hard to change the original draft which was flawed.”Prakash Karat, CPI-M general secretary in India Today (September 5)”In Gujarat, Hitler‚s life and works have been glorified in school textbooks. This is very serious.”Union HRD minister Arjun Singh (September […]
Uttar Pradesh
Children’s wilderness
When cases of Japanese Encephalitis (JE) — a mosquito borne disease that mostly targets children (adults develop immunity due to mild, symptom-less earlier infections) — were first reported in the Hindi heartland state of Uttar Pradesh (pop. 166 million) in late June, government health officials were typically nonchalant. After all in […]
The by-all-accounts amicable four hour parleys between Pakistan’s president Musharraff and prime minister Manmohan Singh in New York in mid-September, the conclave of all Kashmiri political parties in Srinagar to which for the first time the prime minister of Pakistan-occupied Azad Kashmir was invited, and the acceptance of the Hurriyat Conference that the status […]
As contemporary India’s depressing socio-economic development indices testify, a lot went wrong with post-independence India’s economic development effort. But conversely there are some things the establishment did right. One of them is the separation of powers and the creation of an independent judiciary governed by the Supreme Court of India. Mind you, all is far […]
Congratulations for your first all-colour issue of EducationWorld. Quite frankly when the first issues of EW were published I had privately predicted its early demise. But I am pleased to note that you are going from strength to strength. Who knows, you might even attain some of your seemingly grandiose targets!
Aptly your first colour issue covers the vital […]
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Japan: High price of conformity Five months after a tsunami that led to his family’s evacuation from Fukushima, the boy enrolled at a new school ... 
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