Aditya Patil is founder-CEO of the newly-promoted Ascend International School, Mumbai (AIS, estb.2011). AIS, which is receiving good notices from Mumbai’s cognoscenti, offers the primary years programme (PYP) of the International Baccalaureate Organisation (IBO), Geneva to 100 K-VI students mentored by 31 teachers. Promoted by the Kasegaon Education Society (KES), which runs 39 education institutions […]
In early June, two teams from Delhi Public School International, Pushp Vihar (Delhi) — comprising Ahaan Jain, Ayaan Khoshal, Raghav Tiwari and Shiv Verma (class VI), and Vansha Gupta and Mohammed Ismail (class VII) — were ranked #2 and #3 in separate categories in version 7.0 of the annual International Robotics Competition (IRC), conducted in […]
Against a depressing backdrop of the country’s education system stewing in a full-blown but unacknowledged crisis, EducationWorld presents solutions which if expeditiously translated into action could accelerate overdue reform of early childhood, primary, secondary and higher education in 21st century India –Dilip Thakore
To say that a crisis is brewing within Indian education is an understatement. […]
Although in most states of the Indian Union, implementation of s. 12 (1) (c) of the RTE Act is at best nominal, in the national capital territory of Delhi compliance is an astonishing 92 percent — the highest countrywide:Gagandeep Kaur
Five years after the historic Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 (aka […]
Inventure Academy, Bangalore is perhaps India’s most Multiple Intelligences-focused school, personally endorsed by Dr. Howard Gardner, professor at the Harvard School of Education and developer of MI theory – Dilip Thakore
Sited on a spacious ergonomically-designed 30-acre campus in Whitefield, once a sleepy suburb of Bengaluru (aka Bangalore), which has transformed into a satellite […]
A member of the Russel Group of the UK’s top 24 research-intensive universities, UoL offers bachelors, Masters and doctoral study programmes to 22,000 students from 115 countries –SUMMIYA YASMEEN
Founded in 1881 as a college and granted a royal charter in 1903, the University of Liverpool (UoL) is nationally and internationally recognised for teaching and research […]
The 16th anniversary of EducationWorld, launched in 1999 with the mission statement “to build the pressure of public opinion to make education the #1 item on the national agenda”, is a good time to do some honest stocktaking. Although we somewhat naively expected a national consensus on the subject, there’s a long road ahead before […]
Within the short span of 18 months after despairing about the open, uninterrupted and continuous corruption of the Congress-led UPA II government (2004-14) at the Centre, the nation’s silent majority is gradually discovering that by conferring the BJP led by prime minister Narendra Modi with the largest majority in the Lok Sabha since 1985, they […]
I was pleasantly surprised to read that teachers are finally getting their due in India (EW October cover story ‘Big paydays ahead for India’s teachers’). For far too long, teachers have been under-appreciated and under-paid in Indian society.
But I think the big paydays you are talking about is limited to teachers in government schools and […]
Despite some of India’s modern multi-disciplinary universities having been established 170 years ago, for several decades until this year when the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and IIT-Delhi were ranked #147 and #179 in the QS World University Rankings 2015, not a single one among them had figured in the Top 200 annual league tables […]
The BJP-Shiv Sena coalition government of Maharashtra is under strain following the embarrassment caused to the administration by Sena cadres running amok in Mumbai, forcing the BCCI to withdraw Pakistani commentators and umpires from the on-going India-South Africa cricket series, and blackening the face of writer-journalist Sudheendra Kulkarni. Uddhav Thackeray, the Shiv Sena supremo, has […]
A survey conducted by the district inspector of schools in Lucknow (pop. 3.5 million), the administrative capital of Uttar Pradesh — India’s sprawling and most populous (200 million) state — indicates that one of every six children in government primaries is absent from class for over 49 days per year.
The annual world university Rankings (WURs) league tables of the London-based rating agencies QS (Quacquarelli Symonds), THE (Times Higher Education), and the Shanghai Jia Tong University, usually released in August-September, are eagerly anticipated the world over not just by university managements but also media, politicians, government, academia, students, and the general public. With national prestige […]
Within 21st century India’s under-developed academic establishment, there’s a curious and inexplicable reluctance to treat college and university students as adults. Although most tertiary students have been endowed with the right to vote and elect national and state governments, on campuses across the country, constitutionally illiterate academics with rigid control-and-command mindsets deny adult students the […]
“Here come the Modi Toadies. FYI (for your information), Toadies: I support no Indian political party and oppose all attacks on free speech. Liberty is my only party.”
Salman Rushdie, acclaimed author, responding to hate messages following his tweet in support of Indian writers who returned their awards (October 13)
The state government will provide land on lease to reputed private educational institutions to promote schools in the state’s hilly areas which lack educational facilities. This government resolution was confirmed by an official communique issued by chief minister Harish Rawat in Dehradun on October 20.
However, educational institutions willing to start campuses in hilly […]
A collaborative Dialogues Workshop was organised by the Bangalore-based Children’s Movement for Civic Awareness (CMCA), Amnesty International India, Centre for Corporate Governance and Citizenship of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B) co-sponsored by EducationWorld on October 7, at the IIM-B campus in suburban Bengaluru. The day-long workshop attracted the participation of over 100 academics, […]
Digital India, Make in India, Clean India, Smart Cities… these are slogans supporters of embattled prime minister Narendra Modi chorus to emphasise the primacy of his “development and growth” agenda. On the other hand, ghar wapsi, love jihad, Hindu rashtra, bans on beef, books and broadcasts… these are slogans supporters of empowered prime minister Narendra […]
The University of Virginia’s provost, Tom Katsouleas, once told me that by his estimates, less than 1 percent of basic research is commercialised and that there may be as few as one near-term commercialisation for every $10 million (Rs.65 crore) invested in fundamental research. This is an awful waste, especially when America is undergoing a […]
It’s standard practice for India’s educational establishment to ensure that the truth about the education system remains concealed so the public can continue to believe that India is one of the world’s most educated countries as evidenced by the success of Indian professionals in the US and other Western countries. Yet the plain truth is […]
The National Policy on Education (NPE) 1986/92 is likely to be updated shortly. Nationwide consultations are reportedly being held with people from every section of society on the shape and contours of NPE 2016. These consultations are being held at a time when the nation is confronted with unprecedented complexities and challenges.
Undoubtedly to the surprise of his hosts, Lucknow-based kung fu martial arts practitioner Akash Yadav (17) bagged two gold medals in the Shaolinquan and soft weapon categories at the fourth World Kung Fu Championship 2015 held in Beijing (July 17-22). The championship attracted 10,000 contestants from 60 countries around the world.
There’s great excitement, satisfaction and learning opportunities in this high-value IT profession. It’s also a great training ground for start-up entrepreneurs –Indra Gidwani
India’s IT (information technology) industry has been on a consistently high growth trajectory for the past quarter century, driven largely by software services and back office projects executed by leading IT companies such […]
I’m a second year B.Com student aspiring for admission into IIM-Ahmedabad (IIM-A). Will it help if I specialise in accounts and finance in my final year?
Deepak Sule, Pune
Admission into IIM-A is dependent upon your score in the Common Admission Test (CAT) of the IIMs which is followed by a group discussion and personal interview. […]
Among the numerous Indian diaspora success stories, the incumbency since 2011 of Bangalore-born Dr. Sunil Kumar as dean and George Pratt Shultz professor of operations management at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business (estb.1898), is a story less told. Although not as well-known as the Harvard and Wharton B-schools, Chicago Booth isn’t just […]
At a Cabinet meeting convened in Delhi on June 22 to review the progress of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA, primary education for all) programme, prime minister Narendra Modi recommended aptitude testing for school children, an overdue initiative. Educationists and educators the world over acknowledge that identification of students’ abilities and potential is the starting […]
According to Father Joseph Corpora of the University of Notre Dame’s Alliance for Catholic Education, the Pope’s visit on September 25 to the Our Lady Queen of Angels, a Catholic primary in Harlem, New York has drawn attention to the paradox of Catholic schools: they are highly successful, but starved of pupils.
The “largest gathering ever of world leaders”; a “step-change” in aid; a “massive step forward for humanity”: the UN meeting held on September 25 had politicians, donors and aid workers reaching for superlatives (as well as jargon). Prime ministers, presidents and the Pope in New York unveiled the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that are supposed […]
Shortly before 10 p.m, BMWs and school buses line the streets of Daechi-dong, a neighbourhood in the stylish district of Gangnam in Seoul. Soon, secondary-school pupils will spill out of its hagwon, or private cram schools; around 1,000 of these night schools are packed into the area, including the most prestigious in the city. After […]
The world dominance of US universities has waned further in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015-2016, despite the fact that the country boasts almost a fifth of institutions in the table. A total of 147 US universities feature in the top 800 — the largest THE rankings to date — including the California […]
“Egypt’s ability to create a new generation of young leaders is dependent upon how well we can educate our youth,” says Ahmed Heikal, founder of Qalaa Holdings, one of Egypt’s largest investment holding companies. “We believe education is a key component of our ongoing reform process as a country.”
Central planning, the failed public sector enterprises model and pervasive bureaucratic corruption are not the only imports of post-independence India from erstwhile Soviet Union. Another deadly import is academic fraud, still common in Russia.
According to a new study, the extraordinary scale of Ph D fraud in Russia can be attributed to the reproduction of near-identical […]
To The Brink and Back India’s 1991 story by Jairam Ramesh; Rupa; Price: Rs.395; Pages: 216
Arguably, no prime minister of independent India was more grievously wronged by his peers and the country’s acquiescent public than the late P.V. Narasimha Rao (1921-2004). A politician who spent almost his entire life in the shadow of lesser leaders, when […]
The multi-million dollar productions of Bollywood in which most of the mysteriously raised budget is expended on elaborate song and dance sequences featuring the choreographed efforts of lead actors who may well be portraying learned professors and nuclear scientists, are studiously avoided by your editor as theatre of the absurd. Nevertheless, once in a blue […]
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