Against the backdrop of Indian engineering education set to experience a revival and overdue contemporisation of curriculums, EducationWorld presents its EW India Private Engineering Institutes Rankings 2023-24, to enable higher secondary school-leavers to pick and choose the most aptitudinally suitable private colleges for undergrad engineering education , writes Summiya Yasmeen
There’s good news for aspiring engineering […]
STTAR Global School Education Conference 2023 is a one-of-its-kind forum that brings together all important stakeholders from the global education fraternity to re-imagine current ecosystems, ideate future trends, and foster exchange of best practices. The theme of the conference is ‘Education For A Sustainable Future’ and the agenda is to design real workable solutions and […]
Educators at NIES, DPS Gurgaon
The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 in its introduction states that ‘education is fundamental for achieving full human potential, developing an equitable and just society, and promoting national development’. The tools for reinventing curriculums and pedagogies in schools aim to be holistic, integrated, enjoyable and engaging.
Delhi Public School, Sec […]
An estimated 894 Arts, Science and Commerce (ASC) undergraduate colleges have been conferred autonomous status by the University Grants Commission. They have full freedom to introduce new courses and draw up their own syllabuses and curriculums
Under s.3 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956, UGC has the discretionary power to confer academic and administrative autonomy […]
Although several newspapers and magazines publish league tables ranking colleges and universities, these are general news publications with peripheral interest in education. Therefore the annual EWIHER, first introduced in 2013, are the best and most reliable rankings available to parents and school-leaving students, writes Dilip Thakore
Grading and ranking higher education institutions has come under a […]
Although the total scores of several non-autonomous Arts, Science and Commerce colleges exceed those of colleges granted autonomy, for mysterious reasons they have not been awarded autonomous status
St. Stephen’s, Delhi principal John Varghese (centre & inset): system stability musings
No one can blame readers for experiencing a sense of deja vu when they peruse […]
The small minority of 188 government colleges who have qualified for autonomous status have a special place of honour within the national higher education system
GDWC, Hyderabad’s Dr. Padmavathi: leapfrog to India #2
According to the latest All India Survey of Higher Education (AISHE) 2020-21 released by the Union education ministry on January 29, […]
That India is ranked #80 out of 150 countries on the Berlin-based Transparency International’s Corruption Index 2022, well below Botswana, Chile, Taiwan and Cabo Verde, doesn’t seem to bother India’s politicians and middle class — “we are like that only” — who love to proclaim India’s greatness from every available roof-top. Yet for man’s sheer […]
All of India has gone gaga over two Indian productions — knockout song Naatu Naatu from the blockbuster hit RRR and documentary short film The Elephant Whisperers — winning top honours at the 95th Oscar Academy Awards held recently in Los Angeles. However, it’s pertinent to note that but for OTT (over-the-top) major Netflix co-producing […]
There’s something seriously wrong with the heads of the top brass in Central government agencies such as the CBI, Enforcement Directorate and Income Tax Department, who summon and question citizens for eight-ten hours at a stretch to unearth alleged suspected crimes and misdemeanours.
Take the case of K. Kavitha, MP and daughter of Telangana chief minister […]
Frequent disruption of the business of Parliament is giving India a bad image abroad and perhaps worse, domestically. For instance at the time of writing this editorial, in the Budget session of Parliament during which the Union Budget 2023-24 was presented the expenditure priorities of the Rs.45 lakh crore budget of the Central government in […]
The resignation of bhushan Patwardhan, executive committee chairperson of the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC, estb.1994), on March 5 has opened up a can of worms and aroused fears relating to smooth implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. In his resignation letter to University Grants Commission chairman M. Jagadesh Kumar, Patwardhan alleged […]
Enlightening comment
As much as your cover story ‘National Curriculum Framework (NCF) for School Education: Great Expectations’ (EW March) highlights the urgent need for NCF to standardise the quality of school education countrywide, it also exposes the confusion that most educators have about NCF, its purpose and implementation.
Be that as it may, I was […]
“The country is filled with self-confidence, foreign countries as well as foreign experts are optimistic about India. In the middle of all this, talk of pessimism, attempts to degrade India, lower the willpower of the people is taking place. It’s like the tradition of putting a kala tika to ward off evil.”
Prime minister Narendra Modi […]
Autar Nehru (Delhi)
The resignation of manish Sisodia, deputy chief minister and education minister of the Delhi state government, on February 28 following his arrest by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the Delhi Excise Policy (2021-22) liquor licensing ‘scam’, is unlikely to prove a set-back to the Delhi school education model that has played […]
Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
At a time when kolkata’s dailies were headlining the Hamburg-based Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) — one of UNESCO’s key education-related institutes and the only organisational unit in the UN family that holds a global mandate for lifelong learning — expressing interest in West Bengal’s education system, smaller news items disclosed that the […]
Nitish Kashyap (Mumbai)
The suicide of darshan solanki, a first year B.Tech student at the top-ranked Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B, estb.1958) on February 12, has cast a spotlight on the issue of student suicides, especially students admitted under the Central government’s reservations policy.
Under this affirmative action policy, 22.5 percent of seats in all 23 […]
Shivani Chaturvedi (Chennai)
In its third budget presented to the legislative assembly and the public on March 20, the state’s Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) government has increased the outlay for education in 2023-24 to Rs.40,299 crore, 9 percent higher than the previous year and 1.62 percent of GSDP (gross state domestic product).
This higher outlay for education […]
Reshma Ravishanker (Bengaluru)
After a three-month legal drama which went right up to the Supreme Court, the Karnataka Secondary Examination and Assessment Board (KSEAB) commenced ‘annual assessments’ on March 27 for 1.9 million class V and VIII students in 56,157 KSEAB-affiliated schools statewide.
Since December 13 last year, when the state’s education ministry issued a circular announcing […]
Assam
Question paper leakage row
Guwahati, march 14.
Twenty-two people including teachers and students have been detained for questioning about leakage of a general science question paper of the class X state board examination which led to cancellation of the exam.
Addressing media personnel, education minister Ranoj Pegu, however denied the involvement of any teachers. “There is […]
NIFCO-NSDC initiative
Delhi, march 29. The Yokosuka City (Japan)-based NIFCO (Nippon Industrial Fastener Corporation) Inc, a global manufacturing company and an IoT (Internet of Things) solutions provider with battery-less devices, and the Delhi-based NSDC (National Skills Development Corporation) International, a company engaged in building global job opportunities for Indians, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
Under the […]
I could not be Hindu: The story of a Dalit in the RSS
Bhanwar Meghwanshi
Navayana Publishing
Rs.399 Pages 240
The author shares his experience with the RSS and the reasons why he quit this organisation, the ideological mentor of the BJP, which rules at the Centre
This is an autobiography in which the author shares his […]
India’s china war
Neville Maxwell
Natraj Publishing
Rs.595 Pages 510
This book first published in 1970 was banned in India by Indira Gandhi and the dynasty for 40 years. An updated version was reprinted in 2015
Although liberals put up a stout defence, no politician’s star has fallen from the zenith of his glory to near rock-bottom […]
A large number of media publications — dailies and periodicals — rate and rank education institutions under several parameters and in various categories. Yet all of them are either general interest publications or business magazines which regard this exercise primarily as an annual revenue generation initiative.
But EducationWorld is a focused education news and features magazine […]
-Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)
Mumbai-based coding enthusiast Yuvvan Talreja (16) was declared Top 10 National Winner for innovating an air pollution detection device, by an eminent jury at the grand finale of the inaugural edition of Vivo Ignite Science and Innovation competition staged in Delhi, on February 8. As a Top 10 National Winner — ranked #4 […]
-Somasekhar Mulugu (Hyderabad)
A teenager from a BPL (below poverty line) household in Hyderabad, Preethi Kongara is making waves in an elite sport — sailing. In February, the 19-year-old qualified for the forthcoming Asian Games 2023 — scheduled to be held in Hangzhou (China) in September — in the mixed 470 class category. To ready herself, […]
Liberal arts students learn to use imagination, experiences and sensitivity to create new knowledge, learn to empathise to understand human sensitivities, and learn for the joy of learning writes Sanjay Padode
The industrial age was dominated by concepts of division of labour and specialisation. This was the most efficient strategy for achieving scale and efficiency in […]
Transfer sword over government school teachers
The solution to this old, entrenched problem is in school-based recruitment. Private schools enjoy this freedom. Why can’t it work for government schools? The reasons are many…
Entering the foyer of a rural government school, I noticed a list painted on the wall. It displayed the names of eight teachers. Their qualifications, dates of joining, subjects […]