Kalna (West Bengal)-based Sayani Das (26) is the first Asian woman to swim the 34.5-km North Channel, a strait between Northern Ireland and Scotland. Notwithstanding freezing cold conditions, strong currents and gusty winds, on August 30 Sayani swam the channel braving box jellyfish and assorted marine species, in 13 hours 22 minutes […]
CBSE headquarters in Delhi: decisive action. Inset: Himanshu Gupta
Bearing down heavily on ‘dummy schools’ for a second time this year, on November 6 the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) — India’s largest national school-leaving examinations board with 30,373 affiliated schools — withdrew the affiliation of 21 schools. Simultaneously […]
The retirement of DY Chandrachud from office as the 50th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India on November 10 at the mandatory retirement age of 65, marks an important milestone in the checkered history of India’s judiciary.
During his eight-year career as a judge of the Supreme Court and two years as CJI, Chandrachud […]
Since the 2001 airborne suicide attacks on the twin towers in New York, USA and the election of the BJP/NDA government to power in New Delhi in 2014, madrasas — Islamic primary-secondary schools that originated in circa 800 as study circles in mosques whose […]
PSG College of Arts & Science: deemed varsity applicant?
The association of university Teachers (AUT) which represents higher education faculty across Tamil Nadu (pop.89 million), has formally urged the state government to reject proposals for converting government-aided private colleges into autonomous private universities. Encouraged by provisions of the National Education […]
Hot on the heels of the massive outrage provoked by the rape and murder of a junior doctor at the government-run RG Kar Hospital in Kolkata, which exposed severe malpractices in the state’s medical education system, and a scam in which public money meant for students to purchase […]
I have received the Silver Jubilee issue of EducationWorld (November). On this occasion, I would like to express my deep appreciation of your relentless and thankless crusade for the betterment of Indian education, especially of the country’s dormant public schooling system for 25 long years.
Rahul Mehra is UNESCO Chair for Global Health & Education and Chairman, Tarang Health Alliance
Unfortunately no action has been taken by the Union government to address the issue of children’s mental health since 2007. Recent studies report that 30-40 percent of students in India suffer serious mental health issues
The election of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States — the wealthiest, most innovative and most powerful military nation worldwide — has shocked most well-educated and refined people who expect decorum, culture and character in government and society leaders. That the American people have elected him to be their executive President, […]
Itanagar, November 26. On National Constitution Day (November 26) after hoisting a massive 131-ft tricolour on the legislative assembly premises, Chief Minister Pema Khandu, advised the Speaker in collaboration with the education ministry to organise seminars in state government-run schools to raise students’ awareness of citizens’ rights and duties as enshrined […]
“There are an increasing number of keyboard warriors who say things in exercise of their freedom of speech to just gain traction and to stay relevant in public… What should India do to curb it? The method opted by the state must be covered within the fold of the restrictions. It must not have the […]
— A.K. Srikanth is the Bengaluru-based CEO, KLAY Preschools and Daycare
By blending traditional pedagogies with latest technology innovations, educators can ensure that children are academically successful and capable of navigating a challenging new world.
In today’s rapidly changing world, the education system requires radical reform. The question of whether to persist […]
In this well-argued compendium, the author presents his four pillars plan to attain the 2047 Viksit Bharat and $30 trillion GDP plus goals
It’s surprising that this seminal growth and development ideas-packed book authored by Krishnamurthy Subramanian, former Chief Economic Advisor (2018-21) of the […]
It’s indicative of the naivete of the Indian intelligentsia and media that they haven’t smelt an American Deep State rat in the persecution of India’s premier infrastructure builder Gautam Adani. In February last year, Hindenburg Research, a US-based self-confessed short-seller firm with five employees and no fixed address, charged Adani with using offshore shell companies […]
According to the recently published EdelGive-Hurun India Philanthropy List, digital tech tycoon Shiv Nadar, promoter-chairman of HCL Ltd (market valuation: Rs.5.13 trillion) is India’s most generous philanthropist having donated Rs.2,153 crore (Rs.5.9 crore per day) to mainly education charitable causes in 2024. Runner-up Azim Premji, promoter-Chairman of Wipro Ltd with Rs.1,000 crore and Mukesh Ambani, […]
One of the reasons why higher ed academics tend to scorn this upstream-swimming publication is your editors’ unrelenting insistence for the quarter century past, to raise annual national outlay (Centre plus states) for education to 6 percent of GDP as recommended by the high-powered Kothari Commission way back in 1967, and to allocate a major […]
– Sandip Datta is Assistant Professor, Delhi School of Economics & Geeta Gandhi Kingdon is Professor Emeritus of University College London In 2019, the average number of pupils in 500,000 government schools was a mere 31, translating into a 13.3:1 pupils-teacher ratio. There is no teacher shortage at all if students and teachers are properly deployed
Warangal (Telangana)-based para-athlete Deepthi Jeevanji (21) won a bronze medal in the 400m T20 (classification for athletes with intellectual disabilities) sprint event of the Paralympics Games 2024 staged in Paris between August 28-September 8. Introduced in 1976, Paralympic Games is an international multi-sports event modelled on the Olympics, featuring athletes with physical […]
In this year-end issue we continue our tradition of celebrating early childhood care and education by ranking the country’s best preschools to enable parents to select aptitudinally most suitable pre-primaries for youngest children. A second objective is multiplication and upgradation of ECCE institutions countrywide through healthy competition , writes Summiya Yasmeen
The top-ranked Garodia International Schooltakes pride in fostering a global perspective, offering a rich and diverse educational experience that promotes multilingualism through its “Centre of Excellence for Languages”. The school offers learning in languages such as Mandarin, French, German, and Spanish to Hindi, Marathi, and English as it believes that […]
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K-12 teacher shortage myth
– Sandip Datta is Assistant Professor, Delhi School of Economics & Geeta Gandhi Kingdon is Professor Emeritus of University College London
In 2019, the average number of pupils in 500,000 government schools was a mere 31, translating into a 13.3:1 pupils-teacher ratio. There is no teacher shortage at all if students and teachers are properly deployed