Occupational therapy is becoming an attractive career option for youth as awareness of the importance of wellness and well-being spreads worldwide
It offers the prospect of rendering conscience-lightening service to humanity and getting paid for it! Little wonder occupational therapy (OT) is becoming an attractive career option for youth, as awareness of the importance of wellness […]
New research data suggests that learning happens better when the sexes are segregated. right across the world, gender specific education institutions are making a comeback. Summiya Yasmeen reports
For the trendy metropolitan fast crowd, they may be passé. But if you believed single-sex education institutions were about to become extinct, think again. New research data suggests that learning […]
The words ‘organic produce’ when used honestly, describe fruits and vegetables grown without the use of any chemicals whatsoever — fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, growth hormones, genetically modified seeds, colour enhancers, artificial ripeners, etc. An organically grown fruit/ vegetable doesn’t use chemicals for intensive monoculture crop-crowing either.
Organic farming is an activity which is synonymous […]
The winners of the inaugural Motorola Scholar Awards 2005-06 are Dhiren K. Patra, Rakesh J.S., Ritesh N. Phalak, Shulin Todkar (K.K. Wagh Institute of Engineering Education and Research, Nasik); Sourabh Nirmal, Abhinav Khandelwal and Abhishek Sharma (Global Institute of Technology, Jaipur) and Ajay S. Nath and S. Ashwin (Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Sriperum-budur). Prof. […]
Your Counsellor RepliesI‚m in my final year hotel management degree programme and want to pursue an MBA in tourism management at the Indian Institute of Tourism & Travel Management, Gwalior. Please advise as I‚m unable to access the institute‚s website.Sreenath, MumbaiAmong the reputed institutions offering Master‚s degree programmes in travel and tourism management are the […]
India’s economy has resembled a sleeping giant for decades. As it wakes up, it challenges the world not in basic manufacturing, as has been the case for other developing countries, but in information technology, engineering, pharmace-uticals, and the service sector. India’s large higher education sector, however, remains in the doldrums and is likely to stay that […]
Although it is politically correct to condemn it, there is a long tradition of private tutoring in India. Traditionally, poorly paid teachers would supplement their meager stipends by teaching a gathering of ten-15 students in a makeshift classroom after school hours. Essentially private tuition was given to weak students for remedial purposes.
However high stake […]
A transnational poll conducted by AlertNet, a humanitarian website of the Reuters Foundation, voted India as the sixth most dangerous country worldwide for children after Sudan, Uganda, Congo, Iraq and Somalia. Dilip Thakore reports
It’s a scathing indictment which ought to have seared the conscience of the nation. but within the indifferent establishment of shining India which […]
Ruchi Tiwari (18) describes herself as an ordinary girl who loves Hindi film music and eating out. But this Kanpur-based teenager bagged an extraordinary honour in July when she won a bronze medal at the 12th Asian Junior Athletics Meet (Tapai, Macau) in pole-vault, an athletics sub-sport which doesn’t appear even on the periphery of […]
Dr. Parth Shah, president of the Delhi-based Centre for Civil Society in his entertaining critique of Amartya Sen’s stand on government and State as educator of the masses, wrote that a government which cannot be trusted to produce food (by cultivating fields) surely can’t be trusted to produce education, which entails cultivation of minds. That’s why […]
The newly-registered, Bangalore-based the Association of International Schools of India (TAISI), an autonomous, non-profit representative organisation of international schools in India, is all set to inaugurate its three-day launch conference in Hyderabad on September 23. The venue of the conference-cum workshop is the ICRISAT (International Crop Research Institute for Semi Arids & Tropics), campus on […]
They said it”There was no love, no comfort, just women left back to die (at an Indian hospital). Stigma is irrational and cruel. We must understand every life has equal worth and saving lives is the highest ethical act‚¦ Some people believe condoms promote sexual activity. But withholding condoms does not mean fewer people have […]
Delhi
New texts row
The Delhi-based National Council of Educational Research & Training (NCERT), India’s largest publisher of school textbooks, is in the eye of yet another storm. Previously, during the five-year rule (1999-2004) of the BJP-led NDA (National Democratic Alliance) government in New Delhi, NCERT under the leadership of BJP ideologue J.S. Rajput had […]
I greatly appreciated your editorial ‘Self-inflicted damage of Indian capitalism’ (EW August). How I wish it would inspire reluctant Indian capitalists to step into the shoes of Warren Buffet! If Indian capitalists would learn from America’s great philanthropists, they could definitely promote ‘equality’ in our increasingly unequal society.
Although some corporates such as the Tata Group, […]
The coordinated bomb blasts of 11/7 in Mumbai’s suburban trains, widely reported to have been engineered by Islamic extremists of the Lashkar-e-Toiba which claimed 198 lives and injured 700; and the abortive mid-August conspiracy in London to blow up ten airliners flying the Atlantic in connection with which 24 South Asian Muslims in the UK […]
Perhaps it was inevitable that many things would go wrong and several wrong turnings would be taken when 60 years ago on August 15, the union jack was hauled down from the ramparts of the Red Fort, New Delhi for the last time, and replaced by free India’s tricolour. Especially because flying in the face […]
Spread over 125 acres on the outskirts of the garden city of Bangalore and constructed at a project cost of over Rs.50 crore, The International School, Bangalore (TISB, estb. 1999) got off to a flying start in establishing its reputation as a genuine international school. Currently TISB (annual fees: Rs.3 lakh for day scholars and […]
The Afghan by Frederick Forsyth; Transworld Publishers; Price: Rs.270; 349 pp
There’s great substance in the observation that life imitates art. Within a few months of the latest thriller of best-selling novelist Frederick Forsyth (Day of the Jackal, Fist of God, Devil’s Alternative, Odessa File etc) hitting the newsstands, on August 10, the British security forces unearthed an outrageous terrorist conspiracy […]
High potential charmof coastal KarnatakaDespite being endowed with a 320 km western seaboard coastline, beach tourism is a non-starter in the southern state of Karnataka. An ambitious blueprint has been drawn up to correct this anomalyThe southern state of Karnataka (pop. 56 million) attracts an estimated 25 million tourists annually from across the country and […]
Letter from London
Rising scepticism tide
Two universities have mid-wifed Britain’s newest university. Luton University and De Mont-fort University’s Bedford campus have merged to constitute the new University of Bedfordshire. The merger offers the promise of a well furbished, state-of-the-art university given that Luton has recently invested £25 million (Rs.210 crore) in its facilities including a £5.5 […]
With an enrollment of 59,389 full-time students and consistently rated # 1, University of Toronto is Canada’s largest tertiary institution sited in the country’s most culturally diverse city
Founded in 1827, the University of Toronto (UT) is Canada’s largest varsity with an enrollment of 59,389 full-time students tutored by a faculty of 11,365 and an annual budget […]
Despite being a quasi-government or aided institution subject to considerable government interference, this pioneer school has established a reputation for innovation and progressive education
Sited in Chennai’s upscale Mylapore, the Children’s Garden Higher Secondary School housed in four compact buildings has established a reputation as one of the most innovative and progressive government-aided schools in the […]
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