Who thinks afresh in education? In India? In the USA? Each country and culture has its own challenges and opportunities? Readers this time would find on the other page, an edited version of an interview with Mechelle Rhee, a South Korean American lady of high intelligence and grit, who is an education director of schools,…
Category: Education
USA and UK surveillance of Indian government and citizens!
First, the Britons! Now, the Americans! Indians have to learn to be independent citizens! How to stand up to the brain-washing and other soft power and strong arm tactics? Indians have a long history of brain-washing by the British rulers. From education to scholarship to literature to what Indians believe as an independent nation, we…
India’s higher education in crisis mode!
Mr.M.M.Pallam Raju’s tenure as HRD Minister! How it would turn out? Prof.Yogendra Yadav’s letter to the minister! It raises some disturbing questions! We seem to be living in India in some troubled times, right? Yes, there seems to be much undesirable trends in Indian polity, why, even in the Indian mindset! There is so much…
India on the world stage!
Where are the argumentative Indians? Fighting for our freedoms and democratic safeguards! Recent events on the international scene, military coup in Egypt, before that the Snowden affair that roused world public opinion in favour of giving asylum to him and India’s cowardly response and many other events including inside India, the Narendra Modi vs. Rahul…
What is our education’s priority number one?
We have to compete with China! We have to keep ahead of China in mastering the English language skills! We have to advance in our IT skills! Is education all about money? Or, is education about something else? Serious consequences for India’s present and the future! What Indian education now look for? What is the…
University education Reform
Who talks about it? Who cares about? The field is open to serious violations and corrupt practices! Indian university education is vibrant and also in a mess! Why vibrant? There is a great growth of private universities, deemed universities and very many other higher education colleges, engineering and medical colleges in recent years. This very…
Indian language literatures must reach the international attention!
Why U.R.Ananthamurthy missed the 2013 Man Booker Literature Prize? There are serious gaps in the British English mindset! The British, though now in decline, is still caught up with their imperial past. The British mindset hasn’t yet woken up. They haven’t realised they are in a stage as Portugal and Span, once empires, now mere…
New Ministers at the HRD Ministry!
This is not the time for ponderous editorial writing! Only 18 months left! For the next big election! So, what they can and cannot do? Mr.Pallam Raju, the new minister for HRD, seems to be a very competent man. May be his other two deputies too seem competent. So, our good wishes! But can they…