It’s official. the revolutionary mandate of the historic Right of Children to Free & Compulsory Education (aka RTE) Act, 2009 to abolish all exams for children in elementary school (classes I-VIII) has been revoked.
I am a committed reader of EducationWorld. Thanks for publishing the well-researched preschool rankings survey of 19 cities (EW December). The inclusion of Indore and Vadodara this year is most welcome. I hope to see more cities included next year.
In most cities, I noticed several new preschools being ranked in the league […]
US universities are bracing themselves for four years of “playing defence” on international students against the anti-immigration policies expected in president-elect Donald Trump’s second term.
His first four years in power offer some clues as to what might be in store: he tightened visa issuance, attempted to block […]
The constitution of India was promulgated as the governance charter of free, independent India on January 26, 1950. However November 28, the day on which the final draft of the Constitution was approved by Parliament in 1949, is celebrated countrywide as Constitution Day. In the last session of Parliament, on its 75th anniversary, the Constitution […]
DINESH GUPTA is the Delhi-based founder-CEO of Vikalp India Pvt. Ltd (VIL, estb 2010), an edtech company which over the past 15 years has leveraged the power of technology and the research expertise of eminent educators to develop a well-designed experiential learning program for K-12 education that has been […]
Educationist, philanthropist, and wellness evangelist Dr. Satyabrata Minaketan is founder-chairman of the Bhubaneswar-based ODM Educational Group, comprising eight institutions including six schools — ODM Public School and ODM Global School (Bhubaneswar); ODM Sapphire Global School, Ranchi; ODM International School, Durgapur; ODM International School, Angul, and ODM International School, Gurugram — […]
Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada
Shahu Patole, translated from the Marathi by Bhushan Korgaonkar
Harper Collins
Rs.599 Pages 354
This book endorses verity of the maxim that ‘food is the utlimate reality’. But its importance is that it reveals the connection between cuisine and the hierarchial caste system.
The recent English translation by Bhushan Korgaonkar of Marathi […]
— Mahika Shishodia is Head of Education, Lodha Foundation
When the full potential of gifted children is not developed, the cost is not only the loss of individual success but also of society and the nation. Google and Apple were conceptualised and built by gifted individuals
One of the greatest drawbacks of the Indian economy is the vast gulf that separates Indian academia and India Inc. Whiling away hours in ivory towers, the country’s academics, most of them brainwashed by Nehruvian socialist propaganda that all successful businessmen are crooks and cheats, have little respect for manufacturers of goods and providers of […]
When media pundits and mainstream journalists who tend to focus more on petty politics rather than root development issues pay attention to education matters, your editor who promoted EducationWorld 25 years ago with the mission to make “education the #1 item on the national agenda”, is delighted. But when a respected media pundit through an […]
In an era of extreme income and wealth disparities between India’s richest 10 percent who own 55-60 percent of national wealth and the country’s poorest 90 percent with embarassing per capita income, the national interest demands promoting the savings habit rather than conspicuous consumption. It’s a well-established canon of economics that savings equal investment.
The downsides of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) revolution that’s sweeping the world is attracting more attention than its upsides. The media is replete with gloom-and-doom predictions of conquest of the world by indestructible AI-driven robots and machines. They will enslave the genus homo sapiens which will be sentenced to work in minerals extraction sites in […]
A recent visit to India by Thomas Piketty, renowned professor of economics at the Paris School of Economics who has acquired a global reputation for his ground-breaking research on wealth inequality in several countries, has reignited the debate about high wealth disparity in contemporary India. At issue is whether priority should be given to […]
– Niru Agarwal, Managing Trustee, Greenwood High School
As I sat among our students, parents, and faculty on 20th December 2024, witnessing the Graduation Day ceremony for our ISC Grade 12 students, I was overwhelmed with pride and joy. The event, held at our Sarjapur campus was more than just a milestone— as our ISC […]
Most educators agree that if used carefully and intelligently, AI has massive potential to radically impact education by improving teaching practices and student learning outcomes, writes Ditsa Bhattacharya & Summiya Yasmeen.
Last March, edtech company Maker Labs installed India’s first artificial intelligence (AI) teacher robot named Iris in the KTCT Higher Secondary School, Thiruvananthapuram, to […]
Ronita Torcato The government of Maharashtra intends convert as many as 4,860 state run schools into institutions emulating the Centre's PM Shri School (PM Schools .....Read More
Indian student enrollments at educational institutions across Ireland have grown by over 50% making Indian students the largest international student population in Ireland, a study .....Read More
