Eight young finalists paraded their talent and achievements in magic, rapier fencing, painting, equesterian show jumping, math wizadry and cyber crime detection, at the GS-EW Young Achievers Awards 2008 celebrated in Chennai. Summiya Yasmeen reports
Any doubts that members of a specially constituted jury comprising education professionals, academics and media mavens may have entertained about the capabilities […]
P. Kishore, the promoter-managing director of Everonn Systems India Ltd, (ESIL), was interviewed by Dilip Thakore in Chennai. Excerpts:Everonn Systems India Ltd (ESIL) is a very successful business enterprise doubling its sales revenue and net profit annually. What are the major factors behind this impressive growth record?
I believe the major factors behind ESIL’s rapid growth are […]
The low profile blue-chip Everonn Systems India Ltd is all set to launch a hugely ambitious national education development blueprint which could revolutionise and alter the character of Indian education. Dilip Thakore reports
For the growing minority of thinking citizens who have correctly identified its K-Ph D education system as the Achilles leg (the contagion has […]
“We signed up one month ago (November) to install an Everonn computer centre and ICT system for our class VI-XII students. The initial reaction of our students to Everonn’s computer literacy and computer aided learning is good and there is great excitement within the student community. I am confident that learning outcomes in […]
The fourth annual Tata Consultancy Services-EducationWorld Teachers Awards 2008 attracted 18,000 nominations from 2,500 schools across the country. At a meticulously planned awards ceremony staged in Lucknow, the eight finalists — all women —were showered with cash awards, certificates and mementos. Summiya Yasmeen reports
A mix of emotions — hope, excitement, optimism, anxiety and joy — pervaded the […]
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 […]
A transnational poll conducted by AlertNet, a humanitarian website of the Reuters Foundation, voted India as the sixth most dangerous country worldwide for children after Sudan, Uganda, Congo, Iraq and Somalia. Dilip Thakore reports
It’s a scathing indictment which ought to have seared the conscience of the nation. but within the indifferent establishment of shining India which […]
Regular readers of this publication are surely well aware that there’s much that is wrong with the nation’s education system shaped by indifferent governments at the Centre and in the constituent states of the Indian Union. Despite the country being blessed or cursed – the jury is still out on this issue – with the […]
The second all-India TCS-EducationWorld Teachers Awards 2007 attracted 25,000 nominations countrywide. At a gala awards ceremony in Chennai, the eight finalists were showered with gifts, cash awards and mementos.Summiya Yasmeen reports
It was a memorable day of triumph and celebration for the eight school teachers who made it to the national final of the second all-India Tata […]
Starting with rudely corrupt government officials and the uncaring accumulative instincts of Indian businessmen, all the way down the social pecking order the ordinary citizen experiences the law’s delay, the proud man’s contumely and the insolence of office on a daily basis. Dilip Thakore reports
For a nation of incorrigible me-first shovers and pushers with seldoma care […]
ASER 2005 — the country’s first independent nationwide survey of rural primary education — confirms deep-seated public suspicion that post-independence India’s elementary education effort has been a massive failure.Dilip Thakorereports
For the small minority of genuine educationists and social scientists as well as for responsible citizens anxious about the future of India’s 415 […]
The year 2005 was remarkable forunprecedentedly frenzied activity in the education sector. Like latter day Rip Van Winkles, India’s somnambulistic politicians seem to have woken to the reality that the rest of the world which was quick to discern the vitally important connection between education and national development, has left the sovereign, socialist, secular, etc […]
Recent judgements of the country’s apex court are being interpreted as a huge blow to the managements of one-five star schools which have sprung up all over the country. Dilip Thakore reports
Despite the unanimously welcomed exit of Union minister of human resource development Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi who was hell-bent on rewriting history and social science textbooks to […]
Despite the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1990) specifically stipulating that the views of children be given due weightage, their opinions on subjects of national importance are seldom solicited. EW compiled their views on the Rs.400 crore India Shining campaign. Summiya Yasmeen reports
It’s widely being hailed as the masterstroke which will sweep the major constituents of […]
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