Read together with s. 12(c) of the Right to Education Bill, 2008 (recently passed by Parliament and currently awaiting the assent of the President), which makes it mandatory for private, unaided primary-secondary schools to reserve 25 percent capacity in class I for poor children, the Delhi high court judgement of August 7 permitting the state […]
The amateurish multi-million rupee HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns of the cash-strapped Union ministry of health and family welfare (public health expenditure in India aggregates a mere 0.9 percent of GDP per year cf. 4.8 percent in Brazil and 6.9 percent in the US) seem to be making no impact upon the public as indicated by rising […]
By far the largest university in eastern India — and among the largest in India — with 232 affiliated colleges and an aggregate enrolment of 300,000 students, the University of Calcutta (U-Cal, estb. 1857) packs a lot of punch in the eastern seaboard state of West Bengal (pop. 80 million). U-Cals policies influence the administration […]
Newly sworn-in Union human resource development minister Kapil Sibals revolutionary proposal to make the class X board exam-inations history, and to replace the marks and percentages system in primary-secondary education with grades, has met with tepid response in Chennai, a city which prides itself on its quality K-12 education. Indeed the majority of academics — […]
“More money has come in for education and healthcare, not as much as I would like, but it has come in. There is more radicalism needed.”
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen in Outlook (August 17)
“It is clear that there need be no hesitation or reluctance on the part of the judges either to disclose their assets […]
Since the annual EW-C fore survey of India’s most respected schools is entirely based on perceptions — albeit of an informed public — this year the survey also includes factual data volunteered by school managements which responded to a EW questionnaire. This information helps readers to supplement perceptions with hard data.
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The recent attacks on Indian students in Australia have evoked shock and dismay within all sections of the populace in India, and the academic community in particular. The emergence of this phenomenon calls for serious debate to analyse its causes and effects and evolve policies and strategies for creating safe and secure environments for Indian […]
Professionally qualified speech therapists and audiologists are in short supply in hospitals, clinics, rehab centres, government health centres, research labs and special schoolsIn the contemporary new age of communication, with mass media, video-conferencing and public speaking assuming critical importance for business and personal advancement, the role of speech and language thera-pists and audiologists has expanded […]
For the past six months, 21 youth including seven women have been trooping into a classroom at a training centre sited in Kedgaon, a few km before Ahmednagar on the Pune-Ahmednagar highway, to transform into a new genre of rural journalists. Remarkably, none among this batch of youth drawn from the remotest villages of Maharashtra, […]
The Global Access to Talent from India (GATI) Foundation has been launched at an event graced by Dr. S. Jaishankar, external affairs minister of India, .....Read More
National Law University Delhi is profoundly honoured to welcome Dr. Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, former Chief Justice of India, as a Distinguished Professor. This landmark association .....Read More
