Reshma Ravishanker (Bengaluru)
One year after the ambitious National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 was presented to the nation by prime minister Narendra Modi on July 29, 2020, the southern state of Karnataka (pop.68.4 million) has become the first countrywide to implement its higher education reform proposals.
On August 7, the BJP state government issued a circular to […]
Exemplary teachers
Congratulations on your unique cover story ‘30 Eduleaders Weathering Covid Tsunami’ (EW August). It was comforting to read about several principals’ creative responses to the pandemic disruption of education and the world’s longest schools lockdown.
In particular, it was distressing to learn about Ganesh Prasad, the dedicated principal of the government-aided Sadguru High […]
The rules of parenting have seen a definitive change due to the pandemic and its aftermath
Dr. (Mrs.) Amita Chauhan
Chairperson, Amity Group of Schools
Children are the most affected by any calamity, be it man-made or natural and it is always their inner strength that is put to test. History has proven, however, that children […]
The greatest tragedy of post-independence India’s national development effort is an egregious failure to develop its abundant and high-potential human capital. The inherent capabilities of the country’s people are evidenced by consistently rising agriculture and industry output and the steady growth of the services sector despite the majority populace having continuously experienced sub-optimal education for […]
-Dhana Sekaran
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill” – Wilbur Wrigh
Dhana Sekaran
Chitkara College of Applied Engineering (CCAE) was established in the year 2019 by Chitkara University with a vision to take ‘Make in India’ mission of Hon’ble Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the students and provide opportunities […]
Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
Astrophile class V student of Kolkata’s Indus Valley World School, Reyansh Das (10) is the latest to join the country’s distinguished league of young authors of the pandemic era. On June 8, this precocious pre-teen launched his debut e-book Our Universe: The Past, The Present, The Future on Kindle (Rs.100).
Comprising ten chapters and […]
Shycocan-EW webinar
Bengaluru, August 27.
Shycocan Corporation, a Bengaluru-based start-up engaged in the business of manufacturing, sales and marketing of the Shycocan a viral defence technology that provides safety and protection from the coronavirus with an efficacy up to 99.9% in enclosed spaces. Shycocan Corporation in collaboration with EducationWorld, hosted a webinar titled: ‘Empowering Education Institutions to […]
Paromita Sengupta with bureau inputs
JHARKHAND
First Birhor matriculate
Hazaribagh, August 3.
Paval Birhor (16), a student of Pariyojna Ucha Vidyalay, Kandsar, a government school in the Hazaribagh district, is the first girl child from Jharkhand’s primitive Birhor tribe (pop.11,000) to pass the state board’s class X matriculation examination. Results of the Jharkhand Academic Council were declared […]
Divya Sharma (Delhi)
Edupreneur Dr. Anita Sharma is the Jaipur-based co-founder of Stuprorefying Pvt. Ltd aka Inkpothub (estb.2018), a unique networking platform for research scholars, professors and students to collaborate, organise research studies and share knowledge. A polio survivor, Sharma is also the founder of Drive On My Own (DOMO, estb.2018), the country’s first driving school […]
China is set to become one of the first countries to make mental health a compulsory credit-bearing module for all undergraduate students, in a sign of growing concern over the issue. But experts are doubtful about whether this initiative offers a genuine solution.
A notice from the ministry of education puts mental health on a par […]
Newly-appointed education minister Dharmendra Pradhan is confronted with the challenge of scaling two mountains simultaneously — repairing huge damage suffered by the education system during 60 weeks of pandemic lockdown, and implementing NEP 2020, writes Dilip Thakore
With General Election 2024 looming on the distant horizon and the legislative assembly election of Uttar Pradesh, India’s most […]
Dilip Thakore (Bengaluru)
Mahesh Rao (left) & Sardesai: established proof of concept
Mahesh Rao is the energetic promoter-director of the Bengaluru (aka Bangalore)-based Prose Education Academy Pvt. Ltd (PEA, estb.2017). This company provides online academic education to class VI-XII children enrolled in sports academies across the country. Its prime objective is to provide “necessary academic […]
The third oldest in Britain after Oxford and Cambridge, this low-profile university has acquired an enviable global reputation for higher education excellence, writes Reshma Ravishanker
Durham University vista: enviable global reputation
Sited in the eponymous historic city of north-east England, the low-profile Durham University (estb.1832) has acquired an enviable global reputation for higher education […]
Gitanjali Surendran
Despite politicians endlessly debating the rights and wrongs of history and the country’s towns and cities hosting large numbers of monuments of historical importance, India’s education institutions don’t encourage historical thinking.
Historical thinking or thinking with history mandates a sense of time and change over time. Second, it requires careful understanding of context and putting […]
Autar Nehru (Delhi)
Dr. Rosetta Williams is the Delhi-based CEO of the Dalmia Vidya Mandir (DVM, estb.1924) chain of eight schools promoted by the Dalmia Bharat Group of cement, sugar and refractory companies (annual revenue: Rs.1,210 crore). Currently, the CBSE-affiliated Dalmia Vidya Mandir schools educate an aggregate 15,000 students in six states (Rajasthan, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, […]
Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)
Srikanth: learning continuity innovator
A.K. Srikanth is chief executive officer of the Bengaluru-based KLAY Preschools and Daycare (Founding Years Learning Solutions Pvt. Ltd, estb.2012) — a chain of over 150 owned pre-primaries and daycare centres — well-reputed for high-quality curriculums and safety standards.
Newspeg. In its latest education initiative after Covid-19 hit India […]
Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
Alumni of Calcutta University — Nilotpal Barman (25), Raju Das (25), and Mira Barman (23) — are co-founders of Ananda Niketan Pathshala (ANP, estb.2020), a free-of-charge learning centre-cum-primary school for children from predominantly Muslim and tribal households of Shitaliya village (pop.20,000) sited deep in the Sunderbans, the world’s largest mangroves delta. ANP’s six […]
Although the Covid-19 pandemic which has forced the lockdown of all education institutions has made the extraordinary efforts of rural India’s education evangelists more difficult, many have devised innovative solutions to maintain children’s learning continuity – Abhilasha Ojha
Residing in a remote village in the educationally under-served state of Odisha (pop. 45.4 million), unsurprisingly, Rina Bagha […]
Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)
Within five months of being adjudged India champion of the Asia Young Designer Award (AYDA) Contest 2020 held virtually early this year, Bengaluru-based architect Neha Harish (24) has been adjudged Young Sustainable Designer 2020 (architecture) of Asia in a transnational competition organised by Osaka (Japan)-based Nippon Paint Holdings Co.
In the online final round […]
The outcome of its founder Joginder Mann’s vision to promote a world-class residential school in the national capital, TMS is ranked among India’s Top 10 co-ed day-cum-boarding schools in the EW India School Rankings 2020-21, writes Autar Nehru
Independence Day at TMS
Sited on a pristine green 20-acre campus in Holambi Khurd, a village 25 […]
MIT’s Krishna Rajagopal
The dean of digital learning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has resigned as a staff revolt against the sale of non-profit online course platform edX to for-profit competitor 2U grows. Krishna Rajagopal, who has announced his departure, told colleagues that he had “serious continuing reservations about the path forward […]
French historians have raised the alarm that a new terrorism and intelligence law will stop the release of state military and security archival documents, amid accusations that elements in the government are deliberately trying to conceal the country’s role in the Algerian war of independence.
Historians say that for the past two years, they have had […]
A member of the family of Azerbaijan’s autocratic ruler sits on the board of a University of Oxford research centre that studies the country, raising conflict of interest concerns for academics. A body representing Armenian scholars expressed concern that the Oxford Nizami Ganjavi Centre, founded in 2018 by a £10 million (Rs.102.5 crore) donation […]
The arrival in the UK of a potential 100,000 international students from Covid red-list countries in the coming months presents a “clear quarantine-capacity problem” that could “overwhelm” the system, with allowing universities to use their own accommodation for quarantine one possible solution discussed in the sector.
Foreign students in the UK: red list system […]
If you ever want to see mathematicians get really excited, ask them about Hagoromo Fulltouch Chalk. Writing on a blackboard with the deluxe Japanese chalk made of oyster shells is “like skiing on fresh powder, or waterskiing at dawn on a calm lake,” says Dave Bayer, professor of mathematics at Columbia University’s Barnard College.
Wei Ho, […]
Academics in Turkey say they have won a rare victory for university autonomy after a politically appointed rector was dismissed following six months of protest. The sacking of Melih Bulu, a former ruling party candidate appointed at Bogazici University by the president in January, they hope, could be a turning point in the fight for […]
Common-sense dictates that when MNCs (multinational corporations) contract offshore deals, the capital gain if any, accrues beyond Indian jurisdiction. Yet circa 2010, by convoluted reasoning for which India’s income tax department is infamous, it calculated pro rata capital gains for 17 MNCs including Vodafone, Netherlands and Cairn Energy (UK), levying capital gains tax on their […]
The Indian cricket team’s comprehensive mid-August victory over England in the second Test played at Lords, London, the sport’s most hallowed ground worldwide, marks an inflection point in the history of Indian cricket. For the first time ever, all 20 wickets in England’s two innings were taken by Indian pace bowlers hitherto routinely dismissed as […]
In almost all human capital development indices including the Education Development Index of NIEPA University, Delhi and UNDP’s Human Development Index, the picturesque southern state of Kerala (pop.35 million) is invariably accorded high praise. This is because during the past seven decades since independence, the state has attained 99 percent literacy. The high status […]
Autar Nehru (Delhi)
AAP’s chief minister Arvind Kejriwal (right) & education minister Manish Sisodia
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which has ruled Delhi state since 2015 and took on and bested the BJP in the state legislative election of 2020 shortly after the saffron party had swept to power in General Election 2019, is perhaps […]
Dipta Joshi (Mumbai)
Maharashtra school children: restart uncertainty
In a classic case of too many cooks, the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition government’s grand plans to reopen schools from August 17 onwards has run awry because of divergence of opinion between its two Covid-19 management task forces. Fearing resurgence of the pandemic in the state, […]
Shivani Chaturvedi (Chennai)
Under lockdown to check the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic for over one year, Tamil Nadu’s 37,500 government schools and 12,000 unaided private schools resumed on-campus teaching-learning for classes IX-XII on September 1 subject to maintaining strict Covid protocols and 50 percent capacity, i.e, alternate days attendance. Currently, 4.5 million children are enrolled […]
Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
Dr. Bidyut Chakrabarty
Established by nobel laureate, savant and litterateur Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) as an abode for students from around the world, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan (VBU, estb.1918) has been mired in controversy and continuous turmoil since Dr. Bidyut Chakrabarty, former professor of political science at Delhi University, assumed office as vice chancellor […]
Jungle Nama: A story of the Sundarban
Amitav Ghosh
Harper Collins
Rs.699; Pages 79
Jayati Gupta (The Book Review)
Following his two widely acclaimed fiction novels The Hungry Tide (2004) and Gun Island (2019), in Jungle Nama (2021), Amitav Ghosh revisits the Sundarbans, the “tangled green archipelago” of riverine Bengal.
Ghosh’s first book written in narrative verse is […]
Hikayat Seri Rama — The Malay Ramayana
Harry Aveling
Writers Workshop
Rs.900; Pages 287
Shekhar Sen (The Book Review)
The remarkable story of the Indianisation of South-east Asia is an instance of historical spontaneity. Hinduism and Buddhism travelled there with indomitable traders, adventurers and priests carrying along their religion and culture which the local populace accepted enthusiastically. […]
The central government’s greenlight to 14 engineering colleges in eight states to offer engineering degree programmes in five regional languages (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi and Bengali) from the new academic year 2021-22 is further proof of myopic politicians rushing in where they should fear to tread.
On July 29 —the first anniversary of the release of […]
In the 75th year of political freedom from almost two centuries of exploitative British rule, the world’s most populous democracy is running out of steam. Institutions established as the republic’s pillars of democratic governance are crumbling because of political irresponsibility and public indifference. Neither the executive, Parliament, police-judicial system nor the media — the so-called […]
KNOWLEDGE BEYOND WALLS
Gen Extra Muros is a pedagogy for digital teaching; this is the center point to make digital transformation success. Having digital equipments or digital content will not make digital teaching a success – the way you teach is very important.
Virtual School: Building the Connected Learning Community
In the connected learning community, formal education simultaneously […]
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Why NEP 2020 prescribes multi-disciplinary education
Liberal education can unlock all inherent capacities of human beings — intellectual, aesthetic, social, physical, emotional and moral — in an integrated manner, writes Viraj Kumar
A key pillar of the National Education Policy (NEP 2020) is liberal (“holistic and multidisciplinary”) education, which sensitises students to the fundamentally interconnected nature of all human knowledge and enquiry. […]