KHANAK JOSHI is an eight year old who has achieved early fame for singing a duet with renowned composer and playback singer Shankar Mahadevan. Raised in Haridwar (Uttar Pradesh) but currently based in Bangalore, this music prodigy was invited to sing a solo at the National Bal Kala Utsav, 2010, when she was only four […]
MUCH OF THE discussion around massive open online courses (Moocs) which has aroused great interest around the world, focuses almost exclusively on one point: completion rates, or the number of students who complete a particular course and are duly certified. While this measure borrowed from the traditional university model is an important indicator of the […]
DESPITE HAVING HAD to routinely suffer the contumely of myopic captains of India Inc, pangs of disprized love from the country™s academic community and neglect of mainstream media, over the past almost 15 years since EducationWorld was launched in 1999 with the objective œto build the pressure of public opinion to make education the #1 […]
R.J. Bhuvanesh, CEO, Kaligi Ranganathan Montford Group of Schools, Chennai
Are you satisfied with the importance given to education on the national development agenda?
No. Education should be given top priority. It™s the best prescription for vaulting India into its next golden age.
How best to upgrade government schools?
Equal emphasis on infrastructure/resources development, teacher training […]
The Accidental Prime Minister; Sanjaya Baru; Penguin books; Rs.599; Pages 285
œI HONESTLY BELIEVE that history will be kinder to me than the contemporary media, or for that matter, opposition parties in Parliament.
Thus spake Dr. Manmohan Singh, India™s œaccidental prime minister of the past ten years. Unfortunately, this prediction is likely to be belied, […]
The People™s Republic of China has launched several initiatives to stem the flow of its brightest researchers and scientists to foreign shores, as also to incentivise highly qualified emigrants to return.
China™s central ministry of education has constituted a $97.5-million seed fund for 20,000 returnees to pursue research in the sciences, according to the official […]
Following the recent appointment of India-born and schooled Satya Nadella and Rajeev Suri as chief executives of Microsoft Inc and Nokia, this question has aroused great public interest and debate in academia. Neeta Lal reports
WHY DO GRADUATES OF India’s beleaguered institutions of higher education (35,000 colleges, 700 universities), which can™t make the authoritative QS or […]
COLOURED PAPER CHAINS from last Christmas still hang from the ceiling of a dusty classroom in the Groupement scolaire pour une education fondamentale et internationale (GSEFI), a multi-faith school in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic (CAR). The teacher™s attempt to raise some festive spirit did not save this little community. Schools officially reopened […]
A SAUDI PRINCESS has criticised the country™s flagship university promoted by her own uncle, the king of Saudi Arabia, by calling it a œdisaster because it does not educate enough local students.
Basmah bint Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud told Times Higher Education her country needs to embrace mass higher education rather than bringing in […]
œAT LEAST one thing hasn™t changed, remarks a Tehran University professor who recently returned to work after several years. œThe faculty still gossips terribly. But under President Hassan Rouhani, bigger changes on Iran™s leading campus ” and perhaps in universities elsewhere ” may also be in the offing.
One sign of this was the recent […]
When terrorists in northern Nigeria killed 18 staff, students and associates of one of the region™s universities in April 2012, the target was not Christians, Muslims or any other section of the institutional community ” it was higher education itself.
This is the view of Abubakar Rasheed, vice chancellor of Bayero University, Kano, who described […]
IT IS KNOWN AS the Trojan Horse plot, but it is less subtle. Late in 2013 an anonymous letter was discovered, outlining a hardline Muslim plan to œoverthrow teachers and governors in several government schools in Birmingham and replace them with people who would run the schools on orthodox Islamic lines. The furore has grown, […]
WHEN LATISHA Styles graduated from Kennesaw State University in Georgia in 2006, she had $35,000 (Rs.21 lakh) of student debt. This obligation would have been easy to discharge if her Spanish degree had helped her land a well-paid job. But there is no dearth of Spanish speakers in a nation that borders Latin America. So […]
A SUCCESSFUL industrialist and educationist, Chennai-based S. Abhaya Kumar wears many hats. He is founder and managing director of the Rs.1,000 crore Shasun Pharmaceuticals Ltd (SPL, estb.1976), founder and vice chairman of Life Cell International Pvt. Ltd (LCIPL), and director of Visionary RCM Infotech Pvt. Ltd and General Optics Pvt. Ltd. Yet despite a busy […]
SPRING IS THE SEASON of creation, renewal and rebirth, a time when nature blooms in its resplendent glory, offering inimitable expression of beauty. But alas, our children, nature™s most wonderful creations, are deprived of its magnificent manifestations because the month of March which heralds the start of India™s too brief spring, is also the season […]
Is it a good idea to do a course in clinical research after I complete my M.Sc in microbiology in 2015?
Subhash Iyer, Chennai
There™s a great future in clinical research in India, the second most preferred destination after China for outsourcing clinical trials. A rising number of international biotech and pharma companies are beginning […]
With high-end leather and footwear multinationals shifting sourcing and manufacturing to India, promising career options have opened up for footwear designers
ENDOWED WITH THE world™s largest ” and arguably most abused ” livestock (cattle, buffalo, sheep and goat) population of 485 million head (2003), it™s hardly surprising that India™s footwear industry, with an annual sales […]
During the first decade of the new millennium, a growing number of risk-taking entrepreneurs with commitment to education have boldly stepped forward to promote and develop globally-benchmarked K-12 schools in the North-east
With parents, households and village and tribal communities in the highly literate states of North-east India well aware of the critical importance of […]
The society covers 5,000 children and youth with disabilities in 600 villages
PROMOTED IN 1981 by Sr. Rosario Lopez in Mendal, East Garo Hills of Meghalaya to provide care and education to physically and mentally challenged children in rural areas, the Bethany Society established North-east India™s first school for visually challenged and hearing impaired children […]
Established by special legislation passed by the state government in 2009, the Assam Don Bosco University is set to shake the groves of academia and impact the North-east upon the global academic map
ALTHOUGH CHRISTIAN missionary education institutions have educated millions of children and youth of all creeds out of all proportion to the number […]
Within record time, the greenfield Martin Luther Christian University of Meghalaya has blossomed into a full-fledged professional education institution offering 25 undergrad and postgrad programmes to 4,000 students
Dr. GLENN KHAEKONGOR (formerly Christo) is a man with a mission; he™s also a man in a hurry. During a long and successful career (1986-2004) as senior vice […]
A learning revolution embracing primary, secondary and higher education has awoken the people of the geographically isolated North-east states to the need for sustainable industrial development sensitive to the abundant natural resources available in the region. Dilip Thakore reports
ETHNICALLY AND CULTURALLY distinct from mainland and peninsular India but adding rich colour and high potential to […]
CONCERN FOR QUALITY in school education has become stronger than ever during the recent past, as a number of studies by government, NGOs, and the private sector have highlighted the low cognitive skills of Indian children. The 12th Plan document acknowledges the importance of learning achievements and has set the goal to œimprove learning outcomes […]
KOLKATA-BASED Arunavha Chanda (18) has made history by scoring a perfect 2,400 in the SAT (formerly known as Scholastic Assessment Test) subject tests ” physics, chemistry and maths Level II. SAT is the common admission exam administered worldwide by the College Board, a US-based not-for-profit organisation for undergrad admissions into American and other varsities around […]
Sprawled over 200 hectares in Norfolk county, University of East Anglia was the first British varsity to offer study programmes in creative writing, environmental sciences and development studies
PROMOTED IN 1963, over the past half century, the University of East Anglia (UEA) has built itself a global reputation for teaching and research. Times Higher Education in […]
Since it was founded in 1996, the CBSE-affiliated Lakshmipat Singhania Academy, Kolkata has acquired a national reputation for providing excellent K-12 education.
PROMOTED AND FUNDED by the J.K. Group “one of India’s heavyweight industrial houses” under the aegis of the Delhi-based Lakshmipat Singhania Education Foundation in 1996, over the past two decades, the CBSE-affiliated Lakshmipat […]
The Bangalore-based Ankurit Foundation and Dell India are organising an Escape Velocity ” Innovation, Science and Technology Fair in Bangalore from June 13-15 for children in the age group 6-17. Conceptualised by technologists and scientists of the Dell Corp, USA, the fair will convene several private and public science and technology organisations in the city […]
Kerala
Arabic University proposal
THE KERALA STATE Higher Education Council (KSHEC) has proposed the promotion of an Arabic University in Kerala. A detailed project report drawn up by KSHEC was submitted to the state government in Thiruvananthapuram on May 8.
According to Dr. P. Anvar, secretary of the council, the proposal moots a campus university […]
“Welfare helps alleviate poverty. But growth can end it.”
Michael Schuman, American author and journalist, on bridging the wealth gap (Time, May 19)
“On 16th May 2014 the people of India gave their verdict. They delivered a mandate for development, good governance and stability. Together we will script a glorious future for India. Let us together dream […]
ONE OF THE reasons being advanced for the spectacular election loss of Uttar Pradesh™s ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) whose tally of seats in the new Lok Sabha has fallen to five from 23 in 2009, is that it completely antagonised the massive 606,000-strong teachers™ community in the state ” a surprising gaffe given that the […]
FOLLOWING THE historic sweep of the Jayalalithaa-led All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections in which the party won 37 of the 39 Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu, on May 17 ” the day after the election results were announced ” the AIADMK went to town across […]
THE STRONG showing of the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) in the recently concluded Lok Sabha election suggests that the electorate of West Bengal (pop. 91 million) continues to repose faith in the party and its mercurial leader chief minister Mamata Banerjee ” TMC improved its representation in the Lok Sabha from 19 in 2009 to […]
Decades of confusion, obfuscation, harassment and corruption aided and abetted by successive governments in the southern state of Karnataka (pop. 57 million) on the issue of Kannada or mother tongue being employed as the mandatory language of instruction in all 60,000 primary schools (classes I-V) — including private schools in the state – has been […]
THE RECENT victory of the bjp-led NDA alliance which bagged 42 of Maharashtra™s quota of 48 seats in the Lok Sabha, has generated tremors within the tranquil groves of academia in Maharashtra (pop. 112 million) ” India™s most industrially advanced state. Now the general expectation is that the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance will sweep the state […]
A MALEVOLENT constellation of stars seems to be presiding over Shastri Bhavan, Delhi which houses the Union human resource development (HRD, aka education) ministry. To the misfortune of India™s 550 million children and youth, all HRD ministers of the past decade have at best been successful failures.
After the disastrous reign of the BJP™s Dr. […]
THE HUGE victory of the bjp-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the recently concluded General Election 2014, and utter rout of the United Progressive Alliance coalition led by the Congress party (estb.1885) which has ruled in New Delhi for over 60 years in post-independence India, is a historic electoral verdict. Even if unwelcome to many, […]
One of the perquisites of this demanding job ” the greatest downside is the problem of discovery and recruitment of analytical journalists/writers who can string a half decent sentence together as the education system keeps sliding downhill ” is the opportunities one gets to travel to often remote parts of the country where committed and […]
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