Brothers Mritul (13) and Sudhay Senthilkkumar (15) — class VIII and X students of Coimbatore’s CBSE-affiliated Yuva Bharati Public School (YBPS) — recently dived into an elite league of long distance swimmers and the record books of five global organisations.
Sudhay was feted for “longest distance covered (13.35 km) using medley swimming technique in five hours” […]
Within the media and the public, there’s little awareness that the country’s 266 private universities, 2,415 B-schools and 2,776 engineering institutes provide good, bad and indifferent education to 65 percent of the country’s 29 million youth in higher education, here are EducationWorld India Private Higher Education Rankings 2017-18 – Dilip Thakore
India’s higher education system, which includes technical education, is among the largest worldwide. The number of universities has increased from 27 in the 1950s to an estimated 750 today. Simultaneously, the number of colleges and stand-alone institutions has risen equally phenomenally to almost 50,000. Yet it’s not common knowledge that a predominant share of tertiary […]
The first English-medium school of Ghatkopar, a populous eastern suburb of Mumbai, PGGS (estb. 1969) is ranked among India’s Top 100 co-ed day schools – Dipta Joshi
Established in 1969 in Mumbai’s suburb of Ghatkopar (pop.200,000), the P.G. Garodia School (PGGS) was the first school to offer English-medium education to residents of this eastern suburb of India’s commercial […]
Promoted by the Rome-based Society of Jesus (aka Jesuits), Fordham is routinely ranked among America’s top higher ed institutions
Sited in the heart of New York, arguably the world’s premier business and financial epicentre, Fordham University (estb.1841), promoted by the Rome-based Society of Jesus (aka Jesuits) — a famous religious order in India — is routinely […]
A sample database of 4,465 knowledgeable respondents — 2,133 higher education faculty, 1,368 final year students of 164 universities and 964 industry representatives — rated and ranked India’s top 100 private universities 2017-18 on ten parameters of education excellence – Dilip Thakore
Top-ranked for the second consecutive year in the EducationWorld India Private University Rankings (EWIPUR) […]
With almost 80 percent of the 3,470 engineering institutions promoted and managed by private entrepreneurs, it makes good sense to evaluate and rank the India’s best private engineering institutes 2017-18 to enable parents and students to choose the most suitable from among them – Summiya Yasmeen
Although India’s 3,470 engineering colleges certify more graduates than any […]
Apart from the Central government’s generously funded and heavily subsidised IIMs, which offer high-quality business management education to a mere 1.4 percent of the 232,000 students who write CAT annually, there are a few dozen private B-schools which offer quality education to MBA aspirants looking for other options – Summiya Yasmeen writes about India’s top […]
Student visa 2016 policy changes have impacted higher education institutions down under, which host 450,000 international students, with gale force. The previous Liberal-National Party coalition government’s much-publicised review of the earlier policy resulted in a Simplified Student Visa Framework (SSVF) which promised great benefits by reducing the visa categories from eight to two, and a […]
In 2014 when the BJP-led NDA government was swept to power in New Delhi, one of its major campaign promises which struck a chord with the electorate was ‘minimum government, maximum governance’. Right-thinking people interpreted this promise as reduction of red tape and intrusion by government into the lives of citizens and sharp focus on […]
The world’s youngest universities outperform their older counterparts when it comes to attracting overseas students and publishing international research, according to data used in the 2017 Times Higher Education Young University Rankings. While older institutions tend to be richer and have stronger reputations in teaching and research, THE data show young universities excel when it […]
What are career prospects like in the field of artificial intelligence?
— Ramya Rangisetty, Hyderabad
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the theory and development of computer systems capable of performing tasks requiring human intelligence such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making and language translation. In recent years, AI has transformed from a niche into mainstream computer science, […]
For several years, shoppers worldwide have been used to China’s omnipresence: ‘Made in China’ has long been the commonest label on the goods they buy. More recently, however, the Chinese government has been trying to sell the country itself as a brand — one that has the ability to attract people from other countries in […]
Russia is recruiting international students to strengthen its soft power in former Soviet states rather than gaining any significant income from foreign enrolments, suggests a study. About 283,000 international students were in Russian universities last year, making it the sixth largest market for globally mobile students behind the US, UK, China, France and Australia, latest […]
Hungary’s top-ranked university is fighting for its existence after the country’s increasingly authoritarian government tabled legislative changes that would make it impossible for the institution to remain in Budapest.
The Central European University (CEU), a graduate institution set up after the fall of communism to defend democracy in Eastern Europe, could be the first international institution […]
Have you ever wondered why so many people — parents and aspiring young coaches — sign up to coach children’s teams?
It’s simple, really. Coaching kids is terrific fun — and moms, dads and all those who have experienced the joy of coaching and mentoring will know exactly what I’m talking about. For some volunteers, it’s […]
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, Amitav Ghosh, Penguin Random House ; Rs.399 ; Pages 275
After winning global acclaim for his path-breaking Ibis trilogy — Sea of Poppies (2008), River of Smoke (2011) and Flood of Fire (2015) — historical fiction novels which focused scathingly on the impact of commerce-driven Western imperialism on Asia, especially […]
To succeed in the murky world of Indian politics, cynical amorality combined with chameleon qualities is very useful. Consider the amazing political longevity of Lalu Prasad Yadav, former Bihar chief minister and Union railways minister. Beginning his career as a youth leader in the late Jayaprakash Narayan’s anti-corruption crusade against then prime minister Indira Gandhi […]
Neerja Birla is founder-chairperson of the Mpower Centre, a Mumbai-based mental health diagnostic and treatment centre, and Mpower Foundation, a mental healthcare initiative launched under the corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme of Idea Cellular Ltd, an Aditya Birla Group company. Excerpts from an interview:
What were the motivating factors which prompted you to promote Mpower Centre and […]
University professors in France are paid far less than their peers in other countries as the government bureaucracy prevents top researchers from negotiating higher salaries, new analysis suggests. While most senior academics in France enjoy “almost total job security” thanks to their “lifetime positions”, professors are significantly underpaid compared with chairs in the UK, Germany […]
Yale University is perhaps the epicentre of the campus activism so voguish today. Two professors stepped down from pastoral roles last year after a controversy about whether students should police their own offensive Halloween costumes, rather than letting the university do it for them, provoking protests from hundreds of students. Yale is also debating whether […]
Like most people, until a few years ago, I wasn’t aware that the majority of India’s 29 million youth in the 18-24 age group fortunate to access tertiary education — incidentally a mere 20 percent of the country’s youth in this age cohort is enrolled in higher education cf. 85 percent in South Korea and […]
With torrents of data flowing into the public domain from the Internet, social media, think tanks, corporates, etc, the demand for data analytics professionals is booming – Odeal D’Souza
With torrents of data flowing into the public domain from the Internet, social media, think tanks, corporates and sundry official sources, the job of collating, preserving, classifying […]
With a score of 1,590 (out of a maximum possible 1,600) in SAT (formerly known as Scholastic Assessment Test), Lucknow-based Shubh Agrawal is India’s new SAT topper (for the test administered on January 21). The 16-year-old maxed the math section and scored 790 out of 800 in the SAT English paper. Students’ scores in SAT […]
RV College of Engineering (RVCE), Bengaluru and Cisco India have launched a IoT (Internet of Things) Centre of Excellence (CoE) to provide the next generation of students digital skills and training necessary for 21st-century jobs.
The CoE, sited within the RVCE campus, was inaugurated by Gaurav Gupta, principal secretary, department of IT, BT, and S&T of […]
The state government’s education ministry has launched new skill passbook and catch-up schemes to prepare students for the new academic year 2017-18. Skill passbooks completed by teachers of their 2016-17 classes will reflect each student’s capabilities in Hindi, English and maths.
“The aim of the project is to prepare children for their new classes before start […]
“I have always felt that every senior management person of an Indian corporation has to show self-restraint in his or her compensation and perquisites. He or she has to fight for maintaining a reasonable ratio between the lowest salary and the highest salary in a corporation in a poor country like India… This is necessary […]
Enactment of the gujarat state Higher Education Council (GSHEC) Act, 2016, which has become law after governor O.P. Kohli gave his assent to the eponymous Bill on February 3, has sent a shock wave through the already nervous academy of the state.
Under the provisions of the Act, a council headed by the chief minister as […]
After passing the west bengal Clinical Establishments Registration, Regulation and Transparency Bill on March 17, which lays down rules for the state’s 300 private hospitals to end ‘extortion’, the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) government has resolved to frame a similar policy to regulate the tuition fees and donations allegedly demanded by private schools. A […]
From the looks of it, attending to the needs and requirements of the education sector is the last priority of Tamil Nadu’s political parties and leaders.
Three of Tamil Nadu’s most reputed government-run universities — University of Madras (UoM), Anna University (AU), Chennai, and Madurai Kamaraj University (MKU) — have been limping along without vice chancellors […]
Under s.12 (1) (c) of the landmark Right of Children to Free & Compulsory Education (aka RTE) Act, 2009 — having perhaps given up hope of ever improving learning outcomes in the country’s 1.20 million government schools — the then ruling Congress-led UPA-II government at the Centre expropriated 25 percent of capacity in private elementary […]
Notwithstanding a detailed cover story in EducationWorld (February 2017) in which several principals of the country’s top-ranked schools affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) roundly criticised the pan-India school-leaving examination board for excessive interference, this Delhi-based nominally autonomous exam board, which is under the supervisory jurisdiction of the Union human resource development […]
Your cover story ‘Belated teacher training revolution in K-12 education’ (EW April) is misleading and one-sided.
You have incorrectly concluded that a belated teacher training revolution is sweeping India because a handful of high-end private schools have promoted academies to train their teachers and/or aspiring teachers. Though this is a positive development, it’s a drop in […]
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