Last week on my way back from my college I was going to attend the Gargi college fest. I took an auto from green park metro station. After arguing with the auto driver over the asked fare I sat into the auto. And within two minutes the autowallah asked me “beti kaunse college mein padhti [...]
50% of India still illiterate Villages in India yet to see the light of literacy India lacks an efficient education system These headlines make you wonder whether it is the same India which was the hub of knowledge and education having Nalanda and Takshila universities a thousand years back? And even in places where there [...]
Continue reading …1 : “I shall prepare for the IIT JEE. I want a degree from IIT. My father also passed out from IIT.” 2 : “Oh! That’s great, so you want to become an engineer then IIT is one of the good choices.” 3 : “What is an engineer?” Good morning, this is the “Real Situation” [...]
Continue reading …PISA, Programme for International Student Assessment is conducted annually by Organisation for Economic Co-Operation (OECD) Secretariat to evaluate worldwide education systems. This year, among the 73 countries that participates, India scored 200, ranking only second last. This piece of news gives us no reason to rejoice, but at least shows how far we have to [...]
Continue reading …My visit to MIT, Harvard and Michigan State University, last year, has been a great learning experience. I felt and found that, this is a great time to be a teacher. The classrooms are the center of constant innovation in learning activity with the teacher’s role increasing in subtlety and sophistication vis-à-vis the learner. Anyone [...]
Continue reading …Several leading Bollywood actors including Shahrukh Khan, Anil Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra would now be reaching out to people with their message of education to all. The National Literacy Mission Authority has launched a music video for its literacy anthem titled ‘Shiksha ka Suraj’ which apart from these actors also features veteran actress [...]
Continue reading …Higher education is the need of the hour for developing countries like India. Since 1990′s economic reforms, the number of universities in India have increased to a tremendous level. In addition, higher education has remained an important area of five year plans still, the educated youth here lack behind in contrast to West in skills, [...]
Continue reading …There is no readymade formula to ensure change and innovations in teacher education. Nor can anyone design uniform mechanisms to improve the quality of teacher education across the country. The efforts have to be more localized depending on the environment in which the teacher education programme functions and the school system it serves. Every institution [...]
Continue reading …The hoopla and hyperbole being orchestrated as a result of the findings of Tandon Committe on deemed Universities is being taken with utmost significance by everyone. No one even dares to put a question mark on government universities and education regulators . India is a land where a number of central and state universities exist [...]
Continue reading …We have the best education system for higher secondary education in the world but for the last couple of years or three our ministers had taken away our education system in the lurch. They are ruining our system. Earlier in class Xth, students come to know about the competition, come to know about their position [...]
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