– Professor Arjya B. Majumdar; Dean, Admissions & Outreach; O.P. Jindal Global University
We are witness to the widespread consequences of a dynamic, unpredictable world. The pandemic has dealt devastating blows to the global economy, even touted to be worse than the financial crisis of 2008-09. In this backdrop, it becomes imperative to train future entrepreneurs […]
A study in 2016 on the future of online education in India predicted that it was set to grow to more than twice its size by 2021. However, what no one could have envisaged was that a pandemic would bring about an even more dramatic rise in virtual learning, not only in India but worldwide. […]
Established in 2018 by the Delhi World Foundation, the CBSE-affiliated Delhi World Public School (DWPS), Ajmer has established an excellent statewide reputation within a short span of time through the provision of holistic 21st century education rooted in Indian values and culture to its 900 students.
Despite being a fairly new member of the DWPS […]
Promoted in 2000, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) affiliated SelaQui International School (SIS), Dehradun offers holistic 21st century learning steeped in Indian traditions and values. Routinely ranked among the Top 10 co-ed boarding schools in the country in the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings, SIS has been at the forefront […]
View on NEP-2020 of Founder Director Sachin Vats, Gurukul The School, NH-9, Ghaziabad
“To paint a new landscape, one must start with a fresh canvass and a clean brush.”
The progress and success quo of a country depends on the ASKAttitude, Knowledge and Skill of its human resource. Transtimes, trans- cultures, trans- civilizations and trans- nations, […]
Students looking for part-time work are often caught between two less-than-ideal options. When they need extra money, they can take on low-skilled part-time work, such as stacking shelves in a supermarket or pulling pints in a bar. If they want professional experience, internships are preferred. But these are often unpaid, excluding all but the wealthy, […]
For children themselves, Covid-19 is not a big threat. They usually have mild symptoms or none at all. Among children with symptoms, only 0.1 percent of those younger than ten and 0.3 percent of those aged between ten and 19 end up in hospital, a study from Britain shows. For school-age children, a Covid-19 infection […]
University leaders Are watching closely after Internet behemoth Google jumped deeper into post-secondary education, offering six-month certificate programmes in technical fields that it promises to treat in its hiring as the equivalent of a four-year university degree.
Google says its new certificates represent an expansion of the skills-based training it already offers through the Coursera platform, […]
Gandhi’s Hinduism — The struggle against Jinnah’s Islam; M.J. Akbar; Bloomsbury; Rs.699; 414 pp
– Dilip Thakore
This compelling narrative tracking events to the final run-up to independence and partition of the subcontinent has suffered a media blackout, despite being authored by media supernova M.J. Akbar, (Sunday, The Telegraph, Kolkata, Asian Age and author of several contemporary […]
China’s transformation: The success story & the success trap; Manoranjan Mohanty; sage publications; Rs.1,195; Pages 376
– Ravi Bhoothalingam (The Book Review)
If you had to pick just one book to read on a desert island (or more realistically, during a Covid-19 lockdown) that would give you an authoritative and readable account of China’s rise to global […]
An annual feature of Mumbai (pop. 18 million) — the country’s commercial and financial capital — is the heavy damage caused to the city and its productive citizens by the monsoon rains year after year. This year, according to the Indian Meteorological Department, between June 1 and September 24, Mumbai received 3,679.8 […]
It’s a measure of the degree to which religious communalism and identity poison is spreading within Indian society under rule of the BJP/NDA government, that the Supreme Court mandated CBI investigation into the alleged suicide/murder of rising Bollywood star Sushant Singh Rajput on June 14 has morphed into a covert anti-Muslim and anti-liberals witch-hunt in […]
Founded by Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence (1766) and president of the United States (1801-1809), UVA is routinely ranked among the Top 5 public universities of America – Dipta Joshi
Over the past two centuries, the University of Virginia (UVA, estb.1819) has acquired an excellent reputation for teaching and […]
Even the occasional follower of the US presidency election campaign — the electorate of the world’s most powerful democracy will vote on November 3, less than a month from now — can’t help noticing the extent to which unapologetic ageism has crept into political jousting. According to President Donald Trump (74), his Democratic party rival […]
ISDM has quickly built an excellent reputation for educating and training graduates for employment in India’s fast-growing voluntary services sector – Autar Nehru
Promoted in 2016 with the objective to “professionalise the leading and managing of social purpose organisations”, the Indian School of Development Management (ISDM), Noida has quickly built an excellent reputation […]
– Autar Nehru (Delhi)
Jalandhar-based agri-genetics postgrad Sumant Bindal (22) has made media headlines in Punjab, by bagging a whopping Rs.1.3 crore Ph D scholarship awarded by the Australian National University (ANC), Canberra — ranked Australia’s #2 public research university and #50 worldwide in the THE World University Rankings 2020. For the past […]
– Dipta Joshi (Mumbai)
Mumbai-based social worker and medical student Meera Mehta (21) was among 150 global citizens conferred the prestigious Diana Award 2020 of the British government on July 1, at a specially organised virtual felicitation ceremony. The Diana Award was initiated in 1999 in memory of the late Princess of Wales (1961-1997), to recognise […]
It is no exaggeration that accounting and finance will be hugely disrupted by technology. The existing financial system is unsuited for technological advancement in business and finance
– Dr. Ashish Bharadwaj and Dr. Anand Mishra are the dean and vice dean, respectively, of the Jindal School of Banking & Finance, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat
Financial […]
The mega Rs.20.97 lakh crore Covid-19 economic aid package announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 12, provided tax breaks for small businesses, incentives for domestic manufacturing and free foodgrains for the poor. However, it totally ignored the pandemic-battered education sector – Summiya Yasmeen
The raging Covid-19 pandemic has pushed Indian education into a state […]
History teaches us one important lesson. Countries cannot grow their economies first and develop public education and health services later. The reverse is true. Unfortunately India has under-invested in these crucial services
– Sarojini Rao is principal, Indus International School, Bangalore
The on-going skirmishes and stand-offs at various points on the 3,488 km Sino-India border in the […]
– Paromita Sengupta (Bangalore)
International early years’ educator Dr. Rebecca Isbell teaches the Ph D programme in early childhood care and education (ECCE) at the East Tennessee State University, Johnson City (USA). Despite also being a busy motivational speaker and ECCE consultant, Dr Rebecca Isbell has authored 13 books and penned numerous essays on creativity, […]
– Autar Nehru (Delhi)
Jyoti Arora is the founder-principal of Mount Abu Public School, Rohini, Delhi (MAPS-R, estb.1998). In the latest EducationWorld India School Rankings 2019-20, MAPS-R is ranked #55 (out of 300) schools in Delhi NCR and was conferred a Grand Jury Award for campus architecture and design.
Newspeg. On Teachers Day (September […]
– Dipta Joshi (Mumbai)
Rahul Ranjan is co-founder and CEO of LeapLearner India (LLI, estb.2020) — the India partner of the Israel-based coding education company LeapLearner Inc, which has 1 million subscribers in 20 countries worldwide. Under a recently signed agreement, LLI will offer computational thinking programmes through courses in coding, robotics, apps […]
– Dilip Thakore (Bangalore)
Vineet Gupta is the promoter-managing director of the Delhi-based Jamboree Education Pvt. Ltd (estb.1995), a pioneer test prep company for students aspiring to study abroad, and a founder-trustee of the highly-reputed, privately-promoted liberal arts Ashoka University (AU, estb.2014). Within a short span of time AU has risen high in […]
Contemporary primary-secondary students first need to understand and identify with their own cultures and then become curious about other cultures. Interaction can be enabled by emergent new technologies.
– Ravi Hutheesing is a US-based keynote speaker and the author of a forthcoming book, Pivot: Empowering Students Today to Succeed in an Unpredictable Tomorrow
A few years ago […]
For children from bottom-of-pyramid households, China’s infamous gaokao, a punishingly hard university-entrance exam taken by over 10 million students every year, offers the only chance to escape a life toiling on farms and factories. As a result, Chinese education has long involved little more than rote learning, aimed purely at the gaokao. Pupils attend late-night […]
As the US continues to reckon with a string of deaths of black Americans at the hands of law enforcement officers, attention is turning to a new focus: institutions that train police, including universities. Three states have announced reviews to consider how they can improve police education and training, including Minnesota, where the killing of […]
An alumnus of IIT-Delhi and the blue-chip Georgia Tech University, Atlanta (USA) with professional experience in Reliance Industries, Mafatlal Industries and the Sunflag Group (Tanzania), Prof. Hitesh Bhatt signed up in 2010 with the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA, estb.1979), Gujarat, founded by the legendary Dr. Verghese Kurien, and was promoted to the director’s […]
An alumnus of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) and former manager at UPASI (United Planters Association of South India), Dr. N. Kumar signed up as an assistant professor at TNAU in 1979. In 2018 he was appointed vice chancellor of his alma mater. Excerpts from an interview:
TNAU is ranked among India’s Top […]
– Paromita Sengupta with bureau inputs
New Delhi, September 5. At a specially organised virtual ceremony to mark Teachers’ Day (September 5), President Ram Nath Kovind conferred the National Teachers Awards to 47 selected teachers from around the country for their unique contribution towards developing teaching innovations to enrich the lives of their students.
To select India’s […]
Established on huge scenically landscaped 100 acre-plus estates on urban peripheries, ICAR and the country’s 71 government agriculture universities manage model farms with impressively high yields, but maintain minimal connect with rural communities and farmers – Dilip Thakore
The recent turmoil in the Rajya Sabha on September 20, the upper house of Parliament, when three […]
“Government intervention should be minimum in the new education policy. The more teachers and students are associated with the policy, the better will be its functionality and its results.” – Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing the Governors’ Conference on National Education Policy (September 8)
“The report fails to take into account the impact of poor-quality higher […]
– Special Correspondent (Bangalore)
The vacillation of the BJP government of Karnataka on the issue of reopening K-12 schools in the state is causing great confusion within school managements, parents’ communities and among students. According to the normative calendar, the state’s 46,000 government and 20,000 private schools (aggregate enrolment: 15 million students) should have commenced […]
– Shivani Chaturvedi (Chennai)
A new bill providing a 7.5 percent quota within the existing reservation totaling 69 percent of all seats in Tamil Nadu’s 50 medical colleges was passed by the state’s legislative assembly on September 15 for students graduating from state government schools who have also passed NEET (National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test). In 2013, the […]
– Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
With the West Bengal legislative elections scheduled for May 2021 fast approaching, the state’s ruling Trinamool Congress party (TMC) has reportedly drawn up a multi-pronged strategy to take on its principal challenger, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), ruling at the Centre, which has emerged as the second-largest party in the state, eclipsing […]
– Dipta Joshi (Mumbai)
The state’s tri-party Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition government comprising the Shiv Sena, Indian National Congress (INC) and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), suffered a major setback on September 9 with the Supreme Court staying the state government’s Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC) Act, 2018. The Act […]
– Autar Nehru (Delhi)
The academic year for higher education institutions which should have begun in July/ August is scheduled to begin from November 1 this year, according to latest UGC guidelines issued on September 22. The two national higher education regulators — University Grants Commission (UGC) and All India Council for Technical […]
Your special report ‘Implementing NEP 2020 — Expert advice for Central government’ (EW September) is well-timed as the public debate has now moved to translating this lofty document into reality.
Even as the newly renamed Union education ministry has rather belatedly invited suggestions from school teachers and principals for ways and means to implement NEP 2020, […]
The 65-page National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, proclaimed on July 29, has set ambitious goals. Yet with each passing day, there’s additional apprehension about policy implementation capabilities of the bureaucracy and red-tape ensnarled government machinery, to deliver its exciting promises.
In particular, there’s rising concern about the capability of the Central and state governments hamstrung […]
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Kamala Harris reviving the American dream
Being black, Asian, the daughter of immigrants from coloured lands like India and Jamaica, Kamala Harris poses a huge threat to the one-dimensional mindset of angry working class whites in America
– Rajiv Desai is president of Comma Consulting and a well-known Delhi-based columnist
The recently concluded debate between US Vice President Mike Pence and Senator