Educators working with young children have one of the most rewarding and difficult jobs. Numerous research studies have shown that the first five years are the most important in a child’s development, with eighty-five per cent of brain development occurring during this time years. Providing responsive, nurturing, and stimulating experiences at this stage motivates children […]
Dr. Archana Mantri, Vice- chancellor, Chitkara university, Punjab
To build a successful career, you need to stand apart from your peers. The World is eager to embrace those who can think out of the box and innovate with quick solutions to improve human lives. Academic grades certainly help to provide a kick-start to your career, but […]
Prof. (Dr.) Upasana Mahanta Dean, Admissions and Outreach O.P. Jindal Global University
Like it or not, the pandemic has forced us to look at the world from new prisms as it turns our conventional wisdom of dealing with diseases upside down. At the time the world came to know of Sars-Cov-2 last year, a large number […]
More than one in three of India’s Central universities is without a permanent vice-chancellor, raising concerns about growing political interference in appointments and flagging questions about the planned transformation of the country’s higher education system. At least 21 of the 54 Central institutions — which are funded by the national government — do […]
Ryan Pinto is CEO of the Ryan International Group of Institutions (RIGI) comprising 140 K-12 schools with 270,000 students countrywide.
Degree of satisfaction with Ryan schools’ switch to online learning. Back in December 2019, a review of the international pandemic situation prompted us to prepare an academic continuity plan for […]
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
Niall Ferguson
Allen lane
Rs.770 Pages 476
Suraj Kumar Thube (The Book Review)
Niall Ferguson has a penchant for writing sweeping histories. Over the years, he has managed to cast his spell over a wide audience through what can broadly be called ‘popular history’. From empires and money to global leadership, Ferguson […]
Education is the most powerful weapon which can be used to change the world and our Chairman, Dr. Deepak Madhok has left no stone unturned to unlock the golden door of success through education for his students. Sunbeam…Established by great visionaries Dr. Amrit Lal Ishrat and Mrs. Deesh Ishrat Madhok, in 1972 has grown into […]
Shukla Bose is the promoter-director of the Bengaluru-based Parikrma Humanity Foundation (PHF, estb.2003) which has promoted four free-of-charge K-12 schools and one junior college with an aggregate enrolment of 1,800 slum children mentored by 200 teachers.
Most Parikrma children don’t have access to digital gadgets and Internet connectivity. How have […]
An estimated 12,000 private unaided schools in Tamil Nadu were given the green light to collect 85 percent of annual fees payable for the academic year 2021-22 by the Madras high court on July 30.
The court’s order was issued with qualifications. The annual fee is payable in six equal instalments by parents who […]
Notwithstanding a large shadow cast by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) which after probing incidents of post-poll violence following re-election for a third term of the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) in May, has recommended a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe to the Calcutta high court, chief minister Mamata Banerjee remains […]
Almost 15 months after the country’s 1.5 million schools including 450,000 private schools were ordered to shut down by the Central government on March 25, 2020 to check the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, several surveys and reports are highlighting the extensive damage done to children’s education in terms of learning loss and […]
Succumbing to intensifying pressure from parents demanding reduction of private school fees because of income and job losses suffered during the Covid-19 pandemic, the Maharashtra government is all set to slash fees payable in the new academic year 2021-22. On July 28, the state’s cabinet approved an ordinance to enforce a 15 percent […]
Vadodara. Service contracts of two junior resident doctors of the Gujarat Medical Education & Research Society’s Gotri Medical College were terminated, and five third-year medical students expelled from the hostel for allegedly ragging 60 second-year students who were forced to do 100 sit-up exercises.
“We have taken a serious view of the matter and […]
Guwahati, july 29. The Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati (IIT-G, estb.1994) has signed an agreement with Mizoram University to jointly develop academic programmes. The two institutions will also cooperate in pedagogy development and R&D activities, and promote exchange of students.
Under terms of the agreement, IIT-G and Mizoram U will encourage contact and […]
ON THE SUBJECT OF HARD-KNUCKLED industry tycoons who brazenly decline to discharge their IOUs, Ratan Tata (RT), currently chairman emeritus of the Tata Group, takes the prize. Several decades ago when the chairmanship of Tata Sons — holding company of the Tata Group — was up for grabs on the passing of the highly-respected J.R.D. […]
THE RETIREMENT WITH EFFECT FROM MAY 1 of Rahul Bajaj (RB) from his exalted position as chairman and chief executive of Bajaj Auto Ltd (BAL), marks the end of an era of combative, bare-knuckled, me-first capitalism in Indian industry. As founding editor of Business India and later Businessworld, your correspondent was well-acquainted with RB and […]
THE RETIREMENT WITH EFFECT FROM MAY 1 of Rahul Bajaj (RB) from his exalted position as chairman and chief executive of Bajaj Auto Ltd (BAL), marks the end of an era of combative, bare-knuckled, me-first capitalism in Indian industry. As founding editor of Business India and later Businessworld, your correspondent was well-acquainted with RB and […]
Vasudevan Pillai Headmaster, Government Tribal Lower Primary School, Munnar (Kerala)
Vasudevan Pillai is headmaster of the Government Tribal Lower Primary School, Edamalakkudy (Kerala), set deep within the forest reserves of Munnar district (pop.1.09 million). This class I-IV school hosts 67 students mentored by four teachers.
Unsurprisingly, your school lacks Internet connectivity. So how do you ensure your […]
Ganesh Prasad Principal, Sadguru High School, Chikmagalur
Ganesh Prasad is principal of the Sadguru High School, a government-aided private secondary school (classes VIII-X) sited in Basarikatte, a remote village in Karnataka’s Chikmagalur district. During the past year of pandemic-induced closure, the school’s eight teachers including Prasad regularly trekked 10 km through hilly forest terrain to reach […]
Shirley Pillai Principal, Powai English High School
Shirley Pillai is principal of the Powai English High School, Mumbai (PEHS, estb.1978), a Maharashtra state board-affiliated private unaided K-10 school, with an enrolment of 2,100 students.
To what extent have you maintained the learning continuity of PEHS children during the past 15 months of the pandemic?
Bageshree Kerkar Principal, Worli Seaface Mumbai Public English School
Bageshree Kerkar is principal of the local government Worli Seaface Mumbai Public English School (WSMPES, estb.2000) promoted by the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai. The class I-X WSMPES is the sole municipal school countrywide ranked in the Top 10 league table of government day schools in the […]
Bhupinder Gogia Principal, Sat Paul Mittal School, Ludhiana
Bhupinder Gogia is principal of the CISCE-affiliated Sat Paul Mittal School, Ludhiana (SPMS), ranked Punjab’s #1 co-ed day school in the EW India School Rankings 2020-21.
How satisfied are you with SPMS’ move to online learning over the past year?
Totally satisfied. SPMS was the first school in […]
Manju Rana is principal-cum-director of the CBSE-affiliated Seth Anandram Jaipuria School, Vasundhara (SAJS-V), ranked Ghaziabad’s #1 co-ed day school in the latest EW India School Rankings 2020-21.
Satisfaction with pandemic-driven adoption of online teaching-learning. As a Microsoft Showcase School, our teachers and students were already familiar with […]
Precariously employed German academics have forced the country’s research ministry to take down a video that argued that temporary academic contracts are good for the economy and prevent one generation “clogging up” scholarly positions.
The outpouring of online fury under the hashtag #IchbinHanna — named after a fictionalised junior researcher featured in the video […]
In the sort of formal ceremony beloved in this part of the world, VIPs posed on stage, holding shovels decorated with giant gold bows, to mark the launch of a University of Hong Kong (HKU) campus redevelopment project.
Until children reach the age of about 15 in China, education is free. So why is it that more than half of a typical family’s spending goes on it? The answer is coaching/ cramming classes: a financial burden so great that it is often said to […]
If all goes to plan, schools in Colombia (pop.50 million) will finally reopen over the next two weeks, with most children back by July 15. Better late than never. Schools in Mexico and Brazil resumed in-person teaching weeks earlier. By contrast, in Colombia children have borne one […]
BIG SHOCKS HAVE SOMETIMES CHANGED schooling for the better. The Second World War midwifed the Butler Act in Britain, which increased years of compulsory schooling and abolished fees still charged by many government schools. After Hurricane Katrina inundated New Orleans, officials there embarked on sweeping school reforms. Nine […]
Eminent historian and one of India’s most respected public intellectuals, Dr. Ramachandra Guha is the deeply knowledgeable biographer of Mahatma Gandhi on whom he has written two heavily researched and eminently readable biographies — Gandhi Before India (2013), and its sequel Gandhi: Years that Changed the World 1914-48 (2018). Prior to that, […]
The Age of Pandemics 1817-1920: how they shaped india & the world
Chinmay Tumbe
HarperCollins
Rs.318; Pages 292
The novel Coronavirus, aka Covid-19 pandemic which originated in neighbouring People’s Republic of China in November 2019, is still spreading contagion and death nationwide — and around the world.
In India, the national response has experienced play out of […]
The sustained preference for study abroad is due to the variety of electives, degree options, specialisations, better research platforms and diverse pedagogies that universities abroad offer, says Ramananda S.G.
As the pandemic continues to wreak havoc leaving uncertainty in its wake with travel restrictions by most countries firmly in place, Indian students are turning to twinning […]
S. Ajayakumar Principal, Kendriya Vidyalaya, Pattom
S. Ajayakumar (centre left) is principal of the CBSE-affiliated Central government-promoted Kendriya Vidyalaya, Pattom (Kerala), ranked India’s #1 government day school in the latest EW India School Rankings 2020-21. Currently, KVP has 4,500 students tutored by 117 teachers on its muster rolls.
Bharat & Neelam Malik Founder-directors, AryaGlobal Group of Schools
Bharat & Neelam Malik are promoter-directors of the Thane (Maharashtra)-based AryaGlobal Group of primary-secondary schools with an aggregate enrolment of 5,300 children. The group’s institutions include the Arya Gurukul School, Little Aryans Pre-K and St. Mary’s High, Kalyan. The latter is ranked India’s #1 budget private school […]
Kairav Sanghvi (12), a class VII student of Ahmedabad’s highly-ranked St. Kabir School, is among a growing league of promising practitioners of Karate, the mentally and physically demanding Japanese martial art. Last month (June), he was crowned e-Kata champion in the Under-14 category of the Ahmedabad-based International Shotokan Karate United (ISKU) online […]
Although she is yet only a class III student of the Presidium School, Delhi, Abhijita Gupt (8) is the author of two books. Her first published last September, was a prose and poetry volume titled Happiness All Around and her second, a non-fiction book We Will Surely Sustain was published in February this […]
Ashok Rudra General Secretary, West Bengal Trinamool Congress Primary Teachers’ Association
Ashok Rudra is assistant history teacher at the Narsinghbandh Harijan Free Primary School, Asansol, and general secretary of the West Bengal Trinamool Congress Primary Teachers’ Association (WBTMCPTA) which has a membership of 100,000.
Schools have been closed for the past 15 months to check the spread […]
Razia Beebi T.A is principal of the fully-residential, Central- government promoted Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Alleppey (estb.1992) which has 486 rural students mentored by 25 teachers on its muster rolls.
Degree of satisfaction with forced switch to e-learning. The Covid-19 pandemic has affected education in unprecedented ways. […]
Ritu Sharma is principal of DPS, Kamptee Road, since 2019. This CBSE-affiliated co-ed K-12 school has 3,422 students and 115 teachers on its muster rolls.
How satisfied are you with your school’s switch to the online mode of learning?
With the pandemic showing no signs of abating, I’m glad […]
Sachin Vats Founder, Gurukul The School, Ghaziabad
Sachin Vats is founder-director of CBSE-affiliated Gurukul The School, Ghaziabad which has 2,055 students and 162 teachers on its muster rolls.
Degree of satisfaction with the school’s switch to e-learning. The pandemic resulted in closure of schools, but our learning never stopped. I am very satisfied with the swift […]
Sandeep Goenka Chairman, C.P. Goenka Group of Institutions, Mumbai
Sandeep Goenka is promoter-director of the C.P. Goenka Group of education institutions (CP Goenka and Swami Vivekanand International schools) comprising eight preschools and CISCE/CBSE/Cambridge/IB schools in Mumbai and Pune with a total of 18,000 students mentored by 2,000 teachers.
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