The boast often made by supra nationalists and/ or apologists of licence-permit-quota raj which has struck strong roots and continues to hold the nation hostage, is that post-independence India has produced the world’s second largest reservoir of scientists and technicians. Though on first hearing this seems an impressive achievement, on second thought it seems absurd […]
Time of reckoningWhile making politically correct noises about constitutional proprieties and avoiding witch-hunts, newly appointed Union human resource development minister Arjun Singh is setting about his campaign to ‚Ëœdetoxify‚ academic institutions falling under the supervisory jurisdiction of the HRD ministry with rare determination. In pursuit of his scarcely-disguised hindutva agenda, his predecessor the unlamented Dr. […]
Expeditionary learning for learningSudheendra SavanurQuite rightly school managements value traditions and experience. But in an era of rapid societal and global change, past experience may prove inadequate to prepare children for the future. To cite one example, digital information and communication technologies are changing patterns of work, play, social interaction, and economic exchange worldwide. Therefore […]
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown; Transworld Publishers; Price: Rs.246; 604 pp
It’s been no.1 on the New York Times list of best-selling fiction for an unprecedented 60 weeks. Travel agents are offering itineraries in France and England based upon the journeys of the protagonists of this novel. A big budget Hollywood movie, certain to be a box-office blockbuster, […]
India’s islands in the sunNews that there are 500 uninhabitated islands with tropical forests, deserted beaches, exquisite coral and marine life within India’s territorial jurisdiction is likely to come as a pleasant surpriseLakshadweep coral atollsIn the popular imagination despite its 3.28 million sq. km landmass and its vast unpeopled rural tracts, contemporary India is a […]
With the recently elected United Progressive Alliance government in Delhi giving top billing to education, academics and non-government organisations believe this is a good time to press for a common school system recommended 40 years ago by the Kothari Commission. Summiya yasmeen reports
Following the shock defeat of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led National Democratic […]
With the exam and essays season drawing to a close, lecturers, examiners and school teachers in Britain are confronted with the prospect of not only marking huge numbers of answer papers and essays, but also being extra vigilant about the possibility of at least some of their students presenting work that […]
Last weekend I was transported into a world not of this age. The 40-acre farm I visited near Mumbai has recently been converted into near-paradise. Only pure love can engineer such a miracle, combined of course with the will of God. God in this case is Krishna whose presence is ubiquitous all over the farm. Paintings of Krishna, […]
Despite a 47-year career in the fields of education, training and management consultancy and many a mission accomplished in banking and academia, Prof. Y.K. Bhushan believes that he has one more major mission to accomplish. Right now he is pulling out all the stops and utilising his reservoir of skills and experience to vault the ICFAI […]
Your Counsellor RepliesI‚m in class XII (science) and keen on a career in aerospace engineering. Which colleges in India offer this programme? Is it possible to get admission into NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) and MIT in the US?Suhas Rene, PuneThe six Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) offer the best aerospace engineering study programmes. […]
The formal teaching-learning of astrology recently received a boost with the UGC approving the conduction of certificate diploma, undergraduate, postgraduate and Ph D study programmes in jyotish vigyan
Though the introduction of astrology as a degree level study programme in Indian universities by Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi, hitherto Union minister of human resource development aroused […]
Practical guide to ecology literacyDr. R.N. PardiwalaSocieties the world over are beginning to appreciate that environment conservation is the ultimate raison d‚etre. Without clean air, fresh water and healthy food, survival ‚ or even enjoyment of prosperity ‚ is impossible; all other issues are subordinate to this imperative. Moreover there is a simultaneous awareness that […]
Learning to learn in pre-schoolNina KanjirathAn almost imperceptible but nevertheless revolutionary lifestyle and demographic shift in favour of two-income nuclear families within India‚s pace-setting middle class has brought pre-school and child care centres into sharp focus in contemporary urban society. With women increasingly reluctant to take long career breaks to mind young children, profess-ionally managed […]
While foreign observers of the Indian economy tend to be staggered by the sheer numbers of qualified personnel pouring out of the nation’s institutes and colleges of technical education, indigenous monitors of the economy tend to be less bedazzled. Dr. R. Natarajan, chairman of the All India Council for Technical Education has written an ambitious […]
Bangalore-based Karan Kadam (14) created history on May 12, in the seaside resort of Colva, Goa, when he won the ‘Group A’ ‘Indian Experts Foreign Motorcycles Class Race’ (upto 250 cc) in the second leg of the MRF National Motocross Championship. The youngest to have achieved this feat, Karan was also adjudged Best Rider of the […]
Founded in 1987 by maverick business tycoon Alan Bond, this eponymous institution of higher education is Oz’s first and only privately funded independent university
Situated on a scenic campus on the Gold Coast, an hour’s drive from Brisbane — capital of Queensland — Bond University is Australia’s first and only privately funded, independent varsity. It comprises five […]
Established as an orphanage for females by a group of Scottish philanthropists serving in the armed forces in 1847, the co-ed Bombay Scottish School is now routinely ranked among Mumbai’s best
Ranked Mumbai’s no. 1 primary-cum-secondary school in the Delhi-based Outlook weekly’s survey of schools across the country (December 16, 2002), Bombay Scottish School (BSS) has come […]
A quiet revolution is taking place in education in many developing countries. It has been sparked off neither by governments nor by international agencies. Nor is it lauded in the media. But it is impacting the lives of millions worldwide. This revolution challenges the assumption that the public sector (government) should be responsible for all aspects of […]
The Sarala Birla Academy, the Aditya Birla Group’s internationally benchmarked public school was formally inaugurated by Narayana Murthy, chairman, Infosys Technologies and Prof. Prema Pandurang in Bangalore on June 11.
“Our vision for the Sarala Birla Academy is to ignite minds and create a love for learning and continuous development of children by making the […]
Immediately after assuming office as Union minister of human resource development of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government on May 22, the septuagenarian warhorse of the Congress Party, Arjun Singh (who served in this ministry in the 1980s) has moved with uncharacteristic alacrity to cleanse the augean stables of the ministry.
Singh’s operation de-saffronisation includes reversing hindutva-inspired […]
Your concern for the migration of licence-permit-quota raj into the education sector, especially into the private secondary school system is well-founded and justified. Unlike the university and higher education system which has been destroyed by Central and state government interference, India still offers independent schools which are world class. But as you have chillingly recounted […]
The inclusion of a commitment to “raise public spending in education to at least 6 percent of the GDP with at least half of this amount to be spent on primary schools” in the common minimum programme (CMP) of the recently constituted Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government in New Delhi is a matter of […]
Sukanya Sonowal, a final-year B.Tech. student in Biosciences and Bioengineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, has been appointed as a Commonwealth Youth .....Read More
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