Especially in Indias fast-track IT (information technology) industry (aggregate revenue: Rs.262,917 crore in 2008) where change is constant, new jobs and vocations which were not on the radar screen of parents, youth and even career counselors a decade ago, have emerged as lucrative and high-potential career paths. With ITs increasing pervasive-ness, software testing is a […]
God pays his debts. This sentiment — mixed with a dash of schadenfreude (a unique German word denoting derivation of pleasure from anothers misfortune) — was the dominant emotion which suffused your editor after reading news reports that David Davidar, former head of Penguin India and hitherto chief executive of Penguin Canada, has had charges […]
Since the Congress-led UPA-II coalition government was voted back to power in Delhi with an unexpected larger majority a year ago, the most hyper-active ministry of government has been the Union human resource development (HRD) ministry. Within the past 12 months since he moved into Shastri Bhavan, New Delhi as HRD minister, former legal eagle Kapil Sibal has […]
Millions of children from marginalised ethnic families in Nepal are drifting out of education because not enough is being done to keep them in school, warn aid workers. Enroling them in school and simply providing scholarships is not enough to ensure they continue going to school, says Bhaya Ram Yadav from the Jana Jagran Yuba […]
Silvio Berlusconi has attracted a good deal of controversy since he first became Italys prime minister in 1994, and this looks set to continue if his plans for a new university come to fruition. In late April Berlusconi invited his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to become the first lecturer at an institution that the Italian […]
Asia-Pacific higher education is becoming a global force, but only some nations in the region have achieved or approached parity with Western Europe and North America, writes Prof. Simon Marginson in Times Higher Education (May 27).The truly spectacular success story is from the Confucian zone in East Asia. Japan achieved high participation rates and research-intensive […]
The growth of an organisation set up to help us institutions compete in the global market is a sign of the nations growing interest in overseas students. The American International Recruitment Council (AIRC) reached the milestone of 100 institutional members in May, two years after it was established. It is seeking to develop standards of […]
Despite India boasting over a thousand B-schools, some of whom are rated and ranked among the best in the world, most graduates who aspire to corporate careers yearn to do an MBA abroad, especially in the US, UK or Australia. Well aware of this national aspiration, many foreign B-schools have established offices in India and […]
Pune-based Jesuit cleric-cum-academic Cyril Desbruslais believes in popular theatre as a medium of public instruction. For the past 39 years, he has been scripting and producing stage plays to promote the integrated development of young people and sensitise them to the needs of the marginalised and poor through his NGO Searching and Service in Unity […]
The Foreign Educational Institutions (Regulation of Entry and Operations) Bill, 2010, the outcome of a national debate spanning almost five years which is expected to be passed by Parliament in the imminent monsoon session, is proof of the grudging national mindset which has cabined, cribbed and confined post-independence Indias socio-economic development effort. The prime objective […]
First drafted four years ago but vehemently opposed by the communist parties in particular, the Foreign Educational Institutions (Regulation of Entry and Operations) Bill, 2010 has been finalised and is likely to be passed in the monsoon session of Parliament commencing July 26. Its salient features are summarised hereunder.Statement of objects and reasons. A number […]
Within a relatively short time span, MSE, founded by highly- respected economist the late Raja J. Chelliah in 1993, has established a reputation which is almost on a par with the prestigious Delhi School of Economics
Sited in Kottur, an upscale suburb of the southern port city of Chennai (pop: 4.2 million), the aesthetically designed […]
Despite the persistently huge demand for engineering degree education in the southern state of Tamil Nadu (pop. 62 million), most of the states 431 private (of a total of 456) engineering colleges are finding it hard to fill their seats. This paradox of the great majority of private engineering colleges in the state scrambling to […]
Eastern Indias most respected day school and voted third nationally in the Education-World-C fore Survey of Indias Most Respected Schools 2009, La Martiniere Boys School, Kolkata (estb. 1836) has hit the national headlines for all the wrong reasons.The reputation of the 174-year-old school has plunged precipitously into a full-blown crisis following the suicide of Rouvanjit […]
The 57th meeting of the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE), held in Delhi on June 19 after a gap of about ten months, approved several initiatives and decisions of the Union HRD ministry in the intervening period, including implementation of a national core curriculum for science and mathematics by all higher secondary examination boards […]
Congratulations to the young team at Mexus for developing innovative ICT-enabled education products and processes (‘New chargers in K-12 education, EW June). Its very encouraging to read that this start-up company has invested so heavily in R&D and product conceptualisation, and development.Indian education has its own peculiar problems and only companies which understand and address […]
The media outrage following the mild two-year jail sentences for criminal negligence recently imposed upon the directors of the former Union Carbide (India) Ltd (UCL) who were managing the company in December 1984, when deadly methyl isocynate gas escaped from its Bhopal factory killing 20,000 and wounding and maiming over 550,000 people in one of […]
- Mita Mukherjee Nearly 25 lakh persons working as pre-primary facilitators and caregivers in the country will be offered training to equip them with the .....Read More
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