The decade 1999-2009, since Education World was promoted (1999) with the mission of “building the pressure of public opinion to make education the No.1 item on the national agenda”, has witnessed the once back-burner subject of education and development of the nation’s abundant human resources, steadily moving towards the centre of the national development debate.
India’s charge into online or e-learning, which offers the exciting prospect of making best quality higher education accessible to under-served youth in remote locations countrywide, is being led by several go-getting private sector companies and education institutions. Among the front-runners:
NIIT Ltd (estb. 1981; sales revenue: Rs.979.9 crore in the year ended March 31, 2009). Currently NIIT […]
With the cash-strapped Central and state governments, who run a combined fiscal deficit of 11-12 percent of GDP ill-positioned to substantially augment bricks-and-mortar education capacity in the forseeable future, online learning aka e-learning has emerged as the great white hope of Indian education. Hemalatha Raghupathi reports
With 21st century India’s ramshackle higher education system able to accommodate a […]
Online education or e-learning is a constantly evolving technology. Over the two decades since it was first introduced to the public, this wonder distance education technology, which has the potential to democratise and revolutionise teaching-learning, has experienced a dramatic metamorphosis. The first teaching-learning innovation of the IT (information technology) industry that flowered in the mid […]
In the past three months over 17 Indian students have been assaulted in Melbourne and Sydney in a pattern of crimes which have become infamously known as “curry bashing”. Since then the 95,000 strong Indian student community in Oz has suffered a disproportionate share of violent crimes. David Wightman reports from Canberra
The huge hue and cry raised in India alleging institutionalised racism in Australia, following a wave of robbery-driven attacks on Indian students in Melbourne this summer, has provoked wry comment from African, and students from our own north-eastern states who suffer routine discrimination in this country.
For several decades a small minority of liberal publications within the […]
Against the backdrop of multiplying violent robberies being perpetrated on Indian students in Australia, particularly in the city of Melbourne (pop. 3.9 million) which hosts half of the 95,000 students studying in Oz, the government, police and institutional managements have devised a safety code for ethnic minority students. Some of the recommended safety measures include:
In 1988 only 55 student visas were issued by the Australian high commission in India. Since then the number of Indian students bound for Australia has spiraled to 27,000 annually (2008). Sensitively priced, quality education in scenic college campuses, a favourable exchange rate, English language instruction, strong emphasis on vocational and professional education, and aggressive […]
The Karnataka high court in its judgement delivered on July 2 in KAMS vs. State of Karnataka & Ors (Writ Petition No. 14363/1994) struck down the state government’s 1994 language policy compelling primary school children to study in the Kannada medium or the mother tongue in unaided private schools, as unconstitutional. It recorded the following conclusions (verbatim):
The National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions, established by an Act of Parliament in 2004 “to provide for matters connected therewith and incidental thereto”, appointed a three member committee headed by Justice (Retd) M.S.A. Siddiqui to make recommendations for the development and upgradation of Muslim education institutions. In May 2007 the committee submitted a proposal […]
In a society where government managed schools are synonymous with ramshackle infrastructure, truant teachers and poor learning outcomes, how do the 979 Central government-funded KVs improve their vital stats year after year? Sudha Passi reports
Saransh Sharma is the ideal Indian student, what most parents would want their child to be. Not […]
Even as India has emerged as a global flashpoint for housing the world’s largest number of AIDS infected people and a shocking report of the Union government indicates that 53 percent of children are subjected to sexual abuse, several states have banned sex education even in senior school. Summiya Yasmeen reports
A nascent home schooling movement is gathering momentum countrywide, a growing minority of disillusioned parents are switching to customised home education for their children instead of sentencing them to overcrowded classrooms in which little learning happens. Summiya Yasmeen reports
Ten-year-old twins Mohini and Mallika Bariya live in the relatively quiet Bangalore suburb of Jayanagar, reportedly Asia’s largest […]
A rising tide of teacher discontent and disaffection is swelling at a time when an unprecedented teacher shortage is manifesting across the country. Academic institutions are reporting an alarming shortage of faculty. Summiya Yasmeen reports
Within a society notorious for wasting valuable human resources, September 5 — Teachers Day — marked by desultory celebrations and mealy-mouthed homage to India’s […]
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