In an interview with EducationWorld, Jeroninio Almeida, management & OD consultant, inspirational orator-author storyteller, internationally-certified leadership-life coach and UN advisor had this to say about the path-breaking REX Karmaveer Education Change Champions (ECC) Fellowship & Awards.
What is the REX Karmaveer ECC awards all about?
April 15, 2019 was a Red-Letter day for the education sector […]
India is witnessing a paradigm shift in education. Large parts of the education industry – especially schools in Tier II and III cities and towns, which have so far been isolated from the rapid advances in technology that our country has seen, are seeing dramatic changes. Students and teachers are not only recipients of transformative […]
The four-decade-old Blue Bells Group of schools has made its place at the forefront of K-12 education on the foundation of contemporary, child-centred education. It is launching two new schools in Gurugram with world-class pedagogy that combines the best of Western science with Indian philosophy.
When Dr Saroj Suman Gulati, a teacher and school administrator, […]
The Police Public School, Raipur’s unique feature is that its well-qualified teachers are also trained police personnel
Police Public School, Raipur (PPS) was established in 2019 by the Police Welfare Association of the Chhattisgarh Police Department under the leadership and guidance of the Director General of Police (DGP) D. M. Awasthi. Initially, started […]
Promoted by Dr. Lilly George, Founder and Chairperson, Shalom Hills Group of Schools situated in Gurugram has four schools, namely Shalom Hills International School (K-XII) ranked #7 in Gurugram; Shalom Presidency School (K-XII), in the latest EW Indian School Rankings 2018-19, the school comes in top 15 schools in the co-ed day schools category I […]
Promoted in 1988 by the Shanti Devi Progressive Education Society — a trust constituted by Shri Bikramjit Ahluwalia, chairperson and MD of Ahlcon Contracts — with the objective to provide affordable quality education to the educationally deprived children of East Delhi. The CBSE-affiliated coeducational K-12 Ahlcon Public School (Ahlcon Public School, Mayur Vihar) has […]
Early 2014, Tier One Metro – There was buzz in the city that one of the well-known schools was about to close. The school had been run and managed by a reputed educationist; it had more than a thousand kids in attendance and showed a promising growth rate. To many, this news of closure was […]
Somewhat surprisingly across India, the lead in promoting vocational education and training (VET) in a big way has been taken by the eastern seaboard state of Odisha and its BJD government led by the Doon School & St. Stephen’s College educated Naveen Patnaik, serving an unprecedented third term in office as chief minister – Autar Nehru
Four months after it admitted its first batch of undergrad students, the wholly residential private Krea University in Sri City (Andhra Pradesh), with its unique School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences and IFMR-Graduate School of Business, is poised to reshape the contours of the country’s higher education landscape – Dilip Thakore
Rooh-e-Rumi: Seeking god is seeking love; Mamta Sehgal, Notion press; Rs.240, Pages 173
Much has been written about the famed 13th century Sufi and Persian poet Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi, underlining the continuing relevance of his message centuries after he left the world for a better place. In this absorbing book, Mamta Sehgal highlights key […]
A gallery of rascals: My favourite tales of Rogues, Rapscallions & N’er do-wells, Ruskin Bond Aleph Book Company, Rs.385; Pages 208
To read Ruskin Bond’s fiction is to feel the transformation of Indian society after independence, combined with the inimitable knack of storytelling with which Bond characterises daily life in small town India.
The cuts in corporate income taxes from 30 to 22 percent and 15 percent for new manufacturing companies announced on September 20, which were enthusiastically welcomed by Niti Aayog and establishment pundits, have proved a damp squib. The expectation was that reduced tax payouts to the IT department would prompt corporate leaders, who now have more […]
The resounding slap in the face administered to Ratan Tata (RT), chairman emeritus of the Mumbai-based Tata Sons, the holding company of the multi-business salt-software Tata Group of companies (annual revenue: Rs.7.9 lakh crore) and his hand-picked Tata Sons CEO N. Chandrasekhar by the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) on December 19 could well […]
The election to the 650-strong House of Commons in Westminster, London — the mother of all parliaments — of 15 Indian-origin MPs has been widely welcomed in the domestic media as a signal triumph for India. While it is undoubtedly a great achievement for Indian emigrants whose parents were ruled and kicked about by our […]
Boris Johnson’s proposal to reintroduce post-study work visas in the UK could have the unintended consequence of forcing Australian universities to shorten their Masters degree programmes. A key selling point of UK universities is the opportunity to complete a Masters degree in a year, rather than two years, as is standard in most other parts […]
US universities’ ties with Middle Eastern countries are coming under increasing scrutiny, threatening to accelerate the decline of such links and leaving campuses facing a mounting administrative burden. From the US government end, the renewed focus is a side effect of the White House’s strategy for blocking China from accessing cutting-edge US research, which has […]
Hong Kong universities have been urged to assert their status as bastions of academic freedom in the wake of violent police crackdowns on campus protests. The “most immediate test” would be how higher education institutions respond to the potential prosecution of some of the more than 1,000 students who have been arrested during recent demonstrations, […]
When Estonia gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, it took the chance to reshape the country’s school education system. Mailis Reps, the incumbent education minister, recalls the concluding argument in any debate often ran: “Let’s try something that works in Sweden or Finland.”
Many others have done similarly. Every three years, the OECD (Organisation […]
Almost a third of international students in the US have faced discrimination because of their nationality with Chinese students being particularly affected, according to a study. A survey of 1,921 overseas students and recent graduates reported that 38 percent found living away from home and family more challenging than they had expected, and 41 percent […]
French universities have been accused of being bloated at the top, with one institution boasting no fewer than 26 vice presidents. Some university managements have swelled to include vice presidents for simplification, “success,” “heritage” and, even, “the sea”. The findings follow up on a book published recently by a prominent French sociologist of universities, which […]
The drill-sergeant barking orders is a former commando who lost bits of two fingers while deployed in South Sudan. His 100-odd young charges are dressed in camouflage uniforms and army boots. After a bit of marching in time they are shown how to abseil out of a besieged building.
The group under instruction are not conscripts, […]
Whenever you struggle with a problematic question, whether in school or at home, you reflexively turn to your friends for help, before initiating a conversation with your teachers, tutors, or parents about it. Have you ever wondered why? While comfort level is one of the prime reasons, it’s also because you feel that your friend […]
The India centre of the US-based Brookings Institution (estb.1916), routinely ranked the world’s #1 think tank, BIIC (estb. 2013) has quickly established an excellent reputation in India.
The Washington DC-based Brookings Institution (BI, estb.1916) is the world’s oldest, richest (annual revenue: $102 million or Rs.726 crore) and top-ranked think tank. This highly influential […]
Within a short span of four years, this young institution of higher education – JIS University, Kolkata, has earned a good reputation for providing industry-connected curriculums that combine academic theory, hands-on learning, research and internships – Baishali Mukherjee
Sited on a green environment-friendly 10-acre campus in the leafy Agarpara suburb of Kolkata (pop.15 million), the private […]
Dr. R. Natarajan is former director of IIT-Madras and former chairman of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)
The buzzword among educationists today is Education 4.0. To understand Education 4.0, it is important to understand Industrial Revolution (IR) 4.0, which gained traction when a German government memo released in 2013 used the term “Industrie […]
Last November, Ludhiana (Punjab)-based early teens education evangelist Namya Joshi (13) met her “Skype students” — directors and principals of Finnish schools — for the first time at the Poke Vocational College, Aanekoski (Finland), where she was invited to deliver a lecture on gamification of elementary and high school education. However, Namya took this invitation […]
Bangalore-based teenage STEM enthusiast Pranjal Srivastava (15) was a member of the six-strong national team representing India at the International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO) 2019 staged in the University of Bath, UK, in July. The team brought home a gold medal after a gap of six years and Pranjal became the youngest Indian to win gold […]
The annual EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR), which rates and ranks the country’s Top 1,000 primary-secondary schools, is the world’s largest school rankings survey. To compile the 100-plus league tables of the EW India School Rankings 2019-20, 120 field personnel of the Delhi-based market research company Centre for Forecasting & Research (C fore) interviewed 12,213 […]
New Delhi/Sydney, December 6. O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU), one of India’s Institutions of Eminence, signed MoUs (memoranda of understanding) with seven highly-ranked universities in Australia, viz, Macquarie University, University of New South Wales, University of New England, University of Newcastle, University of Sydney, University of Technology Sydney and Western Sydney University.
Chandigarh, December 10. Government school teachers across Punjab threatened to burn the effigy of state education minister Vijay Inder Singla if he refused to apologise for allegedly using objectionable language against unemployed youth protesting government inaction.
Singla reportedly used abusive language against unemployed B.Ed and TET-qualified teachers, who were protesting the failure of the state government […]
“Instead of building gigantic statues to national or religious heroes, India should build more modern schools and universities that will open its children’s minds, making them more tolerant and respectful of one another, and helping them hold their own in the competitive globalised world of tomorrow.”
Raghuram Rajan, former Reserve Bank India governor (India Today, December […]
Although university students in Delhi have been the focus of media attention for mass protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and the proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC), West Bengal and Kolkata in particular have also witnessed huge public protests with thousands of students and members of the major political parties — the Trinamool […]
Somewhat belatedly, the draft National Education Policy 2019 of the nine-member Kasturirangan committee, which is still receiving “final touches” on the last day of 2019, devoted five pages to early childhood care and education (ECCE) and recommended extension of professionally administered ECCE to “foundational stage” education to all children up to age eight (class II).
There is a palpable sentiment of euphoria within the corridors of Anna University, Chennai (AU, estb.1978) — Tamil Nadu’s premier engineering and technology university — which has 571 affiliated engineering colleges. In August, an expert committee of the University Grants Commission recommended AU for conferment of Institute of Eminence (IoE) status.
Free-of-charge primary-secondary schools owned and managed by the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) — the richest local self-government institution in the country (2019-20 budget: Rs.30,692 crore) — continue to report steep decline in enrolments. The number of children enrolled in the corporation’s 1,186 schools dropped from 3.11 lakh in 2017-18 to 3 […]
The estimated 1.7 million class x students who are expected to write the school-leaving exam of the Delhi-based Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE, estb.1962) — the country’s largest pan-India exam board — can look forward to less math phobia in February-March this year. They will have the option to write either […]
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Dr. K. Kasturirangan on e-mail
Dispiriting rank query
EuroKids, Friendship Nagar (EK-FN) is ranked among the Top […]
Although the BJP/NDA 2.0 government at the Centre is surprised by the scale and intensity of public outrage — particularly among university students and youth across the country — to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) 2019, public apprehension and sustained criticism of the Act is justified.
Though the government claims the new legislation, […]
The recent wave of rape-murders of women citizens across the country from Unnao and Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh to Hyderabad and Ranchi, the thousand unnatural shocks that women are heir to on a daily basis and the helpless outrage of decent society, has like never before exposed the utter intellectual aridity and lack of problem-solving […]
According to latest data published in the Open Doors report of the US-based Institute of International Education for year 2017-18, the number of students from India signing up with American universities declined by 8.8 percent in that year. Although the Indian cohort in American universities is still very large at 211,000, this could be the […]
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Preparing for Education 4.0
Dr. R. Natarajan is former director of IIT-Madras and former chairman of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)
The buzzword among educationists today is Education 4.0. To understand Education 4.0, it is important to understand Industrial Revolution (IR) 4.0, which gained traction when a German government memo released in 2013 used the term “Industrie […]