– Mukesh Sharma, Chairman and Director, Prometheus School, Noida
Technology is disrupting the very way we live and the transformation is so rapid and pervasive that it has touched every sphere of life. Technology is swiftly making people intensive jobs and industries redundant and the entire ecosystem is changing and evolving. As educators, we often […]
Education is an equaliser that helps an individual soar high; it also propels a country’s development by reducing its unemployment rate and increasing the GDP growth. Education is widely regarded as the mainstay of national development. Quality education can eradicate major roadblocks to development by equipping […]
– Mukesh Sharma, Chairman and Director, Prometheus School, Noida
What if we lived in a world where every person, regardless of their age and background, was dedicated to making this world a better place? Call it utopian if you will, but someone has to think about it and it must start somewhere, shouldn’t it?
Arya Gurukul, Nandivali, the best CBSE board school in Kalyan, opened its gates for the new academic session and welcomed its students back to school after a gap of more than two years
In the last two years, the school has evolved its teaching techniques and excellently adapted online methods. Currently, with students physically attending school, […]
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Founded in 1953 by noted social worker Dr. Satish Bose, Barrackpore Rastraguru Surendranath College (West Bengal) is a UGC-registered and 4th […]
The Interactive Flat Panel (Interactive Display, Interactive Whiteboard or SmartBoard) is a technology that assists both teachers and students by providing them with an interactive and collaborative learning environment.
Interactive Flat Panel is a great tool that offers many collaboration opportunities with new technology that allows for better learning. It has upgraded whiteboard features and cloud […]
Vedant Thadani, an alum of Goldsmiths College, University of London and works with Muskan Productions, Delhi
The crisis in Ukraine has alerted many Indians to the plight of their fellow countrymen who were stranded in that country. The overwhelming majority of them were medical students who had left India to pursue undergrad degrees. Ukraine isn’t […]
Afterlives is the latest book from Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Nobel laureate for literature, 2021. His novels predominantly focus on the themes of displacement, colonisation, migration, identity and slavery. In an essay published in 2004, Gurnah explains that his own hardships, anxiety, state terror and humiliation, as […]
A new cold war: Henry Kissinger & the rise of china Edited by Sanjay Barua & Rahul Sharma harper collins Rs.799 Pages 295
-Dilip Thakore
February 2022 marks the 50th anniversary of a historic meeting in Beijing, China, between US President Richard Nixon and China’s Chairman Mao Zedong in 1972, which future historians may well mark as […]
Unsurprisingly, the maiden public issue of the public sector Life Insurance Corporation of India (estb.1956), which is likely to be launched within the next few months, is generating heated excitement in the stock market and within India’s fast expanding investors’ community. The cash-strapped Union government, the sole owner of the corporation, is set to offer […]
Commendable facts checking by several online news portals, including Quint have refuted social media reports that the BJP won 165 of its 255 seats in the recently concluded Uttar Pradesh legislative election by less than 2,000 votes, and that the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) — a political party promoted by the Hyderabad-based Asaduddin Owaisi […]
Several huge ads featured on March 8 in almost all dailies including the pink papers in remembrance of the late Aditya Vikram Birla (1943-95), proclaimed the judges, juries and awardees of the 22nd Aditya Birla Scholarship Programme.
In the early years of the new millennium, this struggling publication was on the favoured list of Industry House, […]
Dr. Sriparna Pathak Associate Professor and Director Centre for Northeast Asian Studies Jindal School of International Affairs O.P. Jindal Global Univers
Russia’s actions in Ukraine have caused a serious legitimacy crisis to almost all approaches and institutions of Post-World War II international politics. As the world continues watching with horror the events unfolding in […]
The annual EW rankings deliberately exclude IITs and NITs from our league tables to enable 98 percent of students who don’t make it into these routinely top-ranked government institutes to choose the most suitable among India’s 3,415 private engineering colleges, writes Summiya Yasmeen
Introduced in 2013, the annual EducationWorld pan-India engineering college rankings league tables are […]
Although several colleges affiliated with Delhi University are the most popular and preferred countrywide and eminently eligible, they haven’t been conferred autonomous status and are tied to the apron strings of DU
St. Stephen’s, Delhi principal John Varghese
It’s a measure of the bewilderingly complex and irrational higher education regulatory system devised by post-independence India’s […]
At the Hero Asian Champions Tournament 2021 in Dhaka last December, India’s national men’s hockey team goalie Naib Subedar Suraj Karkera (26) was conferred the ‘best goalkeeper’ award after Team India beat arch-rivals Pakistan 4-3 to win the bronze medal.
A boy wonder who took naturally to field hockey when he was only nine, […]
Delhi-based computer science enthusiast and young author Krish Mittal (17) entered the International Book of Records last November (2021) for becoming the ‘youngest writer of an educational book’ Let’s learn C — self-published on Amazon in September 2020.
That’s not all. Earlier in the summer of the pandemic year 2020, this class XII student […]
There’s no change in the top echelons of India’s best autonomous ASC colleges promoted by state governments. Although they are sufficiently qualified to be awarded autonomous status, they are totally ignored by media
GSC, Bengaluru’s Chandragi (centre left)
A major reform proposed in the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 is a mandate to India’s 45,000 […]
To inspire, aid and enable class XII students to select the most suitable undergrad colleges, since 2018 EducationWorld has been rating India’s Top 500 Arts, Science and Commerce, and Engineering colleges on several critical parameters of education excellence and ranking them in separate categories, writes Dilip Thakore
Now that the novel Coronavirus pandemic which forced the […]
BJP’s election strategy of mixing ‘faith’ with ‘food’ paid rich dividends. Its hindutva ideology combined with welfare initiatives backed by efficient last mile delivery swelled the BJP tide writes Rasheed Kidwai
The outcome of five recently concluded state legislative assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur will have a major impact on the […]
CEO for month programme Mumbai, March 22. The Bengaluru-based Adecco Group (India), a workforce solutions company, invites applications for its ‘CEO for One Month’ mentorship programme for the year 2022. Under this initiative, currently in its seventh year, the India winner gets an opportunity to be mentored by Vidya Sagar Gannamani, chairman and managing director […]
Meghalaya: Salary arrears assurance Shillong, March 3. Education minister Lahkmen Rymbui assured 12,451 teachers employed in Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan — the Centre’s flagship programme for universalisation of elementary education — schools statewide that their pending dues of the past two months will be paid soon.
This assurance was given in response to protest marches staged […]
“All of us who believe in @INCIndia are hurting from the results of the recent assembly elections. It is time to reaffirm the idea of India that the Congress has stood for and the positive agenda it offers the nation – and to reform our organisational leadership in a manner that will reignite those ideas […]
The announcement by the University Grants Commission (UGC) of the Central Universities Entrance Test (CUET) as mandatory for admission into all undergraduate programmes of the country’s 45 highly-prized Central universities from the start of this academic year 2022-23, has provoked strong opposition in Tamil Nadu (pop.79 million). The state’s political class across the […]
With all schools in the state reopening from February 16 after a 23-month lockdown, classrooms across Bengal are coming to life. But judging by the reports published in local vernacular dailies, a large number of benches in the state’s 50,000 government primary schools are empty. During the pandemic lockdown, with a great majority […]
The high cost of the prolonged pandemic-induced 82-week schools closure in India — the most prolonged of any major country worldwide — is becoming manifest. Even though education activists have been ringing alarm bells that over the past two years several thousands of children have dropped out of the education system and have […]
The Maharashtra education ministry’s drive to match government and government-aided schools’ student enrolments with their UID (unique identification number) aka Aadhaar card registrations, has opened a Pandora’s box. Of the 2.1 million students enroled on the ministry’s online portal, SARAL, 1.9 million have fake Aadhaar cards while another 2.9 million have been enroled […]
The out-of-the-blue announcement of a Central Universities Entrance Test (CUET) for admission into undergraduate programmes of all 45 Central government universities from the start of this academic year (2022-23), has sparked a nationwide debate on its impact on higher secondary school education, the future of school examination boards and board exams, homogenisation of K-12 education […]
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Kudos for a well-researched, timely and optimistic cover story ‘10 post-pandemic recovery solutions’ (EW March). These days all we read are stories of gloom and doom and how children will take decades to recover from the learning loss suffered during the world’s longest schools lockdown.
Russia’s invasion of the independent Republic of Ukraine on February 24 and the substantial damage to lives and property that the inconclusive 30-day war has caused in the heavily outgunned and outnumbered latter country, have been universally condemned. Quite rightly, because Russia and particularly its autocratic President Vladimir Putin mounted the largest land offensive since […]
The BJP’s 4-1 sweep of the five state legislative assembly elections held in February-March has attracted detailed reportage and analysis by respected media pundits and prophets. However, few, if any, have provided a satisfactory explanation for the triumph of BJP in four of the five states which went to the hustings, especially the comprehensive re-election […]
Not a few academics and pundits tend to be derisive of education institution rankings. The main criticisms are that they are shallow and compare dissimilar institutions, and sample sizes are too small to provide an accurate assessment of the relative merits of education institutions, each of which is unique in its own right. Critics are […]
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Interpreting legislative assembly elections 2022
BJP’s election strategy of mixing ‘faith’ with ‘food’ paid rich dividends. Its hindutva ideology combined with welfare initiatives backed by efficient last mile delivery swelled the BJP tide writes Rasheed Kidwai
The outcome of five recently concluded state legislative assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur will have a major impact on the […]