Contrary to the popular belief that all killer apps flooding internet space are invented by little wonders doing their thing in metropolitan India, Abhik Saha, the 13-year-old promoter-CEO of Arnabhik Corp (estb. 2014), operates out of Chalsa, a small town in the Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal.
A class IX student of the CISCE-affiliated Don Bosco […]
Under the committed and sustained leadership of Congress MLC Amrish Patel, businessman, politician, educationist and water management champion, Shirpur taluka offers a blueprint for rural growth and upliftment countrywide:Bharati Thakore & Dilip Thakore
Although the Union Budget 2016-17, scheduled to be presented to Parliament and the public on February 29, is expected to provide some relief […]
Universities are the swiftest elevators to social standing; they provide students with the academic wherewithal to find a place for themselves in the world. Higher education also unlocks opportunities: in the professions, academy, high councils of society and the state. A college education for the poor and the working class is a release from daily-wage […]
Within a higher education system plagued with outdated curriculums, faculty shortages and inadequate capacity, the Moocs revolution offers a magical opportunity to Indian students to access free-of-charge supplementary enrichment courses offered by the world’s most renowned universities:Swati Roy & Summiya Yasmeen
By all accounts it’s raining Moocs (massive open online courses) in India. Moocs are open […]
MOOCs are massive open online courses offered by content providers/aggregators and/or well-reputed universities to digitally connected students worldwide. Their objective: unlimited enrolment and open access via the internet.
History. The acronym MOOC was coined in 2008 by Dave Cormier of the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada for an online course offered by the […]
Rick Levin is CEO of Coursera Inc (estb. 2012), which bills itself as the world’s largest Moocs aggregator/provider offering 1,816 courses from 140 partner universities to 18 million-plus students worldwide. An alumnus of Oxford and Stanford universities, Levin served a 20-year term as president of Yale University prior to signing up with Coursera in 2013. […]
Bharati Thakore interviewed Amrish Patel, founder-president of the Shirpur Education Society, chancellor, NMIMS University and president SVKM trust, in Shirpur. Excerpts:
During the past almost seven decades since independence, several rural development and regeneration movements have been started but have achieved limited success. Among them Operation Flood started by Dr. Verghese Kurien in the 1970s in […]
There’s no denying that sexual harassment of women in workplaces and public spaces by males in positions of power and authority is unacceptable. It causes great distress to victims and is a violation of human rights, and in the larger context dissuades thousands of talented women from entering the workforce. But it’s also in the […]
Where would you place education on your national list of priorities?
Universal education develops precious human capital. It should be the top national priority.
How best to upgrade 1.6 million government anganwadis to preschools?
Government could encourage public-private partnerships and enable NGOs and private educationists to adopt anganwadis. […]
Farthest Field: An Indian story of the second world war by Raghu Karnad fourth estate; Price: Rs.550; Pages: 300
The re-telling in recent years of unsung deeds of valour of Indian soldiers and regiments fighting under the flag of imperial Britain during the two World Wars of the 20th century, has opened up a new, illuminating chapter in […]
Over the past nine years, Vidya Vanam, an alternative school providing education to K-IX students of impoverished backward communities living on the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border, has miraculously transformed the lives and destiny of tribals and their children:Hemalatha Raghupathi
Prior to 2007, the Irula tribe and other impoverished backward communities living in 25 villages surrounding the town […]
China’s one-child policy, perhaps the biggest attempt at social engineering in history, came to an end in 2015. Under pressure from an ageing population, the authorities announced last October that couples would be allowed to have two children, scrapping a policy strictly implemented since 1979.
It was widely credited with having prevented 400 million births, although […]
Hundreds of Turkish academics are currently waiting to see if they will be prosecuted or sacked for signing a petition calling for an end to violence in Turkey’s southeast, where government forces are fighting Kurdish separatists. On January 15, 33 scholars who signed the petition were arrested and later released.
In 1986 when the quadrennial International Congress of Mathematicians convened at the University of California, Berkeley, almost half of the 80 speakers came from Soviet universities. But a quarter century later, just five of the 170 speakers invited to address the 2010 congress in Hyderabad, India, were affiliated with Russian universities.
A preoccupation with technical skills means many Middle Eastern graduates lack broader knowledge and understanding, according to university leaders who called for a re-imagination of liberal arts in the Islamic world.
Robert Whelan, former president of the University of Wollongong in Dubai, told the Times Higher Education MENA (Middle East & North Africa) Universities Summit staged […]
In early 2016, representatives from nine Thai universities visited London in a bid to strike up academic collaborations with UK institutions and, in particular, to establish double, dual and joint degree programmes. Transnational education — where a British university offers courses outside the UK — has become a huge business. There are now 340,000 students […]
In theory, it works perfectly. Rather than oblige parents to send their children to the nearest state-run or funded school, give them a voucher to be spent at a private school of their choice. “The adoption of such arrangements,” argued Milton Friedman way back in 1955, “would make for more effective competition among various types […]
A research paper titled Assessment for improving learning in schools in India: A Perspective submitted by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) to the International Association for Educational Assessment in 2008, admits that current student performance assessment and evaluation systems in K-12 education in India are entirely exams-based. “Assessment focuses only on […]
I’m a second year law student interested in making a career in cyber law. Which national law schools offer postgraduate programmes in cyber law?
Sreedhar Iyer, Chennai
The National Law School of India University, Bangalore; NLU, Bhopal, and Symbiosis Law School, Pune offer certificate/PG diploma programmes in cyber law. Job opportunities for cyber law professionals are […]
According to a Euromonitor International report, India’s market for luxury products and services is expected to grow by 86 percent at constant prices between 2013-2018:Indra Gidwani
“The annual revenue generated by India’s prospering luxury goods and services providers is estimated at $14 billion (Rs.96,220 crore), and is likely to witness growth in all categories including automobiles, […]
Pomona College, USA is a top-ranked exclusively undergrad institution, highly regarded for its rigorous four-year liberal arts programme:SUMMIYA YASMEEN
Sited on a 140-acre campus in Claremont, 52 km from Los Angeles, Pomona College (estb. 1887) is routinely ranked among America’s top private liberal arts colleges. This exclusively undergrad institution is ranked #1 by Forbes in […]
Ranked among the Top 5 co-ed boarding schools of India, Assam Valley School, Balipara is setting new benchmarks in providing world-class education to the growing middle class population of the seven sister states of the North-East
Sited across an expansive 235-acre green campus nestled within immaculately manicured tea gardens in Asom’s (formerly Assam) Sonitpur district, the […]
Bangalore-based Ashish S, Priyesh Tiwari, P. Kiran Kumar Reddy and Udith Raju — all class IX students of the Air Force School (AFS), Hebbal, bonded together under the name and style of Team Cloneators — were crowned champions of Teenovators 2015-16, an annual national inter-school science and technology competition, the finals of which were staged […]
Cambridge University Press (CUP) unveiled two new digital learning solutions in Bangalore on February 16. According to CUP spokespersons, the digital solutions will make learning maths and upgrading English-learning skills enjoyable for class III-VIII students.
Introducing the learning solutions to representatives of schools, Manish Doshi, vice president (education) of CUP, said Cambridge HOTmaths, originally an Australian […]
The Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) is all set to revamp 65 balwadis (preschools) of VMC-run primary schools in the city in a phased manner. The objective of the upgradation drive is to provide the 4,160 children enrolled in them with facilities on a par with the best private preschools.
“The most effective way to ensure the long-term impairment of India’s entrenched Left-wing ecosystem is to throw open the education market to competition. It is also the cheapest, for it would not require expending government revenue which can be invested to improve India’s national defence and security…”
Rajeev Mantri, co-founder of the India Enterprise Council, on how […]
The Bihar model of cheating in school-leaving board exams, made globally infamous by a photograph showing parents, relatives and well-wishers scaling a four-storey building which went viral a year ago, has evidently impacted the parents, relatives and well-wishers of 6.3 million students currently writing their high school and higher secondary board exams in neighbouring Uttar […]
Under s. 12 (1) (c) of the landmark Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009, non-minority private schools are obliged to reserve 25 percent of seats in class I for children from poor households in their neighbourhood and admit applicants selected by the state government. However, the admission process under s. […]
The suicide of three 19-year-old second year women students of the privately promoted SVS Medical College of Yoga and Naturopathy and Research Institute (SVSMCYNRI, estb. in 2008 under the aegis of the SVS Educational and Social Trust) in Villupuram district, Tamil Nadu on January 23, has shocked and angered academics, parents and students across the […]
The second phase of a statewide survey to ascertain the number of out-of-school children in the age group 6-14 (according to the Right of Children to Free & Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009, it is the duty of the Central and state governments — especially the latter — to ensure that all children in that […]
Even after a Delhi High Court order of February 16 restored the 20 percent management quota of 6,600 composite private unaided schools offering pre-primary education in Delhi, the scramble for nursery admissions into top-ranked composite schools in the national capital is so intense, that complaints are expected to pour in until the admission process draws […]
I live in Nairobi, Kenya and have been an avid reader of EducationWorld for over four years. I believe your annual EW India school and preschool rankings are rendering extraordinary value to Indian school education. I wish similar league tables were available for Kenya.
But my favourite section in your magazine is the book reviews page. […]
The arrest of kanhaiya kumar, president of the students union of the admittedly leftist Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), on the charge of sedition by the Central government-controlled Delhi police, provided another instance of the BJP-led NDA government’s clampdown on fundamental rights to freedom of speech and expression, under the cover of nationalism. Kumar is accused […]
Right from the start of my career as a self-styled development journalist in Business India and Businessworld more than 30 years ago, I have advocated policy priority for agriculture and rural development. The logic of this advocacy is that the greater proportion of national savings/investment should flow into the most people-intensive sectors of the economy. […]
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