Imagine the scenario: an increasingly prosperous Asian country, which sends more students than any other nation to UK universities, is suddenly hit by a stock market collapse, a currency devaluation and a deep recession. Students are unable to afford foreign study, leaving academic departments across the UK with a financial black hole.
This is not […]
Performance-related pay causes the best academics to cluster together, evidence from Germany suggests. Paying academics bonuses for their research encourages them to join more productive colleagues, thereby concentrating scholarly talent and boosting output, according to a study of German universities.
The study used data from Germany, where from 2005 a change in the law proclaimed […]
With India suffering 13 of the world’s most polluted cities according to a 2015 report published by the World Health Organisation (WHO), a growing number of metropolitan and urban households are beginning to re-discover the charm of boarding schools. Usually sited in the hills and/or in salubrious environmentally-friendly locations, traditional legacy and high-end international boarding […]
He™s the individual everyone loves to hate and according to Outlook magazine, the man who killed the 9 p.m news. But there™s no denying there™s a je ne sais quoi appeal in the argumentative nine o™clock news format devised by Arnab Goswami, the combative anchor of the nightly news telecast on the Times Now channel. […]
Looking Away Inequality, Prejudice and Indifference in new India by Harsh Mander Speaking tiger;Price: Rs.495; Pages: 418
There™s a thriving community of impassioned Left liberals in Lutyens™ Delhi, the academy and media, which dominates the public discourse and shapes public policy. Unfortunately, its power and influence is in inverse proportion to its capabilities, cognitive or otherwise. […]
After completing my bachelor of business administration (BBA) degree next year, I want to enroll in an MA/M.Sc programme in psychology. Do I need to write an entrance test to qualify for admission?
Shekhar Rao, Bangalore
According to UGC (University Grants Commission) rules, a Masters programme should be a continuation of the bachelor’s degree programme. Thus […]
A food stylist is a professional who presents gastronomical delights prepared by a master chef and assistants in a visually appealing form for diners and depiction in the media Indra Gidwani
For post-liberalisation India™s newly prosperous 250-300 million middle class, dining out has become a de rigueur lifestyle statement which has prompted the promotion of over […]
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M.V. Muthuramalingam (MVM) is the founder-chairman of the low-profile Chennai-based Velammal Group. Born in Ladenenthal village, Madurai district in 1946, at age six MVM took charge of fending for the family after the premature demise of his father in 1952, grazing buffaloes and selling milk to supplement the household income while his mother Velammal […]
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An alumnus of Guntur Medical College who spent 15 years practising medicine in India, England and Iran, Dr. BS Rao and his wife Dr. Jhansi Lakshmi Bai returned to India in April 1986 and laid the foundation of the Sri Chaitanya Group of institutions with the promotion of the first girls junior college […]
Teaching is not only becoming an attractive career in K-12 schools, but in higher education as well. In Central and state government colleges/universities, the pay of an assistant professor (entry level position), which was a modest Rs.20,000 under the pay scales of the Fifth Pay Commission (1996), rose to Rs.60,000 per month after the award […]
Sunayna Uberoi is an electronics alumna of Pune and San Diego (USA) universities with seven years (2001-07) work experience with the US-based Qualcomm Inc, a pioneer in mobile telecommunications, artificial intelligence and robotics software development. Currently, she is a trainee in the I am a Teacher programme of The Heritage School, Gurgaon, promoted by Harvard […]
Dr. Ramdas Pai
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An alumnus of Karnatak University, Dharwad and Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, Dr. Ramdas Pai is the widely-respected chancellor of Manipal University and Chairman of the Manipal Education & Medical Group (MEMG). Since taking charge of the Manipal Group in 1979 after the death of the legendary Dr. T.M.A. Pai (1889-1979), […]
In the crowded ballroom of the Taj Vivanta, Delhi, EducationWorld felicitated and celebrated schools top-ranked nationally, in the states and cities in the EW India School Rankings 2015 published last month Summiya Yasmeen
Apacked house at the EducationWorld India School Rankings Awards Nite 2015 staged in New Delhi™s Taj Vivanta, Dwarka on September 26, felicitated India™s […]
With no permanent government and militant groups controlling large expanses of territory, Somalia has been the ultimate œfailed state for more than two decades. Unsurprisingly higher education has all but collapsed. Classes at Somali National University were suspended indefinitely in the early 1990s and just a handful of institutions continue to operate.
Now, stability is […]
South Korea™s ministry of education has been accused of encouraging universities to launch œghettoised courses for foreign students after it announced a new strategy to achieve its goal of attracting 200,000 foreign students by 2023.
Earlier the ministry had announced that it would push to revise the higher education law to allow universities and colleges […]
In Taiwan as elsewhere in East Asia fights over history are really all about laying claim to the future. After weeks of protests in Taipei, the capital, hundreds of high-school students and supporters stormed the education ministry on July 31 and staged a sit-in. Their anger was motivated by the China-friendly government™s changes to the […]
A new project to create an “internationally comparable” test of what students learn across European higher education is to launch with a €500,000 (Rs.5.12 crore) grant from the European Union. This autumn will see the start of a feasibility study on the ‘Measuring and Comparing Achievements of Learning Outcomes in Higher Education in Europe Project,’ […]
Recent estimates put the number of low-cost private schools in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, as high as 18,000. Hundreds more open each year. Fees average around 7,000 naira (Rs.2,330) per term, and can be as low as 3,000 naira. By comparison, in 2010-11 the city had just 1,600 government schools.
One reason for the developing world’s […]
The self-evident proposition that the quality of education dispensed in the country’s schools is dependent on the entry of highly-educated and well-trained teachers, has dawned upon Indian society and the establishment. Suddenly remuneration packages are swelling across the board in Indian education Dilip Thakore
For India’s estimated 9 million teachers’ community, September 5, designated Teachers Day in […]
œThere are more net jobs in the world today than ever before, after hundreds of years of technological innovation and hundreds of years of people predicting the death of work. The logic on this topic is crystal clear. Because of that, the contrary view is necessarily religious in nature, and, as we all know, there™s […]
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore is ranked #1 worldwide in the QS Top 50 under 50 Rankings 2014, a league table which rates and ranks universities under 50 years of age Summiya Yasmeen
Chartered in 1991 by the government of the Republic of Singapore, the publicly-funded Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has rapidly evolved into one of Asia’s […]
CMSCSC is a ISO 9001-2008 certified institution granted autonomous status in 2007 by UGC, and awarded A rating by NAAC in 2012 Hemalatha Raghupathi
Spread over a serene 26-acre landscaped campus in Chinnavedampatti, a suburb of the textile city of Coimbatore (pop. 1.05 million), CMS College of Science and Commerce (CMSCSC) offers over 45 undergrad, postgraduate […]
The Haryana state government™s department of school education has launched a massive learning enhancement programme in 3,200 government primary schools under its statewide quality improvement programme (QIP), partly funded by the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation (MSDF). MSDF has committed $2.7 million (Rs.17.5 crore) over three years to the Boston Consulting Group to provide QIP […]
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The Gujarat government told the high court that a fine of Rs.1 lakh will be imposed on primary schools admitting children below three years of age.
If a school flouts this rule for the second time, it would face derecognition with immediate effect, government counsel informed a division bench of the court which […]
“The MDGs were meant to create a social safety net; the SDGs to be fit for an age in which the standard of living in a big chunk of the developing world is creeping towards the levels of rich countries.”
The Economist on the unveiling of the Sustainable Development Goals at the United Nations, New York on […]
Seven months after union finance minister Arun Jaitley, while presenting the Union Budget 2015-16, announced that an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) would be established in Karnataka, a civil war of words has broken out in this southern state (pop. 64.5 million). After Jaitley’s announcement, the Congress government in the state recommended that the BJP-led […]
A survey released on August 29 by the New Delhi-based National University for Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), suggests that the number of private schools (including schools affiliated with the Tamil Nadu State Board of Secondary Education, Central Board of Secondary Education and Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations) in Tamil Nadu (pop.72.1 million) […]
A two-month-long daily agitation begun on August 21 by students of Kolkata™s top-ranked Presidency University (PU, estb. July, 2010) shows no signs of ending. Students are on the warpath because PU™s best teachers are being transferred to government colleges, and also because the varsity™s administration steadfastly refuses to reveal the investigation status of a mob […]
A populist decision taken by the state government of Uttar Pradesh to promote and assimilate primary school para-teachers (known as shiksha mitras) as assistant teachers into UP™s 1 million teacher force was struck down by the Allahabad high court on September 13. This judicial verdict has prompted widespread agitations in India™s most populous (200 million) […]
In a move widely welcomed by academics if not the parents™ community, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC, aka Bombay Municipal Corporation) has introduced sex education into the class VIII-IX curriculums of its 1,153 schools with an aggregate enrolment of 404,251 students. œThe programme started earlier this year and is being implemented in a phased manner […]
In what could prove to be a welcome intervention for offloading excess baggage from the œheavily loaded CBSE syllabus, Delhi™s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government has decided to prune the classes VI-VIII syllabus of government schools by 25 percent. This will be followed up by a 20 percent reduction in syllabus of classes IX-X. While […]
We appreciate your initiative to publish objective and unbiased school rankings together with schools™ actual class XII exam averages (EW September).
However, the CBSE class XII five-subjects average of Bal Bharati Public School, Dwarka (84.83 percent) has not been published in the rankings league table. Please refer to our email dated August 24 wherein we […]
The right to fair compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (LARRS), drafted and legislated by the Congress-led UPA-II government at the end of its ten-year (2004-14) term in office in New Delhi, became law on January 1, 2014 after a broad consensus among all major political parties about its provisions. […]
In the perverse social order fashioned by the architects of post-independence India™s neta-babu socialism, the people™s elected representatives and their bureaucratic minions are massively rewarded for the sloppy services they provide to the public. Although there™s precious little to show for their efforts by way of rising living standards, law, order and civic maintenance, access […]
A template for government-funded education Kendriya Vidyalaya Schools In a society where government managed schools are synonymous with ramshackle infrastructure, truant teachers and poor learning ... 
Maharashtra: New upper and lower limits for pre-primary to class I admissions The Maharashtra government has set new age criteria for children seeking admissions to nursery, junior and senior kindergarten and class I ... 
IETE, CyberPeace Foundation & Ranchi University ink MoU for a safer cyber space CyberPeace Foundation, Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) and Ranchi University have entered into a strategic collaboration to work ... 
Andhra Pradesh: Only 67 percent students pass Class 10 examinations The Board of Secondary Education Andhra Pradesh (BSEAP) released the SSC or Class 10 board exam results 2022 on Monday, June ... 
