In his new book, Congress party politician Jairam Ramesh transports us to a time of remarkable consequence for contemporary India. While the author inserts a caveat that the book must be read as a biography of a committed and profoundly sagacious […]
Since it admitted its first batch of 100 students a decade ago, the O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat (Haryana) has established itself as one of India’s most promising humanities and liberal arts universities. In the QS BRICS University Rankings 2019, JGU is ranked among the Top 3 percent and among the Top 450 in the […]
Though politically it was a significant year with Congress re-emerging as an electoral threat to the BJP in General Election 2019 scheduled for next summer, 2018 was a business-as-usual year for Indian education – Summiya Yasmeen
No news is good news. This aphorism sums up the year 2018 for Indian education. Led by the unassuming Prakash Javadekar, […]
Early years education entrepreneur Raj Singhal is the Gurgaon-based co-founder and CEO of Footprints Childcare Pvt. Ltd (FCPL, estb.2013), a day care and preschool chain which owns 70 pre-primaries in 12 cities with an aggregate enrolment of 4,500 children in the 1.5-4.5 years age group, mentored by 500 teachers.
Rodney Briggs is the Vancouver (Canada)-based president of Maple Bear Global Schools Ltd (estb.2005) which runs a chain of franchised preschools promoting Canadian best teaching practices in 20 countries. Maple Bear South Asia (in a joint venture with Modi Edutech Pvt. Ltd) currently supervises 91 franchised preschools and nine K-class V schools […]
Colm O Mahony is the Hong Kong-based CEO of Sodexo Education Asia Pacific, the education division of the Marseilles (France)-based global services provider Sodexo (estb.1966, annual revenue: €20.4 billion or Rs.163,413 crore), which offers healthy meals and facilities management solutions to education institutions in nine countries including India.
Dr. Shreepali Patel is the Cambridge (UK)-based director of Anglia Ruskin University’s StoryLab (SL, estb.2017), an interdisciplinary institute that researches different genres of storytelling and analyses their impact on society. Patel is also co-promoter of Eyeline Films whose first documentary was the Emmy award-winning The English Surgeon (2007).
Neelam Makhijani is the Delhi-based country director and CEO of ChildFund India, a subsidiary of the US (Richmond, Virginia)-based ChildFund International (estb. 1938), a non-profit working in 30 countries in the areas of child nutrition, education and skills development. With its head office in Bangalore and branches in Delhi, Mumbai, Jaipur, Bhubaneswar […]
A positive development in higher education which has brightened the new millennium for millions of the country’s neglected but eager-to-learn, upwardly mobile youth is the establishment of several private liberal arts and humanities universities across the country. The promotion of the O.P. Jindal Global, Ashoka, Bennett, Shiv Nadar among other universities inspired by America’s blue-chip […]
It’s hardly a secret that the abrupt mid-term resignation on December 10 of Urjit Patel from the governorship of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) was because of a dispute about whether the ‘excess reserves’ of the apex bank should be placed at the disposal of the Central government. The complaint of government spokespersons is […]
The defeat of three incumbent BJP governments in state legislative assembly elections in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, signals growing disenchantment with the BJP that less than 20 months ago, swept the country’s most populous Hindi heartland state of Uttar Pradesh (pop.220 million) after winning General Election 2014 hands down.
Although political pundits and commentators who […]
Your decision to include model government-run anganwadis in this year’s preschool rankings is commendable (EW December). The government, NGOs and other stakeholders need to take note of these model anganwadi centres and replicate their best practices nationally.
However, I wish you had used the same parameters to evaluate anganwadis as you have for private preschools. […]
A ground zero reality which communists, socialists and assorted lefties, who despite the collapse of communism worldwide continue to dominate India’s academy, refuse to acknowledge is that there is a steady exodus of pupils out of government schools, especially public primary-secondaries run by state and local governments.
The reality which education bureaucrats and ideologically obstinate academics […]
A curious anomaly of indian primary-secondary education is the literally heavy burden that even tiny children have to bear because they are obliged to lug a heavy load of text and notebooks to and from schools every day. In Maharashtra following several PIL (public interest litigation) writ petitions filed against the state government for failure […]
The southern state of Karnataka which hosts the country’s largest number of medical colleges (51), is set to introduce a 15 percent reserved quota for non-resident Indian (NRI) students — following the example of private medical colleges — in its 17 government medical colleges. Thus far, government medical colleges only admitted meritorious students from the […]
A slew of public notices, rules and regulations issued by the Delhi-based University Grants Commission (UGC) — the apex higher education supervisory organisation — relating to open and distance learning (ODL) have raised the hackles of the 13 government and seven deemed (private) universities in Tamil Nadu (pop.72 million), which offer distance education programmes.
With general election 2019 round the corner, chief minister and undisputed supremo of the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) party Mamata Banerjee who harbours national ambitions, is pulling out all stops to woo the electorate of West Bengal to consolidate her support base.
West Bengal’s quota in the Lok Sabha — the lower house of Parliament in […]
“School readiness blah blah blah, school readiness, but I think schools should first be made ready to welcome every child.” Uma Mahadevan, principal secretary, women and child welfare, Karnataka government, on twitter (December 16)
“Do we need another Education Policy? The problem with education is not prescription. It is with application. How about a monitorable action […]
JAMMU, DECEMBER 3. At a function organised by the state’s school education ministry to mark the International Day of Disabled Persons (December 3), governor Satya Pal Malik announced new scholarships for differently abled children. Incorporated into the J&K government’s scholarship scheme, Rs.1 lakh will be awarded annually to one meritorious boy and girl child.
DELHI, DECEMBER 4. Honda Cars India Ltd, the well-known passenger cars manufacturing company, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Delhi-based Automotive Skill Development Council (ASDC) for accreditation of its premier training centre, the Honda Vocational Training Institute (HVTI), in Alwar, Rajasthan.
HVTI (estb.2011) is Honda’s state-of-the-art technical training centre promoted to develop skilled […]
A final year liberal arts student majoring in molecular biology at the blue-chip Princeton University, New Jersey (USA), Samvida Venkatesh (21) is the latest to join the celebrated league of Rhodes scholars from India that includes economist and civil servant Montek Singh Ahluwalia, environmentalist and economist Sanjeev Sanyal, actor-playwright Girish Karnad, novelist Neel Mukherjee and […]
Dr. Krishna Kumar is former director of NCERT and former professor of education at Delhi University
Two of my former students have asked for my opinion and advice. Both are teachers. I recall them as good students of education, especially of the peace education course they took with me as B.Ed students. The objective of the […]
In the latest EducationWorld India School Rankings 2018-19, KC High International (estb. 1999) is ranked among the Top 10 international co-ed day schools of India and #1 in Tamil Nadu – Hemalatha Raghupathi
Sited within an upscale housing community (Olympia Panache) in Navalur on the bustling Old Mahabalipuram Road (OMR), the K.C. High International School, Chennai […]
Over the past 42 years, St. George’s University Grenada has certified over 16,000 graduates who have practiced medicine in every state of America and Canada plus 50 countries around the world
Established in 1976 in Grenada (West Indies), St. George’s University (SGU) is a private, internationally reputed institution of medical education offering degree […]
Professionally trained and experienced coaches can work wonders in improving peer relationships, leadership and management skills of their clients – Paromita Sengupta
Against the backdrop of growing awareness of the benefits of coaching in all spheres of life and a huge global market valued at $3 billion (Rs.20,998 crore), executive coaching has emerged as an accepted […]
I am a class XI science student interested in studying computer science. What are my options other than a BE degree in this subject?? — Krishty M, Mumbai
There are several study programmes you can explore. A bachelor’s in computer applications (BCA) followed by a Master’s degree (MCA) will qualify you for a career in computer […]
Dr. Peter Greenhalgh is a Cambridge classical scholar and former professor at Cape Town University
As we enter 2019, Britain is evaluating the outcome of the first public secondary education examinations following the reforms of former education secretary Michael Gove who resigned his office in 2014.
Our two main examinations are the General Certificate of Secondary […]
As we enter 2019, Britain is evaluating the outcome of the first public secondary education examinations following the reforms of former education secretary Michael Gove who resigned his office in 2014.
Our two main examinations are the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) and the Advanced Level (A Level). The GCSE is taken at the end […]
Avanti House in Stanmore, north London, is one of a new generation of religious schools. Some 94,000 children in England now attend a non-Christian religious school, up from 64,000 in 2011. Over the past two decades, the number of Jewish schools has more than doubled and the number of Muslim ones has roughly sextupled. Although […]
Increasing tuition fees for international students in France — a move described as a “paradigm shift” by university presidents — is a key plank of the country’s plan to double overseas enrolments in a decade. France, along with some other continental European countries such as Germany, has traditionally set nominal or non-existent tuition fees for […]
Leading universities in Denmark are set to close several degree programmes and switch the medium of instruction from English to Danish in response to a government drive to reduce international student numbers.
Aalborg University has announced that it will close seven degree programmes, change the medium of instruction from English to Danish in six and put […]
Hangzhou, a city south-west of Shanghai, is freighted with meaning for Shi Yigong. His grandmother, a Communist, was jailed there by the Nationalist Chiang Kai-Shek government in the 1930s and died 18 days after giving birth to his father in prison.
Personal links drew Shi to Hangzhou when he chose a location for the first private […]
Canada’s reputation for tolerance and inclusion is increasingly being tested on campuses in the wake of the country’s international student boom, a conference heard. The number of international students at Canadian universities increased by 11 percent in 2017, with learners thought to be increasingly shifting their attentions north from a US perceived to be more […]
After five months in solitary confinement, his final court appearance lasted barely five minutes. On November 21, a court in Abu Dhabi convicted a British academic of espionage and sentenced him to life in prison. Matthew Hedges (31), a doctoral candidate at Durham University, travelled to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) early last year to […]
After five months in solitary confinement, his final court appearance lasted barely five minutes. On November 21, a court in Abu Dhabi convicted a British academic of espionage and sentenced him to life in prison. Matthew Hedges (31), a doctoral candidate at Durham University, travelled to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) early last year to […]
Interrogating my chandal life: An Autobiography of a Dalit, Manoranjan Byapari, Sage -Samya; Rs.550; Pages 356
One of the great enduring injustices of Hinduism (which the ruling dispensation hoping to ride and remain in power does its best to obfuscate) is its varna or caste system. Under the rigid tenets of the Hindu caste system which its proponents […]
Where would you place education on your national list of priorities?
Among the very top together with the connected priority of employment generation. Education should equip the nation’s children/youth with skills necessary for gainful employment in the 21st century economy.
The AgustaWestland helicopters scandal in which kickbacks, estimated at Rs.3,700 crore, have allegedly been paid to several middlemen — including Air Marshal (Retd.) S.P. Tyagi, former chief of the Indian Air Force, and Dubai-based broker Christian Michel, now in CBI custody for customising the Union government’s tender specifications to suit the Anglo-Italian AgustaWestland — seems […]
During the past few months, several well-researched books on the Indian economy written by émigré academics based in blue chip American universities have received good reviews and exposure in the Indian media. The authors of these learned tomes — Kaushik Basu (The Republic of Beliefs: A New Appraoch to Law & Economics (2018)), Arvind Panagariya […]
The unexpected emergence of Rahul Gandhi, president of the Congress party which has ruled at the Centre and most states of the Indian Union for over half a century since independence, as a prime ministerial candidate in 2019, has given a new impetus to dynastic politics. After the December legislative assembly elections in Rajasthan, Madhya […]
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Dr. Krishna Kumar is former director of NCERT and former professor of education at Delhi University
Two of my former students have asked for my opinion and advice. Both are teachers. I recall them as good students of education, especially of the peace education course they took with me as B.Ed students. The objective of the […]