Ratna Viswanathan is the Gurugram-based CEO of Reach to Teach (RTT, estb.2007), a social impact organisation. “RTT is a UK registered charity and has been supported in its work by The Larry Ellison Foundation since 2007,” says Viswanathan.
The social impact organisation had an organizational shift to India in 2020 to focus on RTT’s […]
Bengaluru-based Rishi Shiv Prasanna (9) is a boy wonder who has made it into the list of nationally celebrated social innovators. On Republic Day (January 26) this year, Rishi was one of 11 children conferred the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar award by President Draupadi Murmu at a grand ceremony at Vigyan Bhavan, […]
Class XII student and captain of sports at Kolkata’s top-ranked The Heritage School, Neha Sannabhadti (17) is shaping into a national triathlon (swimming, cycling and running) champion. On January 8, she won the 10 km Ekal Run Marathon which drew participation of 4,000 enthusiasts, in a “fair” time of 47.56 minutes. (National record: […]
In recent years, MU is attracting growing interest from students in India especially for data and computer science and business analytics. Over the past two years it has fielded 800-1,000 admission applications annually, writes Reshma Ravishanker
One of four constituent institutions of the National University of Ireland, Maynooth University (MU, estb.1997) is moving up the league […]
Winning elections is different from effective policy formulation. With the economy, foreign policy, defence, and a myriad other fields, the government has come a cropper
In the nineteenth century, two Boston Brahmins — Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau — together with Russian aristocrat Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, were leading voices against the iniquities of the […]
Ranked among the national capital’s Top 15 co-ed day schools in the EW India School Rankings 2022-23, ITLPS’ focus on balanced holistic education has paid off by way of excellent CBSE board exam resultss, writes Autar nehru
Sited on a verdant campus in west Delhi’s rapidly gentrifying suburb of Dwarka, ITL Public School (ITLPS, estb.2001) has […]
MIT MoU signing spree
Manipal (udupi), february 27. The Manipal Academy of Higher Education’s Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT) has signed MoUs with Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP), National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), Japan, and Institute of Defence Scientists and Technologists (IDST) and Elcom Innovation — both based in Bengaluru.
Madhya Pradesh Mahatma disrespect notice
Seoni (mp), february 7.
The education ministry has issued a show-cause notice to a teacher of the government-run CM Rise School in Seoni district after a student recited a poem criticising Mahatma Gandhi during an event organised as part of the state government’s ongoing VikasYatra (development campaign). A video clip […]
“What does the scientific community expect to see in a Union Budget? The current level of expenditure in S&T is hopelessly inadequate if India is to compete at the international level in knowledge generation. So, the scientific community expects to see a significant increase in the outlay for research.”
Dhrubajyoti Mukherjee, president, The Breakthrough Science Society […]
In end-february, tamil nadu’s Federation of Private School Associations (FePSA) issued a statement warning that its member schools will not admit free-of-charge children as mandated by the Right to Education (RTE) Act, 2009, for the academic year 2023-24, unless the DMK-run state government clears its dues of the previous two years.
The west bengal board of Primary Education recently declared results of the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET), held on December 11, 2022 at 1,460 exam centres across the state. Teachers are being hired for 11,000 vacant posts in 67,699 state government and aided primary schools. TET 2022 was held under tight police vigilance. That’s […]
With state legislative Assembly elections scheduled for May-June, the ruling BJP government is pulling out all the stops to mend its damaged reputation vis-a-vis education. The BJP government’s record in education — which unlike most north Indian states is an important electoral issue in Karnataka — has drawn widespread adverse comment.
The second edition of the State of Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN) Report 2022, released on February 24, indicates that India’s journey towards universalisation of FLN is likely to be arduous, but possible.
While the impact of pandemic school closures and resultant learning loss of two years for children has contributed to the disappointing […]
The disruption of parliamentary business for two whole days (February 2-3) by the Congress and opposition parties demanding a JPC (joint parliamentary committee) probe into allegations of fraud and stock price manipulation made by an obscure US-based securities firm is a telling example of how public money is wasted by politicians. According to a study […]
Except to left ideologues and academics who the global rejection of communism/socialism notwithstanding, continue to dominate the academy and public discourse, the data is alarming, if not horrifying. According to a front-page banner headline in The Hindu (February 10), 225,000 skilled professionals and/or HNIs (high net worth individuals) renounced Indian passports, migrating abroad last year.
ODM Educational Group, the leading educational conglomerate of Odisha, has collaborated with the Sapphire International School at Ranchi, Jharkhand, to launch ODM Sapphire Global School. This marks the beginning of a new chapter in the field of education in the state, as ODM Sapphire Global School brings world-class education to Ranchi, Jharkhand. The partnership […]
Twenty-five students from The Heritage School, Kolkata, had the opportunity to attend the Conclave on Mental Health at the Raj Bhavan, Kolkata on 20th January. .....Read More
The Jharkhand cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Hemant Soren, has approved the introduction of computer-based education in government middle schools under the Gyanodya scheme, along .....Read More
Self-reliance as confidence trick
Winning elections is different from effective policy formulation. With the economy, foreign policy, defence, and a myriad other fields, the government has come a cropper
In the nineteenth century, two Boston Brahmins — Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau — together with Russian aristocrat Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, were leading voices against the iniquities of the […]