EducationWorld October 10

Over the past seven years since I quit the corporate world to promote a sports education company which now has a client base of over 75 K-12 schools across the country, in my interactions with school leaders, teachers and parents, Im often asked questions such as:• Why is sports education important? Shouldnt the focus of […]

A Harvard University-educated entrepreneur with doubts about the value of traditional high-cost higher education programmes has launched the ‘Ryanair of university instruction. Echoing the approach of the successful budget airline, StraighterLine offers no-frills courses designed by former professors at cut-rate prices. They are provided at students convenience and can be transferred towards degrees at other […]

On a Tuesday at 6 p.m in downtown shanghai, children begin arriving at a bland commercial building just as office workers are leaving. A small storefront leads to an English-language school run by Disney. Children as young as two toddle in and climb the stairs. At first glance, their classrooms look like dreary boxes, but […]

Iraqi refugee children in Syria are struggling to keep up at school, or are dropping out to seek paid work, according to the UN Childrens Fund (Unicef). Education is absolutely central to the future of all children. Having a generation not equipped to participate in the economy of their country serves no one, says Sherazade […]

The most common causes of student stress and anguish according to school and college counselors are:

Anxiety over inability to cope with academic presure, overload of assignments and exam-related stress

Depression over unrealistically high parental expectations to perform well in academics and extra-curricular activities

Constant pressure to ‘fit-in and conform with peer groups and their socio-economic expectations

Lack of […]

Theres something seriously suspect about the mental equilibrium of Indias 20 million-strong neta-babu (politician-bureaucrat) class which has the nation in a thrall with its idiosyncrasies enacted on the national stage. A case in point is Union sports minister M.S. Gill (who like his tutor and mentor prime minister Manmohan Singh), is a former bureaucrat and […]