Your cover story on the GlobalScholar-EW Young Achievers Awards 2009 (EW February) is inspirational and will have a great impact on young minds. As you rightly state in your letter from the editor, despite an abysmal education system, theres no shortage of young achievers in our country. This is not only because there are tens […]
Now that the Right to Free & Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2010 will become operational on April 1 with Union human resource development (HRD) minister Kapil Sibal having signed the official notification on February 12, the first of its many implementation pains was felt in less than a weeks time. In the national capital, which […]
A circular of the Karnataka state government dated January 28, ordering the managements of the 8,600 unaided private schools affiliated with the states Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board (KSEEB) to buy textbooks for their students solely from the government-promoted Karnataka Textbooks Society (KTS), has been challenged in the high court. The Karnataka State Minority Educational […]
The need for a more expansive and high-quality education system in India is well-known. Accordingly, the Union human resource development (HRD) ministry has embarked on an ambitious programme of education reform. However by the ministrys own internal estimate, the gross allocation to education in the Eleventh Plan (2007-12) covers only 20 percent of the total […]
Im in second year B.Sc (microbiology) and interested in a career in virology. Which institutes offer this study programme and what are my career prospects?Sridhar Raghavan, Chennai
M.Sc degree programmes in virology are offered by the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh (http://pgimer.nic.in); Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati (www.svuniv-ersity.in); National Institute of Virology, Pune […]
A mix of motivations — hands-on experience of cutting edge information technologies, love of mathematics and dissatisfaction with the way young children are being introduced to the subject — has prompted Vadodara-based Kannan and Bharathy Bharadwaj to opt out of high-flying corporate careers and focus on developing maths learning programmes for class I-VIII children in […]
For seven years, Prakash Thosre worked in the Melghat forests of south-western Maharashtra before he stumbled upon the realisation that for the area to remain green, it would be better to win friends and influence among children, rather than adults. Today, he is doing just that. As director of the social forestry department of Maharashtra, […]
Unlike many of the huddled masses yearning to breathe free that have sought refuge in America, the Romeike family comes from a comfortable place: Bissingen an der Teck, a town in south-western Germany. Yet on January 26 an American immigration judge granted the Romeikes — a piano teacher, his wife and five children — political […]
A strange new world in which students study on their mobile phones and learn in both virtual and augmented realities is less than five years away, according to technology experts. The 2010 Horizon Report, published by the New Media Consortium in the US, predicts how emerging technologies will affect teaching and learning worldwide.This years edition, […]
The Australian state of Victoria is host to 45,000 students from India. On January 2 one of them, Nitin Garg, was stabbed to death in Melbourne, the capital, in the latest and most violent of a series of attacks on Indian students in the city. Victorias police say they have no evidence these crimes are […]
The past, even in Indonesia, is a foreign country: they did things differently there. The downfall in 1998 of the 32-year Suharto ‘New Order regime seemed to mark the border as clearly as would a checkpoint and a queue for immigration. This side of the boundary, Indonesia enjoys liberties, a raucous free-for-all of competing ideas […]
Some male lecturers in Ghana and Tanzania consider it their right to demand sex for grades, researchers at the University of Sussex have found. Louise Morley and Kattie Lussier wrote their study after encountering widespread reports of sexual harassment suffered by female students during separate research on widening participation in the two countries higher education […]
China and other Asian countries are responding to the global recession with massive public investment in higher education while Western nations cut university budgets, an international conference has heard. Among the speeches at the World Universities Forum in Davos, Switzerland (January) were two that highlighted contrasting government and public attitudes to higher education in China […]
The Union HRD ministrys resolve to revoke the deemed university status of 44 higher education institutions on the recommendation of the P.N. Tandon Committees report, has a deep connection with the ubiquitous licence-permit-quota regime which unmindful of liberalisation and deregulation of the Indian economy since 1991, is still pervasive in Indian education. Under s.3 of […]
There is a joke at Harvard University that the only things older than the fossils in its Museum of Natural History are the scholars in its classrooms. Tenured faculty are not required to retire, and at least 180 Harvard professors — including nearly 20 percent of those who teach undergraduates — are over 65.
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