That teaching-learning standards — and consequently learning outcomes — in public, i.e. government-run, K-12 schools (and most government-run colleges) are abysmal, is known to everybody except Central and state government bureaucrats who dominate seminars, workshops and the lectures circuit outlining lofty projects to enable this overpopulated nation to harvest its accidental demographic dividend. Proof of […]
A massive cohort — almost equivalent to 10 percent of the national teachers community countrywide — of 510,000 teachers is likely to be recruited and inducted into India’s 1.2 million primary and upper primary schools within the next three years to meet the 1:30 teacher-pupil norm mandated by the Right to Free and Compulsory Education […]
Devika Meghe, managing trustee, Meghe Group of Schools (MGS, promoted by Meghe Group of Institutions — estb. 1987 by Congress party leader and Lok Sabha member Datta Meghe) and president of the Radhikabai Meghe Mahila Shikshan Sanstha which launched MGS’ first school, the Vimaltai Tidke Convent, Nagpur in 1987.
Newspeg. Four new pre-schools under MGS’ School of Scholars […]
Krishna Bhupathi, founder-director of the state-of-the-art Bhupathi Tennis Village, Bangalore and Shirley Madhavan Kutty, founder principal of The Magic Years, Delhi, the national capitals top-ranked pre-school (estb.1978).Newspeg. Bhupathi and Kutty are all set to launch Magical Years, a Montessori pre-school sited on the two-acre Bhupathi Tennis Village campus in Kodigehalli, a suburb of Bangalore. The […]
My Two Indias — A Journey to the Ends of Opportunity by S. Mitra Kalita; Harper Collins; Price: Rs.399; 209 ppThis is an interesting book written by a bewildered ABCD (America born confused desi) who reverse migrated to India in 2006 to experience the India shining growth story. A senior deputy editor at The Wall […]
ASER 2010, compiled by the highly-respected Mumbai-based NGO Pratham, is the outcome of over 25,000 volunteers fanning out across 522 districts of rural India to assess actual learning outcomes of primary school children in 13,000 sample primaries countrywide. Published every year since 2005, ASER 2010 is a valuable status report on primary education in rural […]
Hong Kongs universities need state funding for internationalisation to build on their remarkable opportunity to help the West understand China, according to a new report. Hong Kongs University Grants Committee (UGC), which mainly represents publicly funded institutions, offered this advice to the government of the Special Administrative Region of China in a report published in […]
Universities in Australia have welcomed the timely decision by the countrys federal government to review its student-visa system in light of the recent collapse in demand from overseas students. Ministers announced the review in late December alongside an immediate package of measures designed to ease restrictions that have been partly blamed for the decline in […]
Congratulations to the latest crop of school matriculants have been pouring in. Despite the enforced closure of schools for a month (June-July) throughout the football World Cup hosted by South Africa, followed by a three-week teachers strike (August 17-September 6), the pass rate for the 2010 school-leaving ‘matric examination, taken in November, has jumped by […]
Budget, curriculum, class size — none has a greater effect on a student than her teacher. Given this, politicians might be expected to do all in their power to ensure that Americas teachers are excellent. For decades, they have done the opposite. The trouble begins long before a teacher enters the classroom. In Singapore, which […]
D. P. Chandrashekar is the Hyderabad-based chief operating officer of the Bangalore-based Jain Group of Institutions (JGI, estb. 1990) which owns and/or manages 21 education institutions including the Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain University, MATS School of Business and IT and the state-of-the-art Jain International Residential School (JIRS), Bangalore, with an aggregate enrolment of 40,000 students.Newspeg. […]
Vidya Shankar, founder and chairperson of Relief Foundation, Chennai. An engineering alumna of Anna University, Shankar worked in the IT industry for two years before quitting her job after the birth of her daughter in 1990. Subsequently she signed up for a postgrad diploma in child rights law at the National Law School of India […]
Pramod Sharma, director and principal of Genesis Global School (GSS) Noida, Delhi NCR, which has an enrolment of 229 students.Newspeg. GSS, a K-12 state-of-the-art day-cum-residential CBSE-affiliated school promoted by liquor baron Gurdeep Singh on a 30-acre estate in Noida will complete its first year of operations on April 1.
Direct Talk. Its a new school, […]
The prime ministers televised press conference of February 16, during which he fielded a volley of questions from editors of the countrys plethora of television news channels on the spate of scams involving defalcation of unprecedented sums — actual or accruing — from the public exchequer, failed to quell public appreh-ension about the tidal wave […]
Prajodh Rajan is the Mumbai-based director of EuroKids International Pvt. Ltd (estb. 1998) which has franchised 780 pre-schools under the brand EuroKids countrywide, apart from owning and directly administering 28 EuroKids pre-schools in eight cities across the country.
Newspeg. On January 12, EuroKids celebrated the 10th anniversary of its first pre-school established in Andheri, Mumbai. Significantly, […]
I have a diploma in mechanical engineering and am working in a private company. I want to enrol in a BE distance learning programme. Please suggest universities which offer this option. Surjit Bedi, New Delhi
You could opt for the distance engineering degree programmes offered by the Institution of Engineers (www.aimeindia.org); Institution of Mechanical Engineers […]
Engineering jobs are no more about improving shopfloor production but also about product design, innovation, cost reduction and improved organisational and employee productivity. Career growth opportunities for professionally qualified engineers have multiplied considerably. With myriad new age career options now available to the nations youth, engineering, whose popularity as the first choice of most bright […]
Sited on a 670-acre campus in Lexington in the southern state of Kentucky, University of Kentucky is a highly reputed public research institution and is ranked among the top 150 universities of America
Founded in 1865, University of Kentucky (UK) is a publicly-funded higher education institution with an excellent record of providing contemporary tertiary education and […]
Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) — a division of Tata Industries Ltd — launched Classedge, an integrated learning solution for Indian schools in Mumbai on February 22. With the launch of Classedge, TIS has ventured into Indias school education sector with an initial investment of Rs.100 crore from Tata Industries. According to TIS sources, the divisions […]
The Orissa high court declined to grant a stay on the ongoing process of recruitment of sikhya sahayaks (primary teachers) in the state. Following a notification issued in January, the state government is now in the process of recruiting 24,000 sikhya sahayaks to help implement the Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act, […]
“Market forces dont create equality and equality-of-opportunity requires public education. Societies that succeeded in creating it, like Scandinavia, pushed education. Those that didnt, like the US, have decreasing equality of access.”
Nobel laureate economist Joseph E. Stilglitz addressing the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (February 3-5)
“India should take advantage of its demographic dividend like the US […]
Government primary school teachers in the southern state of Karnataka (pop. 58 million) are up in arms against the state government-run Karnataka Textbooks Society (KTS) for maintaining high standard of English in its English language textbooks for children in classes I-V of the states 36,000 vernacular-medium government primaries.On January 30, the Karnataka Primary Teachers Association […]
Middle class parents in Hyderabad who were obliged to pay substantially higher primary-secondary school fees two years ago — although at the start of the academic year 2010-11 they were spared — are bracing for tuition fee hikes of 10-30 percent in June-July this year. Most parents associations are busy organ-ising themselves for citywide protests […]
West Bengal State University (WBSU), the states newest and youngest seat of higher learning, celebrated its third anniversary on February 25. In this short span of time this fledgling university — the 18th in West Bengal — has experienced extraordinary twists and turns.WBSU was promoted by the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM)-led Left Front government, […]
The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is intent on turning the clock back. In its annual budget presented on February 22, PMC announced an allocation of Rs.14 crore to provide free bicycles to 150,000 classes VII-X students enroled in the citys 274 municipal schools. Under this scheme, 50,000 bicycles will be provided to selected students in […]
In a massive show of strength and unity, more than 60,000 representatives of school managements, correspondents and teachers from over 2,500 private and matriculation schools across Tamil Nadu (affiliated with the Board of Matriculation Schools till class X and with the Tamil Nadu State Examination Board (TNSEB) at the higher secondary level) convened on January […]
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