EducationWorld July 2021

Tripartite concordat

Mumbai, June 29. Tata Electronics Pvt. Ltd (TEPL) signed an MoU (memorandum of understanding) with SASTRA Deemed-to-be-University, Thanjavur (Tamil Nadu) to develop deep domain expertise to enhance electronics design and manufacturing skills in collaboration with Asia University and Yuan Ze University, Taiwan.

Under this agreement, students admitted to the two-year M.Tech degree programme in Very Large-Scale […]

Schools upgradation drive

Paromita Sengupta with bureau inputs

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Bhubaneswar, june 3. The Kendrapara district administration has set a target to revamp 500 government primary schools in the district by end 2021.

“So far, 60 primary and upper primary schools in the district have been given a facelift. The focus is on upgrading their infrastructure with good quality benches, desks, toilets […]

Whose India binary: The Fate of Butterflies

THE FATE OF BUTTERFLIES
Nayantara Sahgal
SPEAKING TIGER
Rs.455, Pages 144

The Fate of Butterflies by the redoubtable Nayantara Sahgal is another testimonial to her versatile imagination. Interweaving personal and the political like many of Sahgal’s earlier books, this novel narrates a history of the present from a fast receding liberal-secular perspective.

Butterflies traces the story of […]

Wide but not deep: India’s Power Elite

INDIA’S POWER ELITE — CLASS, CASTE AND A CULTURAL REVOLUTION
Sanjaya Baru
PENGUIN
Rs.699; Pages 228 pp

Currently, a Delhi-based policy analyst, writer and columnist, Sanjaya Baru has excellent credentials to write this interestingly titled book. In his eventful, and yet sure to be more productive life he has acquired rich and valuable insights into post-independence […]

“History of pandemics not taught in our schools”

An alumnus of Mumbai University and London School of Economics, Chinmay Tumbe is currently assistant professor of economics at IIM-Ahmedabad. Excerpts from an interview with Dilip Thakore:

Congratulations for your timely new book The Age of Pandemics 1817-1920 — How they Shaped India and the World. The subtitle of your book seems to suggest that […]

EW Grand Jury India Higher Education Rankings 2021-2022

The EducationWorld Grand Jury India Higher Education Rankings were introduced in 2019 to recognise and acknowledge low-profile, media shy higher education institutions (HEIs) implementing best practices. Juries comprising knowledgeable educationists were constituted to evaluate low-profile and newly promoted private HEIs deserving recognition. To select progressive higher education institutions across the country, we invited nominations from […]

Madhya Pradesh: Politics of Happiness

Aditi Maheshwari (Bhopal)

Evidently inspired by the example of the neighbouring Kingdom of Bhutan which measures national development through a Gross National Happiness Index (GNHI) and latterly by the Delhi state government which introduced happiness classes into the curricula of government schools, the Anand Vibhag (Happiness Department) of the Madhya Pradesh government has succeeded in ameliorating […]

Karnataka: Wrong Priority

Reshma Ravishanker (Bengaluru)

Even as the new academic year 2021-22 commenced from July 1 with online education decreed compulsory for all of Karnataka’s 76,800 schools including 48,393 government primary-secondaries, the stalemate over fees payable to private schools for 2020-21 and the new academic year is unresolved.

In February, several private schools associations filed writ petitions in the […]

West Bengal: Teachers recruitment priority

Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)

Evidently chief minister Mamata Banerjee, fresh from her resounding third time sweep of the West Bengal state legislative elections, is convinced that her initiatives to reform the state’s moribund education system and raise teaching-learning standards in 92,000 government primary-secondary schools, played a major role in her famous electoral victory in the assembly elections […]

Girl children dropping out danger

It doesn’t make headline news. but evidence is emerging that the shutdown of all pre-primary and K-12 schools countrywide for over 15 months for fear of children being infected by the novel Coronavirus, is likely to blight the future of tens of millions of India’s children, especially the girl child.

According to the National Family Health […]

Muni International School, Delhi

Among India’s unique budget private schools which have emerged as alternatives to dysfunctional government schools, MIS, ranked India’s #1 BPS for three years (2015-17) by EducationWorld, has emerged as a model institution, writes Autar Nehru

Thakur (right) with Japanese ambassador & students: extraordinary results

Established in 2002 to provide affordably-priced English-medium education to children of […]

California State University, Long Beach

One of the largest universities in America’s most populous state, the scenically sited CSULB has an aggregate enrolment of 39,360 students from over 100 countries worldwide, writes Reshma Ravishankar

A constituent institution of the 23-campus California state public higher education system, California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) is one of the largest universities in America’s most […]

Ill-advised changes in engineering education

By falling in line with NEP 2020 and particularly its advocacy of multi-disciplinary education, AICTE has diluted the importance of physics and maths, the building blocks of engineering education, writes R. Natarajan

In its approval process handbook 2021-22 released in early March, the Delhi-based All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), established in 1987 by Parliament […]

South-east Asia: Higher ed spending spree

HKU new campus launch ceremony: rising government spending

In the sort of formal ceremony beloved in this part of the world, VIPs posed on stage, holding shovels decorated with giant gold bows, to mark the launch of a University of Hong Kong (HKU) campus redevelopment project.

The event held in January, could be viewed only […]

India: Pandemic jugaad charges

Delhi University students: normalcy pretence charge

Indian universities are facing mounting criticism of their response to the country’s deadly coronavirus surge, with concern focusing on the fate of insecurely employed teaching staff.

At the flagship University of Delhi, at least 35 lecturers have died from Covid-19 in the past month, according to the Delhi […]

United Kingdom: Brexit hits research

UK universities could struggle to fill key professorial and postdoctoral researcher roles amid growing frustration among European academics at Brexit-related bureaucracy and costs, Times Higher Education has been told. Since the end of the Brexit transition period in January, European Union nationals have been subject to the same immigration rules as people from the rest […]

China: Lab leak theory revival

Wuhan Institute of Virology: more openness call

Just a month ago, the idea that Coronavirus came from an accidental lab leak in Wuhan was derided by much of the press as a fringe conspiracy theory and banned on Facebook as a form of misinformation. Now, a host of distinguished scientists including Anthony Fauci, the […]

Germany: Online exams cheating spurt

Students are twice as likely to cheat in online exams following the rapid switch to digital assessment last summer, suggests a survey. A survey of 1,608 students in higher education institutions across Germany found that 61.4 percent said they had used “unallowed assistance and/or engaged in direct exchange with other students” during online exams over […]

Beneficial rankings

Welcome innovation

I am a regular reader of EducationWorld and have been following the annual EW India Higher Education Rankings for the past three years. Congratulations to C fore and EW for conducting and publishing a comprehensive higher education institutions rankings survey, despite the huge disruption caused by the deadly Covid-19 pandemic.
The newly introduced rankings […]

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Green schools initiative: Sabuj Pathshala

Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)

Sabuj Pathshala (‘green school’), a Kolkata-based voluntary organisation, has established three lower primary (class I-IV) schools for underprivileged children of Muslim and tribal communities in the Malda, Jalpaiguri and Murshidabad districts of West Bengal.

This NGO was promoted in 2006 by Kolkata-based journalists Milan Dutta and Syamantak Ghosh, together with software engineer Arijit Das […]

People

TIME high flyer: Manek Daruvala

Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)

Manek Daruvala is the Hyderabad-based co-founder of test prep company TIME (Triumphant Institution of Management Education) Pvt. Ltd (estb. 1992). With over 40 IIT/IIM graduates in its core team, TIME offers school and college-leavers rigorous coaching to write competitive entrance exams for admission into professional study programmes and employment in banks and corporates. […]

People

Job interviews mentor: Sandeep Jain

Autar Nehru (Delhi)

Sandeep Jain is the Noida-based founder-CEO of geeksforgeeks.org, a website popular with computer science students and IT (information technology) professionals. Launched in 2015, it offers aid and advice to engineering students preparing for job interviews, and useful content and solutions for IT problems and glitches.

Newspeg. Recently, the website — awarded a global Internet […]

People

Online ed innovators: Natasha Jain and Sonia Agarwal Bajaj

Dipta Joshi (Mumbai)

Natasha Jain (Right) and Sonia Agarwal Bajaj

Delhi-based Natasha Jain and Agra-based Sonia Agarwal Bajaj are co-founders of a new e-learning and skills development platform Whiz League (estb.2021). Each course provides subscribers invaluable insights from industry leaders by way of pre-recorded lectures.

Newspeg. Since it was launched in April, this app has been […]

People

Tinkering labs provider: Sarang Gangan

Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)

Gangan (centre): STEM missionary

Sarang Gangan is founder-CEO of the Gurugram-based Eduphoria Solutions LLP (estb.2017, headcount: 10), an edtech start-up that offers primary-secondary schools a bouquet of solutions to promote hands-on STEM learning and enhance quality and disseminate science and tech education countrywide.

Currently, the company provides end-to-end solutions for installing customised innovation […]

People

Wizenoze founder: Diane Janknegt

Dipta Joshi (Mumbai)

Diane Janknegt is CEO and co-founder of the Amsterdam-based Wizenoze B.V. (estb. 2013), an edtech company which offers learners access to education content and resources on the Internet commensurate with their age and reading levels. During the past eight years since its incorporation, the company’s products — Wizeup and Web for Classrooms — […]

Divine justice

Public Memory is short and television memory even shorter, not more than a 24-hour news cycle. On June 14, few of India’s 403 news television channels remembered that it was the first death anniversary of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput. This promising young movie star’s death, initially reported as suicide, transformed into a CBI murder […]

Shattering stereotypes

The phenomenal popularity of the French television series Lupin produced by Netflix, which chalked up a viewership of 76 million in the first quarter of this year, is arguably an inflection point in race relations around the world. In most European countries, including France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain and Denmark, Lupin topped the popularity charts […]

Daly’s rude rajah

Despite Official claims to the contrary, for ease of doing business or conducting an honest enterprise, post-independence India is one of the world’s most difficult countries. Even running an education institution which by definition is in the public interest, is a very difficult vocation. Under Indian beggar-thy-neighbour socialism, private school and college promoters and managements […]

Dr. Krati Jain

Aditi Maheshwari (Bhopal)

Dr. Krati Jain (25) has the unique distinction of becoming the first woman medical graduate of the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial (MGM) Medical College, Indore (estb.1878) to win 13 gold medals for outstanding performance in the MBBS final exam. The medals and awards were conferred on her in mid-February this year at an […]

Anjali Surana

Paromita Sengupta, Bengaluru

A class XII student of Kolkata’s top-ranked Cambridge International (UK) and International Baccalaureate (Geneva)-affiliated Calcutta International School, Anjali Surana (18) is national winner of the 11th Pramerica Spirit of Community Awards (PSCA) 2021. This teen social activist was presented a gold medallion, certificate of excellence and a cash prize of Rs.350,000 for […]

Why India’s Schools Should Reopen Right Now

The balance between children’s safety against the Covid-19 pandemic and their right to protect their future livelihoods needs to be restored. The national interest demands no more time is lost in restarting India’s long shuttered schools with adequate safety protocols, writes Dilip Thakore

Loss of lives and livelihoods has been the focus of official and media […]

Tamil Nadu: Pandemic advantage

Shivani Chaturvedi, Chennai

Chief minister Stalin: playing field tilt

Since it was re-elected to office after a hiatus of ten years, the new Dravida Munnetra Kazhagan (DMK) government led by M.K. Stalin, son of M. Karunanidhi, one of the founders of the party (estb.1949) which initiated uninterrupted rule of Dravidian political parties with close links […]

Maharashtra: Fees regulation imbroglio

Dipta Joshi, Maharashtra

Despite a May 3 judgement of the Supreme Court in Indian School Jodhpur & Ors vs. State Government of Rajasthan in which the apex court ruled that the right to determine private school fees is of “management alone,” on June 7, the Maharashtra coalition government announced the formation of five Divisional Fee Regulatory […]

Performance grading index politics

Autar Nehru, Delhi

The second edition of the Performance Grading Index (PGI) 2019-20 whose release was “approved” by Union education minister Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank on June 6, has generated a political controversy. Designed by the department of school education and literacy of the Union education ministry and first published last year, the purpose of the […]

How to prepare for post-pandemic education?

– Professor Arjya B. Majumdar, Dean, Admissions & Outreach, O.P. Jindal Global University

More than a year after the outbreak of the pandemic, nearly half of the students worldwide remain affected by intermittent school closures, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The pandemic has severely disrupted lives of university teachers and […]

Culturally compatible exams reform proposal

Explosive grades inflation has jeopardised the credibility of school board exams. Therefore the criterion referenced assessment (CRA) system is receiving new traction, says Venunadhan Pillai

In many countries around the world including India, examination boards have cancelled or postponed exams because of the Covid-19 pandemic. This decision has not been taken lightly. Public board exam scores […]

Chitkara Design School

Gopal Meena, Vice President – Strategic Initiatives, Dean – Department of UX. Chitkara Design School

Chitkara Design School believes in a unique vision that combines the creative legacy of the past with innovation that looks towards the future.

Being one of the new and promising design schools in India, Chitkara Design School offers students a wide range […]

JAGSoM launches BBA program

Learn instruments, be a vocalist, paint on a canvas, trek on the mountains and still be Industry 4.0 professional

AACSB-accredited and globally ranked Jagdish Sheth School of Management (JAGSoM) has launched a unique BBA program at Vijaybhoomi University near Mumbai. Globally acclaimed academics Padma Bhushan Prof. Jagdish Sheth (Chairman, JAGSoM) and Prof. A Parasuraman (Pro-chancellor, Vijaybhoomi […]

Fliplearn homework transformation system for schools and teachers

The Covid pandemic has impacted life in ways we could not imagine just a year ago. Education was severely disrupted due to the limitations imposed on movement, meetings and gathering. Divya Lal, Managing Director of Fliplearn Education Pvt. Ltd explains her views on why schools should prepare for a shift to Phygital learning in 2021.

The […]

Education India to invest 20 crores in school acquisition module in next two years

Dr Manjeet Jain is founder of Education India, born and brought up in Mount Abu. Doctorate In English Literature from USA, served in army as captain after volunteer retirement opted education career as passion. Has been awarded with various recognition and held key designation in various government, semi government and private bodies. He is well […]

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