So much has transpired on the national and international stages since the presentation of the Union Budget 2011-12 to Parliament on February 28, that the Central government’s latest annual statement of revenue mobilisation and deployment seems history. Yet the truth is that Budget 2011-12 was rolled out just over a month ago with much unwarranted […]
Like Rip Van Winkle, after being in deep slumber for more than half a century, mandarins of the Union human resource development (HRD) ministry, Planning Commission and PMO (prime ministers office) have suddenly woken up to the socio-economic value of vocational education and training (VET). Mysteriously, the fact that almost every plumber, carp-enter, motor mechanic […]
Higher education in the southern state of Karnataka (pop. 59 million) is in deep crisis. Over the past few months the states 18 government-controlled universities have been hit by a series of scandals — massive fiddling with written exam papers at the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences; corruption in recruiting non-teaching staff at the […]
“There is no better economic policy than one that produces more graduates… Thats why reforming education is the responsibility of every American, every parent, every teacher, every business leader, every public official, and every student.”
US President Barack Obama addressing students at the TechBoston Academy, Boston (March 8)
“Vice chancellors are appointed at the instance […]
Shrinivas V. Dempo, chairman of the Goa-based Dempo Group of companies (estb.1941), has endowed $3 million (Rs.13.5 crore) for a professional chair at the Tepper School of Business of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA. The Vasantrao Dempo Reflective Chair will be occupied by a business professor nominated by the Tepper School of Business, and support […]
During the period 1970-2000 it was quite common to hear teachers, community workers, and government officials complain that poor and uneducated parents didnt attach much value to educating their children. The common lament was that they were unwilling to send children to school even if education was provided free of charge together with free books, […]
Ranked among America’s top public research universities, some CSU Masters programmes are being offered in India through the Mysore-based American Institute of Distance LearningFounded in 1870 as the Colorado Agricultural College, the Fort Collins-based Colorado State University (CSU) has attained the status of a highly respected research varsity. In its 2010 league table of Americas […]
Intensive research in this new frontier science has created advanced awareness of cures for inherited and durable diseases. Unsurprisingly theres growing demand for genetics professionalsOver a decade ago, Dolly, the worlds most famous sheep was cloned successfully — a breakthrough which brought the science of genetics to the forefront of global consciousness. Since then, universities […]
Dr. D. Udaya Kumar (32), assistant professor in the department of design at IIT-Guwahati, is the designer of the new symbol for the Indian Rupee which has won widespread praise in India and abroad for simplicity and imagination.Newspeg. Udaya Kumars representative symbol for the rupee was adjudged the best in a national contest sponsored by […]
Madan Padaki is the co-founder and chief executive of the Bangalore-based MeritTrac Services Pvt. Ltd (estb. 2000) — a skills assessments company. An engineering graduate of Mysore University, Padaki began his career with Wipro in 1995 and later served with Infosys and BFL Software (now Mphasis). In August 2000, he co-promoted MeritTrac with Murlidhar S. […]
Struggling with relentless budget cuts, Americas universities have reached the last resort: getting rid of long-protected tenured faculty whose job security was once ironclad. But even in these dire times, the staff is not being sacked. Instead, they are being offered incentives of up to two years pay to retire early — and hundreds are […]
Several Middle Eastern countries such as Iraq and Yemen are unlikely to achieve the education-for-all Millennium Development Goals by 2015 because of insecurity and conflict, according to a new report of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco).The education-for-all goals were endorsed by over 160 countries in 2000. But according to Kevin Watkins, director […]
Leading Belarusian academics are calling for urgent reform of higher education in the country amid international concern about treatment of students and scholars who opposed the recent re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko. Lukashenko has been in power in the former Soviet state for 16 years and reportedly won 80 percent of the vote in Decembers […]
Girls can attend separate schools provided students and teachers wear the hijab, and the curriculum and education environment are in keeping with religious and cultural values, Taliban commanders have recently informed elders in southern Afghanistan. The Taliban have told us that they are not against schools for girls, says Haji Nazar Mohammad, a tribal elder […]
The need for teachers and parents to be well-read so they can provide essential supplementary education to children has become more pressing than ever before. EducationWorld asked an eclectic mix of educationists, teacher trainers and school principals across the country to recommend vacation reading lists for teachers and parents – Summiya Yasmeen
Chasing a fantasy to cross the worlds harshest desert in the company of nomadic bedouins, Yoginder Sikand discovers that an entire way of life built on a symbiotic relationship between the Sahara and its people has been transformedThe overladen omnibus from Cairo chugged down a clogged thoroughfare, and inched across a bridge over the Nile. […]
Baishali Mukherjee Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu is all set to take significant steps towards youth empowerment and also implement education reforms in 2025 .....Read More
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