“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
Prometheus School is a consequence of evolving notions of learning. Beyond the realms of rote learning, the domain of education has transformed into a dynamic ecosystem for learners. Contemporarily, students are as involved in the curriculum development as the teachers and […]
Japanese universities’ challenges in attracting overseas talent and promoting the use of English in scholarship are well-documented. Yet, on an island hundreds of miles south of Tokyo, a small graduate school has achieved a level of internationalisation and research impact almost unmatched in the country.
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), founded by the Japanese […]
If you were asked to name the fastest-rising higher education system in the world, the likely answer would be China. Results of the latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2022 provide compelling evidence. The country now has two universities in the Top 20 for the first time, with Peking and Tsinghua jointly ranked #16, […]
The persistent partisan split in the US over COVID is increasingly dividing higher education over vaccination rules, stimulating protests, lawsuits, resignations, infections and renewed migration to online teaching. As with the broader battle lines in US society, the fight against requiring proof of vaccination status is most prevalent in politically conservative areas, often involving local […]
Young Noida-based social activist-entrepreneur Satyam Mehta (16) was among 200 global citizens conferred the prestigious Diana Award 2021 on July 1, at a specially organised online felicitation ceremony. The Diana Award was initiated by the British government in 1999 in memory of Princess Diana of Wales (1961-1997) to acknowledge outstanding young leaders worldwide for initiating […]
Back in Ahmedabad from the Tokyo Olympics — Maana Patel (21) — India’s 100m backstroke swimming hope who didn’t make it to the finals or the podium, believes she is richer for the experience and is determined to give a better account of herself in future aquatic championships.
“The quality of training and coaching facilities […]
On September 6, government and private schools in Karnataka (pop. 68.4 million) reopened for on-campus, in-person teaching-learning for classes VI-VIII children after 18 months of Covid disruption. Two weeks earlier, schools had reopened for classes IX-XII students on August 23. Therefore, all middle-secondary students statewide are back in class and learning normatively, subject to prescribed […]
The turmoil in Visva-Bharati University (VBU, estb.1921), established by Nobel laureate, sage, savant and litterateur Rabindranath Tagore, shows no signs of simmering down despite this being its centenary year — a time for celebration.
On September 15, the Calcutta high court set aside a three-year rustication order issued on August 23 by controversial vice chancellor Bidyut […]
The State’s Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government, an alliance of the Shiv Sena, Congress and Nationalist Congress Party, which was hastily cobbled together in November 2019 to shut the BJP out of power in India’s most industrialised state, has made common cause with the DMK government of Tamil Nadu in its opposition to NEET (National […]
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which has been in power in Delhi state since 2015 and against all expectations, has bested the BJP juggernaut in two legislative assembly elections (2015 and 2019) with K-12 education upgradation serving as a major electoral plank, has introduced a Deshbhakti (patriotism) curriculum which will be taught in its 1,028 […]
In an important even if belated development, several blue-chip boarding schools — some of over 150 years vintage and respected around the world — have jointly promoted the Boarding Schools Association of India (BSAI), registered on September 29.
BSAI founding members: policy formulation goal
The prime objectives of BSAI declared in the association’s constitution are […]
Dilip Thakore interviewed Dr. (Prof.) C. Raj Kumar, an alum of Madras, Delhi, Oxford, Harvard, and Hong Kong universities and founding vice chancellor of the top-ranked O.P. Jindal Global University (estb.2009). Excerpts:
Although the wholly residential JGU’s campus has been under lockdown for over 60 weeks, the word is that you have been able to […]
Within 12 years since it admitted its first batch of 112 students, the Sonipat (Haryana)-based O.P. Jindal Global University (estb.2009) is ranked India’s #1 private varsity and among the global Top 750 in the QS World University Rankings 2022. Credit for the unprecedented evolution of this higher education institution is mainly due to its indefatigable […]
“The new National Education Policy is expected to revolutionize the educational sector in India and lay the path for the next 25 years as per the Vision 2047 of prime minister Shri Narendra Modi. He stressed that education has to make each one of us more responsible and become global citizen.” – Dharmendra Pradhan, union education […]
Paromita Sengupta with bureau inputs
DELHI
National Teachers Awards
New Delhi, September 5.
President Ram Nath Kovind conferred the National Teachers Awards on 44 educators from across the country on Teachers Day (September 5). Instituted in 1958, the national awards are conferred upon outstanding primary-secondary teachers under a three-tier district, state and national selection process to honour […]
During the past 13 years since it admitted its first batch of 150 students, IVWS has steadily improved its reputation and is currently ranked #14 in Kolkata in the co-ed day schools category in the EW India School Rankings 2020-21 – Baishali Mukherjee
Bird’s eye view of IVWS: steadily improving reputation
Sited on a 1.4-acre […]
Micro-degrees are “gig credentials for the gig economy,” exacerbating the tenuous existence of struggling workers and turning universities into job coaching services that save companies money on in-house training, according to two academics.
Wheelahan and Moodie: precarious work certification
Leesa Wheelahan and Gavin Moodie have delivered a scathing assessment of an educational trend sweeping the […]
Education activists and leaders are desperately trying to rescue Afghan scholars — particularly girls and women — from the Taliban, while experts warn that the country could lose the gains it has made in education, hard-won over the past 20 years. Almost immediately after the Taliban’s takeover of the country following the withdrawal of US […]
Currently, UoD’s ten schools offer a range of undergraduate and postgrad programmes to 15,000, including 3,000 international students from 145 countries worldwide.
Serene UoD campus: 3,000 international students, 145 countries
SCOTLAND, A COUNTRY (POP.5.5 MILLION) with its own parliament, which with England, Wales and Northern Ireland is known as the United Kingdom, has 15 well-reputed […]
I am a regular reader of EducationWorld. After reading your cover story (EW September), I am surprised you are in such a hurry to pass judgement about an education minister who has just taken charge.
Rather than question his abilities a month after being appointed Union education minister, we must extend all support to the man […]
The national asset monetisation Pipeline (NMP) programme announced in the Union Budget 2021-22 is detailed in a document released to the public on August 23 by NITI Aayog, the Union government’s think tank (established in 2014 by the BJP/NDA government to replace the Soviet-style Planning Commission). Under this initiative, leases of several public sector ‘brownfield’, […]
In a landmark verdict passed on September 16, the Karnataka high court reaffirmed an earlier judgement of the Supreme Court in Indian School, Jodhpur vs. State of Rajasthan (Civil Appeal 1724 of 2021) upholding the right of private school managements to determine the tuition fees chargeable by them. A writ petition was filed by several […]
Mehta: girl children focus
Kolkata-based businessman SHEKHAR MEHTA is the newly appointed president of the Chicago (USA)-based Rotary International (RI, estb.1905) — the well-known international public humanitarian service organisation with a membership of 1.2 million in 200 countries. Mehta is the fourth Indian president of the apex-level RI.
Newspeg. In July soon after taking charge […]
Baishya: education & electricity solution
Bally (Kolkata)-based software engineer SAPTARSHI BAISHYA (25) is founder-promoter of the Maitreyo Foundation (MF, estb.2019) which runs Maitreyo Paathshala, a learning centre that provides free-of-charge education to children of the Birhor tribe, in Bersha village located in West Bengal’s Purulia district.
Newspeg. In January this year, MF signed a partnership […]
Bangia: nurturing curious thinkers
Gurugram-based ANEESH BANGIA is co-founder of Open Door, an initiative of Think-First Education Pvt. Ltd (estb.2013), an edtech company headquartered in Bengaluru which offers K-12 school programmes to leverage the “power of inquiry to transform young learners into curious and better thinkers”. Open Door has signed up over 200 top-ranked […]
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence — Rabindra Nath Tagore
We at Shalom manifest in every thought, word and action our philosophy and mindset for a new age education. The educational scenario has undergone a drastic change as the fallout of […]
Curiously, Bangalore aka Bengaluru, the glitz and glamour city widely acknowledged as India’s Silicon Valley, seems to care little about education especially of the poor majority bypassed by the garden city’s transformative IT revolution. During the past 18 months of the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown, a majority of the city’s children have had no access to […]
– Abhiraj, Cofounder and CEO, SchoolPad
The concept of school management software or a school ERP was there for years. However, what has changed for the better is its deployment from offline to online.
School management software started as offline software. These were installed on computers/ laptops and used by only a handful of people in the […]
Dr. (Prof.) S. Sadagopan, founding-director of the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore (IIIT-B, estb.1999), recently retired from the institute after long innings of 22 years during which he established IIIT-B as one of India’s most well-respected higher education institutions for developing human resources for the country’s booming IT and ICT (information and communications technology) […]
Has China Won?
Kishore Mahbubani
Public Affairs
Rs.2,200 Pages 310
After the ignominious retreat of the last American soldier on Afghan soil on August 31 — a Taliban prescribed deadline — a new global geopolitical order with the world divided into two spheres of influence (SoI) of the democratic USA and the People’s Republic of China […]
The Frontier Gandhi: My Life & Struggle – Translated from the original Pukhto by Imtiaz Ahmad Sahibzada
Roli Books
Rs.695, Pages 576
TCA Raghavan (The Book Review)
This is an autobiography of Khan Abdul Ghaffar (Bacha) Khan based on a 1983 text written by him in Pukhto. An earlier 1969 account, also translated and published in English, […]
Even as India’s frontline businessmen and new genre entrepreneurs are working overtime to revive the economy after the Covid-19 disruption, the country’s Left politicians and fellow travellers in the academy continue to vent their ire — especially on social media — against business leaders taking big risks to kick-start the sputtering economy and make good […]
There’s a world of difference between the billionaires of the world’s largest democracies. In the US, entrepreneurs who rise above the herd are empathetic towards their less capable brethren left behind. This empathy prompts magnanimity. They make large contributions to charities, trusts and their alma maters. On the other hand, India’s new rich rarely sympathise […]
News reports that India’s property market has revived to pre-pandemic levels haven’t been given sufficient publicity. According to Knight Frank, an internationally respected real estate consultancy firm, in the July-September quarter, 12.5 million sq. ft of office space and 64,000 homes were sold. Although ex facie, these numbers are impressive, the residential units sold in […]
There is properly no history, only biography,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82), the great American essayist, lecturer, philosopher and abolitionist. Yet in post-independence India, there is a curious reluctance within society — and the media — to give credit to great leaders in vocations other than politics and the film industry. This despite the reality […]
Dr Manjeet Jain is founder of Education India, born and brought up in Mount Abu. Doctorate In English Literature from USA, served in army as captain after volunteer retirement opted education career as passion. Has been awarded with various recognition and held key designation in various government, semi government and private bodies. He is well […]
UGC warns against fake degrees with misleading abbreviations and nomenclatures The University Grants Commission (UGC) has warned aspirants against selecting courses with false promises like an MBA crash course in ... 
International Day of Democracy: Bringing Democracy To Indian Classrooms September 15, every year, is celebrated worldwide as the International Day of Democracy. The United Nation promotes it as the ... 
Bangalore B-school lands Trout The Bangalore-based Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College's Center for Management Studies (CMS) staged a first-of-its-kind academic coup by organising a ... 
40% parents struggle to pay schools fees post lockdown: Survey With schools conducting virtual classes for more than a year now, parents are awaiting directions from the authorities on the ... 
Ideating an alternative imagination
WURs routinely show that China has ten universities in the Top 100 while India has none. But there are dangers of imitating China. India has higher levels of dissent and that’s important – writes Shiv Visvanathan
Contemporary news headlines often produce a standard Pavlovian response. The Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936) demonstrated how dogs, fed for […]