Bangalore-based child education crusader Nikhiya Shamsher (15) is the India winner of the Diana Legacy Award — an accolade of the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Charity Fund (estb.1997). This special award acknowledges outstanding young leaders for community service around the world. Nikhiya was one of 20 young leaders selected from among 12,000 nominated from […]
The great Indian middle class seems unmindful that government regulation of fees of private independent schools — the sole bright spot of a crumbling education system — could be the first step towards levelling them down to the pathetic condition of government schools defined by ramshackle buildings, multi-grade classrooms, unusable toilets, and abysmal learning outcomes […]
A sequel to the first-ever EducationWorld India Private Higher Education Rankings 2017-18 league tables published in May, the four-hour awards nite programme celebrated the country’s most admired private universities, engineering institutes and B-schools whose growth, development and potential tend to be obscured by mainstream media – Summiya Yasmeen
The inaugural EducationWorld India Private Higher Education Rankings Awards […]
The other day, I went to meet someone in downtown Sydney, Australia. On my way back on the local train, I looked at my mobile to check my emails and found a message asking me whether I would like to connect on Linkedin with the person I had just met. This was artificial intelligence (AI) […]
Consistently ranked among India’s Top 50 day schools by EducationWorld, Utpal Shanghvi Global School has earned a well-deserved reputation for providing contemporary ICT-enabled preschool to class X academics supplemented with co-curricular and sports education – PAROMITA SENGUPTA
Sited on a compact two-acre campus in Mumbai’s suburb of Juhu within walking distance of Pratiksha, […]
Ranked among America’s Top 20 public universities by US News and World Report, UConn offers over 100 undergrad and 80 postgraduate degree programmes
Founded in 1881, University of Connecticut (UConn) is a top-ranked public research university with an aggregate enrolment of 32,027 students instructed by 4,624 faculty. The US News and World Report in its Best […]
The state government-funded International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT)-Bhubaneswar is set to offer specially designed industry-oriented skilling programmes for unemployed graduate engineers domiciled in Odisha, from this month (July) onwards.
“With a skilling and training timeframe of 150 hours spread over two months, the programme is designed to equip graduate engineers with quantitative, qualitative and soft […]
An alumna of the University of Rochester, New York and former dean at IIM-Ahmedabad, distinguished educationist Dr. Indira J. Parikh is founder-chairperson of the Puducherry-based Auronya College (AC), a liberal arts and science institute launched at a mega event staged at the ITC Grand Chola in Chennai on April 22.
In his final engagement before resigning as finance minister last year, Emmanuel Macron, now the president of France, visited one of the country’s most prestigious higher education institutions. “He spoke to each and every start-up based at our business incubator centre, discussed their projects, and they all took selfies with him,” Jacques Biot, the president […]
China has been producing almost twice as many papers on artificial intelligence as the next highest-placed country in terms of publication volume for the field, a data analysis for Times Higher Education has shown. Data from Elsevier’s Scopus database provided to THE illustrate China’s huge drive on research in the area, with researchers in the […]
Delhi-based Rohit Kumar (Harvard) and Aparajita Bharti (Oxford) are the highly qualified co-founders of Young Leaders for Active Citizenship (YLAC) India, a social enterprise offering youth short-term programmes in public policy research and implementation. YLAC’s High School Achievers Programme is designed for secondary school students (classes IX-XII) while the Policy in Action Programme is for […]
Ajay Singh and Yuri Punj of the Harvard Business School, and Sena Palanisami, an alum of Minnesota University, are co-founders of Stoodnt Inc (estb.2016), a Palo Alto, California-based education technology company which dispenses career and college admission guidance. The prime objective of Stoodnt is to provide an online platform that leverages data, technology and professional […]
Emerson College seems a curious place for flyers promoting white supremacist organisation American Vanguard to appear. The university, in the heart of Boston, usually regarded as a liberal city, is ranked friendliest in the country towards gay and lesbian students.
These and other reasons may be precisely why it was targeted, says the university’s president Lee […]
He lives in a house of cardboard and tin in Puente Piedra, a sprawling poor district on Lima’s northern fringe. His mother sells cooked food in the street; his father is a mechanic. Yet Cesar Huaman is studying architecture at a new private university. To pay the fees of $137 (Rs.8,830) a month, he works […]
Los Angeles-based businessman- philanthropist Lowell Milken is promoter-chairman of the Milken Educator Awards, TAP: System for Teacher & Student Advancement and National Institute for Excellence in Teaching. In April he was conferred the James Bryant Conant Award for exceptional individual contribution to American education. Excerpts from an e-mail interview.
Age of Anger — a history of the present, Pankaj Mishra, Juggernaut books; Rs.699, Pages 373
In his third book in five years after the path-breaking From the Ruins of Empire (2012) and A Great Clamour (2014) — both reviewed on these pages — under-appreciated London-based Indian émigré writer Pankaj Mishra takes on the task of explaining why […]
Where would you place education on your national list of priorities?
First. Education is the foundation block of national development.
How best to upgrade government schools?
Create healthy and hygienic environments, provide regular faculty development programmes, establish schools in every locality, improve lab facilities to international standards, promote sports/NCC activities among students.
How the mighty are fallen! Aveek Sarkar, hitherto chairman and editor-in-chief of the Kolkata-based Ananda Bazar Patrika Ltd (ABP), a closely held family-run company which dominates the media business in West Bengal, has been ousted from office in a swift and silent boardroom coup engineered by younger brother Arup obliged to pay second fiddle for […]
Although it’s not politically correct to say so, India’s private K-12 (and pre-primary) schools are the only shining institutions of our fast obsolescing — if not already obsolete — education system. The proof is that although there are only an estimated 90,000 of them (320,000 according to the Union human resource development ministry which enumerates […]
Sridhar Rajaram is chief operating officer of the Bangalore-based JustBooks Solutions Pvt. Ltd (JBSPL, estb. 2016) — formerly JustBooks — which runs a chain of 70 owned and franchised lending libraries countrywide offering its 200,000 subscriber-members over a million books through its innovative online books rental platform.
Newspeg. Now a limited liability company, JBSPL recently signed […]
Dr. Sandip N. Jha is founder trustee of the Mumbai-based Sandip Foundation Educational Trust (aka Sandip Foundation, estb. 2005) which has promoted 15 higher education institutions in Nashik (Maharashtra) and Sijoul (Madhubani, Bihar) with an aggregate enrolment of 8,500 students and 1,000 teaching and non-teaching staff. The foundation’s 200-acre Nashik campus hosts six contemporary institutes […]
Last year 18 farmers deprived of meaningful elementary education in rural India’s collapsed school system and driven to despair by drought, falling produce prices, and inaccessible credit and insurance, killed themselves every day, leaving behind vulnerable families who in the lawless badlands of village India are soon reduced to slavery. According to a deeply researched […]
During the course of my career as an inventor of maths learning solutions, I have often been asked whether maths learning is important in the 21st century when most maths calculuses and formulae are readily available in digital form. My standard answer to such questions is that far from becoming obsolete, numeracy and maths learning […]
I’m keen on a career in psychology. What is the scope of this profession in India?
— Harshita Bhalla, Delhi
After completing an undergrad degree in the arts stream with psychology as a subject, you could opt for postgrad study in one of several psychology specialisations — clinical, counseling and guidance, developmental, cognitive, community and industrial. Psychologists […]
With growing awareness of successful therapies administered with new age technologies to treat speech delivery and comprehension defects, SLPs are in high demand – Odeal D’souza
Speech language pathology is an allied branch of health sciences which addresses speech and communication disorders. Speech language pathologists (SLPs) aka speech therapists, are highly trained professionals who diagnose and […]
Back in 2013, a group of primary school children in Benin (Africa), angered that adolescent girl children were being forced into marriage, persuaded the government to ban child marriages. A year later, students in Colombia designed a toy plane that would drop seeds into a deforested valley to restore its green cover. In 2015, school […]
Anmol Dhawan and Prabhav Vasistha — final year medical students of the country’s prestigious Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC, estb.1948), Pune — were recently crowned international champions of the 13th Tata Crucible Campus Quiz (TCCQ) 2017. In the final round of this annual quiz open to two-member undergrad college teams, staged in Mumbai on May […]
Newcastle University’s School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering invites students from overseas (including India) to apply for its £3,000 (Rs.2.5 lakh) scholarships. To qualify for the scholarships, applicants need to have been admitted into Newcastle U through Britain’s common UCAS (Universities and Colleges Admissions Service) system.
The extension of the scholarship in subsequent years will be […]
“An important reason why Chinese higher education has galloped ahead of India is that it strengthened its primary and secondary education systems first, which India is only now attempting to achieve.”
Devesh Kapur, professor at the University of Pennsylvania (Mint, June 1)
“At present, six Dalit women are raped every day and mostly with inhumane brutality. But neither […]
“Name the first five chapters in the textbook that you teach.” “What are learning indicators?” “In light of your salary, what is the expenditure per student that is incurred in your class?”
These questions drew blank stares and wrong answers from 100-plus primary school teachers in Uttar Pradesh who were interviewed in the preliminary round before […]
Education reform — one of the major campaign planks of Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee in the historic West Bengal legislative assembly election of 2011 in which she swept aside the CPM (Communist Party of India)-led Left Front government that had ruled the state for three decades (1977-2011) — is at the heart of […]
Amidst a plethora of legal writs and controversies, the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) 2017 (decreed as the sole entrance exam for admission into all medical and dental colleges in the country by the Supreme Court on April 11, 2016) was conducted countrywide on May 7. On June 23, the results of NEET 2017 were finally […]
The tata institute of social Sciences, Mumbai (TISS, estb.1936), widely acknowledged as the country’s best social sciences higher education institution, is floundering in a sea of troubles — particularly by way of student protests.
Students are up in arms because the institute’s management has written to students that it proposes to withdraw the credit hitherto given […]
These are bad days for the Delhi-based Central Board of Secondary Education — the country’s largest national school-leaving examinations board which has 18,688 affiliated schools in India and abroad — particularly for its ambitious, authoritarian former bureaucrat R.K. Chaturvedi who was hand-picked and appointed chairman of CBSE for a five-year term on July 14 last […]
Thanks for the cover story on the International Baccalaureate, Geneva (EW June). I agree with your conclusion that the IB is perhaps the world’s most progressive and enlightened examinations board. While its mission of creating responsible global citizens is commendable, I wonder if the IB curriculum focuses on teaching children about their own national histories […]
Delhi University (DU) plans to introduce a PhD programme in Hindu Studies starting the 2025-26 academic session, as recommended by the Governing Body of the .....Read More
Madhya Pradesh School Education Minister Uday Pratap Singh admitted publicly that he was aware of at least 500 school teachers who skip work and hire .....Read More
