Eleven-year-old Agastya Jaiswal set a record as the youngest student to clear the class XII school-leaving exam of the Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education with an average score of 63 percent. Three years ago, Hyderabad-based Agastya successfully completed the state’s class X board exam with a 7.5 grade point average. This wunderkind is just […]
The deep divide between the quality of textbooks prescribed by elite schools affiliated with pan-India and offshore exam boards such as CISCE, CBSE, CIE (UK) and IB (Geneva) and the slapdash and sub-standard textbooks imposed upon the majority of hapless children enrolled in schools affiliated with the 31 state exam boards, is wrecking K-12 education […]
Writing in hind swaraj in 1909, mahatma Gandhi cited Prof. Aldous Huxley’s definition of education: “That man I think has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will and does with ease and pleasure all the work that as a mechanism it […]
Ranked Coimbatore’s #1 co-ed day school in the EducationWorld India School Rankings 2016-17, in the short span of 12 years YBPS (estb. 2005) has established an excellent nationwide reputation for delivering holistic education – Hemalatha Raghupathi
Sited on a 6.6-acre campus encircled by green forest in North Coimbatore’s suburb of Thudiyalur, the K-12 Yuvabharathi Public School […]
Ranked #38 in the UK and among the Top 350 universities worldwide by Times Higher Education, Bangor University has an enrolment of 11,000 students and 650 faculty
Founded in 1884, over the past 133 years Bangor University (BU) has built an enviable reputation for academic and research excellence. Sited in the eponymous city of North […]
When Omar returned home after 40 days in a boot camp run by Islamic State, it was obvious something had snapped. Once a quiet boy and a fan of SpongeBob SquarePants cartoons, 12-year-old Omar had become aggressive. He told his mother to stop wearing make-up, refused to greet her female friends and became angry when […]
The initiative of the vintage but continuously parochialised University of Mumbai (MU, estb. 1857) to replace manual assessment of students’ examination papers with an online evaluation system has come a cropper with technological disruptions and tedious processes delaying results for most of the university’s undergrad and postgraduate students. The delay has impacted 425,000 students who […]
Founded in 1972 as the Spastics Society of India and rechristened ADAPT (Able Disabled All People Together) in 2007, this pioneer special needs education NGO has transformed into the country’s foremost advocate of inclusive education for children and youth with disabilities
Four decades since its first education-cum-therapy centre opened its doors to three special needs children […]
Hitherto unknown and unappreciated, think tanks are thriving in India with many coming of age. In the latest (2016) annual survey of the world’s top think tanks conducted by the University of Pennsylvania under its Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program, nine Indian think tanks are ranked among the Top 175 globally – Indranil Banerjie
Academics and students are warning of a major crisis in Venezuelan higher education as the country slips deeper into political chaos. Problems of inadequate funding, low salaries and limited access to journals are fuelling a brain drain of scholars right across Latin America, according to recent reports. But sector leaders say that, at a time […]
I’d like to qualify as an aeronautical engineer. Please advise.
— John Rebello, Panjim
An aeronautical engineer designs, develops and tests aircraft, space vehicles and missiles by applying engineering principles and techniques. An aerospace engineer designs, develops, tests and helps produce commercial and military aircraft, missiles and spacecraft. There are only a few institutions in India […]
Smaller European countries such as the Netherlands and Asian city states like Singapore are among the world leaders in terms of high-quality education research, new data suggest.
According to bibliometric data from Elsevier’s Scopus database of scholarly publications, research outputs from the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland are all cited 50 percent more than the average world […]
International academics and university leaders in Australia will now be eligible for four-year visas with a pathway to permanent residency under amendments to the government’s immigration reforms. In April, Australia’s prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, announced that a four-year visa programme for temporary foreign workers would be scrapped and replaced by a more restrictive system issuing […]
The scale of student misconduct in Ukraine has been exposed by a survey of undergraduates that revealed nearly half have paid bribes and almost all admitted to cheating in exams and plagiarism. Of 600 students surveyed at public universities in Lviv — a city in the west of Ukraine seen as relatively uncorrupt — 48 […]
When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics, Milan Vaishnav, Harper Collins Publishers; Rs.1,833,
Pages 410
At a time when Bahubali of a cinematic kind is the buzzword in India, there’s another timely intervention on the topic, but of a political kind. Milan Vaishnav’s new book claims to be the first comprehensive study of the nexus […]
Ratan Luth, Chairman, Fravashi Schools, Nashik shares his eduleader bytes.
Where would you place education on your national list of priorities?
Education should be the nation’s top priority as implementation of every policy is dependent on it.
How best to upgrade government schools?
It’s difficult but not impossible. The day every politician and bureaucrat’s child starts […]
It’s regrettable but true that post-independence India’s academics and intellectuals have no tradition of open debate and prefer to either side-step or bury inconvenient truths. Early this year Pustak Mahal, Delhi, published Nehru’s 97 Major Blunders — a scathing indictment of the rule (1947-64) of Jawaharlal Nehru as free India’s first prime minister — by […]
After the election of Donald Trump as US president in November, art student Usman Anwar painted a work he called “Freedom”, depicting an angel covering her eyes with her wings. Now he knows how she feels. A Pakistani with a student visa, he returned from the midwinter break at Adelphi University near New York the […]
“To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived — that is to have succeeded” — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 19th century US poet and essayist.
In today’s rapidly globalising world, the larger […]
Bringing out this August issue of EducationWorld was problematic because the undersigned was laid up in a hospital bed with pneumonia for the major part of the month. It took a herculean effort from our managing editor Summiya Yasmeen to marshal the EW team in Bangalore and across the country to complete this issue without […]
Crucial to ensuring hospitals and healthcare providers get paid quickly and seamlessly by insurance companies, medical coding professionals are in high demand – Odeal D’Souza
Medical coding is the process of translating information from medical records of patients — doctors’ notes, prescriptions, laboratory tests, procedures, and diagnoses — into standardised medical alphanumeric codes for billing third-party […]
Bangalore-based danseuse Vinaya Seshan (15) is making waves in the global dance circuit. The petite teen wowed judges at the recently concluded Dance World Cup 2017 staged in Offenburg, Germany, besting 300 finalists from 20 countries to win one gold and two bronze medals in the duet, hip-hop group and solo categories.
On May 5, the Mumbai-based Colgate Palmolive (India) Ltd – India’s largest dental care products company — launched a two-months scholarship offer to help children take small yet meaningful steps towards fulfilling their dreams. The company has partnered with the Bangalore-based Think and Learn Pvt. Ltd, which owns well-known K-12 learning app BYJU’s, to provide […]
In partnership with Hero MotoCorp (annual revenue (2015-16): Rs.31,000 crore), the Haryana Vishwakarma Skill University (HVSU, estb.2016) has launched a first-of-its-type industry-integrated three-year bachelor’s degree programme in automobile mechatronics and automotive manufacturing. The entrance exam for admission into the study programme is scheduled for August 12.
Addressing the media in Chandigarh on July 24, Raj Nehru, […]
Inordinate delay in undergraduate admissions to Tamil Nadu’s 22 government medical colleges, the state-managed Raja Muthiah Medical College (RMMC) of Annamalai University and 10 private medical colleges is causing great stress and anxiety to 32,570 students who qualified for admission into these colleges in the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) UG 2017 — decreed as the […]
The desperate moves that politicians across the country — witness the U-turn of Janata Dal (U) supremo Nitish Kumar in Bihar — make to acquire and retain power, especially in India’s 29 states and seven Union Territories, hit children the hardest. With the BJP, which rules at the Centre, reportedly winning friends and influencing people […]
Although ab initio since EducationWorld was launched on the eve of the new millennium, your editors have been steadfast on the issue of raising the national (Centre plus states) outlay on public education to 6 percent of GDP as recommended by the high-powered Kothari Commission way back in 1966, and reiterated by the T.S.R. Subramanian […]
I appreciate your out-of-box analysis of the issue of fees regulation of private schools (EW July).
You made it abundantly clear that the government has no role to play in fixing fees of private independent schools, and that middle class parents are inviting trouble by asking for government intervention. Parents need to understand that quality education […]
An explosive situation is building up on the Sino-Indian border in the north-east. If not handled with tact and diplomacy, it could precipitate another (after 1962) Sino-Indian border war which will destabilise the Indian economy and expose the vulnerabilities of the Indian Army. Although invested with courage, determination and a esprit de corps, the latter […]
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