Mathematics is a foundational subject critical to various fields, yet many students suffer from Mathematical Anxiety, or Math Phobia. Over my 30 years of teaching Mathematics, I have seen how this condition involves a feeling of tension and apprehension that interferes with the ability to manipulate numbers and […]
Sited in a state-of-the-art compact campus in eastern suburban Mumbai, the new genre K-12 CP Goenka International School, Oshiwara (CPGIS-O, estb. 2018) has quickly risen in the public esteem for providing holistic learning experiences to its 506 students mentored by 60 teachers on its muster rolls. Affiliated with two renowned offshore school-leaving examination boards […]
Jayshree Kumar, Chief Operating Officer, CP Goenka International School, Thane
CP Goenka International School prides itself on its vision to nurture every student into a global citizen, embracing academic, physical, cultural, and spiritual dimensions of growth. At the heart of its mission lies the commitment to cultivate skills such as creative thinking, teamwork, effective communication, […]
– Niru Agarwal, Managing Trustee, Greenwood High International School
I am delighted to announce the results of the ICSE & ISC board examinations for 2023-24. Adrita Tripathi has emerged as the top performer, achieving an outstanding score of 99.80 percent in the ICSE Grade 10 examination, falling just one mark short of a 100 percent score. […]
Dr Larry Arnn, President, Hillsdale College, USA – [email protected]
In America as in India, the academic year has ended for most colleges/universities, and students have dispersed for the summer. Those who just graduated will be coming back to visit, but never again to live and study on campus. For them, this is a time of joy […]
Against the backdrop of dismal conditions in Indian education, a mint new report authored by LoEstro Advisors, a Hyderabad-based education focused investment banking and consulting firm, says that a positive sea change is manifesting in private K-12 education countrywide writes Dilip Thakore
Seven decades after under the inspiring leadership of Mahatma Gandhi the country won […]
The perceived fairness of punishments handed to student protest leaders will be crucial for whether US universities can heal after police were invited to break up pro-Palestine sit-ins, according to a former college president.
Many staff and students have condemned leaders’ decisions to invite police to campus, notably at Columbia […]
“You can point to brawling in the streets of Paris in the 13th century over rivalling theology professors, you can point to town-and-gown brawls in England in the 16th century, never mind the 1968 generation’s anti-war protests…”
To Randy Boyagoda, the University of Toronto’s new adviser on civil discourse, campuses have always […]
UK universities are staging a last-ditch battle to resist further changes in the rules governing international students, and stave off more financial damage to the sector, ahead of the release of a keenly anticipated report into the graduate visa route.
With the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) set to conclude its investigation into “abuses” in post-study rights […]
On the face of it, the plan by South Korea’s president Yoon Suk-yeol to increase the number of doctors being trained at the country’s medical schools sounded like a winning way to get the public onside ahead of a parliamentary election.
In reality, by joining the long line of politicians […]
Legislation enabling private universities to operate in Greece will deliver “significantly positive results” and limit the flow of Greek students to overseas institutions, says the country’s education minister.
Kyriakos Pierrakakis told Times Higher Education that the education law, which was passed in March amid mass student protests, would facilitate the “opening up of the Greek university […]
The unemployment rate for youth aged 16-24 in cities reached a record high of 21.3 percent last June (2023). That was perhaps too embarrassing for the government, so it stopped publishing the data series while it rejigged its calculation to exclude young people seeking jobs while studying. The new numbers […]
Party of One: The rise of Xi Jinping and China’s superpower future
Chun Han Wong
Simon & Schuster
Rs.2,490 Pages 416
If Chairman Mao taught China how to stand up and Secretary Deng Xiaoping how to walk, Xi’s ambition is to make it run and transform China into a superpower
Yogi Kochhar is the Dharamshala-based former Director of Microsoft India and currently founder of YOL Happiness Foundation and a happiness savant and evangelist. Excerpts from an interview.
Congratulations for your appointment as a director on the board of the World Happiness Foundation (WHF, estb.2022). What are the aims and objectives of the foundation?
We work in […]
Shriyans Bhandari, director of the CBSE and Cambridge (UK)-affiliated K-12 Heritage Girls School, Udaipur (HGS, estb.2014), has invested his several extra-curricular passions and noteworthy achievements in ornithology, photography (A Photographic Guide to Some Common Birds of Aravallis (2013)) and athletics into the curriculum of his relatively […]
Balu Ramachandran is founder-promoter of the Bengaluru-based Omnicuris Academy Pvt. Ltd (OCA, estb. 2023), an online edtech platform providing a wide range of programmes to medical practitioners to contemporise their knowledge and upskill their practice of healing sciences. Within one year since OCA’s promotion, 2,200 medical practitioners countrywide have […]
Claudio Maffioletti is the Mumbai-based CEO and Secretary General of the Indo-Italian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IICCI, estb.1966), an association of 750 companies and professionals promoting trade and economic collaboration between India and Italy.
Newspeg. Maffioletti was in Bengaluru on March 28 to inaugurate IICCI’s southern region office in […]
Gurugram-based entrepreneur Nirmal Singh is co-founder-CEO of Wheebox (estb.2011), a subsidiary of the US-based Educational Testing Service (ETS) — a global provider of AI-integrated proctored online assessment services to measure the competencies and skills of shortlisted job applicants for industry and business enterprises. Over the past 13 […]
Indifference to the dawn of the AI age is a disservice to children. It is incumbent upon school managements to ensure learners are equipped with skill sets to navitage the new AI-powered world
As rapid growth in Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to reshape industries worldwide, it’s also transforming education. The dramatic emergence […]
Tanmay Mondal is trustee of Kolotan (‘song of birds’), a North 24 Parganas-based trust which runs an English/Bengali-medium nursery-class V low-fees private school for 81 first generation learners, including 25 girl children from poor households. Promoted in 2018 by a group of young education enthusiasts — Tapas Mondal […]
Spread over three days, this unprecedented retreat convened in the Himalayan foothills attracted 70 promoters, trustees, and principals of K-12 schools from 16 states across the country – writes Summiya Yasmeen
Cheerful delegates with ELR 2024 participation certificates
he inaugural Education Leadership Retreat (ELR) 2024, organised by EducationWorld and the Boarding Schools’ Association of India […]
An AM Naik School, Powai, Mumbai (estb.2022) team — comprising class IX students Vedanshi Mehta, Aarav Mohanraj and Arushi Ganguly — was declared National Winner of the Vivo Ignite Science & Innovation Ver. 2.0 competition for innovating prototypes of green, energy-efficient, economical and safe Smart Street devices. The finale was staged in New […]
Revolted by stinking storm water drains choked with garbage in Jammu’s Nanak Nagar neighbourhood, Karman Singh, a class X student of the city’s top-ranked Jodhamal Public School (JPS), has designed a Smart Dustbin solution. Last November, Karman was awarded a British patent for his revolutionary invention.
The Smart Dustbin combines radio technology with an […]
– Rajiv Desai, president of Comma Consulting and a well-known Delhi-based columnist As results pour in from General Election 2024, it’s clear that semi-literate, rabble rousing bigots cannot endlessly deceive a huge nation of diverse cultures and traditions. They should not be allowed to set the agenda based on dubious understanding of Hindu […]
Infosys-Ashoka MOU
New Delhi, May 10. Infosys Foundation, the philanthropic and CSR arm of Infosys Technologies Ltd, announced an MoU with Ashoka University, Sonipat (Haryana) to augment scientific research at the university’s chemical biology lab. The foundation has committed a grant of Rs.27 crore for the upgradation of the laboratory into a world-class Advanced Chemical […]
Haryana Ashoka students protest
Sonipat, May 6. Students of Ashoka University (AU, estb.2014) — ranked among India’s Top 3 private multidisciplinary universities in the EW India Higher Education Rankings 2024-25 — have joined the global outcry against Israel’s war in Gaza. In a letter, they have urged Vice Chancellor Somak Raychaudhury to end all academic […]
“At the very least, the result pricks the bubble of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s authority. He made this election about himself: His performance, his omnipotence and omniscience, and his ideological obsessions. Modi is, for the moment, not the indomitable vehicle for History, or the deified personification of the people. Today, he is just another politician, […]
King George’s Medical University, Lucknow: heaviest penalty
Medical education in Uttar Pradesh — India’s most populous state (215 million) — is a mess. For one, the entire state covering an area of 243,286 sq. km is served by 72,757 registered medical (allopathic) practitioners, a ratio of 1:3800 doctor per 100,000 population cf. […]
West Bengal’s multi-crore teacher recruitment scam which has marred the entire third term in office (which began in 2021) of chief minister Mamata Banerjee has ballooned into a major General Election 2024 issue.
In General Election 2019, the resurgent BJP won an unprecedented 18 of West Bengal’s 42 seats […]
KAMS’ Shashi Kumar (centre right) with CM Siddaramaiah
By several metrics, the southern state of Karnataka (pop.70 million) is India’s most educationally advanced. Bengaluru, the state’s admin capital, is widely regarded as the Silicon Valley of India for hosting a large number of new genre ICT (information communication technology) companies and […]
College graduates: research drive initiative. Inset: M. Jagadesh Kumar
The Delhi-based University Grants Commission (UGC) has greenlighted direct entry of graduates with four-year Bachelor (Hons) degrees into PhD programmes. On March 13, UGC gave formal approval to the UGC (Minimum Standards and Procedure for Award of PhD Degree) Regulations, 2022, enabling graduates […]
One of the many reasons why self-proclaimed Viswaguru India is ranked #134 on the UNDP’s Human Development Index and #126 on the World Happiness Report, 2024 of Oxford University, and way down in the bottom rung of every other index, is that it is a nation without heroes. There is no shortage of domestic critics […]
Despite political party leaders expressing loud intent from every rooftop to eliminate it, government corruption in the southern state of Karnataka is acquiring the momentum of a runaway train with the state set to emerge as the most venal countrywide.
This gloomy prediction is prompted by the experience of a dedicated housekeeper with over three decades […]
Here’s an amazing story of socialist central planning with which the Congress party’s de facto chief Rahul Gandhi continues to be enamoured.
West Bengal’s Ghatal constituency sited 120 km from Kolkata in the rain-fed catchment area between the Shilabati and Jhumi rivers has been suffering severe annual flooding for centuries. In 1959, a Ghatal Master Plan […]
Last month, Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, an Indian-origin professor at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), was awarded the prestigious 2024 Shaw Prize in astronomy.
Kulkarni is the latest from a long list of emigrant scientists, economists, authors and academics who have made notable and significant contribution to the creation, advancement and dissemination of new knowledge and […]
Welcome guard change
Congratulations for publishing the comprehensive EW India Higher Education Rankings 2024-25 (EW May) ranking universities across a wide range of parameters of higher education excellence.
I am also delighted to learn that your esteemed magazine has partnered with a new Bengaluru-based field research company led by a highly qualified woman professional to […]
The prime cause of post-colonial India’s disappointing national development effort is continuous neglect of K-12 education. Seven decades after independence and a quarter century after this publication was launched with the mission to “build the pressure of public opinion to make education the #1 item on the national agenda”, I still can’t understand why post-independence […]
With all campaigning for General Election 2024 by order of the Election Commission obliged to end today (May 30) and a new government set to be sworn in at the Centre by the time this issue of EducationWorld is accessible to readers, this is a good time to draw up an agenda for the new […]
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A resounding lesson from marginalised poor
Rajiv Desai
– Rajiv Desai, president of Comma Consulting and a well-known Delhi-based columnist
As results pour in from General Election 2024, it’s clear that semi-literate, rabble rousing bigots cannot endlessly deceive a huge nation of diverse cultures and traditions. They should not be allowed to set the agenda based on dubious understanding of Hindu […]