Since it was established in 1968, the International Baccalaureate Organisation (now known as International Baccalaureate) has established a global reputation as one of the world’s most respected school-leaving examination boards with 4,632 affiliated schools in 146 countries worldwide – Dilip Thakore
Plans and programmes — including workshops, lectures and celebratory functions to honour and award tutors […]
Over the past year, the top-ranked Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. Student agitations, anti-government protests and campus violence have transformed this Central government-funded postgraduate university — established in 1969 by a special Act of Parliament and named after the country’s first, and self-styled socialist prime […]
The cult of hindutva first appeared on the political horizon in the 1980s as a movement to build a temple in Ayodhya where a mosque stood. Over the next decade, its leadership stoked the most primal of mankind’s urges, religious bigotry, and helped vault its political front, the BJP, to power in coalition with several […]
Inspired by the teachings of philosopher-seer Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950) and his spiritual successor The Mother (1878-1973), TFFS has established an excellent reputation among the bhadralok (refined middle class) of the ancient and resilient city of Kolkata – Baishali Mukherjee
Inspired by the teachings of philosopher-seer Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950), and his spiritual protégé and heir The Mother […]
WLU’s roots can be traced back to the Waterloo Lutheran Seminary founded in 1911. Currently it has 19,000 students mentored by 690 faculty
Named after Canada’s seventh prime minister, Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU, estb. 1911) is a low-profile public research-oriented institution based in Waterloo — a well-known education hub of Canada — which has an impressive […]
I want to enroll in the Integrated Programme in Management (IPM) offered by IIM-Indore. What are the eligibility requirements?
— Dhruv Singh, Ludhiana
Launched in 2011 by IIM-Indore, IPM is a first-of-its-type five-year integrated study programme open to higher secondary school-leavers. During the first three years of the programme, students are required to complete foundational courses in […]
The serious crisis of rising youth unemployment predicted in these columns for several years — a message which fell on stony ground — is now ballooning towards explosion point. According to an official government response in the Rajya Sabha in early February, unemployment within the Indian economy has risen from 3.8 percent in 2011 to […]
Although somewhat less smooth-locked and seemingly more burdened with the cares of entrepreneurial office, Arnab Goswami, the fiery supra-nationalist and iconoclast former prime-time television anchor of Times Now, is back on the 9 o’clock news. Last November Goswami, who began his idiot box career with NDTV in 1995, quit Times Now, citing lack of operational […]
Where would you place education on your national list of priorities?
At #3. The higher priorities are a law to control population growth, and the second ‘nation and service before self’. Only values-based citizens can save the nation and for this, one need not be educated.
J.C. Kumarappa and Gandhi’s Struggle for Economic Justice, Venu Madhav Govindu & Deepak Malghan ; oxford university press, Rs.895; Pages 388
India’s national movement was special because it possessed social, economic and environmental dimensions in addition to the political goal of independence. And special among its participants was Joseph Cornelius Kumarappa, born in 1892 into a […]
Re the EducationWorld India Engineering Institutes Rankings 2017-18 (EW May). Please note that BITS, Pilani is a multi-campus university and a single entity. Your ranking of our Hyderabad and Goa campuses separately is erroneous and unwarranted.
Kindly correct the same and issue a single cumulative rank to BITS, Pilani.
Prof. Vidya Rajesh
Department of Biological Sciences
BITS, […]
Five months after a tsunami that led to his family’s evacuation from Fukushima, the boy enrolled at a new school in Yokohama. His new classmates were pitiless. They called him “germ boy”. They stole his things. They punched and kicked him and threw him down the stairs; they took him to a “study” room and […]
In 2016, German universities enjoyed another big rise in international students, according to the latest data. As numbers in the UK suffer, Germany recorded close to a 7 percent increase in international students coming to the country. This follows a jump of nearly 8 percent over the previous year. Numbers have risen about 30 percent […]
Makerere University’s position on a hilltop commanding a panoramic view of Kampala, is fitting for a place some call the ‘Harvard of Africa’. By many measures, it is the continent’s best college outside South Africa. But it was closed for two months from November by Uganda’s autocratic president Yoweri Museveni, after a strike by lecturers […]
Vigilante violence by religious fanatics is becoming a subcontinental problem. Even as gau rakshaks (cow protectors) are running amok under the benign watch of BJP governments at the Centre and in several states, Islamic fanatics are running wild in Pakistan next door.
On April 13 Mashal Khan, a journalism student at Abdul Wali Khan University in […]
Friday is a good day for eight-year-old Yang Zongtao. He will see his mother and baby sister after spending the week boarding at the Jiaoba Central Primary School in Guizhou, a southern province and one of China’s poorest. The walk from his home takes an hour, too long to undertake alone each day. So, like […]
Immigration crackdowns in the US and Australia could signal a “new period” for international higher education in which academic and student mobility is “more contested and problematic”. That is the stark warning for universities after both countries announced visa changes that could prevent their institutions from attracting foreign scholars and students.
A notable development in private K-12 education countrywide is the mushroom growth of professedly international schools. According to publicly available information, currently there are 91 ‘international’ schools across the country, with nine having sprung up in Bangalore in the new millennium.
With its large outward looking community of IT and ITES (information technology and IT-enabled services) […]
After having established herself as the undisputed mass leader of West Bengal (pop. 91 million) following her landslide victory in the 16th legislative assembly elections held in May 2016, chief minister Mamata Banerjee has now focused her attention on education by introducing a slew of populist reforms to revive the state’s languishing primary-secondary school system. […]
The vintage art of caricature manifested in front page illustrations and cartoon strips of newspapers, has morphed into a lucrative multi-media career option – Odeal D’Souza
With the growth of computer-aided graphics, animation software technologies and expansion of the Internet user base, the vintage art of caricature as manifested in front page illustrations and cartoon strips […]
With schools affiliated with the Geneva/The Hague (Netherlands)-based International Baccalaureate (IB) examination board — most of them promoted in the new millennium — routinely topping the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings, while on holiday abroad this year, your editors availed an opportunity to visit the IB academic and administrative office in The Hague. Besides, this […]
On the third anniversary in office (May 26) of the BJP-led NDA government which was swept to power in General Election 2014 with the largest majority in the Lok Sabha since 1985, the BJP — which has an absolute majority in the lower house in its own right — went to town in an orgy […]
The Maharashtra state education ministry’s decision to overhaul the class IX curriculum of 21,000 schools affiliated with the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE), has infused them with gloom as they have little time to prepare for it before most schools reopen in the first week of June. Under a government resolution […]
Gursimran Singh and Mihir Menda — higher secondary students of the top-ranked Amity International School, Sector 46, Gurgaon and Mallya Aditi International School, Bangalore respectively — were crowned national winners of the Pramerica Spirit of Community Awards (PSCA) 2017 at a glittering ceremony held in Delhi in early April.
Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) announced the results of its March 2017 exam series in India for the Cambridge IGCSE (class X) and Cambridge International AS & A level (class XII) on May 18. The number of examinees (entries) in the March 2017 series grew by 29 percent over the previous year to more than 26,000 […]
Chief minister Mukul Sangma has approved a 100 percent salary increase — with retrospective effect from January 1, 2017 — proposal of the state’s school education and literacy directorate under which 7,000 primary government school teachers will benefit. “A total sum of Rs.63.34 crore will be spent for implementing the proposed increase in grant-in-aid for […]
“I would like to remind the Central government that the Dravidian movement has a long history of spearheading struggles against (the) imposition of Hindi… I sternly urge the Centre not to sow the seeds for the emergence of third generation, anti-Hindi imposition protests through… pushing India into becoming Hindia.”
The proclamation of the sslc (Secondary School Leaving Certificate) class X board exam results of 5,159 government secondary schools affiliated with the Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board (KSEEB) has shocked educationists in the hi-tech city of Bangalore, the admin capital of the state (pop. 67 million). The percentage of students who passed the undemanding state […]
Stung by rising public criticism that students from Tamil Nadu’s schools are at a disadvantage when writing national entrance exams for entry into the country’s premier engineering and medical colleges, the ruling All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) government led by E.K. Palaniswami, who succeeded three-term chief minister J. Jayalalithaa who passed away last […]
It’s hardly a national secret that the biggest drag on national development are the BIMARU (Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh) Hindi-belt states of the Indian Union. Among them, Uttar Pradesh — India’s most populous (215 million) state — is commonly believed to be the country’s most lawless and educationally backward, with the possible […]
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