While every educator aims to carve a distinctive niche in the teaching domain, there are no defined benchmarks to evaluate the pedagogical skills of educators. Recognising this gap, Saamarthya Teachers Training Academy of Research (STTAR) has unveiled the National Teachers’ Olympiad, an exhilarating annual event that unearths the best educators in India and abroad.
Scheduled for […]
“NEET-based selection process favours urban students and those who can afford costly coaching classes and hence is inherently against the poor and underprivileged.”
M.K. Stalin, chief minister, Tamil Nadu, on why the state government is opposed to the NEET medical exam (The Hindu, August 14)
“NEP speaks about learning in the mother tongue, experiential learning, flexibility […]
Shobhith Mathur
– Shobith Mathur, alum of IIT Bombay, Washington University, Indian School of Business and former technology manager at Amazon (USA). Shobith Mathur is cofounder and Vice Chancellor of Rishihood University, Sonipat
The challenge isn’t to celebrate past achievements but to actively work towards a future where the Indian mind is truly free. The […]
With co-ed schools becoming increasingly popular, the league table of all-boys schools has been steadily shrinking. Nevertheless they continue to enjoy outsized reputations for excellent academic, sports and co-curricular education
St. John’s High, Chandigarh’s Br. Ryan Fernandes: #1 second consecutive year
Even though the EWISR league table of India’s best all-boys day schools is shrinking […]
“I am pleased though not surprised that Daly College is ranked India’s #1 legacy day-cum-boarding school for the second year consecutively. This is well-deserved because the school has successfully built upon its rich history and legacy to transform into a contemporary, progressive K-12 institution providing world-class all-round education. I believe our top ranking is the […]
The country’s best all-girls day schools have built formidable reputations for dispensing not merely rigorous academics but also co-curricular, sports and life skills education to prepare girl children for leadership positions in society
RKKGPS’s Neera Singh (centre): collective effort pay-off
India’s all-girls schools are valuable national assets. In a still largely conservative and patriarchal society […]
Because they offer the advantages of valuable gender interaction, life skills education, the excellent co-curricular and sports infrastructure of boarding schools and student body diversity, day-cum-boarding schools are becoming increasingly popular countrywide.
The Emerald Heights’ Siddharth Singh: “genuinely integrated holistic education”
Among primary-secondary education institutions, day-cum-boarding schools offer children several unique advantages. Firstly, without […]
The league table of co-ed day schools is invariably the lengthiest in the annual EW India School Rankings (EWISR), introduced in 2007. In EWISR 2023-24, over 3,000 co-ed day primary-secondary schools in 433 cities and towns countrywide are ranked nationally, in the states and cities
Vasant Valley’s Rekha Krishnan: teacher enrichment outcome
One indicator that […]
The uniqueness of EWISR, introduced in 2007, is that institutional rankings are based on careful evaluation of 14 discrete parameters of school education excellence. Moreover, schools are grouped within their own categories to eliminate apples and oranges type comparisons, writes Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen.
It’s the time of year when the annual EducationWorld India School […]
The Mahabharata quest: the Khandavaprastha conspiracy
Christopher C. Doyle
Westland
Rs.499 391 pages
This fast-paced thriller blends mythology, science fiction and historical facts so smoothly that the reader feels this is a factual account with an air of verisimilitude
Creating fiction, poetry and drama based on the Mahabharata, Ramayana or the Puranas is a well-established tradition […]
Ambedkar: A Life
Shashi Tharoor
Aleph Book Company
Rs.599
Pages 226
This book is about the confrontation between Gandhi and Ambedkar, a profound disagreement on the status of Dalits in free, independent India
India’s uniquely successful freedom movement in last few decades of British Raj over the subcontinent was almost entirely due to the generalship and masterful […]
Evidently the top leadership of the BJP/NDA government at the Centre doesn’t comprise students of history. If it did the BJP would cease and desist from brazen attempts to ram Hindi — the lingua franca of the most economically backward and lawless states of India — down the reluctant throats of hundreds of millions of […]
Financially, Indian cricket — and cricketers — have never had it so good. In the past quinquennium, BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) has earned a revenue of Rs.27,400 crore, transforming into one of the richest sports governance bodies worldwide, rivalling NBA, USA and the English and European Football leagues. Last year, it […]
That the left hand of the gargantuan 18 million strong neta-babu brotherhood that micro-manages the country through thousands of superfluous laws, rules and regulations, doesn’t know what the right hand is doing, is hardly a national secret. A case in point is schizophrenia about foreign investment in the Indian economy required to increase the number […]
Through their contrasting narratives, two movies compel us to reflect on the condition of K-12 education in India. They force us to confront uncomfortable truths and inspire us to strive for change
Dr. Prashant Narang, Senior Fellow (Research & Training Programs) at the Centre for Civil Society, Delhi
Education is not the filling of a pail, but […]
Haryana-Magic Bus partnership
Gurugram, August 9. Haryana School Shiksha Pariyojna Parishad, implementing agency for Samagra Shiksha (secondary school programme) of the government of Haryana, has partnered with Magic Bus India Foundation to empower government school teachers to deliver life skills education for fostering holistic development of adolescents in Panchkula, Gurugram, and Yamuna Nagar districts.
Under its teacher-led […]
Reshma Ravishanker (Bangalore)
Deputy CM D.K. Shivakumar (right): NEP 2020 rejected
The newly-elected congress government of Karnataka, which won a bitterly fought legislative election against the BJP in May, has discharged its election manifesto promise of scrapping the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 promulgated by the BJP government at the Centre.
On August 21, deputy […]
Autar Nehru (Delhi)
Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan with Dr. Kasturirangan (left)
On august 23, india began a new progression to ‘decolonise’ its school education system with the release of the National Curriculum Framework for School Education (NCF-SE), more than three years after the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 was promulgated on July 29, 2020. […]
Nasrin Modak Siddiqi (Mumbai)
New IIM-Mumbai main block. Inset: Prof. Manoj Tiwari
One of the curious anomalies of India’s higher education system was that until recently, neither Mumbai (nor Delhi) hosted one of the country’s 21 globally famous IIMs (Indian Institutes of Management).
The first IIM was established in Calcutta (now Kolkata) way back in 1961 […]
Delhi
Graphic book for well-being
New Delhi, August 29. A new graphic illustrations book for adolescents titled Lets Move Forward was launched by Dharmendra Pradhan, Union education minister, to guide adolescents to maintain holistic well-being. The book focuses on interpersonal relationships, gender equality and substance abuse prevention, among other issues.
A collaborative effort of NCERT and […]
Shivani Chaturvedi (Chennai)
Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin
The DMK government of Tamil Nadu is determined to shift education from the concurrent list of the Constitution — which means that both the Central and state governments can enact legislation on education — to the state list.
During his Independence Day address in Chennai, chief minister […]
Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
The mysterious death on August 10 of Swapnadip Kundu, a first-year Bengali literature student of Kolkata’s high-ranked Jadavpur University (JU, estb.1905), because of alleged ragging by a group of senior students has once again brought the issue of harassment and ragging into the national spotlight. Thus far, 13 students, including three former students, […]
Valuable feedback
Your special coverage of the pre-draft NCF-SE (EW August) is exhaustive and incisive for its value, pertinence and transformatory character in the context of recasting school education. I consider your critical assessment as one of the key check-points so far as the value of our efforts is concerned. I am convinced that it […]
Great injustice is being meted out to a large number of citizens by several state governments countrywide by demolition of homes and shops — especially of the Muslim minority community — by bulldozers called in at short notice. The flimsy excuse proffered for the heart-rending razing of painfully accumulated property of bottom-of-pyramid citizens is that […]
The conclusion of the 19th meeting of top-level commanders of the Indian Army and China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to discuss confidence building measures after the bloody River Galwan clash of May 2020, concluded in Chushul on August 14 without any apparent progress. On September 9-10, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to meet with […]
It’s here! The biggest EW issue of the year. From the blank-eyed stares one gets, there is little awareness or appreciation that since 2007 when the annual Education India School Rankings (EWISR) survey was introduced, it has evolved into the largest, deepest and most comprehensive primary-secondary schools rating and rankings survey worldwide.
Unlike most surveys ranking […]
From a prototype for a competition to meeting the President of India Droupadi Murmu, humanoid robot Sasha’s journey has been incredible.
A robotic workshop for students organised by the Science department of SKV Gwalior planted the seed of love and curiousity for AI. A team of 23 students guided by their mentor Ms. Geetanjali Rajput and […]
Pradhyumna Singh Rathod, an alumnus of the Class of 2023 of Emerald Heights International School, Indore has made the school and country proud by securing 35th place in the 2023 ICF Junior and U23 Canoe Slalom World Championships held in Krakow, Poland from August 15-20, 2023.
Pradhyumna’s outstanding performance marks the highest rank attained by any […]
Internationalising higher education – an external perspective
Philip G. Altbach, research professor and distinguished fellow, Center for International Higher Education, Boston College
Indian higher education has suddenly become “hot” with delegations of global university leaders and politicians flocking to the country, the latest from Australia. Governments and universities from around the world are signing memoranda of understanding with Indian counterparts and making ambitious […]