Punjab School security initiative
Ludhiana, october 4. Under a special initiative to transform public education, the Punjab state government has appointed 1,378 security guards for all government senior secondary schools with an enrolment of more than 500 students.
Addressing an audience at a local government school function, education minister Harjot Singh Bains said: “These security […]
“India’s work productivity is one of the lowest in the world… So therefore, my request is that our youngsters must say, ‘This is my country. I’d like to work 70 hours a week.’ You know, this is exactly what the Germans and Japanese did after the Second World War; they made sure that every German […]
A scheme under which corporates, individuals and voluntary organisations (NGOs) have been permitted to ‘adopt’ government schools to improve infrastructure and education quality, has provoked widespread protests from government school teachers statewide.
On September 18, the BJP-Shiv Sena government of the state announced the scheme under which philanthropists, corporates and […]
Ranked #427 among global universities by the highly respected London-based higher ed institution ranking agency Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), the state-government managed Anna University, Chennai, comprising 13 constituent colleges, three regional campuses with an enrolment of 18,000 students, is struggling with only 556 full-time teachers. On October 3, after hearing a batch of petitions […]
A year after the multi-crore teacher recruitment scam for West Bengal’s 92,748 government schools came to light following the arrests of Partha Chatterjee, former education minister, Kalyanmoy Ganguly, former president of West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) and several other government and ruling party bigwigs […]
Information gold mines
Heartiest congratulations to EducationWorld for publishing the mammoth Part I and Part II volumes of the EW India School Rankings 2023-24. Both issues are gold mines of information for aspirational parents.
In particular, it was a pleasant surprise to see the non-profit Future Hope School, Kolkata — located in my neighbourhood — […]
Industry leader and corporate tycoon N.R. Narayana Murthy’s exhortation to youth to work 70 hours per week to enable the country to grow into a $30 trillion (from the current $3.7 trillion) economy by 2047, has stirred a hornet’s nest among the woke brigades. Suddenly, trendy television news anchors and grave editorial writers are discussing […]
Primary school children: permanent APAAR record for all
When the 65-page national Education Policy (NEP) 2020, distilled from the 484-page report of the K. Kasturirangan Report, was released to an unsuspecting public on July 29, 2020, there was considerable scepticism about its implementation. But bit by bit, several important initiatives – CUET […]
The israel-hamas war now into its third week has taken a terrible toll in the Gaza strip, a narrow (41×9 km) land parcel sited between Israel and the Kingdom of Jordan to the east.
Although the latest casus belli is the surprise attack on Israeli civilians in a border town on October 7, and taking of […]
Rajiv Desai is president of Comma Consulting and a well-known Delhi-based columnist
The entry of this sophisticated communications discipline dovetailed with the big bang economic reforms introduced in the 1991 budget. That was when the government introduced major changes to the industrial licensing regime
Many of us professionals on the frontlines of public relations consulting were justifiably […]
24 years of uninterrupted publishing of a magazine is an exemplary record, even if it sounds self-congratulatory. Yet it’s a measure of our commitment to EducationWorld’s mission statement, viz, “to build the pressure of public opinion to make education the #1 item on the national agenda” that come rain or shine, health or illness, we […]
– G.S. Madhav Rao, Director Academics, Vasal Education
In the dynamic landscape of education in northern India, Sanjeev Kumar Vasal emerges as a luminary, guiding the Vasal Educational Group with an unwavering vision of accessible, quality education. His transformative leadership is not merely reforming educational practices but is nurturing the potential of young minds to […]
The University of Madras has cancelled a lecture titled “How to Spread Christianity in India”, scheduled for March 14, following protests from the ABVP, Hindu .....Read More
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