Over the past few years, a growing number of America’s parentless children have found homes. In 2008 there were 463,000 children in foster care, a system where the government places orphans and children with parents who are abusive or unable to take care of them, in the care of guardians. That is 11 percent down […]
An alumna of Lucknows highly-rated La Martiniere Girls School and currently a Houston (Texas, USA)-based correspondent of TV Asia and promoter-chief executive of an online multimedia enterprise titled Lights, Camera, Action, Ruchi Mukherjee has dismal memories of her school years. She grimly recalls experiencing verbal abuse, partiality and extreme lack of patience. Her unhappy school […]
IGNOUs BCA (bachelor of computer applications) programme administered through local franchises/partners is excellent. The printed study material is concise and is delivered on time. Apart from this I accessed IGNOUs video lectures on You Tube and the university website for updates — Jatin Gulati (27), a BCA graduate of IGNOU, currently employed with a BPO […]
Most universities regularly reassess the modules they offer, but the University of Hong Kong has gone beyond that to fundamentally re-imagine the undergraduate degree. It is a wholly more ambitious, and risky, project that significantly extends both the length and breadth of study. And it has the rest of the higher education world watching to […]
Pakistan is a volatile country in a turbulent part of the world. Its nuclear weapons have been passed, like batons in a relay race, from military dictator to civilian despot and back again. Now, education could be the key factor standing between Pakistan and nuclear annihilation, believes the current administration. So the government, which came […]
When the University of Nottingham opened its campus in Ningbo, China in 2005, it was hailed as a little piece of England in a foreign field, with its British curriculum, English-only tutorials and replica of the Nottingham campus tower, complete with chiming bells. Unlike other Sino-British university collaborations, Ningbo, or UNNC as it is known […]
Russia is no longer a world leader in science and intellectual thinking, according to a new report that details a shocking decline in its research output. The Global Research Report on Russia, by Thomson Reuters, reveals that the countrys annual research output has fallen from 29,000 papers in 1994 to 27,600 in 2008. The decline […]
With the incumbent Labour party trailing in the opinion polls, experiencing severe demoralisation, the opposition Conservative (Tory) party is set to sweep the general election scheduled for June this year. Against this backdrop, in early March, shadow schools minister Michael Gove spelt out his partys wide-ranging plans for a radical overhaul of the curriculum and […]
India is poised at a very critical point in time and history, when we need to analyse whether we are moving in the right direction, and if not, why not. There is far too much moral and ethical decay in our society and even though the world is gradually emerging from the recent economic turmoil, […]
This letter is being written on a red-letter day in the history of Indian education. Today (April 1), the Right of Children to Free & Compulsory Education Act (2009), more popularly known as the RTE Act, which makes it obligatory for the State (Central and/or state and local governments) to enrol free-of-charge, every child between […]
Mumbai-based marketing communications consultant, career strategist and author Pushpendra Mehta, has transformed into an online media entrepreneur with the promotion of VCherish.com, an e-publishing website for and by the youth of India. VCherish.com offers a forum and soundboard for creative minds to network globally, get their writing published and get paid for it, says Mehta.VCherish.com, […]
An engineer by profession and Punes ‘railway man by popular reputation, Dr. Ravi Joshi has combined his skills and knowledge of mechanical and electrical engineering to build one of the biggest and most ‘active railway museums in the country. The Joshi Museum of Miniature Railways in Kothrud, suburban Pune, is served by a huge platform […]
Although the silver jubilee celebrations of the Indira Gandhi National Open University (estb.1985) were dutifully inaugurated in Delhi on November 19 last year, there seems little awareness or pride in the unique achievements of the world’s largest distance education varsity. Autar Nehru & Summiya Yasmeen report
A historic silver jubilee anniversary — a landmark in the […]
In this column I intend to raise a few issues which will affect our education system in the future, as the Indian economy meshes with the phenomenon of globalisation. Its unfortunate that the countrys educators arent stepping forward to speak up on such vital issues. This article is meant to make them get engaged!The Indian […]
Inaugurating the third emerging directions in Global Education (EDGE) 2010 conference in New Delhi on March 4, Union HRD minister Kapil Sibal stressed the need for giving freedom to universities and education institutions to develop capability, collaborate globally, and find solutions to global problems. Education through global collaboration can provide solutions to global problems. But […]
The regularity with which violent clashes are breaking out between north and south Indian students on the campuses of Tamil Nadus private deemed universities in particular, is beginning to alarm the academic community in this southern state which prides itself for its liberal academic traditions. The main theatres of these often bloody clashes are the […]
A government resolution (GR) of the Maharashtra government dated March 4, prohibiting private unaided schools across the state from raising tuition fees without permission from the deputy director of education and/or school Parent-Teacher Associations, has created a major rift between private school managements and parents representative bodies. The managements of private schools are insistent upon […]
A larger revolution than even in the telecom sector awaits us, commented Kapil Sibal, Union human resource development (HRD) minister, hailing clearance of the Foreign Educational Institutions (Regulation of Entry and Operations, Maintenance of Quality and Prevention of Commercialisation) Bill, 2009, by the Union cabinet on March 15. The Bill, first introduced in the Rajya […]
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