– Dr. D. Srikanth Rao is director of the Manipal Institute of Technology
The global Covid-19 pandemic which has taken a toll of more than 1.79 million lives worldwide and has shutdown academia for over eight months, has confronted every domain of engineering with unprecedented challenges. Academics and corporates the world over are exploring how these […]
Students are the leaders of tomorrow. They need to be empowered by new technologies-enabled learning systems that will shape them into competent, confident and proactive adults.
Rajiv Bansal, Director-Operations, Global Indian International School (GIIS) India
Rapid technological advancement stimulated by the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic has spurred the evolution of education faster than ever before. With […]
History teaches us one important lesson. Countries cannot grow their economies first and develop public education and health services later. The reverse is true. Unfortunately India has under-invested in these crucial services
– Sarojini Rao is principal, Indus International School, Bangalore
The on-going skirmishes and stand-offs at various points on the 3,488 km Sino-India border in the […]
– 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 […]
In a country that produces millions of mint-new graduates, the ‘demographic dividend’ has yet to be encashed. In this situation, radical overhaul of the conventional education system has become an urgent national priority
When Ginni Rometty, chairman, president and CEO of IBM, visited India […]
Over the past decade, we have witnessed unprecedented churning in India. Iconic leaders of the freedom movement including Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru have been criticised and reviewed as never before. Different groups in Indian society project new icons to take their place in what a historian has described as “history wars”. Often, these new […]
With schools downing shutters worldwide, and learning having shifted online on a massive scale, a new era has dawned for KG-Ph D education. The novel Coronavirus aka Covid-19 pandemic, has upended lifestyles, and with production and usage of tablets, laptops and computers becoming ubiquitous, a new world of teaching-learning is taking shape. Projects, skills-building activities, […]
India’s education system and higher education institutions in particular, have suffered a severe setback because of the national lockdown declared from March 25 following the outbreak of the novel Coronavirus aka Covid-19 pandemic. With prospects of a reversion to the status quo ante uncertain in the near future, universities and higher education institutions worldwide are […]
– Usha Pandit is the CEO of Mindsprings, educational consultant, teacher trainer, expert in gifted education, and author
If India’s education policy formulators take a few leaves from prominent educators, we would have a clear roadmap to re-evaluate and solve the nation’s chronic education deficit. From Piaget’s Constructivism schema, they could learn how children connect with prior knowledge, and learn by […]
Every parent and educator ponders over these questions: How can our children get smarter? What is that we can do to stimulate brilliance within our children and boost their creativity and critical thinking skills? If we believe the brain is the body’s central processing unit, then brain compatible learning (BCL) may be the solution […]
– Siddharth Chaturvedi is executive vice-president of the AISECT group
India has vast potential for economic growth and development, considering it is the youngest country in the world with a median age of 29. While a young population is potentially a productive workforce, the fact that less than 5 percent of the country’s 420 million workforce […]
Whenever you struggle with a problematic question, whether in school or at home, you reflexively turn to your friends for help, before initiating a conversation with your teachers, tutors, or parents about it. Have you ever wondered why? While comfort level is one of the prime reasons, it’s also because you feel that your friend […]
Vijay Krishnamurthy, Bangalore-based corporate coach and also a sports research scholar at Mysore University
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics is less than a year away. Already there’s a buzz: How many medals will India win this time? These discussions will increase in intensity as the date of the quadrennial Olympics draws closer. As the event begins, media […]
Although setting up an autonomous NETF is not a bad idea, a better idea would be for the Central and state governments to confer autonomy to education institutions, says Anil Mammen.
Since a policy is seldom the same as a policy draft, we need to read the draft National Education Policy 2019, which is under consideration […]
– Prof. Ranjan Bose is director of the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi
The draft National Education Policy (NEP) 2019 prepared by a nine-member committee chaired by eminent space scientist, Dr. K. Kasturirangan, which is under consideration of the Union human resource development ministry, accords high importance to multidisciplinary education in undergraduate colleges. In fact, […]
In the draft National Education Policy 2019 report submitted by the Kasturirangan Committee to the Union HRD ministry on May 30, the power of the Delhi-based National Council of Educational Research & Training (NCERT) to “shrink the curriculum content in each subject to its core,” has been substantially expanded. […]
As the world grapples with the complex problem of providing access to quality, equitable education in every classroom, experiments with digital technology are showing the way to address the multiple dimensions of this challenge. From providing access to content libraries and subject-specific plug and play modules, enabling teacher support and training to facilitating assessments and […]
Sasha Ramani, head of corporate strategy at the Washington D.C-based Mpowerfinancing.com
Despite universities abroad levying differential (higher) tuition fees on foreign students, the annual flow of scholars from India heading abroad for higher education shows no sign of abating. In 2018-19, a record 368,000 Indian school and college-leavers from India enrolled in higher education institutions in […]
Across the world, there’s high awareness that chalk and talk teaching for standardised testing is obsolete. There’s a global search for new pedagogies and processes to enable school children to acquire better conceptual understanding and deeper engagement with ideas to confront complex 21st century challenges.
One way to achieve this is by venturing outside classrooms and […]
On February 20, Union HRD (human resource development) minister Prakash Javadekar launched Operation Digital Board (ODB). The objective of this initiative is to digitise education delivery in schools and colleges countrywide. ODB will digitise 700,000 classrooms — 500,000 in schools and 200,000 in higher education institutions — in three years starting […]
With contemporary India experiencing the phenomenon of jobless growth, particularly in the organised sector or formal economy, competition for the shrinking number of best jobs at the entry and middle management levels is intensifying. Here […]
– Sivaramakrishnan V. is the Delhi-based managing director of Oxford University Press, India
The relevance of education in today’s world is possibly far greater compared to most aspects of human development. Arguably, this was insufficiently understood for several decades in post-independence India, until the correlation between education and socio-economic upliftment became apparent. This is perhaps […]
Dr. Peter Greenhalgh is a Cambridge classical scholar and former professor at Cape Town University
As we enter 2019, Britain is evaluating the outcome of the first public secondary education examinations following the reforms of former education secretary Michael Gove who resigned his office in 2014.
Our two main examinations are the General Certificate of Secondary […]
The dawn of the knowledge economy era has brought research universities to centrestage. Apart from disseminating knowledge and providing higher education, universities discharge a pivotal social role and contribute significantly to the national development effort. Moreover, research universities contribute to culture, technology and society and facilitate global linkages. Little wonder that all major World University […]
A new book The Fourth Education Revolution: Will Artificial Intelligence Liberate or Infantilise humanity? (2018) co-authored by Sir Anthony Seldon and Oladimeji Abidoye, is creating waves within the community of educators worldwide. It predicts that artificial intelligence will create ‘holographic teachers’ who will ‘individuate’ learning for every child. Earlier, Seldon, one of the world’s most […]
In my over 30-year career as an education writer, school coach and consultant, I have come across many people who say they own a tract of land and would like to build a school. But is land ownership the prime consideration for setting up a school? Others say ‘we are promoting a township and must […]
Karthik K.S. is CEO of the Bangalore-based AEON Learning Pvt. Ltd
It’s almost a truism that education is now a continuous lifelong learning process. New millennium business and industry professionals have to reconcile themselves to learning throughout their careers rather than accumulate knowledge and master a specific skill during the school and college years. How one […]
The #1 factor that distinguishes the 21st century from the past is the powerful impact that technology is making in almost every sphere of contemporary life. Like an unstoppable tsunami, it totally transforms any landscape it decides to visit. If the Industrial Revolution of the 1800s catalysed a mechanical engineering revolution that radically transformed […]
In 2009, Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Adichie gave a rousing TED talk titled ‘The Dangers of a Single Story’. She posited that there’s a great risk in reducing complex human beings to a single narrative. While she spoke of narratives in a cultural context, I believe her central idea, has broader application.
Back in 2013, a group of primary school children in Benin (Africa), angered that adolescent girl children were being forced into marriage, persuaded the government to ban child marriages. A year later, students in Colombia designed a toy plane that would drop seeds into a deforested valley to restore its green cover. In 2015, school […]
Student visa 2016 policy changes have impacted higher education institutions down under, which host 450,000 international students, with gale force. The previous Liberal-National Party coalition government’s much-publicised review of the earlier policy resulted in a Simplified Student Visa Framework (SSVF) which promised great benefits by reducing the visa categories from eight to two, and a […]
The manner in which most political parties and politicians, as also fringe elements regularly indulge in propagating casteism and intolerance in society in flagrant violation of constitutional provisions and democratic values, is indeed sickening. Sickening, because it impacts the younger generation presently experiencing the process of growing up, and who will take over the reins […]
As adults, we have the choice to turn off a programme or turn the page if what we see or read makes no sense. However, we cannot afford to extend this liberty to children in schools — that they should walk out of classes which don’t make sense. Turning away from education is equivalent to […]
I returned to India in 1968 after graduating from Cambridge and 11 years of teaching physics at Gordonstoun — the well-known British public school. I was immediately struck by the glaring lack of hands-on learning in India’s best schools. Science is an observational subject, and doing, observing and interpreting are integral to the scientific […]
A research paper titled Assessment for improving learning in schools in India: A Perspective submitted by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) to the International Association for Educational Assessment in 2008, admits that current student performance assessment and evaluation systems in K-12 education in India are entirely exams-based. “Assessment focuses only on […]
The 1920s was a high point of the Progressive Education movement whose most famous proponent was American educationist John Dewey (1859-1952). A response to school education delivered according to social class in 19th century industrial society, progressive education broke the mould and introduced a more enlightened approach to public schooling — to transform schools into […]
Although rather belated, there’s increasing awareness within society and even within the Central and state governments of the vital importance of early childhood care and education (ECCE) to give children a good start in life and enable them to grow into healthy and mentally alert citizens, capable of contributing to the common good. In the […]
Recently released authoritative studies — Annual Status of Education Report 2014 and the Young Citizen National Survey 2015 of the Children’s Movement for Civic Awareness — highlight that learning outcomes in school education are rock-bottom.
While it’s easy to blame the ‘system’, the teachers’ community which is an integral part of the system is also to […]
India’s higher education sector is adrift. Resource inadequacy, quality deficit and policy opacity are ruining our 35,000 undergraduate colleges and 700 universities. Although some of these institutions — especially the universities of Bombay, Calcutta and Madras — were established in the 1850s, not even one Indian university (IITs included) has ever been ranked among the […]
Uniquely among the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China & South Africa) countries, India has a competitive advantage. Not only in the education sector, but also in the world of employment, with a potentially beneficial fallout for India’s balance of payments.
Every nation across the world is stronger, more vibrant and attractive if it is able to […]
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