EducationWorld August 2022

The Faded Glow

Sunil Raveendran, Academic Coordinator, Indus Altum International School, Belagavi, Karnataka

“What is that? Papa, How is that?
Why is that? And, where is that?”
Looking hopefully at me and holding my hand,
My six year old girl with a probing mind,
Awaiting a reply that would amaze her.

But I within my mind, worried and frustrated,
with […]

Ecobrick collection drive at Rustomjee Cambridge International School

Have you ever wondered what happens to the chocolate wrappers, milk packets or the packaging of our edible food items? These wrappers end up in bins, oceans and ultimately in the dumping grounds. Have you thought of resolving the issue of plastic menace? Here is where Keshav Shrushti foundation steps in. The foundation has come […]

Navrachana School: Nurturing mental health ambassadors

Dr.Jamila Firdaus, Head School Psychologist & Counselor, Navrachana School, Sama

It is rightly said ‘A healthy mind is a vehicle for happiness and wellbeing’. In the last six decades, Navrachana School has accorded high priority to holistic student development with emphasis on child psychology. In today’s rapidly evolving and dynamic world, mental health can be promoted through […]

DWPS Ajmer: Leading the digital revolution in education

-Pooja Rai Chauhan, Managing Director, Delhi World Public School, Ajmer

Featuring imposing architecture and empowered with academic excellence and scholastic and co-scholastic achievements, Delhi World Public School, Ajmer has risen in public esteem in a short span of four years.

We have a digital mindset and believe in experimentation. Time and again, it has been rightly proven […]

Bengal: Asian International School students score highest in CBSE 2022 from Howrah

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) results for classes 12 and 10 which were declared on July 22 witnessed West Bengal’s Howrah district toppers from Asian International School. Sofia Nandi (XII) and Abhranil Bhadra (X) secured the highest percentage from the school as well as topped the district in their respective examinations. Sofia scored […]

Why education should nurture moral citizens

– PS Subhash, Principal, SVKM’s Mukesh R Patel School, Shirpur

We live in a world where the safety and security of our youth are facing certain challenges. Knowingly or unknowingly, the society and the new equations of our social system are responsible for the chaos. Where are we lagging in? What do our children lack? What […]

Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya: Promoting service, heritage and enterprise

– Nishi Misra, Principal, Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya

Opening ceremony of Scindi Kanya Vidyalaya R to L: HH Maharaja Jiwajirao Scindia, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, President of India, HH Rajmata Vijaya Raje Scindia.

Inaugurated in 1956 by the late President Rajendra Prasad, Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya (SKV) was founded by Gwalior dynasty matriarch Rajmata Vijaya Raje Scindia […]

Innovation at its best-Initiatives at Sat Paul Mittal School

Continuous innovation to ensure the spark of creativity and creation within our students is our success mantra. At Sat Paul Mittal School, we have been demonstrating extraordinary capacity to break away from rote-learning, and adopt pedagogies which encourage development of students’ creative thinking, collaborative and problem-solving skills. Following are some initiatives:

Teacher-Student Connect Programme – […]

Vista International School: Preparing children to ‘learn for life’

– Mary Shanti Priya, Principal, Vista International School, Hyderabad

Teaching is a noble profession. No, let’s rephrase that: Teaching is a noble calling – one that requires dedication, commitment and untiring diligence. If one is even remotely connected to the world of education, be it as an educator, an administrator of an educational institute or […]

Emerald Heights students make school & country proud by bagging Ivy League offers

Emeralite Purab Seth will be attending Harvard University to pursue higher studies in Government and South Asian studies with a university grant worth USD 77,000 while Tanishk Gupta is all set for admission at the University of Pennsylvania with a scholarship worth USD 260,000 to study the intersection of Law, Technology and Business Management.

This […]

Leading the transformation of Indian K-12 education

– Saurabh Modi, Founder-Chairman, Neerja Modi School, Jaipur

National development hinges on the quality of education accessible to its citizens. Education is even more crucial for a country like India which is home to the largest youth population in the world. Indians have already started leading some of the most respected multinational companies such as […]

DPS Vadodara: Picking up pace in the post-pandemic era

One of the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic was the disruption of regular in-person classes due to which the teachers could not offer personal attention and guidance to the students. To compensate for this and to bridge the learning gaps, relentless efforts were put in by the teachers of Delhi Public School Vadodara by […]

DPS Harni: Achieving excellence on numerous fronts

With schools reopening earlier this year after the longest education lockdown of 82 weeks, the students of Delhi Public School Harni (Vadodara) have been enthusiastically participating in inter-school, state and national sports and co-curricular events. They have also won several laurels for the school in the last few months. Among them:

Model Youth Parliament

As a unique […]

Innovative novel: Tomb of Sand (Ret Samadhi)

The first Indian language translation novel awarded the Booker Prize (2022) is notable for its sweeping imagination and power of language, writes Alka Saraogi

Tomb of Sand (Ret Samadhi)
Geetanjali Shree
Rajkamal Prakashan
Rs.299
376 pp

The first Indian language translation to be awarded the Booker Prize 2022 and the fifth novel of Geetanjali Shree leaves […]

Tragic history: The Arabs: A History

The deep yearning for unity, justice and freedom of Arab people united by religion has invariably been thwarted in The Arabs: A History, writes Dilip Thakore

The Arabs: A History
Eugene Rogan
Penguin Random House
Rs.899
Pages 718

Although an estimated 7.6 million Indian citizens and people of Indian origin are employed throughout Middle East countries, especially […]

Power management lessons from Lanka

“All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” wrote 19th century English historian Lord Acton (1834-1902). Quite clearly, neighbouring Sri Lanka’s recently ousted president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, swept to highest office in 2019 with a massive majority, became power drunk. Three of his brothers were brazenly appointed prime minister, irrigation and finance minister; his […]

Independence day: Time for introspection

For sentient citizens with memory and/or knowledge of India’s unique freedom struggle led by Mahatma Gandhi, Nehru, Sardar Patel, Dr. Ambedkar and a galaxy of leaders invested with genuine idealism and integrity, the nation’s 75th Independence Day (August 15) is likely to be an occasion for sober introspection. To be sure, commemoration of the day […]

Letter from the Editor

It’s highly unlikely that you’ll encounter an individual as enthused by the surprisingly unsung exploits and initiatives of Barefoot College, Tilonia (Rajasthan) as your correspondent. During the past decade, I have written three cover features on this pioneer community college which has greened the desert landscape of Tilonia (pop.4,500) and a cluster of villages in […]

People

Exemplary municipal school leader: Sushma Pathare

-Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)

Pune-based Sushma Pathare is principal of the free-of-charge Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation English Medium School, Bopkhel (PCMC-EMS, estb. 2016) — one of 26 primary-secondary schools managed by the Mumbai-based Akanksha Foundation in private-public partnership with local governments. Affiliated with the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education, PCMC-EMS provides English-medium education to […]

Karun Tadepalli is the Hyderabad and Dallas, Texas (USA)-based CEO and co-founder of byteXL India

People

Skills-boosting edupreneur: Karun Tadepalli

-Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)

Karun Tadepalli is the Hyderabad and Dallas, Texas (USA)-based CEO and co-founder of byteXL India Pvt. Ltd (estb.2020, headcount: 125). The company has developed an edtech platform that offers second, third and final year engineering undergrads self-learning courseware and guided training programmes in emerging technologies (Devops, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, AI, ML, and […]

Needy Illiterate Children Education (NICE) School

People

Indefatigable orphan children’s champion: P. Purnachandra Rao

-Dilip Thakore (Bengaluru)

Needy Illiterate Children Education (NICE) School

An indefatigable champion of orphaned and marginalised children, P. Purnachandra Rao is the promoter (founder-secretary) of the Needy Illiterate Children Education (NICE) School (estb.2002). Sited in Mynampadu village (pop.5,900), an hour’s drive from Guntur (pop.800,000), NICE is a free-of-charge K-10 English-medium residential school affiliated with the […]

They said it

The BJP is a well-organised electoral juggernaut, it is ruthless in using state power to intimidate opponents… But a formidable opponent and repression often galvanize an Opposition, not make them comatose. But the Opposition is not held back by the power of the BJP. Its besetting sin is its own excruciating littleness.

-Pratap Bhanu Mehta, public […]

DPS Azaad Nagar: Setting benchmarks in Kanpur’s K-12 education landscape

– Punita Kapoor, Principal, Delhi Public School, Azaad Nagar, Kanpur

DPS Azaad Nagar, Kanpur is a nationally reputed day-cum-residential co-educational K-12 school affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), New Delhi. Founded in 2004 by Alok Misra with the vision to empower students to acquire, articulate and value knowledge so as to enable […]

West Bengal: Shame & scandal

-Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)

West Bengal’s stop-go government school teacher recruitment process stretching back to 2015 ,which has been subject to continuous street demonstrations, court injunctions and sporadic appointments — as regularly reported by your correspondent — came to a head on July 22-23 when the Enforcement Directorate, a financial frauds investigation unit of the BJP-controlled Central […]

Uttar Pradesh: No great shakes

-Nishant Saxena (Lucknow)

On july 24, residents of Lucknow (pop.3.8 million), the administrative capital of the Hindi heartland, BJP-ruled state of Uttar Pradesh, woke up to bold face newspaper headlines and screaming television news anchors proclaiming that seven out of 18 students who attained the top score of 99.75 percent in the recently-completed class XII ISC […]

Karnataka: Position papers row

-Reshma Ravishanker

The Karnataka BJP government’s 26 position papers on National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, which is being rolled out nationally after being kept on hold during the Covid-19 pandemic disruption, submitted in early July to the National Council for Educational Research & Training (NCERT), have sparked outrage within the academy.

Submitted in response to the Union […]

Maharashtra: Spreading tentacles

Ashokrao Thorat, vice president, MRSSM

More than 60 marathi-medium private aided school managements have filed writ petitions before the Nagpur bench of the Bombay high court demanding complete autonomy to appoint teachers. Currently, there are a total 66,750 primary-secondary schools statewide with an aggregate enrolment of 5.25 million children mentored by 450,000 teachers. Private-aided […]

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Constructive criticism
I read your detailed cover story ‘NEP 2020: Project implementation progress report’ (EW July) with great interest. It highlights the slow progress being made to implement the National Education Policy 2020, two years after it was presented to Parliament with great hope and expectation. This is further proof that overhauling India’s education system […]

Delhi: Newly emergent election issue

-Autar Nehru

Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia

Perhaps the sole political party in India whose leadership believes that provision, upgradation and universalisation of school education is an election-winning issue is the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) which was born out of social reformer Anna Hazare’s futile anti-corruption crusade of 2012. In 2015, AAP led by […]

Education Notes

Delhi: Foreign applications surge
New Delhi, July 4.

Against an average 100 admission applications from foreign students in the previous decade, for the academic year 2022-23, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIU), Delhi, has received 650 applications from abroad for admission into undergraduate to Ph D programmes. Among applicants are students from SAARC nations, South Africa, […]

Education Briefs

Jain U-Maldives agreement
Bengaluru, July 12. The Bengaluru-based Jain (deemed-to-be) University and government of the Republic of Maldives signed an MoU under which a Chancellor’s Scholarship and JGI Aid Fund scholarships will be offered to Maldivian students.

Under the terms of the MoU, ministry of higher education, Maldives will identify and select deserving students based on […]

Institution Profile

Suchitra Academy, Hyderabad

Arguably India’s most successful holistic learning school, SA has acquired a national reputation for blending academics, sports and co-curricular education, writes M. Somasekhar

Sited on a verdant 4.2-acre campus in Hyderabad (pop.10 million) aka the city of pearls, Suchitra Academy (SA, estb.2011) is arguably India’s most successful holistic learning day school. Over the past 11 years […]

Institution Profile

University of Alberta, Canada

Ranked among the Top 5 in Canada in QS World University Rankings 2023 and #110 worldwide, University of Alberta, Canada, has an aggregate enrolment of 41,061 scholars from 156 countries, writes Reshma Ravishanker

Sprawled across four campuses in Edmonton, University of Alberta (UoA, estb.1908) is a high-ranked public higher education institution with an aggregate enrolment of […]

Sombre golden jubilee of India’s pioneer community college

Fifty years after its initiatives in rural education, healthcare, solar energy, water conservation, handicrafts, waste management and wasteland development have transformed the lives of millions in the neglected outbacks of hinterland India, the overwhelming majority of citizens are unaware of this unique institution, writes Dilip Thakore

Early this year as the country was recovering from the […]

75th Independence Day reflections

-Sanjaya Baru

If one’s birthday tends to be a time for self-reflection, Independence Day should be a time for national self-reflection. Media publishes data and analysis on the state of the nation, economy and the people. Independence Day this year is a special milestone because we observe the 75th anniversary of free India. There are two […]

Young Achievers

Young Achiever: Karnav Rastogi

-Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)

Although he has just entered his first teenage year, Karnav Rastogi (13), a class VIII student of Mumbai’s top-ranked R.N. Podar School, has already written four paperback novels and three e-graphic books titled Kartik and Mixie featuring a ten-year-old boy and walking-talking robot.

Acknowledged as India’s ‘youngest fiction writer’ by India Book of Records […]

Young Achievers

Young Achiever: R.Praggnanandaa

-Shivani Chaturvedi (Chennai)

Chennai-based teenage chess prodigy and GM (grand master) R. Praggnanandhaa (aka RP) created history on February 22 by besting Norway’s five-time reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen in 39 moves at the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour’s Airthings Masters online tournament. Only two other Indians — Viswanathan Anand and Pentala Harikrishna — have achieved this […]

Saudi Arabia: MBS’ showpiece varsity

A new university at the heart of Saudi Arabia’s planned megacity on the banks of the Red Sea could soon emerge as the country’s premier scientific institution with the backing of its powerful crown prince.

Billed as the sustainable city of the future and covering an area the size of Belgium, the $500 billion (Rs.39 lakh […]

Russia: Re-Sovietisation directive

A new requirement for Russian institutions to appoint rectors for students’ moral development is being interpreted as another sign of a country reverting to Soviet-style thought control.

Coined during the USSR era, the position of pro rector in charge of vospitatel’naya rabota — which roughly translates as ‘character-building’ — was once common in universities. Such individuals […]

Global: Learning outcomes neglect

If history is “a race between education and catastrophe”, as H.G. Wells once put it, education seemed until recently to be winning. In 1950, only about half of adults globally had any schooling; now at least 85 percent do. Between 2000 and 2018, the proportion of school-age children not enrolled in classes fell from 26 […]

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