Education

Ideally, even children from socially and economically backward families should be in a position to compete with students from private schools. It is easier and populist to shift the entire blame on the rich and well-to-do families rather than finding a solution to empower the children from poor and backward families so that they too can enjoy the fruits of development.

By Gaurav Sharma The AAP government has decided to install jammers to prevent cheating with the help of high-tech electronic gadgets in examinations held for...

According to the University Grants Commission (UGC) at least 21 fake and unrecognized Universities are functioning in different parts of the country. The list of such Universities available at the UGC website includes names like Bhartiya Shiksha Parishad, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh and Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM), Qutub Enclave, Phase-II, New Delhi

The British regime devised the education system only to meet its needs of its lower administrative strata. The academic calendar was devised to meet climate changes witnessed by the British. Long holidays were scheduled from May to July which left a majority of Indian children roaming around bare foot in hot afternoons when the British shifted to hill stations to avoid hot summers in plains.

A must read case study taught in almost all journalism classes is how a newspaper sub-editor was sacked for showing too much creativity. The sub-editor’s fault was that he insensitively headlined a story on a mad man escaping after raping a woman -- as “Nut screws and bolts”. This is the case with the Indian Education System where creativity and out-of-the-box ideas are dismissed disdainfully.

Indira Gandhi also introduced reforms and turned schooling to 14 years and graduation course to three years but nothing was done to improve quality of education in public sector. A number of surveys indicated that the system did not achieve even the primary objective of providing an ability to students to read and write until the middle school levels.

On the Labour Day, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi revealed the pathetic picture of merely 3 lakh apprentices in India as against 20 million in China, 90 per cent in Japan and three million in tiny population of Germany.

Students, parents and teachers at DPS Surat are united in support of mobile learning and the confidence it inspires in school.Teachers began using the iLife suite, Final Cut Pro and Aperture to develop and edit impressive multimedia content for their own classwork

Meet Pandit Gulam Dastagir, a Muslim that too Syedvanshi' a direct descendant of Prophet Mohammed who chants the Namaaz and Namoh Namah in the same breath. A man who seriously believes that Islam and Hinduism are two sides of the same coin, he has done more to publicise Sanskrit than any brahmin.

MyCaptain is a platform that transforms passion into a career, with mentorship from 200 plus professionals who have made a mark in their respective fields, in the most exciting way possible.

Life has really been a roller coaster ride for Colleen N. Hanycz. Till recently she was head of the only all-women college in Canada. She would now be the first female President of an all-male college's 152-year history.

The full potential of the iPad in business learning is nearly limitless. We are still in the discovery phase. Business schools need to be at the forefront of innovation. Smart use of the iPad is certainly one way to achieve this.