Navaneeth V. Ganesh (22), a final year M.Tech student of VIT (Vellore Institute of Technology) University, was adjudged the youngest Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM) in India last July by Toastmasters International (TMI, estb.1924), a California-based non-profit which operates 15,900 TMI clubs worldwide with an aggregate membership of 345,000. The prime objectives of TMI are […]
Although the Central and state governments continue to believe that it can remain education as usual, a new generation of edtech innovators are developing new digital technologies to enable a break away from traditional learning systems in the country’s pre-primary, primary-secondary and higher education institutions – Dilip Thakore
A Silent revolution is underway in India’s classrooms. […]
In a year marked by controversies and agitations on university campuses countrywide, the critical issue of preschool, school and higher education reform was neglected by the ruling BJP/NDA and state governments -Summiya Yasmeen
2016 was a status quo year for Indian education. In a 12-month interregnum marked by inconsequential controversies and agitations on university campuses countrywide, […]
In 1950-51, the total enrolment in higher education was 200,000 students. In the academic year 2014-15, it had risen to 33 million with private institutions playing a major role in the growth of higher education in India. In 2011-12, 64 percent of the total number of colleges and universities were privately promoted and enroled 59 […]
The first children’s library of the EducationWorld Foundation’s Mission Memorial Libraries project was recently inaugurated at the Parikrma Centre for Learning, Sahakarnagar, Bangalore, a free-of-charge K-12 school established for underprivileged children from slum households
The first of the Bangalore-based EducationWorld Foundation’s Mission Million Memorial Libraries project to enable self and supplementary learning by children in under-resourced […]
Dilip Thakore interviewed Dr. Jagdish Gandhi, founder-manager of the City Montessori School (CMS), Lucknow which, with an aggregate enrolment of over 53,000 students in 20 campuses across the city, is certified by Guinness World Records as the largest single city K-12 school worldwide. Excerpts:
What were the objectives that prompted you to promote CMS in […]
The recent decision of the Central government to reintroduce the class X exam in the country’s 18,417 schools affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), is a step in the right direction. This was announced on November 14 by Union human resource development (HRD) minister Prakash Javadekar, who said that the board’s class […]
The health and nutrition industry is booming. Beyond personal fulfillment, a career in nutrition provides the chance to work in a stable vocation – Indra Gidwani
“We are new age knights in shining armour who ensure healthy weight loss — or gain — rescue people from all types of afflictions ranging from diabetes to social ostracism. Our […]
Co-founded by Prateek Bhargava, an alumnus of the top-ranked Indian School of Business, Hyderabad and Prikshit Dhanda, a law graduate of Delhi University, Mindler is a high-potential online career counseling service of Delhi-based edtech start-up Taxmann Education Pvt. Ltd, promoted by the duo in July 2015. Mindler.com offers career guidance and counseling services to secondary […]
In 1983, the Reagan administration published A Nation At Risk, an apocalyptic report into the condition of American schools. It ushered in 33 years of uneven yet enduring bipartisan support for presidents’ efforts to raise school standards. George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind Act and its successor, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), share […]
China has long oscillated between the urge to equip its elite with foreign knowledge and skills, and an opposing instinct to turn inward and rebuff such influences. In the 1870s, the Qing imperial court ended centuries of educational isolation by sending young men to America, only for the Communist regime to shut out the world […]
The huge French market for internationally mobile African students — and the desire for France to target even anglophone higher education markets in Africa — was showcased at an event in Paris.
While France is the third most popular destination after the US and the UK for all internationally mobile students, it’s by far the destination […]
India has increased its share of the top universities in the Times Higher Education BRICS & Emerging Economies University Rankings 2017, but China still has the highest density of leading institutions in the developing world.
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) breaks into the Top 15 for the first time this year, in 14th place, thanks to […]
The involvement of a university in a corruption scandal engulfing South Korean politics has highlighted the problems of the country’s hyper-competitive higher education system. In a political scandal currently dominating headlines in the country, Park Guen-hye, the nation’s president, has been accused of being subject to the influence of her confidante Choi Soon-sil.
When 163 Syrian refugees arrived in Canada in December 2015, the country’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, told them they were “safe at home now” as he greeted them at Toronto’s international airport. “Tonight they step off the plane as refugees, but they walk out of this terminal as permanent residents of Canada,” he said. They […]
The game of athletics has become a perfect model for the Game of Life — Dan Millman, author, Way of the Peaceful Warrior (2013)
The world is changing — not necessarily for the better. Think of the spate of terrorist attacks worldwide perpetrated by frustrated, fanatical and twisted individuals who instead of choosing to work together […]
When he died in New Delhi on a winter’s day on December 23, 2004, there were very few mourners for Pamulaparti Venkata Narasimha Rao, former prime minister (1991-96) of India and president of the Congress party which has ruled the world’s most populous democracy for almost half a century since this huge subcontinent of 525 […]
The ugly battle between Ratan Tata, incumbent chairman of Tata Sons Ltd, the holding company of the salt to automobiles conglomerate (annual revenue: Rs.726,000 crore) and Cyrus Mistry, until recently chairman of the company who was ousted in a Tata-orchestrated boardroom coup in October, has transformed into a prolonged war. On December 20, Mistry filed […]
I’m scheduled to write the entrance exam for admission into the MSW (Master of social work) programme of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai. How should I prepare for it? Which other reputed colleges offer the MSW programme?
— Prakash Rele, Pune
The Common Objective Test (Part I) of TISS assesses students’ general knowledge about […]
Everybody but people in government at the Centre and in the states, seems to be aware there’s a crisis in Indian education, especially public institutions of learning. Preschool education is yet to appear on the radar of most education ministries, government primary-secondaries lack basic facilities and are uninviting, teachers who bother to show up for […]
University of Maryland, USA is ranked among the country’s Top 20 public universities by the US News & World Report 2017 and #52 worldwide by Shanghai Jia Tong University
Sited in College Park, a short metro ride from Washington D.C, the national capital of the USA, the University of Maryland (UM) is a top-ranked public research […]
DPSSL has quickly earned an excellent reputation for delivering high quality schooling combining academic rigour, co-curricular and sports education to its 3,400 students mentored by 208 teachers – Autar Nehru
Spread across 4.67 acres in the heart of the millennial steel-and-glass city of Gurgaon (pop.8.6 lakh), Delhi Public School, Sushant Lok (DPSSL, estb.2005) has quickly earned […]
Dubai-based green crusader Kehkashan Basu (16) is the winner of the International Children’s Peace Prize, 2016, an award presented annually by the Amsterdam-based KidsRights Foundation (estb. 2003). Previous winners include Pakistani women’s rights activist and Nobel laureate Malala Yousefzai (2013), among others. Kehkashan was awarded a trophy, higher education study grant and project funding of […]
Teach For India (TFI), a Mumbai-based non-profit organisation (estb.2007), invites applications for TFI’s two-year full-salaried fellowships from India’s most promising college graduates and working professionals. They will serve as full-time teachers of children from low-income households in under-resourced schools across the country.
“The fellowship programme is rigorous, challenging and provides fellows the opportunity to develop as […]
Five of seven students accused in a ragging case at the Government Polytechnic, Nattakom, surrendered before the deputy superintendent of police at Changanassery in Kottayam on December 19.
Eight first-year students of the polytechnic were reportedly subjected to brutal physical abuse and forced to consume liquor by a group of senior students on the night of […]
There’s a growing mountain of scepticism about the economic growth and development data being published for public consumption by the BJP/NDA government in New Delhi. According to official Government of India data, with an annual GDP growth rate of 7.5 percent in 2015-16, India recorded the highest rate of economic growth worldwide last year, and […]
“It is worth asking whether Mr. Trump’s candidature and victory signify something that had gone horribly wrong with America’s democracy, especially its system of education. Such a question is especially relevant for us because we are passing through a phase in our polity when many key ideas and projects are being borrowed from America.”
With a mere five months to go for the start of the new academic year in June, the crucial issue of writing and printing textbooks for 9.5 million students enrolled in 66,000 primary and secondary schools affiliated with the Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board (KSEEB), is mired in confusion and controversy. Over the past month […]
The sudden death in office on December 5 of Tamil Nadu’s charismatic chief minister J. Jayalalithaa, commonly referred to as amma (‘mother’), has left a huge political vacuum in the state’s politics and within the ruling All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) party which she led for three decades since 1991. Her several terms […]
One of the major promises made by Trinamool Congress (TMC) party leader Mamata Banerjee in the historic legislative assembly election of 2011 in which TMC routed the Communist Party of India (CPM)-led Left Front government which ruled West Bengal (pop.91 million) for 34 years (1977-2011) continuously, was to relax political control over the state’s education […]
The Maharashtra public Universities Bill 2016, which replaces the Maharashtra Universities Act, 1994, was passed unanimously by the state legislative assembly on December 8. The new Act permits holding of student union and council elections which were banned by the 1994 Act. While politically affiliated student organisations have welcomed the new legislation, nervous academics are […]
In a second major reversal decision after rollback of Delhi University’s four-year undergraduate programme in 2014, the BJP/NDA government at the Centre has compelled the Delhi-based Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), the country’s largest national school-leaving examinations board (18,417 affiliated government and private schools), to restore class X board exams. In 2010, this high […]
Let me first express my sincere thanks for the commendable work done in coordinating the EW India Preschool Rankings 2016 and for ranking Seed International, OMBR Layout, Bangalore, #1 in the franchised preschools category (EW December).
However, I’ve been misquoted in the cover story narrative. During our interview, I had identified individual attention to students and […]
A nation’s strength and stability is synonymous with the power of its institutions of governance. In democracies, strong, independent institutions discharging their duties and constitutional obligations to society, are necessary checks and balances against the exercise of arbitrary and/or authoritarian power by ephemeral governments elected for specific terms. Unfortunately, except in the Nehruvian era (1950-64) […]
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