Publication of the Assam-specific National Register of Citizens on September 14 by the State Coordinator of National Registration, Assam, has dissatisfied everybody.
In 1971 following a brief but all-out Indo-Pak war, East Pakistan — with India’s aid and assistance — emerged as the new nation of Bangladesh. But even though Bangladesh became an independent nation, because […]
Exasperated by spreading urban blight, post-liberalisation India’s expanding and increasingly affluent middle class is becoming enamoured with boarding schools typically sited in the country’s still salubrious hill stations, and/or pristine unpolluted campuses on the outskirts of gas chamber cities – Dilip Thakore
The law of unintended consequences works in mysterious ways. Over seven decades ago despite the […]
– Dr Krishna Kumar is former professor of education at Delhi University and former director of NCERT
Many years ago I witnessed a class XI boy hurl a shard of metal at his teacher. The heavy metal had rusted, but its edges were still quite sharp. Had it not narrowly missed the teacher, her face […]
The two-day EWISR Awards 2018-19 event was the sequel of the EducationWorld India School Rankings — the world’s largest and most in-depth school rankings survey — published last month. Over 1,000 educators and school leaders were conferred national, state and city rankings among other honours – Summiya Yasmeen
Over two days on September 28-29, principals, promoters, […]
In the bad old days, boarding school education was hard grind. Born in British-ruled East Africa where my sire was a plantations tycoon, I was despatched to boarding school in India at young age and spent almost a decade enduring cold showers, authoritarianism and arbitrary caning, not to mention gating, face-offs behind the chapel and […]
The note sent by dr. raghuram Rajan, former governor of the Reserve Bank of India (2013-2016) and currently professor of finance at the Booth School of Business, Chicago University, to the estimates committee of the finance ministry on September 11 is a wake-up call to the Central government and public. If root and branch reforms […]
The daylight kidnap and brutal gang-rape of a 19-year-old girl on her way to a coaching class in Rewari, Haryana has outraged the nation. That she had topped the CBSE class XII school-leaving exam earlier this year and had been felicitated by the President of India, didn’t galvanise the lethargic and leaden-footed Haryana state police […]
Thank you for publishing “the world’s largest school rankings survey” (EW September). The survey is indeed a gargantuan undertaking which rates and ranks the Top 1,000 schools of the world’s second most populous country. As Prof. Gandhi Kingdon observes, the parameters on which EWISR ranks schools are truly comprehensive.
I salute the people who have […]
Last month two significant and keenly anticipated elections for control of the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) and Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) produced contrasting results which are being interpreted as forerunners of General Election 2019 scheduled for next summer.
The 135,000 (44 percent turnout) members of DUSU who voted on September 12, returned candidates […]
In maharashtra — india’s most industrialised state (pop.114 million) — 25,000 college and university teachers have been on an indefinite ‘cease-work’ strike since September 25. They are protesting poor pay scales and a huge number of teacher vacancies in the state’s government- funded higher education institutions.
The Maharashtra Federation of University & College Teachers Organisation (MFUCTO) […]
The political power and influence of the students’ community in the eastern seaboard state of West Bengal (pop.91 million) has been historically acknowledged right from the heyday of the anarchic Naxalite movement of the 1970s — often romanticised as the golden age of student politics in Bengal. Moreover in Bengal, Gandhian non-violence made minimal impact […]
Despite a stringent law against ragging in Tamil Nadu (pop.72 million) and a slew of directives issued by the Supreme Court to state governments and educational institutions countrywide to curb the practice of ragging, this pernicious campus initiation ritual has not been eradicated. Persistent fear, threat of violence and abuse continue to stalk school-leavers entering […]
In the public perception, Bangalore (pop.12 million, renamed Bengaluru in 2014 in a fit of foolish sub-nationalism which has jeopardised its international brand as India’s Silicon Valley) is the garden city of India. Ex facie, the statistics are impressive. The charm of this once clean green city which attracted a bevy of the world’s top-ranked […]
“Honest politics needs intelligent debate. One of the clearest signs of fascist politics is attacks on universities and expertise — the support systems of discussion and the sources of knowledge and facts.”
Jason Stanley, professor at Yale University (The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 2)
“I think some day, and soon, I’ll go back to teaching. This […]
Puducherry, September 4. Puducherry chief minister V. Narayanasamy lauded the efforts of teachers and non-teaching staff of a government primary school at Koonichampet for bagging the all-India #1 rank under the Swachch Vidyalaya Puraskar (clean schools programme) of the Central government. He presented a cheque of Rs.1 lakh to the school’s principal Sasikumar.
Bangalore, September 4. The Indus School of Leadership (ISL, estb.2010), which offers outbound experiential learning programmes to inculcate leadership qualities in students, teachers and corporate executives, has shifted base from Yellagiri in Tamil Nadu to a campus in Kanakapura (Ramanagara district), 70 km from Bangalore.
Equipped with state-of-the-art infrastructure for over 400 outbound adventure activities such […]
A multi-disciplinary varsity with 15,000 students including 2,550 from 100 countries worldwide, University of Windsor, Canada is ranked among Canada’s Top 25 universities by the London-based QS
Sited on a 125-acre campus in the southern tip of Canada, University of Windsor (UoW, estb.1963), Canada is a multi-disciplinary public varsity with an enrolment […]
Combining contemporary international pedagogies with India’s ancient gurukul traditions, Tula’s International School, Dehradun has quickly established a good reputation – Autar Nehru
Sited on an eco-friendly 30-acre campus in Dhoolkot village, 20 km from the K-12 education hub of Dehradun, the new age co-ed wholly residential Tula’s International School (TIS, estb. 2013), […]
In my over 30-year career as an education writer, school coach and consultant, I have come across many people who say they own a tract of land and would like to build a school. But is land ownership the prime consideration for setting up a school? Others say ‘we are promoting a township and must […]
Readers of EW, which does so much to promote the quality of education in India and expose government failures, may be unaware about the great education mess in the UK. Recent media headlines in London are depressing.
Britain lagging behind in global education league’. ‘Private school pupils get nearly five times as many top grades in […]
A major study has concluded that teaching standards are lower in the US’ most prestigious universities than in the country’s less celebrated higher education providers. For the paper, published in Higher Education, 60 higher education experts were sent to observe 587 courses at nine US institutions, ranging from some of the most prestigious in the […]
Singapore’s schools have long been reputed for didactic teaching, rote learning and academic brilliance. Their pupils lead the rankings in the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a triennial test of 15-year-olds around the world, and the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), which measures ten and 14-year-olds.
In the popular imagination, school summer holidays conjure up a picture of carefree youthful exploration. But many parents rely on the term-time services that schools give their offspring, such as supervision and meals. Come the holidays, they can suddenly find their schedules and budgets stretched. Researchers also say that the long break often sets back […]
Most people in the UK believe international students should be allowed to stay in the country for two or more years after graduation, a new poll has revealed. The survey results were released by Universities UK (UUK) as it called on the government to allow foreign graduates to stay on for up to two years […]
Phil Cotton, vice chancellor of the University of Rwanda, often has to say “no” to well-meaning potential benefactors. “Lots of academic colleagues want to send me stuff they don’t need — old textbooks or out-of-date medical equipment that will last only a short time,” explains Cotton about turning down the offers from leading universities in […]
The EducationWorld Grand Jury Awards were introduced in 2016 to acknowledge and celebrate schools — especially low-profile and newly promoted institutions — which excelled in parameters of K-12 education excellence over and above the 14 parameters assessed in the annual EW India School Rankings survey. In its third year, a specially constituted jury of knowledgeable […]
The EducationWorld Grand Jury Awards were introduced in 2016 to acknowledge and celebrate schools — especially low-profile and newly promoted institutions — which excelled in parameters of K-12 education excellence over and above the 14 parameters assessed in the annual EW India School Rankings survey. In its third year, a specially constituted jury of knowledgeable […]
A highlight of the two-day EducationWorld India School Rankings Awards 2018-19 celebrations staged at the upscale Leela Ambience Hotel, Delhi NCR on September 28-29, was the launch of the unique ELITE (Emerging Leaders in Innovation, Technology and Education) School Rankings 2018-19, designed and executed by Edfinity, a Silicon Valley-based online learning firm supported by the […]
An arts and education postgraduate of Osmania University and the University of New Mexico, USA, Begum Anees Khan is the Promoter-Chairperson of the Hyderabad-based Nasr Education Society (NES, regst.2001), and the Founder-Principal of the top-ranked CISCE-affiliated class I-XII Nasr Girls School, Hyderabad. Over the past 53 years, NES has promoted and manages five […]
Outstanding Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2018
Currently vice president of the Genesis Global School, Noida and hitherto the Founding-Principal and Director of this globally benchmarked CBSE, CAIE and IB-affiliated international school ranked #4 in EducationWorld’s national league table of international day-cum-boarding schools, Pramod Sharma is one of India’s most experienced and respected school leaders who has played a major role in […]
Outstanding Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2018
A home science graduate of the Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, Hyderabad, and early childhood education postgrad of the University of Iowa, USA, Ratna Reddy is founder-director of the Chirec Group of three schools in Hyderabad (pop. 7.75 million) which have an aggregate 3,750 students and 480 teachers on their muster rolls. After her […]
Outstanding Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2018
Born in Burma (now Myanmar) where she received her K-12 education at the Cusek School, Yangon (formerly Rangoon), Amarjyoti Gohil (nee Khullar) moved en famille to the UK in 1970. Continuing her education in the UK, she was admitted into the University of Liverpool which awarded her a postgraduate degree in psychology in 1974.
The RSS: A view to the inside,Walter K. Andersen & Shridhar D. Damle, Penguin Viking; Rs.699, Pages 405
When Walter Andersen and Shridhar Damle published their first book on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, The Brotherhood in Saffron: The RSS and Hindu Revivalism, in 1987, it was welcomed in India and abroad. After all, there was not […]
Shades of Saffron: from Vajpayee to Modi, Saba Naqvi, Westland Publications; Rs.599, Pages 288
One of the main challenges institutions of Indian democracy are facing is decline of the liberal professions.
Journalists, lawyers, professors were supposed to be the front line of the army fighting for the rights of the governed. Today, they are seen more as collaborators […]
One would have thought that the prime purpose of a responsible newspaper, particularly a daily whose logo bears the injunction “Let truth prevail” is to report news as and when it occurs, without fear, favour or prejudice. But even within reputed vintage newspapers there’s no shortage of mean-spirited individuals in positions of high authority who, […]
It’s a comment on the times we live in that the pump price of petrol and diesel is over Rs.80 and Rs.75 per litre respectively, at a time when the international price of crude oil is hovering around $80 per barrel. In the bad old days of the Congress-led UPA-I government at the Centre (2004-09) […]
Amity University, Noida, and Pharmacopoeia Commission for Indian Medicine & Homoeopathy (PCIM&H), a subordinate office of the Ministry of AYUSH, have signed a Memorandum of .....Read More
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– Dr Krishna Kumar is former professor of education at Delhi University and former director of NCERT
Many years ago I witnessed a class XI boy hurl a shard of metal at his teacher. The heavy metal had rusted, but its edges were still quite sharp. Had it not narrowly missed the teacher, her face […]