New Delhi, September 8. The Coimbatore-based Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University (AVVU) has been awarded a Unesco chair for Experiential Learning for Sustainable Innovation & Development. Through this chair, the university will design a curriculum based on experiential learning which will enable the academic community to acquire the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values necessary to implement […]
– Professor Arjya B. Majumdar, Dean, Admissions & Outreach, O.P. Jindal Global University
The deep impact of human psychology has become more relevant during the Covid-19 pandemic. Today, as people count the days in lockdown abiding by social distancing norms, the signs of struggle are telling on mental health and wellbeing. As we adapt to the […]
The progress and success quo of a country depends on the ASK- Attitude, Knowledge and Skill of its human resource. Trans- times, trans- cultures, trans- civilizations and trans- nations, a country is what its citizens are. With human capital being the biggest asset, the role of education is to optimise its potential and channelise its […]
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“I’ve been enjoying working in lockdown. I get to interact with my students, have heart to heart talks with my colleagues, I’m not subject to long hours of commute. Of course, there is a downside that with no domestic help allowed in the building, we have to split responsibilities for household chores. And, I’m […]
– By Mr Ankit Tibrewal, Designated Partner, Qmax World
Bringing preventive solutions that are responsive to real life problems has been at the core of Qmax World. Adapting to the changing situations, launching of products has been a priority since the outbreak of a virus that turned into a pandemic. We are all being extra careful […]
The Covid-19 pandemic has posed a formidable challenge for schools countrywide. It has disrupted school education in the most abrupt manner. However, this has also been a time when some schools made an almost miraculously seamless digital transition by leveraging smart and intuitive e-learning platforms like Fliplearn Edge. Scholars Rosary School, Rohtak is one such […]
A report sent to the United Nations warns that greater precarity of academic employment poses a threat to academic freedom in India, with scholars on insecure contracts potentially less willing to rock the boat with critical commentary.
Dr. Nandini Sundar, professor of sociology at the University of Delhi in Academic Freedom in India: A Status Report […]
Chinese universities must better integrate overseas students on their campuses and give them the freedom to develop a sense of responsibility if the country is to realise its goal of becoming the largest provider of international education this half-century, says a new study
The paper, which is based on insights from Chinese university staff after they […]
The University of Hamburg has decided to cut ties with its Confucius Institute (more than 500 institutes have been established by communist China around the world to teach Chinese language and culture) over fears that Beijing could use it as “propaganda instrument”, in the latest sign of a more wary stance in Germany towards […]
Universities in the UK have warned that they might not be able to find a place for every eligible student this autumn despite the lifting of caps on numbers to accommodate a major U-turn on A-level grading. Institutions were already facing major uncertainty about their student numbers after last-minute changes to the handling of school […]
The share of US postgraduate students suffering depression has more than doubled during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a major survey of students at nine public research universities. A survey of 30,725 undergraduates and 15,346 postgraduates by the Student Experience in the Research University (SERU) Consortium, based at the University of California, Berkeley, found […]
Bangalore, August 19. In association with HackerU, Israel’s premier cyber security training provider, Jigsaw Academy, a Manipal Global investee company, announced the launch of a new Masters certificate in cyber security (Blue Team) study programme.
According to Jigsaw Academy spokespersons, cyber security has become an important subject since most organisations have started functioning remotely. There are […]
An engineering and business management alumnus of NIT, Bhopal, and the S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai, with five years of work experience in blue-chip corporates (ITC, IBM), Siddharth Chaturvedi is executive vice president of the family promoted AISECT Group (estb.1985) of higher education institutions. The AISECT Group manages 23,000 vocational skills […]
An alum of IIT-Kanpur and the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai, with work experience in high-end consultancy firms including McKinsey & Co, New York, Atul Khosla is the founder pro-vice chancellor of Shoolini University, Himachal Pradesh (estb.2009) ranked #1 in the state in the EW India Private University Rankings 2020-21.
How satisfied are […]
A polymath alumnus of Madras, Delhi, Hong Kong, Oxford and Harvard universities, Dr. C. Raj Kumar is founding vice chancellor of the O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana (JGU, estb.2009). JGU is ranked among India’s Top 5 private universities by EducationWorld, and India’s #1 private university in the World University Rankings 2021 league table of […]
An alumna of Delhi and Leicester (UK) universities, Maya Menon is the celebrated founder-director of The Teacher Foundation (estb.2002), a highly respected Bangalore-based teacher development organisation.
Are you satisfied with NEP 2020’s proposals for revamping teacher education?
Far from being satisfied, I am sceptical about how the proposed reforms will translate into norms and practice in […]
Dr. Bijaya Kumar Sahoo is founder-chairman of the Bhubaneswar (Odisha)-based SAI International Group comprising four institutions — the SAI International School, SAI International Residential School, Sai Angan preschool and Sai International College of Commerce — with an aggregate enrolment of 5,260 students and 756 teachers. Dr. Sahoo is also Advisor with ministerial rank of the […]
An alumnus of the Aston Business School, UK, and Cass Business School, London, Ryan Pinto is CEO of the Mumbai based Ryan International Group of Institutions (RIGI), India’s largest proprietorial K-12 schools chain with 137 schools and an aggregate enrolment of over 270,000 students mentored by 16,000 teachers.
How satisfied are you with […]
Dr. Swati Popat Vats is president of the Early Childhood Association (ECA, estb.2011) which has a membership of 38,000 preschools countrywide, and president of the Association for Primary Education and Research.
How satisfied are you with NEP 2020’s recommendations for early childhood are and education (ECCE)?
NEP 2020 clearly acknowledges that over 85 percent of a […]
Against the backdrop of spreading pessimism, EducationWorld presents suggestions and recommendations of seven carefully selected education leaders for implementing the new education policy in seven critical domains – Summiya Yasmeen
The initial euphoria that greeted the new National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 promulgated on July 29, is dying down as the sobering realities of implementing this […]
“In the year after the pandemic schools will have to revisit, in some part at least, the instruction undertaken during the pandemic months and allow their students some leeway to accommodate the gaps that may have crept in… The idea is not to treat them with kid gloves…. rather focus on allowing children to regroup […]
– Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
Postponed twice for fear of spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, the IIT-JEE (Joint Entrance Examination) for admission into the IITs (Indian Institutes of Technology) and top-ranked engineering colleges countrywide was held from September 1-6, even as the aggregate number of coronavirus positive cases in India crossed 4 million.
There has been a continuous […]
– Shivani Chaturvedi (Chennai)
Although the All India ADMK (AIADMK) ruling party is an ally of the BJP/NDA government at the Centre, the three languages learning formula for all school-going children proposed in the new National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 has been rejected outright by the state government and indeed by all political formations in Tamil […]
– Dipta Joshi (Mumbai)
Faculty of an estimated 62 engineering colleges in the Mumbai metropolitan region have not received their salaries since end-March when the BJP/NDA government at the Centre decreed a national lockdown of industry, business and all education institutions. According to data collected from 48 engineering colleges by the Bombay University and College Teachers’ […]
– Avtar Nehru (Delhi)
The unlock 4.0 guidelines announced by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs on August 29 which extended the long period (since mid-March) of the closure of all education institutions until September 30, has opened a small window for their early reopening. According to education insiders in the national capital, the Union cabinet […]
– Paromita Sengupta (Bangalore)
Pune-based Nivedita DasGupta is the country head of Miracle Foundation India (MFI, estb.2011, head count: 55) — the Indian division of Austin (USA)- based non-profit Miracle Foundation (MF). The parent foundation was registered in the millennium year to provide for orphaned and other vulnerable children in approved Child Care Institutions (CCIs) […]
– Summiya Yasmeen (Bangalore)
T.K. Chandra Mouli is director of Grafiprint Pvt. Ltd which runs the W.Q. Judge Press (estb.1952), Bangalore, one of the garden city’s oldest printing presses specialising in printing stationery, books and magazines, especially for education institutions. Moreover he is a multi-skilled polymath with a vast repertoire of skills spanning public speaking, […]
– Avtar Nehru (Delhi)
Shobhit Mathur is executive director of the Delhi-based Vision India Foundation (regst.2014) and co-founder and dean of the Rashtram School of Public Leadership, located within the newly promoted Rishiwood University, Sonipat (estb.2018). A highly qualified alum of IIT-Bombay, University of Washington and ISB-Hyderabad, Mathur previously worked for Amazon.com in Seattle and […]
– Dipta Joshi (Mumbai)
Mumbai-based Deep Udeshi, chairman and managing director, Educational Software Technologies (EST, estb.2001) and Vibrant Publishers, Colorado, USA (estb.2010), has been a publisher of academic, test prep books and online solutions in India and the US for more than two decades. To meet continuous demand from test takers, the two […]
– Dilip Thakore (Bangalore)
An English literature graduate of Delhi University with multi-industry experience in advertising, garments manufacture, IT industry and also an international bridge player, Kiran Nadar is chairperson of the eponymous Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA, estb.2010). This museum houses India’s largest collection of modern art comprising 7,000 exhibits of art, sculpture, installations […]
– Paromita Sengupta with bureau inputs
New Delhi, August 18. Union education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ released the annual Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovations Achievements 2020 (ARIIA, estb.2018) which ranks higher education institutions and universities for innovation and entrepreneurship development in six categories.
Under the category of Centrally-funded institutes of national importance, the Indian Institutes of […]
The tragic alleged June 14 suicide in Mumbai of Sushant Singh Rajput, a personable rising Bollywood film star, has transformed television into a media circus. A lurid latter-day tragedy of sex, suicide, murder, conspiracy, drug abuse, financial shenanigans and political intrigue is being played out in drawing rooms of rich and poor households across the […]
There’s a memory lapse within the country’s smug establishment and middle class that the national Covid-19 lockdown has ruined thousands of small-scale businesses and resulted in an estimated 18 million job losses in industry, especially in the small-scale sector which pays meagre wages to 90 percent of the country’s 420 million labour force.
Against this grim […]
Small days and nights – Tishani Doshi; W.W. Norton & Company; Rs.350; Pages 261
Small Days and Nights is a rich work of fiction with an inter-racial love story, probably a portrait of the author’s own parents, a Welsh mother and an Indian, Gujarati father. It impresses by its radical exploring of the root idea of […]
Think on these things – J. Krishnamurti; Krishnamurti Foundation; Rs.250; Pages 267
Legendary philosopher, spiritual guru, educationist and one of the world’s pioneer environmentalists Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895- 1986) travelled the world for six decades, delivering illuminating commentaries on the scriptures, philosophy and education. The wisdom he shared, much of which was compiled in the form of […]
– Bhuvana Anand is director of research at the Centre for Civil Society, Delhi. Tarini Sudhakar is a research fellow at CCS
For the first time in 58 years of its history, the Delhi-based Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has scrapped its school-leaving classes X and XII national exams. Thousands of students from schools […]
Adamantine in its obstinate refusal to fully liberalise and deregulate the Indian economy by consigning the socialist era licence permit-quota regime to the dustbin of history, the neta-babu brotherhood is endangering the unity of India. With unemployment ballooning across the country as the desultory rate of economic growth has been worsened by the Covid-19 induced […]
Despite a long and troubled history of rejection, Hindi language chauvinism is on the march again in BJP-ruled India. Prime minister Narendra Modi and members of the Union cabinet seem unaware that 56 percent of the nation’s population is unacquainted with Hindi. On August 9, Ms. Kanimozhi Karunanidhi, a member of Parliament from Tamil Nadu, […]
Among the world’s most prestigious institutions for study of music and the performing arts, Berklee alumni have won 297 Grammy, 34 Emmy, seven Tony and eight Academy awards
Established in 1945, the Berklee College of Music, Boston (aka Berklee), is among the world’s largest and most prestigious higher education institutions for the study of contemporary music […]
Affiliated with the UK-based Cambridge International, Avasara is a need-blind class VI-XII day-cum-boarding school for meritorious girl children from socio-economically disadvantaged communities – Dipta Joshi
Nestled in the azure green Lavale valley, 10 km from Pune (pop.7 million), Maharashtra’s second-largest city, is Avasara Academy (estb.2015), a unique class VI-XII day-cum-boarding school for meritorious girl children from […]
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