– Romi Sehgal, Head, Pravah Skill Development Centre
In today’s dynamic economic landscape, skill development has become a cornerstone of empowerment and self-reliance. Pravah Skill Development Centre has been at the forefront of this transformative journey, making a profound impact on the lives of thousands. Established 12 years ago, Pravah has been dedicated to providing […]
– Shalini Chaturvedi, Dean Student Counseling, DPS Jaipur
Adolescents, especially those belonging to Generation Alpha (born after 2010), face unique challenges in today’s rapidly evolving and fast-paced world. This generation is maturing in a time of swift changes, increasing social media influence, and technology dominance, all of which have a big impact on their […]
Learning is commonly understood as the acquiring of knowledge or skills by studying, practising, or experiencing something. As an extension, effective learning involves processes in which children are actively engaged and take ownership of their learning and personal development. It is the cornerstone of learning, growth, and personal development […]
Visa delays and refusals are playing havoc with Australian universities’ course and financial planning, weeks ahead of the new semester starting July/August.
Median visa processing time frames for higher education students have more than tripled in the past few months, according to the Department of Home Affairs (DHA). Fifty percent of applicants […]
Canada seems to be losing the attention of international students so quickly that its institutions might not recruit enough students this year to hit the sharply lower visa caps imposed recently by the Trudeau administration.
After watching overseas student enrolments surge to more than 400,000, the federal government this year announced the imposition of study visa […]
As Jakarta (pop.10.6 million) rapidly sinks into the ocean — 40 percent of the greater metropolitan area of the country’s admin capital (pop.30 million) is now below sea level — Indonesia’s behind-schedule, controversy-ridden new capital city on the jungle-clad island of Borneo could spell a new era for […]
The route to Sunway University is far from your typical campus approach. To reach this Malaysian institution, you must first navigate to Sunway City on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, past various Sunway hotels and Sunway shopping malls, away from the Sunway medical centre, until you reach the […]
Ideally, Marianne Korkalainen’s high school in Rautavaara, a tiny town in eastern Finland, would enrol at least 20 new pupils each year. This autumn, her shrinking municipality will send her only about 12. But Ms Korkalainen, the head teacher, has a plan: she intends to invite half a dozen youngsters from poorer countries to help […]
With cannons on campus, its own Qing-dynasty wall and the first Dutch fort in Taiwan nearby, National Cheng Kung University seems an appealing place for a budding historian. However, after a first round of applications, no students had accepted places in the history department for next year. It is a shock for the university, […]
President Claudia Pardo (left): academic background
A climate scientist has become the first female leader of Mexico after winning a record-breaking majority on the back of promises to transform the country into a “scientific and innovation power”. But questions remain over how far she will break from the populist policies of her predecessor.
(Dr. Larry Arnn is President, Hillsdale College, USA. [email protected])
As in India and much of the world, politics has been turbulent in America for years. Perhaps it is worse here. President Trump has been impeached twice by our House of Representatives, but both times acquitted by the Senate. After all that, he is still front runner […]
Nestled in the lap of the Aravalli Hills on an eco-friendly three-acre campus on the banks of River Ayad in the charming city of lakes and temples Udaipur, the K-12 Central Public School (CPS, estb.1989), currently celebrating its 35th anniversary, is ranked among the Top 10 co-ed day-cum-boarding schools nationally and #2 in Rajasthan (pop. […]
Like the previous six Union budgets presented by her, Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s seventh consecutive budget has missed the opportunity to make adequate provision for foundational literacy and numeracy and basic education for India’s 265 million in-school children – writes Dilip Thakore
Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman (centre) & team: Capex, MSMEs […]
Raymond Ravaglia is former director of pre-collegiate studies, Stanford University
International students often bedazzled by the prospect of enroling in American universities are likely to make sub-optimal choices leading to dashed hopes for life after graduation
More harmful than not knowing, is believing something false to be true. Higher education, with its mix […]
The Great Nicobar Betrayal
Curated by Pankaj Sekhsaria
THG PUBLISHING
Rs. 499 Pages 100
Flash floods, wildfires, cyclones, droughts, landslides and earthquakes are climate catastrophes which are Mother Nature’s reaction to relentless industrialisation in the name of development.
But is anyone heeding these warnings? Certainly not the incumbent Government of India.
It’s raining accolades for Indore teenager Ved Lahoti (17). A student of Allen Career Institute, Kota, Ved chalked up an incredible 355 of a maximum possible score of 360, the highest ever in IIT-JEE (Joint Entrance Examination) Advanced — held on May 26. IIT-JEE (Mains), the joint entrance examination of India’s globally […]
A class XII student of Mumbai’s CBSE-affiliated Navy Children School, Kaamya Karthikeyan (16) became the youngest Indian to scale Mt. Everest — the highest point on Planet Earth. On May 20, she accomplished this eight-hour gruelling feat from the Nepal side for the first time after pioneer woman mountaineer Bachendri Pal four […]
Conceptualised as the island republic’s first autonomous university funded by government, SMU has quickly acquired an international reputation for dispensing rigorous business management, economics and finance education. Reshma Ravishanker
SMU’s Bras Basah campus
Promoted in the new millennium, the publicly-funded Singapore Management University (SMU, estb.2000) has quickly acquired an international reputation for dispensing rigorous […]
Currently celebrating its 12th anniversary, this nursery-class XII school is ranked among the Top 20 co-ed day schools in Punjab and #1 in Jalandhar in the latest EducationWorld India School Rankings 2023-24 Paromita Sengupta
IWS academic block: “new digital technologies equipped”. Inset: Sanjeev Chauhan
Sited on an eco-friendly four-acre campus off the Jalandhar-Hoshiarpur highway, the […]
– Dr. Krishna Kumar is honorary professor of education, Panjab University, and a former Director of NCERT The 200 questions that NEET-UG asks candidates to solve are multiple choice questions. Students drilled into speedy cracking of questions are certain to get high rank. What have these skills to do with becoming a […]
With the unrelenting march of automation and artificial intelligence, a spectre of unemployment and redundancy is haunting executive suites as much as college campuses. Therefore a fever to skill, reskill and upskill is pervading middle class India, if not less aware segments of the population writes Summiya Yasmeen
There’s much to admire about the western seaboard state of Gujarat (pop.72 million). For a start Mahatma Gandhi — the “greatest man in flesh and blood to have ever walked upon this earth” according to Albert Einstein’s memorable tribute — was born there. So was Sardar Patel, not far behind. The people are remarkably hardworking, […]
The media spotlight on pre and post wedding celebrations of Anant Ambani — the last and youngest son of industry tycoon Mukesh Ambani, listed among the world’s Top 20 wealthiest individuals by the authoritative Forbes magazine — has aroused varied and conflicting reaction among public intellectuals and commentators. The bash reportedly cost the amiable, self-effacing […]
Contemporary India hosts 3,500 engineering colleges that graduate 1.5 million engineers annually. Among them are the country’s 23 globally famous IITs (Indian Institutes of Technology), the first of which was established in 1961. But all this investment has provided sparse harvest.
On July 10, a bridge collapsed in Mahishi village in the Saharsa district of Bihar. […]
IIT-K-SAIL MoU
Kanpur, July 26. The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT-K) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the public sector Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) for collaboration in research, development, and consultancy projects.
“This collaboration with SAIL marks a significant step in advancing IIT-Kanpur’s engagement with industry. We also propose to strengthen […]
Kerala Challenged children sports program
Thiruvananthapuram, July 3. In collaboration with SCERT (State Council of Educational Research & Training), the state’s education ministry released an “inclusive sports manual” with the objective of promoting the track and field sports talents of differently-abled school children and ensuring their on-field participation.
“Steps are being taken to conduct competitions […]
“This is a budget that will take the country’s villages, poor and farmers on the path of prosperity. In the last 10 years, 25 crore people have come out of poverty. This budget is a budget for the continuation of the empowerment of the newly emerged Neo Middle Class.”
PM Narendra Modi on the Union […]
Justice Murugesan (centre left) with chief minister Stalin
A draft of Tamil Nadu’s state Education Policy (SEP), developed as an alternative to the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, has been submitted to the ruling DMK government by the Justice Murugesan-led panel.
After the DMK was voted to power in the legislative […]
A month after writing to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to abolish the National Entrance-cum-Eligibility Test (NEET) for admission into medical colleges countrywide, on July 24 the state’s cabinet headed by chief minister Mamata Banerjee passed an official resolution calling for the abolition of […]
Dr. Prof. Anand Achari is Principal at VES College of Architecture, Mumbai
Exploring ancient architectural design and construction practices offers a wealth of inspiration for designing sustainable buildings for the modern world. Cross-pollination of knowledge from the past and present is crucial
In the relentless pursuit of modernisation and innovation, we […]
The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 presented to the nation after an interregnum of 36 years, accords high importance to early childhood care and education (ECCE). To the extent that it mandates integration of three years of compulsory ECCE into the formal school education system reconfigured as 3+5+3+4 to replace the previous […]
The highly reputed multi-campus Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS, estb.1936) — India’s first major postgrad institution for the study of social sciences including habitat education, gender, media, labour and management, rural development studies — has suffered a severe embarassment.
A July 8 order issued by Uttar Pradesh’s BJP government which directed government school teachers to mark their attendance digitally — proclaimed as a first countrywide — was rescinded on July 16 after statewide protests by the teachers community.
Political commentators in Lucknow, the admin capital […]
Condemnable contempt
Your well-designed cover and story ‘Dharmendra Pradhan’s second innings priorities’ (EW July) should serve as a wake-up call to the hon’ble minister who clearly suffers a communication skills deficit. I couldn’t agree more that the second time education minister should speak up forcefully in Union cabinet meetings demanding greater budgetary allocation for […]
Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan: yet another committee
Under fire for the NEET-UG exam scandal from opposition parties as well as a swelling number of monitors of India’s failing education system, Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan has constituted an Education Advisory Council (EdAC) to advise the ministry of education (MoE) on […]
The Olympic games being staged in Paris have evidently fascinated middle class India, if not the remainder of the population. Daily television viewership in India of the games staged between July 26-August 11 has reportedly ranged between 100 and 120 million, with the nation cheering the modest performance of our 117 track and field athletes. […]
Addressing a post-budget meeting of the Confederation of Indian Industry, arguably the largest representative body of private organised sector big business, on July 30, even if somewhat belatedly Prime Minister Narendra Modi clarified the BJP/NDA government’s economic development ideology. He described India Inc leaders as “wealth creators” and “driving force of India’s growth story”. Decoded, […]
When I witness my UK-based nephews dismantle a 450 cc Harley-Davidson motor-cycle and put it back together in a jiffy, and finish household plumbing and repair jobs using sophisticated electric tools, I so regret my own education in an upscale boarding school in India where vocational education was conspicuously missing from the curriculum. Presumably, school […]
– Jyotishmita Borah Goswami, English Teacher, Dharav High School, Jaipur
The seed for this thought germinated during a staff-room discussion with my fellow English teachers. We were reviewing formative exam papers and notebooks. I have a habit of writing extensive comments on students’ answer scripts to highlight corrections and areas for improvement. One of my colleagues […]
Serial entrepreneur Rohan Rai is the Bengaluru-based co-founder of his latest offering Edupull (estb 2023), an edtech company that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics to provide class XII school-leavers and undergrads customised roadmaps and career pathways in multiple Indian languages free-of-charge to enable them to make informed higher education choices. About 25,000 students […]
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NEET-UG 2024: Deep rot symptom
Krishna Kumar
– Dr. Krishna Kumar is honorary professor of education, Panjab University, and a former Director of NCERT
The 200 questions that NEET-UG asks candidates to solve are multiple choice questions. Students drilled into speedy cracking of questions are certain to get high rank. What have these skills to do with becoming a […]