Im in class XI (science) and keen on a career in the defence services. Should I apply for admission into the National Defence Academy (NDA) or prepare for entry into the Indian Police Service (IPS)?Suresh Kelkar, Pune
Unmarried males between 15-18 years of age can write the NDA/Naval Academy entrance exam cond-ucted by the Union […]
That the middle class in urban India is incorrigibly callous and insensitive about the sentiments and sensibilities of small town and rural Indians is a truth too well-known to bear reiteration. But inside urban India the people with the greatest insensitivity towards their less fortunate brethren, are the over-paid, over-hyped, over-sexed and regrettably over here […]
Lt. Gen. (RETD) Arjun Ray, chief executive officer, Indus International School, Bangalore
Where would you place education on your national list of priorities?
Education should be priority No.1.
How best to upgrade government schools?
Government schools urgently need upgradation in the areas of teacher quality and technology. This can happen only if public-private partnerships are formed.
A government keen to pump funding into universities, helping them prepare for a 30 percent increase in student numbers by hiring large numbers of extra staff: what sounds like an impossible dream for most Western universities is the reality in Hong Kong.The territory is gearing up for the next stage of major education reform across […]
A US business school is introducing modules taught overseas and offering alumni the chance to return to study for free as part of an overhaul of its curri-culum in the wake of the worldwide financial crisis. Wharton Business School, part of the University of Pennsylvania, now flies students around the globe to take part in […]
A former group director of California-based Synopsys Inc (a leading supplier of software, IP and services used in semiconductor design and manufacturing; annual sales: $1.4 billion or Rs.6,300 crore), Prof. Srikanth Jadcherla is now promoter chairman and chief executive of Hyderabad-based Synopsys Electronics Education and Research (SEER) Akademi Pvt. Ltd (estb. 2009). SEER Akademi currently […]
Neelimkumar Khaire is the founder-director of the Pune-based Katraj Snake Park (estb. 1986), which is home to a wide variety of snakes found in cities, fields, water bodies, forests, and hills, including the dreaded king cobra and viper. In 1999, the snake park was merged with the Rajiv Gandhi Zoological Park, a major tourist attraction […]
R. Sivaraman (36), assistant professor of mathematics at D.G. Vaishnav College, Chennai is the founder of Pie Mathematics Association (PMA), a not-for-profit trust registered in 2007 with the objective of reducing if not eliminating, maths phobia within the students community and public. An executive council member of the Chennai-based Association of Maths Teachers of India, […]
Mumbai-based theatre producer, director and actress, Raell Padamsee is the promoter-director of Ace Productions Pvt. Ltd (estb. 1987), a company engaged in the businesses of stage productions, sets design, events management and also promoter of ACE (Academy for Creative Expression) speech and drama workshops in schools. The daughter of star theatre personalities Alyque and the […]
Curiously, although the Azim Premji Foundation (APF) registered by the eponymous IT (information technology) tycoon in 1998 and EducationWorld (estb.1999) share several commonalities — both organisations are Bangalore-based, education-centred and have similar objectives — except for a brief period circa 2003 when Wipro Ltd, Premji’s flagship company advertised in this publication — they have remained strangers to […]
The just released Census of India 2011 data contains both good and bad news. First, the good news. Indias decadal population growth rate, which has been a major factor impeding Indias economic progress, has fallen to 17.64 percent in the past decade (2001-2011), from 21.54 percent (1991-2001).When India attained independence from British rule in 1947, […]
Dr. Pritam Singh, former director of Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon and IIM-Lucknow, assumed charge as the new director general of the Delhi-based International Management Institute (IMI, estb.1981) — Indias first corporate-sponsored business school and routinely ranked among the countrys top 20 B-schools — on April 6. IMI has many strengths. Its faculty is on […]
Thomas cook (India) Ltd, the largest integrated travel and travel-related financial services company in India, announced a strategic partnership with the Indian Institute of Tourism and Travel Management (IITTM) in Mumbai on April 11.A unique two-year postgraduate diploma programme in international business management focusing on tourism, has been developed with support and guidance of the […]
The Kota (Rajasthan)-based Career Point Infosystems Ltd (CPIL), the well-known coaching and tutorials company, launched an innovative mobile formulae handbook on April 14. The mobile handbook helps IIT-JEE aspirants to do revisions on the move. As a consequence, students across India preparing for IIT-JEE and AIEEE can now use their mobile phones to revise important […]
Issuing a restraining order on April 15, the Rajasthan high court barred the state government from conducting its recently introduced teachers eligibility test until the court’s next order. Simul-taneously Justice G.K. Vyas served notice to the state’s advocate general asking him to apprise the court of the rationale behind conducting the Rajasthan Teachers Eligibility Test […]
A battle royale is brewing between the Karnataka state government and the Karnataka Private Unaided Engineering Colleges Association (KPUECA) on the issue of tuition fees payable by government quota students admitted into 149 member colleges of KPUECA. The association wants the tuition fees payable by CET (common entrance test) and/or government quota students admitted into […]
The Union governments agreement with civil society activists led by social reformer Anna Hazare — following a 97-hour fast-unto-death staged between April 5-9 by the latter in New Delhi — to constitute a committee with equal representation of government ministers and social activists (nominated by Hazare) to draft a new Lok Pal Bill, is a […]
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