“Science principles are best understood if they are incorporated into play toys,” says Arvind Gupta, coordinator of the Children‚s Science Centre of the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, a hi-tech research facility open to scientists of all Indian universities. An electronics engineering graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur, and winner of several […]
When the Chennai-based Prasad Group, Asia’s largest provider of post-production services in the film and video industry, promoted the L.V. Prasad Film & TV Academy in 2005 to commemorate 50 years of the Prasad Group (established in 1956 by veteran filmmaker L.V. Prasad), highly regarded film director, educator and columnist K. Hariharan was the unanimous […]
Although Vinayak V. Dalvie has been the Mumbai-based deputy secretary (education) to the governor of Maharashtra since November 2003, serving first with erstwhile governor Mohammed Fazal and currently with the incumbent SM Krishna, he prefers to regard himself as a teacher. “When I accepted this assignment in the governor‚s mansion, I requested I should be […]
Following the rapid growth and development of India‚s IT, particularly the computer software industry, Indian IT firms are establishing their footprints worldwide, especially in the high-growth economies of China, South Africa, New Zealand and Malaysia. One of the latest such initiatives in the high-growth IT hardware and networking training space is a collaboration agreement between […]
Worst fears proved trueIn 2005 when it was launched with great fanfare as the most ambitious pro-poor programme in Indian history, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme for which an annual outlay of Rs.40,000-60,000 crore was budgeted to provide a minimum of 100 days of employment at the daily minimum wage of each state (Rs.45-70) […]
Engaging post-independence historyIndia after Gandhi by Ramchandra Guha; Picador; Price: Rs.695; 771 ppBy all accounts Bangalore-based Ramchandra Guha is not your genial neighbourhood type of sociologist/ historian. Indeed it is tempting to dismiss him as an intellectual poseur. Invariably engaged as he is in high thinking even if not simple living, it‚s difficult to catch […]
Equal Education for All Odyssey (contd.)EducationWorld‚s special correspondent Srinidhi Raghavendra recently completed a 18,700 km motorcycle odyssey to highlight the importance of education equity. In February he traversed the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal. Excerpts from his tour diaryEducationWorld‚s special correspondent Srinidhi Raghavendra together with Kishore Patwardhan under the aegis of Borderless Bikers, Bangalore was on […]
Should failing government schools be leased to NGOs?Government-NGO cooperation has become urgently necessary to revive and re-establish the country‚s 867,000 plus government primary and secondary schools as genuine centres of learning, providing the 200 million children who enroll in them annually a fair chance to step aboard the escalator of fast-track, shining India. Dilip Thakore […]
Simple rules for healthy nutritionEverytimeI see a parent and child on a pavement with the latter walking on the outside, I want to stop to tell them to change positions for the child‚s safety. Likewise when I‚m in the proximity of people throwing garbage into the sea, I can‚t help reprimanding them. Once when I […]
Letter from LondonBrown‚s personal passionThe time of year for re-appraisal and remembrance of things past is here again. The degree shows at universities are coming to an end, at least in the art and design faculties, and the hype and preparation of the past few months is simmering down. End of term is also rapidly […]
In an economy experiencing the pains of double-digit industrial growth in terms of an acute shortage of skilled manpower, industry professionals ready, willing and able to lend a helping hand to academia by volunteering to assume the additional responsibilities of visiting faculty are more than welcome. Alekhya Talapatra, director sales (government and public sector) of […]
Case for low-cost teaching aidsThere is a paradigm shift in classroom pedagogies used by teachers around the world. Conventional teaching-learning methodologies are fast giving way to newer, innovative and efficient pedagogies. Chalk-and-talk though not fully redundant, has become somewhat obsolete and is considered pitiably inadequate in the contemporary educational scene. All over the world teachers […]
Exciting careers in the art businessThe demand for youth educated in art history, appreciation and administration, is at an all-time high. Suddenly career prospects in this booming new industry have become hugely rewardingA mere blip on the global art scene until recently, contem- porary Indian art is suddenly ubiquitous ‚ Christie‚s, Sotheby‚s, Bonhams among other […]
Infosys-EducationWorld Young Achievers 2007The commencement of each new academic year coincides with the disbursal of the Infosys-EducationWorld Young Achievers Awards. Instituted jointly in 2004 by the Bangalore-based ITES (information technology enabled services) and consultancy blue chip corporate Infosys Technologies Ltd (revenue: Rs.13,893 crore in fiscal 2006-07) whose 72,241 employees provide value-added services and business solutions […]
Shweta SadanandanThe sailing fraternity in Chennai is all agog about the high seas achievements of super sailor Shweta Sadanandan (12), a class VIII student of Chettinad Vidyashram who won two national events hosted by the Tamil Nadu Sailing Association (TNSA) under the aegis of the Yachting Association of India (YAI) and the National Optimist Association […]
Fast-track India’s Achilles heelIndia is rushing headlong toward economic success and modernisation, counting on high-tech industries such as information technology and biotechnology to propel the nation to prosperity. Unfortunately, India‚s weak higher education sector constitutes the Achilles‚ heel of this strategy. Systematic disinvestment in higher education in recent years has yielded an academic system characterised […]
Kaivalyadhama Yoga Institute, Lonavla Established in 1924, KYI is a premier, highly respected yoga teaching-learning institute offering teacher training and research opportunities for the growing number of yoga aficionados worldwideAlthough the ancient mind and body science that is yoga originated in India from where it has spread to the rest of the world ‚ especially […]
IUCEE launches action planning forums The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and the newly formed Indo-US Collaboration for Engineering Education (IUCEE) launched their two Action Planning Forums for Indo-US collaboration in engineering education at the Mysore campus of Infosys Technologies Ltd on June 15. Leaders in engineering education and businesses from the US and […]
They said it”A stable is better, for there you have a donkey that carries a load and a cow that provides milk. Parliament is worse than a stable.” — Malalai Joya, suspended woman member of the Afghan parliament (June 4) “In the new knowledge-based India, the three keys to economic advancement and hence to securing […]
DelhiChurch shadow over St. Stephen‚sThere is much head-shaking and anguish in the groves of academe in Delhi over a decision taken on June 14 by the supreme council of St. Stephen‚s College (estb. 1881), widely regarded as the country‚s premier liberal arts college, to reserve 40 percent of its annual intake of 400 for students […]
Double education outlay first!Thank you very much for your very informativecover story ‚Ëœ25 Wonder Products and Services‚ (EW June). I have been a dedicated reader of EducationWorld for the past five years and like you, I have been in deep despair about the future of the government-dominated Indian education system.This is why I was cheered […]
Lesson from America for Indian industryThe centennial celebrations of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (estb.1908) which have already begun with the institute‚s first global alumni conference in Silicon Valley, USA, on June 23, is a timely reminder of the pathbreaking role that private philanthropy has played in the growth and development of higher education […]
Letter from the EditorA curious paradox of contemporary India is that despite the primary, secondary and tertiary education systems being in steep decline, thanks to heavy-handed government intervention and regulation which has resulted in unwarranted subsidisation and corruption, the qualitative ‚ perhaps even quantitative ‚ achievements of young people in all walks of life is […]
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