Musings on the ‘SOCH’ of humans and the need to introspect was the theme of the Delhi Public School Harni: Annual Concert 2022.
Dr Shamsher Singh, commissioner of police Vadodara was the chief guest. He has served as deputy commissioner of police in Ahmedabad and Vadodara and joint commissioner of police in Surat and Ahmedabad. He […]
At Delhi Public School Vadodara, the annual concert is not just an entertaining programme of random cultural components, but is a way of rejoicing the art of life. It aims to gently unfold the enchanting mysteries of life and human subtleties. That is why each annual concert is a gargantuan affair which is carefully […]
-Kavita Sanghvi, Principal, Chatrabhuj Narsee Memorial School, Vile Parle, Mumbai
CNM School: Ideas that revolutionise education
Every education system in the world is being reformed at the moment and it’s not enough. Reform is no use anymore, because it simply means improving a broken model. What we need is not evolution, but a revolution in education.
Along with the launch of Devyani Jaipuria Tennis Academy (DJTA), Under-14 and Under-16 tournaments to begin in association with the All India Tennis Association
Delhi Public School, Jaipur announced the launch of the Devyani Jaipuria Tennis Academy (DJTA). The world-class training facility will be backed by India’s National and Davis Cup Coach, Zeeshan Ali.
Martin Luther King said, “character plus intelligence equals true education.” Glendale Academy believes in the holistic development of its students by Cultivating both Character and Competence. With the belief in creating intrinsic self-discipline & self-regulation, Glendale has a sound pedagogy to support this conscious discipline with a culture of RRC-Respect, Responsibility and Cooperation, Leader in […]
In early January, Plaeto, a multiplay footwear brand of the Bengaluru-based Plaeup Pvt. Ltd, launched the inaugural edition of its Pioneers Physical Education (PE) Teacher programme in the garden city’s world-class PadukoneDravid Centre for Sports Excellence to “train PE teachers to spread the joy of play among schoolchildren in India”. Over 50 PE teachers from […]
In preparation of future C-suite roles, girls of Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya, Gwalior, pursued an International Hybrid Corporate Initiation Programme under a start-up incubated at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Enterprise called ‘The Hanger’. The internship programme involved two weeks of online and two weeks of offline work. During the online module, the girls […]
Economist Gandhi: The Roots & the relevance of the political economy of the Mahatma Jaithirth Rao PENGUIN PORTFOLIO Rs.599 Pages 256
The centrepiece of the book is a radical re-evaluation of the crucial concept of trusteeship, which according to Rao contests the conventional view that Gandhi was opposed to capitalism
SMALLER CITIZENS: WRITINGS ON THE MAKING OF INDIAN CITIZENS Krishna Kumar ORIENT BLACKSWAN Rs.395 Pages 149
The author’s insights help to locate the child within socio-political complexities while understanding education in India and its intersection with citizenship
KRISHNA Kumar’s deep and critical engagement with education and its impact on the child is clearly reflected in this slim […]
CHRISTMAS EVE VIDEO INTERVIEW between articulate and incisive interviewer Karan Thapar and celebrated NDTV journalist Ravish Kumar has elicited much appreciation within the chattering classes, particularly leftists and liberal fellow travellers. Kumar’s claim to fame is that as an anchor of NDTV’s Hindi channel, he had established an excellent reputation for fearlessly speaking truth to […]
THE ADVENT OF OTT (OVER-THE-TOP) choice-based cinema and television series from around the world has given a new lease of life to India’s floundering film industry, Bollywood in particular. With well-scripted and intelligent movies produced by cinema and entertainment corporations such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hotstar among others accessible to a new generation of Indian […]
A MULTIPLYING TRIBE OF KILLJOYS IS ruining the social life of India’s teenagers and young adults whose number is estimated at 300 million countrywide.
This lament is provoked by a news report in Bengaluru’s Times of India (December 15) that a search of the handbag of a young woman student of a junior college in the […]
A spate of new genre private universities enabled by state government legislation and led by brilliant academics with excellent project management and leadership skills are generating overdue stir within the shady bowers of Indian academia, writes Dilip Thakore
IN THE LATEST (NOVEMBER) WORLD University Rankings (WUR) 2023 of the London-based Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) and Times Higher […]
New delhi, december 14. ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India (AM/NS India) — a joint venture of ArcelorMittal (UK) and Nippon Steel (Japan) — signed an MoU (memorandum of understanding) with the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) to provide digital skills training to youth countrywide. Under terms of the agreement, AM/NS India will fund the […]
Bhubaneswar, december 1. President Draupadi Murmu conferred the Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar 2022 award of the Union ministry of youth affairs and sports on Dr. Achyuta Samanta, founder-promoter of Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT).
“This award recognises KIIT’s sustained focus on sports education for the past 18 years. Together with upgrading academic […]
Can one-sided claims or a ‘no-compromise’ stance by either India or China guarantee peace along the LAC, much less cooperation between our two civilizational nations that can shape a new world order?, writes Sudheendra Kulkarni
JUNE 2020: GALWAN VALLEY, LADAKH. DECEMBER 2022: Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh. In the absence of a mutually agreed permanent boundary, every time […]
The major attraction of AUA is that its medical education is recognised in the United States, UK, Canada, India and most European countries, writes Reshma Ravishanker
IN THE NEW GLOBALISED WORLD, the once-distant Caribbean islands have emerged as hubs of accessible medical education. Currently, the 13 island nations host 60 medical colleges and thousands of international […]
SSPS is the first CBSE-affiliated English-medium school in the under-served Beed district of Maharashtra. In the latest EW India School Rankings 2022-23, it is ranked among the state’s Top 10 day-cum-boarding schools, writes Dipta Joshi
SITED ON A GREEN 35-acre campus in the educationally under-served Marathwada region of Maharashtra’s Beed district (pop.2 million), the co-ed Shiv […]
Gurugram (Haryana)-based Dhruvi Choudhary (15) is an emerging star in national gymnastics. Last December (2022), she won an individual bronze medal in rhythmic gymnastics in the senior category at the National Games staged in Bengaluru. Earlier in May, this Haryana champion was selected to compete in the School World Games of the International School Sports […]
Kalna (West Bengal)-based Sayani Das recently set a new record by becoming the first Asian woman to swim across the 43-km Molokai Channel which separates the islands of O’ahu and Molokai in Hawaii, USA. Sayani swam the channel which strong currents and gusty winds apart, is also the hunting ground of sharks, box […]
With American disenchantment with communist China growing by the day, America’s top-ranked universities are increasingly looking towards India — which currently hosts the world’s largest child and youth population — for students and academic collaboration partnerships. Suddenly American academics have discovered that the English language skills of Indian students and relative autonomy of […]
Delhi-based DIYA BADGEL is the new India director of the AFS Intercultural Programs. Promoted in 1915 as the American Field Service (AFS), currently AFS is a US-based non-profit organisation providing multinational exchange programmes for children and young adults to develop the knowledge, skills and understanding required to create a more just and peaceful […]
Hitherto principal of the Chaoyang Kaiwen Academy, Beijing (China), ANDREW LEALE is founding-headmaster of the Harrow International School, Bengaluru (HISB) which is under construction on a 30-acre campus in Devanahalli, a suburb of the garden city (pop.10 million). HISB is the outcome of a collaboration agreement between two heavyweights — the Delhi-based Amity […]
Best-selling author, motivational speaker, and self-improvement guru, SEAN COVEY is the Utah (USA)-based president of FranklinCovey Education, a division of FranklinCovey Inc (FCI, annual revenue: $263 million (Rs.2,177 crore) in 2021-22), a publicly-listed company providing assessment training and services in leadership and business management to corporates and individuals.
The agile classroom is built on the foundation of people, process, collaboration and problem-solving through practice of 21st century skills
OUR CURRENT EDUCATION SYSTEM WAS designed during the first industrial revolution (1760-1820). In that era, the general public was largely uneducated, unable to read and knowledge was in short supply. If you wanted to learn […]
With the telangana legislative assembly election scheduled to be held by end December and General Election 2024 obliged to be called the following summer, all political parties led by the erstwhile Telangana Rashtra Samiti, renamed Bharatiya Rashtra Samiti (BRS) on December 14 by chief minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR), have gone into election […]
Tamil pride suffered a huge blow in the closing months of last year when the Union ministry of education’s Performance Grading Index (PGI) 2020-21, released on November 3, 2022, demoted the state’s primary-secondary school system to Level III.
According to the ministry’s department of school education and literacy website, PGI, introduced in 2017-18, “measures […]
Annual school exams are just round the corner. It’s that time of year when teachers gear up to address the learning needs of students, guide them in better preparation, share tips and tricks to consolidate learning and – by and large – ensure better performance and outcomes. Doing so requires cutting-edge competencies over and above […]
Even as west Bengal’s monumental teachers’ recruitment scandal in which cash mountains of Rs.100 crore were discovered in the palatial home of actress Arpita Mukherjee, mistress of education minister Partha Chatterjee, is being investigated by the CBI and Enforcement Directorate (ED), the West Bengal Board of Primary Education (WBBPE) held a fresh Teachers’ […]
With state legislative assembly elections less than six months away, the auguries are not good for the state’s BJP government. The party’s strategy to arouse sub-nationalist Kannada pride by reviving a border dispute with Maharashtra has backfired with the BJP government at the Centre refusing to intervene in the dispute between two BJP-ruled […]
The glacial pace at which the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, formulated after an interregnum of 34 years — during which the world entered the digital age — is being implemented has belatedly galvanised the BJP/NDA government at the Centre into action, especially in higher education.
I AM A regular reader of EducationWorld and want to thank you for publishing the comprehensive EW India Preschool Rankings 2022-23 (EW December), especially after the understandably truncated surveys over the pandemic years.
I also welcome inclusion of the best government-run anganwadis in your survey. This will serve the purpose of focusing government attention on […]
The resurgence of the covid pandemic in the neighbour People’s Republic of China (PRC) has quite rightly triggered alarm bells in New Delhi and several state admin capitals. Although the PRC government of a communist dictatorship has stopped publishing data on the number of Covid infections and fatalities, by all indications the deadly virus and […]
In an official statement made in Parliament on December 13, Union defence minister Rajnath Singh made light of a December 9 scuffle between Chinese and Indian soldiers on the McMahon line which marks the border in the north-east between the world’s two most populous countries.
However, the clash which prompted banner headlines in the media, is […]
With former space scientist Dr. K. Kasturirangan, chairman of the nine-member committee which authored the 484-page Draft National Education Policy, 2019 which translated into the 66-page National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, having unobtrusively accepted the position of chairman of a steering committee to implement NEP 2020, the speed of overdue reform of India’s moribund education […]
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Settle Sino-India border through compromise
Can one-sided claims or a ‘no-compromise’ stance by either India or China guarantee peace along the LAC, much less cooperation between our two civilizational nations that can shape a new world order?, writes Sudheendra Kulkarni
JUNE 2020: GALWAN VALLEY, LADAKH. DECEMBER 2022: Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh. In the absence of a mutually agreed permanent boundary, every time […]