An English and education alumna of Himachal University and currently a Ph D scholar of Amity University, Noida, Neetu Kapoor is principal of the Army Public School, Delhi Cantt.
Are you satisfied with the Union Budget 2018-19 allocation of Rs.85,010 crore for education?
This year’s Union Budget is progressive. I am happy with the special provision made […]
An alumna of Calcutta University, Rupa Sen is principal of the CISCE, IB (Geneva) and CAIE (UK)-affiliated Trivandrum International School (estb.2003), ranked Kerala’s #1 international day-cum-boarding school in the EW India School Rankings 2017-18. A hugely experienced educationist, she has served on committees of the CBSE and NCERT.
Are you satisfied with the Union Budget 2018-19 […]
An alumnus of the Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, Trilok Singh Bist is principal of the CBSE-affiliated Jodhamal Public School, Jammu (JPS, estb.2005). With teaching and admin experience acquired in the Scholars Home Senior Secondary School, Dehradun followed by Doon International School, Palia and Unison World School, Dehradun, Bist was appointed principal of JPS in […]
An alumna of Mumbai University and Xavier University, Cincinnati (USA), with professional certification from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, IIM-Ahmedabad and Project Management Institute, Pennsylvania (USA), Seema Saini is CEO and principal of the CISCE-affiliated N.L. Dalmia High School, Thane, Mumbai.
Are you satisfied with the Union Budget 2018-19 allocation of Rs.85,010 crore for education?
That Indian education is broken and in serious need of mending is incontrovertible. Since 2005, the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), published by the inestimable Mumbai/Delhi-based Pratham Education Foundation, has been warning that although access to primary education in rural India, which grudgingly hosts over 60 percent of India’s population, is improving, learning outcomes […]
Driven by populist politics rather than rational economics, the 1969 decision of then prime minister Indira Gandhi to nationalise the country’s 28 major private sector banks which were joint stock companies with substantial shareholding of the public, and managed by some of the most reputed business houses of the subcontinent, including Tata, Birla and Lalbhai, […]
A flirtatious wink made a young actress of Malayalam cinema a social media darling and a hate object of self-appointed guardians of Muslim culture within 24 hours. A few days earlier, the annual phenomenon of envious youth harassing and/or assaulting young couples played out on Valentine’s Day. These incidents have once again focused — or […]
Kudos to you for your cover story on fees regulation fever and the challenges confronting private schools in India (EW February). You aptly observe that these hapless institutions are unimpressed with the appeals mechanism of the Gujarat Self-Financed Schools (Regulation of Fees) Act, 2017, because they “dread the prospect of incremental interaction with the country’s […]
There was once a popular joke in Georgia about a man who visited a university professor. “My son is such an idiot that he will never pass your entrance exams,” said the despairing parent — to which the academic replied: “I bet you $1,000 that he will.”
The joke highlighted just how rampant bribes to university […]
THE TEXTILE ASSOCIATION (INDIA) CENTRAL and TAI Delhi unit along with Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Delhi), Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and Technology (DCRUST) and Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT), Mumbai organized a two day Global Innovators and Researchers Conclave at Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and Technology, […]
A first step forward for over 80,000 talented student athletes, a stage set for the millions of other young aspiring sportspersons of the country
Sports in India has gained a new definition recently with many different sports leagues catching the attention, yet India still punches well below average when it comes to Olympics and other important […]
If there is one unambiguous objective of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which swept General Election 2014 with a huge majority and rules at the Centre and in 19 states across the country, it is a determined bid to impose Hindi as the lingua franca of the nation. The party’s leadership seems oblivious of India […]
Although it isn’t quite cricket to say so, your editor couldn’t help deriving satisfaction from witnessing South Africa opening batsman Dean Elgar being struck on the body twice in a row by India’s fast bowler Mohammed Shami, and the never-before spectacle of lower order batsmen edging towards the leg umpire as India’s fast bowlers steamed […]
Some of India’s top-ranked international schools have become the playgrounds of spoilt brats of the country’s noveaux riche, even if not famous. On February 20, social media was abuzz with reports that a class VII student of the Pathways School, Gurgaon sent an outrageous rape threat to his class teacher on Instagram, and added injury […]
Song of the Magpie Robin, Zafar Futehally, Shanthi Chandola, Ashish Chandola, Rainlight Rupa; Rs.500, Pages 197
2018 has been declared the International Year of the Bird by National Geographic, BirdLife International and more than a hundred conservation organisations. From this year, efforts will be intensified to celebrate and protect avian species around the world.
After an interregnum of almost a year, private books and stationery shops (aka tuck shops) are set to reopen for business inside 20,345 schools affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) countrywide. A February 21 Delhi high court order quashed a CBSE circular of April 19 last year, which barred these shops from […]
In a classroom in Seoul a throng of teenagers sit hunched over their desks. In total silence, they flick through a past exam paper. Stacks of brightly coloured textbooks are close to hand. Study begins at 8 a.m and ends at 4.30 p.m, but some won’t go home until 10 p.m. Like hundreds of thousands […]
Japan and Taiwan’s higher education systems face the dual challenges of an ageing academic workforce and deteriorating working conditions, a major survey warns. The Changing Academic Profession in Asia Survey, completed by nearly 7,000 academics across seven East Asian countries, found that 51.3 percent of Japanese respondents and 42.7 percent of Taiwanese participants feel their […]
Emmanuel Macron’s rapid rise to France’s presidency was always likely to raise the international profile of his alma mater. But Frederic Mion, director of Sciences Po, where the French president was also once a visiting lecturer, is surprised by the 60 percent increase in international applications to the elite Paris institution for 2019.
Experts fear the crackdown on academic freedom in Turkey will be followed by a drive towards the Islamisation of campuses, after the country’s president accused one of its top universities of failing to “lean on national values”.
President Tayyip Erdogan’s claim in a speech that academics at Bogazici University in Istanbul are against “Turkish values” and […]
Chinese universities have continued to surge up the latest Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings, thanks to strong year-on-year improvement in the quality of their research. According to data underlying the ranking, released on February 7, the overall average score of the country’s institutions has climbed by more than 2.5 points since 2017, with about […]
Established in 1867 by the US Congress with the intention of primarily serving the African-American community, HU is ranked among America’s Top 120 universities
Chartered in 1867 by the US Congress, Howard University (HU) is a federally chartered, private, undergrad-Ph D university consistently ranked among America’s Top 120. Sprawled across 258 acres in suburban Washington D.C, […]
Students at the 27 public colleges of applied technology in the US state of Tennessee earn qualifications in such complex fields as computer-aided design, information technology, advanced manufacturing and aviation maintenance.
This autumn onwards, they and their employers will get something else, too: a warranty. If graduates fail state or national licensing exams in their professions […]
In 2009, Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Adichie gave a rousing TED talk titled ‘The Dangers of a Single Story’. She posited that there’s a great risk in reducing complex human beings to a single narrative. While she spoke of narratives in a cultural context, I believe her central idea, has broader application.
I want to pursue a gems and jewellery course in a reputed college/university in the US. Please advise.
— Deepak Shah, Baroda
The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) offers study programmes in gemology, jewellery and design. The GIA School of Business (2003), a unique school teaching real-world business principles specific to the gems and jewellery industry, offers […]
Special effects aka prosthetics professionals can transform the visual appearance of actors to make them look older or younger, alien or supernatural – Paromita Sengupta
Special effects (aka prosthetics) make-up can transform the visual appearance of actors and stage performers making them look older or younger, alien, supernatural or even severely sick or wounded through usage of […]
In Maharashtra, 75,000 junior college (classes XI-XII) teachers have threatened to boycott assessment of the state board’s higher secondary certificate exam papers unless the state government accedes to their long-pending demands relating to filling vacancies and raising remuneration of junior college teachers. According to the Maharashtra State Federation of Junior College Teachers’ Organisation (MSFJCTO), it […]
Government-owned higher education institutions in Karnataka are reeling under an unprecedented leadership crisis. Of the state’s 412 government degree-awarding arts, science, commerce and law colleges with an aggregate enrolment of 300,000 students, only 19 have a permanent principal. The remaining 393 are managed by ‘in-charge principals’, usually the senior-most lecturers of the colleges.
A disturbing spurt in suicides and violent disruptive classroom behaviour among adolescents in Tamil Nadu’s 53,000 government and aided schools and 19,161 private schools over the past few years, has belatedly prompted investigation into the causes and effects thereof.
In 2016, the Nazareth College for Women, Chennai, in collaboration with University of Queensland, Australia, studied the […]
After a period of chaos with a complete freeze on teacher recruitment, incidents of rampant campus violence, mass copying, and recruitment test scandals during its first five years of office, the TMC government of West Bengal seemed set to introduce the much-proclaimed poribartan (‘change’) in the state’s languishing education sector. After clearing the long-stalled primary […]
More than 180,000 students of the 6.6 million who had registered for classes X and XII school-leaving exams conducted by the Uttar Pradesh state board of secondary and higher secondary education starting on February 7, didn’t show up to write them following stringent measures initiated by the state government to check examination malpractices.
Seventeen social entrepreneurs were honoured by the Delhi-based School for Social Entrepreneurs India and PwC India on February 5 for graduating from its flagship Social Start-Up Fellowship programme, an initiative supported by PwC India. The graduating class of 2017-18 is working on social enterprises in diverse fields such as livelihood, healthcare, children and women’s welfare, […]
A three-member team of India’s premier Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur (West Bengal) is making waves nationwide with its revolutionary wireless sleep assistant SleepDoc+.
The team of Laxmi Kant Tiwari, Alok Mishra and Anurag Verma bested 12 teams at the grand finale to be crowned champions of the inaugural Accenture Innovation Challenge 2017, staged in Bangalore on […]
Undeterred by strong winds and intermittent rains on December 1 last year, Bangalore-based Anmol Arora (15) used a powerful swing to notch up an impressive score of 74 (2 over) to be crowned overall champion of the 5th Inter-School Golf Tournament organised by the city’s Top 10 ranked Canadian International School, at the Prestige […]
A franchised institution of the G.D. Goenka Public School chain of primary-secondaries countrywide, GDGPS-R has earned an excellent reputation for delivering high-quality schooling within a short span of six years – Autar Nehru
In the short span of six years since it admitted its first batch of 400 students in 2012, the preschool-class XII co-education GD […]
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