Nestled in the heart of Mayur Vihar-II, Delhi, Bal Bhavan Public School stands as a beacon of excellence in education. With a legacy of nurturing young minds since its inception, the school has continually evolved to meet the dynamic needs of the modern world. Under the visionary leadership of Principal Mr. Vividh Gupta, Bal […]
Ambuj Jhunjhunwala, Trustee, Swami Vivekanand International School
Much of education and in the 21st century has become akin to ‘drinking from the firehose’, a term I first heard while pursuing my MBA at MIT Sloan. The idiom refers to how graduate students in institutions such as MIT are overwhelmed with the number of events and […]
The annual EducationWorld Grand Jury India Higher Education Rankings were introduced in 2019 to acknowledge and felicitate higher education institutions (HEIs) — especially newly-promoted, low-profile HEIs. Special juries of knowledgeable educationists are constituted to recommend conferment of the EW Grand Jury Awards upon higher ed institutions implementing best practices.
To select progressive higher education institutions across […]
Reports of widespread cheating, favouritism and swindles in NEET-UG 2024 have generated the first storm of the new Parliament convened on June 24. That’s bad news for the weakened BJP/NDA 3.0 government, and especially for re-inducted Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan – writes Summiya Yasmeen
Students countrywide protesting NEET-UG 2024 mismanagement: unprecedented scale
(Dr. Larry Arnn is President, Hillsdale College, USA. [email protected])
Do you ever watch dog trials? I find them fascinating. Dogs herd sheep, run over obstacles, catch frisbees, and seek by scent and sight. They exhaust themselves in these contests. They do it joyfully. It is a fulfillment of their nature.
A blindspot of learned economists and pundits who discuss, debate and analyse the Union — and to a much lesser extent state government — budgets, is the substantial expense incurred by government under the head ‘establishment expenses’. In EducationWorld where thrift is venerated as a virtue, we have been repeatedly whistle-blowing about enormous amounts often […]
General Election 2024 was marked by several extraordinary twists and turns and ups and downs. But surely the sweetest outcome is cutting to size Prime Minister Modi who had begun to believe that he had been divinely commissioned to rule the republic. For the first time since 2014 he has to depend upon hitherto neglected […]
Amit Saxena is CEO of the education vertical of the Delhi-based Sparsh Group, a widely diversified business conglomerate with interests in polyester films, packaging, hospitality, and renewable energy. The group currently runs four K-12 schools in Delhi-NCR — Sparsh Global and JP International schools in Greater Noida, […]
One of the highlights of General Election 2024 is blanket of silence over the wide off the mark prediction of the media — especially telly talking heads — on the outcome. Every TV news channel had predicted that the BJP would cross its 2019 Lok Sabha tally of 303 seats and that the 40-party National […]
Nikhil Pingle is Chief of Strategy & Research at the Mumbai-based Magic Bus India Foundation
As technologies evolve and economic landscapes shift, the old paradigm of skills acquired in college and university guaranteeing secure lifetime employment has become outdated
In this era where career paths are redrawn overnight and new skills become […]
Kolkata-based entrepreneur Manish Mohta is founder-director of edtech company Learning Spiral Pvt. Ltd (LSPL, estb.2019, headcount: 125) — a wholly owned subsidiary of the Kolkata-based Mohta Group of companies with interests in steel, power, copper, chemicals, and plastics (annual turnover: Rs.300 crore). Promoted five years ago, LSPL offers […]
Dr. Suneel Thummala is founder-director of the newly promoted greenfield The School of Raya (TSOR, estb.2023), Bengaluru. Sited on a nine-acre campus in Dasanayakanahalli, a suburb of the garden city, TSOR, distinguished by its unique architecture of six circular buildings with green terraces and […]
Renowned nationwide for ideating and establishing high-quality townships, office complexes and residential buildings, House of Hiranandani has invested its considerable expertise in constructing the school’s scenic campus overlooking Muttukadu Lake
Team Think — comprising Mukkabir Rahman, a class XII student of Pragya Academy, Ankush Yadav, a student of IIT-Kanpur, and Varsha K.J, a student pursuing chartered accountancy, all from Assam’s Golaghat district — was adjudged a winner of Solve for Tomorrow (SFT) 2023, a CSR (corporate social responsibility) initiative of Samsung (India).
According to Paris-based economist Thomas Piketty, income inequality in India is so great that it warrants introduction of wealth and inheritance taxes on the top 10 percent of the country’s rich. Evidently, Piketty is not sufficiently informed about the profusion of taxes already imposed upon every citizen of India, starting with the middle class which […]
“It’s like they don’t trust us,” says Eva King, a 14-year-old pupil at Alice Deal Middle School in Washington, DC. Deal’s administration has banned mobile phones during the entire school day. Pupils must store their devices inside Yondr pouches — grey padded cases that supposedly can be […]
Bombed Al-Azhar University, Gaza: perceived Hamas ties
Two hundred days into the invasion of Gaza by Israel, not a single university is left standing. At least 95 university professors and 5,000 students are reported to have been killed, while more than 500,000 children have been out of school for over seven months.
Being Muslim in Hindu India: A Critical View
Zia Us Salam
Harper Collins India
Rs. 599 Pages 310
Starting with the sentence ‘To be a Muslim is to be an orphan’, several polemical essays are peppered with contentions and arguments backed by hard data
The very first sentence of the ‘Preface’ in the book under review […]
– Rasheed Kidwai is a Delhi-based columnist, author of Sonia A Biography and visiting fellow, Observer Research Foundation Perhaps the most significant outcome of General Election 2024 is that Rahul Gandhi can now shed the failure tag. His biggest contribution was that he improved Congress’ national vote share from 19 to 22 […]
The surprise result of general Election 2024 in which the ruling BJP which had set itself a target of 400 seats of the total 543 in the 18th Lok Sabha won a mere 240 and for the first time since 2014 has to rely on its NDA (National Democratic Alliance) allies to form a government […]
Mumbai-based Rayaan Naveed Siddiqui (13) is the newly crowned Spell Master of India. In the final round of the national season XIII SBI Life Spell Bee 2024 hosted by popular actress-anchor Mandira Bedi in Mumbai on March 10, this talented teen bested 75 spelling whiz kids who made the final round […]
This vintage university’s alumni include five Nobel Laureates, over 100 Rhodes Scholars, Australia’s first woman prime minister and first woman Supreme Court judge Reshma Ravishanker
University of Adelaide North Terrace campus
Founded in 1874, the University of Adelaide (UoA) is the sixth continent’s third oldest university. Currently celebrating its 150th anniversary, the publicly-funded UoA is […]
Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan has begun his second innings in Shastri Bhavan, Delhi, at an inflection point in national development when a broad consensus has emerged that top priority has to be accorded to real education and skilling of the world’s largest population of children and youth writes Dilip Thakore
Education leaders have described Finnish government plans to charge full-cost tuition fees to students from outside the European Union as “paradoxical”, as the country hopes to significantly increase its international student intake.
At present, Helsinki subsidises the higher education of students from outside the EU or the European Economic Area (EEA), although […]
On June 7, millions of young people wrote the world’s largest academic test. China’s university-entrance exam, known as the gaokao, is punishingly difficult. Students spend endless hours cramming for it. But it is also widely accepted as meritocratic. Work hard, score well and, no matter what your social […]
Universal Ai-RDS joint venture
Mumbai, June 4. Universal AI University, which bills itself as India’s first artificial intelligence university, signed an agreement with French design school Rubika to establish a Rubika Design School (RDS) on its Karjat campus. Rubika is a globally reputed French design school with campuses in France, Canada and Reunion Island. RDS […]
Despite Tamil Nadu having been ruled by anti-upper caste political parties for almost half a century, caste-based atrocities against Dalits — the lowest caste in the iniquitous Hindu varna system — have been on the rise in the state, particularly in primary-secondary schools. This paradox highlights the complex […]
Himachal Pradesh Show-cause notices
Shimla, June 25. The state’s education ministry is set to issue show-cause notices to teachers of schools affiliated with the Himachal Pradesh Board of School Education in which the pass percentage of class X students has fallen below 25.
“The notices solicit explanation from teachers regarding unsatisfactory academic outcomes. A thorough […]
“Young India wants jobs more than temples… For most of us, a good education was the passport out of poverty into the middle or affluent class. Now, a young person with a college degree is NINE times as likely to be unemployed as her illiterate counterpart, according to an ILO report. This indicates both the […]
The political storm generated in Parliament in Delhi by the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test-Undergraduate (NEET-UG) scam, in which as many as 67 students scored a perfect 720, and over 1,500 were awarded booster “grace marks”, has come as a fortuitous opportunity for Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) government […]
After the national education Policy (NEP) 2020 mandated reconfiguration of the 10+2 primary-secondary schooling system into a new 5+3+3+4 continuum formally integrating early childhood care and education (ECCE) into elementary education, several states across the country have begun the process of integrating three years […]
National council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), the country’s largest publisher of K-12 textbooks, is again in the throes of a controversy following its “rationalisation-cum-revision” of class XII social science (history) textbooks, widely prescribed by schools countrywide including 29,662 upscale schools affiliated with the Central […]
Brilliant summary
Your cover story ‘Bright future for private school education’ (EW June) is a brilliant summary and interpretation of the well-researched State of India K-12: Resilience Amidst Uncertainties Report 2024 published by LoEstro Advisors.
Contrary to assertions of status quo Left-liberals paralysed by inertia and ideological baggage, the growing internationalisation of school education […]
When I switched from the corporate sector to business journalism over four decades ago, journalism was a glamour vocation. Industry leaders and businessmen, long pilloried and abused in the heyday of socialism, were anxious to tell their stories to Business India of which I was a category-creator and first editor. After their stories were told […]
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General Election 2024: Interpreting the verdict
Rasheed Kidwai
– Rasheed Kidwai is a Delhi-based columnist, author of Sonia A Biography and visiting fellow, Observer Research Foundation
Perhaps the most significant outcome of General Election 2024 is that Rahul Gandhi can now shed the failure tag. His biggest contribution was that he improved Congress’ national vote share from 19 to 22 […]