For the purposes of this survey, C fore pollsters defined day schools as K-12 institutions in which the majority of students are day-scholars. Therefore the confusion created by schools such as Bishop Cotton, Bangalore and Loreto Convent, Darjeeling, which once upon a time were predominantly boarding schools but in which the number of boarders have […]
The Delhi-based All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the apex body which licences and monitors the education being dispensed in 5,000-plus profes-sional education institutions across the country, has pulled up 20 private engineering, business and hotel management education institutions in Karnataka (17 of them located in Bangalore) for introducing new study programmes without its […]
I’m an English literature graduate with a flair for creative writing. I want to enroll for a Master’s programme in creative writing in the US or UK. Please suggest some reputable universities offering this study programme and elaborate on their eligibility criteria.
Shirin Wadia, Mumbai
You can apply for a Master’s degree in creative writing to several […]
Maharashtra
Verdict reserved
On August 4, a bench of the Bombay high court reserved its verdict on a PIL (public interest litigation) writ challenging the percentile system which seeks to ‘normalise’ marks scored by students writing the school leaving exams of differing examination boards. After hearing the case of the parent of a CISCE board affiliated school […]
Dehradun-based Rajiv Mehta, who began his career as a teacher at The Lawrence School, Sanawar, is now a top cop in the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP). His mission: to end strife in conflict ridden north-east India.After signing up with the Indian Police Service in 1981, Mehta opted to join the Assam-Meghalaya cadre. Im sure I […]
The first issue of the Hindi language edition of EducationWorld — The Human Development Magazine, was released on August 28 before a 20,000 strong audience assembled to witness the annual Indradanush Festival 2008 convened by the S.S. Mody Education Trust in Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan. The 70-page inaugural Hindi issue was formally released for sale and […]
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri; Random House; Price: Rs.450; 333 pp
The themes of cultural alienation, adjustment and the immigrant experience continue to preoccupy Brooklyn (New York)-based author Jhumpa Lahiri. These themes, which Lahiri first explored in her Pulitzer Prize winning debut collection of stories Interpreter of Maladies and persisted with in The Namesake, are […]
The Manipal (Karnataka) and Bangalore-based private sector Manipal University, a pioneer in the field of professional education which has five campuses in India and four overseas, laid the foundation stone of a world-class 100 acre campus in Jaipur on August 30.Rajasthan is our gateway to North India. We will build a world-class campus here and […]
Chindia: How China and India Are Revolutionizing Global Business edited by Pete Engardio; Tata McGraw-Hill; Price: Rs.395; 384 ppGoldman Sachs (GS) started a shindig when they came out with their first BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) report in 2003. The conclusions of the report were astounding: by 2050, of the six largest economies in the […]
The Delhi-based iCongo (Indian Confederation of Non Government Organisations) invites nominations for its Karmaveer Puraskar awards presented annually to outstanding citizens for innovating best practices in promoting social justice and action in various walks of life. The idea behind the Karmaveer Puraskar awards is to celebrate outstanding citizens in corporates, government, media, small and medium […]
A not-for-profit organisation, Asmita functions as a day-care-cum-training and education centre for slow learners who fall in the grey zone between normal (IQ above 80) and the mentally challenged The modest single-storied exterior of the Asmita Centre for Slow Learners and Mental Health, Lucknow gives little indication of the pioneer role played by this institution […]
A class VI student of Delhi Public School, R.K. Puram, Shivansh Chaturvedi was included in the delegation of the Delhi-based Science Popularisation Association of Communicators & Educators (SPACE) which visited Russia from July 27-August 4. The delegation comprised astronomers, scientists and five students who together with their Russian counterparts experimented with eclipse photography (corona, diamond […]
For the EW Most Respected Schools Survey 2008, perceptions of a new 2,026 SECA respondents base spread across 15 cities relating to Indias 250 most high-profile schools were solicited. Dilip Thakore reportsThe first league tables of Indias most respected primary-cum-secondary schools published by EducationWorld last year (August 2007) elicited much comment and provoked considerable controversy. […]
Arguably the autumnal issue of EducationWorld in which we publish our annual ratings and ranking of Indias best schools, is the most complex, labour-intensive — and most awaited — issue of the year. The objective behind the compilation and publication of school league tables is to advise school managements and stakeholders — parents, teachers, […]
There was widespread dissatisfaction with last years league tables and ranking of boarding schools within the public, and within the offices of EducationWorld. Presumably because of a predominantly SECB (socio-economic category ‘B) respondents sample who tend to prefer day schools, some of the countrys most well-known traditional boarding schools such as Mayo College Ajmer, Rishi […]
The continuous civil strife in Jammu and Kashmir which has brought economic and business activity in this northern state (pop.10.07 million) to a standstill for over a month, is beginning to infect the body politic of India. Civil insurrection in the Muslim majority Kashmir Valley protesting the innocuous decision to grant 100 acres […]
In another departure from previous practice, the EducationWorld Schools Survey 2008 acknowledges that international schools — defined as primary/secondaries affiliated with offshore examination boards such as the International Baccalaureate Organisation, Geneva (IBO), Cambridge International Examinations, UK (CIE) or the Middle States Association (USA) — are sui generis, i.e a distinct category and deserve to be […]
The startling difference in the medals tally between the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) and India (100:3) in the recently concluded Beijing Olympics 2008, has dangerous political implications for the survival of democracy in the Indian subcontinent. Communist and other totalitarian governments have traditionally invested huge resources in the training and preparation of sportspersons and […]
Each period of history is defined by the tools invented in it and the way in which they were used. The yet recent transition into a new century is a good time to define how learning, and perhaps the learner, has changed. The wonder communication medium that is the internet has expanded access to information, […]
The size of Indias massive teachers community estimated at 7 million currently, is set to cross the 10 million mark (almost 1 percent of the countrys population) within the next couple of years. Under the Union governments Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyaan (national secondary education campaign), announced by prime minister Manmohan Singh last year on Independence […]
With a pronounced shift towards profit-oriented, market-driven banking even in the public sector, banking as a career option has become attractive and remunerative againOnce upon a time a job in Indias closely-held private sector banks, promoted by heavy-weight business houses such as the Tatas, Birlas, Devkaran Nanji etc, was a much prized career option. Then […]
The Congress-led UPA governments ambitious National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), which guarantees a minimum of 100 days employment to one adult in every rural household, is all set to be boosted with academic inputs from Indias showpiece seven IITs (Indian Institutes of Technology) and seven IIMs (Indian Institutes of Management).Conceptualised and legislated in 2006, […]
Im an English literature graduate with a flair for creative writing. I want to enroll for a Masters programme in creative writing in the US or UK. Please suggest some reputable universities offering this study programme and elaborate on their eligibility criteria.Shirin Wadia, Mumbai
You can apply for a Masters degree in creative writing to […]
In its golden jubilee year the highly respected Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M, estb.1959) is clearing the decks for major expansion and launching several unprecedented academic and research initiatives. On the cards is the inauguration of Indias first research park linked to an academic institute at the end of the year, launch of a […]
In June 2002 Bangalore-based Prabhu Jahagirdar quit a high-profile job in the IT industry to promote the Pupil Tree primary school in his hometown Bellary (pop.317,000), a small town in northern Karnataka, to fulfill his modest ambition to serve the community. Six years later this class I-XII CISCE/state board affiliated school, promoted by the Pupil […]
Stung by its worst-ever school-leaving board exam results of the past six years, the Uttar Pradesh state governments Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad (secondary education board) has announced a series of measures to arrest the decline of teaching-learning standards in government school education. High school (class X) and intermediate (class XII) results declared in June witnessed the […]
Urvashi Sahni, co-founder of the Digital Study Hall (DSH) project, has pioneered the use of low-cost technology to service resource-poor rural schools around Lucknow. The DSH project which she got off the ground in 2005 with Randy Wang, an assistant professor of the computer science department of Princeton University (USA), fructified after initial experiments to […]
Industrialist Ratan Tata, whose tata motors factory at Singur near Kolkata is under siege right now (August 28), isnt the only victim of the old-fashioned politics being practiced in the eastern seaboard state of West Bengal (pop. 80.2 million), which has been — and is being — ruled by the Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led […]
Overwhelming desire to upgrade teaching-learning standards in school and collegiate education prompted an eclectic group of distinguished Chennai-based educationists and industry professionals — Rev. N Casimir Raj, V.A George, Raphael Ilango, Dr. C.J. Arun, P. Janardhanan Menon, R. Narendran and Anuradha Parakat — to launch Knowledge Xchange in April 2007 as an independent, non-profit organisation. […]
“S.377 of the Indian Penal Code which criminalises men who have sex with men must go. Structural discrimination against those who are vulnerable to HIV … must be removed if our prevention, care and treatment programmes are to succeed.” — Union health minister Anbumani Ramadoss speaking at the 17th International Conference on Aids in Mexico […]
The Delhi-based Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University aka IP University (estb. 1998), which has an aggregate enrollment of 40,000 students in its eight schools and 86 affiliated institutions, is perhaps Indias only community varsity offering study programmes in subjects such as disaster management, rehabilitation, real estate etc and providing skills upgradation courses for working professionals […]
Andhra Pradesh: Govt cancels annual exams, classes 6 to 9 students promoted The Andhra Pradesh government on Thursday decided to cancel the annual examinations for classes 6 to 9 and promote all ... 
Delhi: Consent of parents not mandatory for class 10, 12 students to attend school Students of classes 10 and 12 will no longer need to bring consent letters signed by their parents to attend ... 
Chhattisgarh High Court grants bail to professor accused by JK Shah Classes -Dipta Joshi The Mumbai-headquartered private coaching institute, JK Shah Classes (JKSC) has received a setback in its case against rival ... 
Amar Jyoti School, Delhi Two years after the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 — s. 12 (1) (c) of ... 
