Dr. Neeraj Kaushal is professor of social policy at Columbia University, USA
Skill levels below a thin top layer plummet. India needs a second, third and fourth layer of well-educated and skilled youth to keep the economic growth momentum going
Neeraj Kaushal
India aspires to become a developed nation by 2047, to mark a century […]
Dr. Pratap Bhanu Mehta is former President, Centre for Policy Research, Delhi and a renowned public intellectual
India’s only saving grace is that despite institutional dysfunction, Indians are self-learning and have got us to the point where human capital deficiencies are less pronounced
Sudheendra Kulkarni is a former aide of prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1999-2004) and currently founder, Forum for a New South Asia
Only a fraction of the 180 million in the age group of 0-5 years have access to good quality, well-equipped pre-schools. If this divide continues how can India remain faithful to the ideals of […]
Dr. Raymond Ravaglia is former dean of pre-collegiate studies at Stanford University and currently co-founder of AccessUSA
While the best Western schools may not always match the academic rigour of India’s best schools, they outpace them in stimulating creativity, critical thinking and well-rounded student profiles.
Raymond Ravaglia
When comparing schools across international borders, the […]
Rajiv Desai is president of Comma Consulting and a well-known Delhi-based columnist
Since 2014, leaders who hold the reins of power are singularly bereft of expertise. They don’t understand the demands of a country that is poor but has unconcealed ambition to become a great power
– An alumnus of Delhi, Oxford and Harvard Universities, Prof. C. Raj Kumar is founding Vice Chancellor of O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat
Law ought to become a foundational course of study in all disciplines — from engineering to medicine, from liberal arts to humanities, including the wider gamut of social sciences
Micaela Ventura is Head of Primary at DSB International School — Deutsche Schule Bombay
The critical importance of professionally administered early childhood care and education cannot be overstated. Simply put, it has profound impact on every child’s future
Micaela Ventura
After several decades of advocacy by early childhood care and education (ECCE) champions in India including […]
Sheila Bauer is CEO of Access MCA — A Better Way to College & Dr. Raymond Ravaglia is former Director of Pre-Collegiate Studies, Stanford University
Artificial Intelligence and more specifically ChatGPT and its generative cousins Bard and Claude won’t replace teachers but they will certainly transform how teachers do their jobs
This is an edited version of the address of Dr. K. Kasturirangan, Chairman of the committee which drafted NEP 2020 and currently Chairman, National Steering Committee for NCF, at the National Conference of School Education Ministers (June 2022)
NEP 2020 provides a clear roadmap for the transformation and reinvigoration of education in India, so that by […]
Rajiv Desai is president of Comma Consulting and a well-known Delhi-based columnist
The entry of this sophisticated communications discipline dovetailed with the big bang economic reforms introduced in the 1991 budget. That was when the government introduced major changes to the industrial licensing regime
Many of us professionals on the frontlines of public relations consulting were justifiably […]
There’s paranoia driving the mindset of BJP leaders. Overtly directed at religious minorities, its animosity is equally if not more, focused on westernised, English speaking segments of Indian society, writes Rajiv Desai
HERE’S A TRUE STORY: A DELEGATION OF Christians called on Narendra Modi soon after he assumed the office of prime minister in 2014, to […]
After 30 days, children’s learning outcomes were so transformed that the district magistrate requested DEVI Sansthan to expand its programme to another 200 schools, writes Sunita Gandhi
TODAY, SEVEN OF TEN CHILDREN ACROSS India cannot read with comprehension by their tenth birthday. The Covid-19 pandemic severely disrupted Indian education, but the pre-pandemic picture wasn’t rosy either. […]
ARE CHINESE UNIVERSITIES BETTER THAN Indian universities? If we go by hard facts, the simple answer is yes. But the simple answer is not always the correct answer. If the primary purpose of a university is to not merely disseminate information and impart skills, but nurture creative and critical thinking, the superiority of Chinese […]
Political masters of the education system never tire of inventing new bits they believe are worthy of being glued into the school routine. These bits are wrapped in politically correct labels, writes Krishna Kumar
The tendency to fragment the curriculum has become endemic to our system of education. New bits and slices keep getting added to […]
In turning their backs on a language that’s not only recognised by the Constitution but is the language of global business, India’s myopic politicians are doing the electorate a great disservice, writes Rajiv Desai
English is the language introduced by the British colonisers of India. It evokes mixed emotions. In some middle-class families and schools, you […]
Confucius (551-479 BCE) was a master teacher, a gurudev. He had extraordinary love of learning and deep respect for the laws of ancient China, writes Sudheendra Kulkarni
Whenever I visit Beijing, I make it a point to visit Wangfujing Street for English language books. There I always find illuminating books on Chinese philosophy, culture, arts and even […]
The new knowledge economy is driven by information, data and computing power. Developing human resources requires critical analysis, lateral thinking and inter-disciplinary applications, writes Mohandas Pai and Nisha Holla
Mohandas Pai
Today information is available at our fingertips. The agricultural and industrial economies of yore where information was a scarce resource, have been replaced by […]
In challenge-based learning, students don’t study discrete disciplines such as sociology/mathematics. They study them through the lens of global challenges such as climate change and clean energy.
A raft of companies in the UK has declared they no longer have faith in university degree classifications. Hitherto, graduates with a 2:1 (upper second or 60 percent plus […]
Since 2014 when the BJP-NDA coalition was elected to power in New Delhi and re-elected in 2019, the BJP leadership and saffron polemicists have plunged the public discourse to new depths.
It’s a matter of deep regret — and all right-thinking citizens should protest — that since 2014 when the BJP/NDA coalition was elected to power […]
While the rest of the world has been experimenting with sweeping reform ideas such as school vouchers and direct benefit transfer, the NEP draft doesn’t mention them.
The general expectation is that the National Education Policy (NEP) 2019 will be finalised in December, based on the recommendations of the nine-member Kasturirangan Committee which submitted its comprehensive […]
Authoritarian leaders combine charisma and bureaucratic organisation, making instant, seemingly effective decisions. India is a soft state while authoritarian China is a global heavyweight.
One of the more fascinating phenomena expressed in recent times, especially among the elite and the Indian middle class, is ‘authoritarian envy’. As a stratum, these groups feel that while democracy gets […]
Indian education needs enabling environments where edupreneurs, school principals and teachers have wide autonomy to deliver consistently better learning outcomes.
All parents want their children to develop into good and productive human beings. The nine-member Kasturirangan (KR) Committee that submitted the Draft National Education Policy (DNEP) to the Union human resource development (HRD) ministry on May […]
An authoritative research study of the University of North Carolina indicates that the key to developing children’s learning skills is quality interactive communication with adults from birth.
Regrettably, there’s insufficient awareness in Indian society that the period before a child enters formal education is critical for success in school and beyond. These are the most formative […]
Absence of any experimental component in science teaching is common even among private schools. This is teaching science without encouraging any interest in the subject.
Those who wonder why Jawaharlal Nehru’s dream of scientific temper becoming a popular social value hasn’t come true, should examine science teaching in our schools. A friend’s niece who has now […]
The government of Uttar Pradesh — India’s most populous state (215 million) — is headed by a violent and bigoted godman. He was the subject, and probably the source of inspired propaganda that suggested he is a contender to replace Narendra Modi as prime minister. But like Modi, Ajay Singh Bisht (aka Yogi Adityanath) has […]
The high rankings awarded to China’s universities in the annual WUR (World University Rankings) of the highly-reputed London-based higher education institution rating agencies Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) and Times Higher Education (THE) in their latest (2018) league tables — three Chinese universities are ranked by QS and two by THE among the global […]
I am writing this essay in Rome and it has aroused indelible memories of a previous visit to this Eternal City six years ago. The rush of memories is stimulated by news that India has begun Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary celebrations. Moreover, EducationWorld is also celebrating its 19th anniversary with this special issue. These […]
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