EducationWorld February 11

“Reading serves as more than a skill; it becomes an aspect of culture. It must enable citizens to reflect on what is going on, not merely a skill to decipher printed texts. From this larger perspective, the teaching of reading during early childhood — when attitudes, habits and skills acquire life-long foundations — acquires crucial […]

With the Indian film industry having emerged as the largest in the world and the citizenry being offered the choice of over 515 television channels, professionally qualified film editors are much sought afterThe most glamorous career options in Indias multi-billion dollar movies, film and television industries dominated by ‘Bollywood are in mainstream acting or direction. […]

Having been a student within the Indian education system who has transformed into a teacher within the US education system, a frequent question Im asked by friends and relations is: Can you contrast the two systems? My answer is that the greatest differentiating factor is the attitude towards failure of the two systems.As was so […]

The Higher Education and Research (HER) Bill, 2010, drafted by a high-powered task force comprising legendary legal educationist N.R. Madhava Menon, social scientist Mrinal Miri and educationists Goverdhan Mehta and M. Anandakrishnan, proposes abo-lition of the University Grants Commission (UGC), All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) and several […]

Life is a great school, and nature is the ultimate teacher, but without awareness you cant hear the teacher. Awareness transforms lifes lessons into wisdom; it can translate confusing circumstances and events into useful knowledge. Awareness, then, is the beginning of all learning. — Dan Millman, former trampoline world champion and coachThese days coaching or […]

The latest entrant into the countrys booming information communication technologies (ICT)-in education marketplace is Chennai-based EdServ Softsystems Ltd (formerly Lambent Softsystems Pvt Ltd) — founded in 2001 as a mainstream software solutions company and transformed into a full-fledged e-learning company in 2008. A widely held corporate listed on the BSE and NSE stock exchanges, EdServ […]

A wave of crimes against children has panicked the growing middle-class parents community across India. As per the National Crime Bureau Report, crimes against school-going children in the age group of 0-18 years have risen from 14,975 in 2005 to 24,201 in 2009, with 8,945 cases of kidnappings and abductions, and 5,694 sex crimes. The […]

Women awarded doctorates in science and engineering made up a vast proportion of the increase in the number of Ph Ds bestowed in the US last year. The number of doctorates awarded by US universities rose by 1.6 percent between 2008 and 2009, according to the National Science Foundations annual Survey of Earned Doctorates. The […]

A healthy society cannot come about when people study not for the purpose of gaining wisdom and knowledge but for the purpose of becoming government officials. When Ye Shi, a Chinese philosopher, bemoaned this 800 years ago, China had already been choosing officials for hundreds of years on the basis of exams that required rote […]

People reach for extremes when discussing educations hold on South Koreas collective psyche and its shaping of society.The statistics for higher education tell a remarkable story. At 53 percent, South Korea has the highest proportion of graduates among 25-34-year-olds of any nation in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), according to 2008 figures. […]

Sometimes the teachers make it to school but the children dont — when the fighting is too intense for them to venture outdoors. Sometimes teachers make it to school only to find it has been moved — to enable displaced children to continue learning. This is characteristic of K-12 education in war-torn Mogadishu — the […]