I write this obituary with a heavy heart. Dr. Bijaya Sahoo, promoter-chairman of the Bhubaneswar-based SAI International Education Group, comprising the Sai International School (SIS, estb.2008), Sai Angan Preschool (reportedly the largest pre-primary in Asia, estb.2015), Sai International College of Commerce (2015) and Sai International Residential School (2018), all new millennium, globally benchmarked institutions with […]
The acquittal by a Mapusa Goa-based sessions court of Tarun Tejpal, publisher-editor of Tehelka, the once well-known investigative journalism magazine, on a rape charge on May 21, has come as a slap in the face of the monstrous regiment of women whose full-time occupation is to instigate gender wars. Now eight years after the incident, […]
The continuing closure of all schools and higher education institutions nationwide to safeguard children from being struck down by the dreaded Coronavirus, has prompted an almost 70 percent drop in pre-primary admissions in nearly 3,000 aided and 12,000 unaided private schools across Tamil Nadu (pop.68 million). According to a survey conducted by the […]
Dwindling student admissions in the wake of the 13-months closure of education institutions nationwide to check the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic have sounded a death knell for the state’s estimated 10,000 brick-and-mortar private tutorial centres offering supplementary tutorials, aka coaching, to secondary students preparing for school-leaving board exams and professional education entrance […]
In sharp contrast to BJP leaders including prime minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah who stormed West Bengal with over two dozen visits to preach messages of hindutva and dangers posed by illegal Muslim immigrants from neighbouring Bangladesh, incumbent chief minister and leader of the ruling Trinamool Congress party (TMC) […]
A peremptory circular issued on May 19 to Maharashtra’s 21,000 non-minority private independent (‘unaided’) schools by the Shiv Sena-led Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition government, has dismayed private school managements battling the vicissitudes of the Covid-19 pandemic, and has raised the prospects of another round of courtroom battles. In the circular, […]
Putting months of speculations to rest, the Indian government has finally decided to scrap the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class 12 examinations, giving some sense of direction in the lives of 14 lakh students who had registered to write the […]
Cancellation of the class XII school-leaving exam by CBSE, CISCE and most state examination boards in early June for fear of the Covid-19 contagion spreading in crowded examination halls, has now confronted higher secondary students with the hurdle of getting admission into the most aptitudinally and aspirationally suitable undergrad study programme in the right college […]
For the first time since independence a substantial number of the country’s 10 million higher secondary school-leavers annually have the option to access high-quality, globally comparable undergrad education in well-funded, well-administered private universities.
Manipal Academy of Higher Education #1 sixth consecutive year
The separate private and public universities league tables will aid and enable school and college leavers to select higher education institutions best in sync with their budgets, aptitudes and aspirations-Dilip Thakore
Post-Independence India’s higher education system tightly regulated by the Central and state governments has proved to be a big disappointment. Although some of the country’s […]
Given good leadership India’s best private B-schools, promoted, constructed and commissioned at great expense, have the potential to re-imagine and conceptualise innovative, organic syllabuses and curriculums to stimulate a massive productivity leap in India Inc and other sectors of the economy, says Dilip Thakore
The best of India’s estimated 6,000 business management schools, aka B-schools, represent […]
Chandigarh, May 3. Chief minister Amarinder Singh constituted a committee to recommend examination reforms and review curriculums for improving the quality of higher education in the state.
Chaired by Dr. Jaspal Singh Sandhu, vice chancellor of Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, the committee will also explore the feasibility of introducing new study […]
Mumbai, May 12. iSchoolConnect Inc, a US and India based AI (artificial intelligence) company, launched a series of products for education institutions to assist them in their battle against the Covid-19 pandemic.
“After almost three years of effort, we have developed a suite of tools categorised under four primary verticals, viz, recruitment, sales/marketing, assessment, and engagement. […]
Prof. (Dr.) Paramjit S. Jaswal Fulbright Scholar Vice-Chancellor, SRM University Delhi NCR, Sonepat
Swami Vivekananda ji, the great saint of India, said: “Education is the manifestation of the perfection already present in man”. But one needs a right place, guidance and opportunity to grow and come out with full potential. If a person avails the proper […]
Prime minister Narendra Modi: student-friendly decision
Ending months of nationwide tension and anxiety, the Delhi-based Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) — the country’s largest national Central government controlled school-leaving examination board which has 21,271 schools affiliated with it — cancelled its class XII exam for the academic year 2020-21. Council for […]
THANKS FOR publishing the comprehensive EW India Higher Education Rankings 2021-22 (EW May). With the raging Covid-19 pandemic forcing shutdown of all education institutions nationwide, your rankings are a timely celebration of the country’s best colleges and universities which are making every effort to ensure learning continuity of students during this difficult time. Academic […]
Our education institutions will require financial boosting and credible leadership to create and sustain a climate for institutional recovery without false pride over trivial achievements
India’s Educational Recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic will require considerable imagination, planning and patience. These resources have been in short supply over the past decade or so. Few state governments […]
Political will is required to grasp several thorny nettles and radically restructure India’s isolationist higher education system to improve the ranking of our universities in global league tables, says Amarendra Sahoo
The London-based Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) which publishes its World University Rankings rating the world’s Top 1,000 universities, recently released its 2021 list. Only 21 Indian […]
– Sangeet Jaura, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Office of International Affairs, Chitkara University
With over 200 fruitful international collaborations, Chitkara University has been an innate supporter of the ‘globalisation of education’ and the same has enabled Chitkarians to experience international education in the form of academic articulations, exchange programs, semester abroad programs, global internships, summer programs, international competitions, international […]
An architecture and industrial design alumnus of REC, Nagpur and IIT-Bombay, Dinesh Verma is founding principal partner of the Bengaluru-based Ace Group Architects (AGA, estb.1984). Over the past three decades, this firm has established a nationwide reputation for the design and construction of more than 85 pre-primary to Ph.D. education institutions across the country. Among […]
Since government universities offer highly subsidised higher education they are more affordable for the great majority of the country’s 260 million households. Hence they are preferred by the majority of school and college leavers – Summiya Yasmeen
The silver lining of the prolonged lockdown of industry, business and normative life in over a dozen of India’s 29 states to prevent the spread and transmission of the deadly Coronavirus pandemic rampaging across the country, is that it has provided all good men (man embraces woman) and true, with time to deeply reflect upon […]
The annual EducationWorld India Higher Education Rankings provide comprehensive league tables ranking the country’s Top 500 arts, science and commerce colleges, Top 100 private engineering colleges, Top 300 government and private universities, and Top 100 private B-schools. However, these are all-inclusive rankings rating the country’s most well-reputed higher-ed institutions across all subject study programmes.
The Tragic loss of 66 lives of skilled permanent and contract employees of ONGC (Oil & Natural Gas Corporation), the country’s largest crude oil and gas exploration and drilling company, who were drowned at sea on May 17, has all the fingerprints of gross negligence and bureaucratic sloth for which the country’s 348 government-run public […]
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.
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Repair & recovery after Covid
KRISHNA KUMAR
Our education institutions will require financial boosting and credible leadership to create and sustain a climate for institutional recovery without false pride over trivial achievements
India’s Educational Recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic will require considerable imagination, planning and patience. These resources have been in short supply over the past decade or so. Few state governments […]