They have become too big to regulate!To save children from the oppression of too much tuition burden! China beats the world education market! More students population!More resources, aggressive government’s education policies!President Xi’s Thought is now in the curriculum! Every year this time schools and colleges reopen not just in India but all over the world….
Category: Education
Writing School and college textbooks!
Issues in changing socio-political times! There are controversies in writing new textbooks first, in the BJP-ruled times and now in Tamil Nadu with a new government in power! The newly elected Government in Tamil Nadu has appointed a new chairman of the School textbook Committee and whose name has evoked controversies? The new chairman is…
Education for Democracy?
Or, for what else?Yes, it is an obvious question but no one asks! You all must be knowing that the New Education Policy (NEP) has been on the table, so to say, for quite some time. But there is no takeoff, again, to ask an obvious question! First, there was a long gestation period after…
ARE WE STILL FOLLOWING A COLONIAL CURRICULUM IN INDIAN SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES?
There is in England today a debate on what they call a cultural war in teaching British history. British slave ownership, 800,000 Africans who were legally owned, were freed by the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833. This history has raised a new debate new culture war in Britain today. Two years ago there was this…
Is education a business pursuit or a collective call for finding our destinies or destinations?
Education becoming a business! This trend is not a happy development. There are very many diverse sides to education, culture, and our own destinies.Do you know the size of the Indian education market size?Every day you almost see the front pages of the mainstream newspapers, both the print and the online media ads, and other…
RADICAL THOUGHTS FOR HIGH QUALITY EDUCATION!
DISRUPTION OF EDUCATION IN THE WORLDYOUTH OF THIS GENERATION CAUGHT IN A WEBALL ARE QUESTIONS! NO EASY ANSWERS! The unending lockdowns keep everyone, the kids, and parents indoors, and there doesn’t seem to be an early end to this continuing disruption and no light at the end of the tunnel. Even the best of medical…
Who are the educators today?
Where are they and what are they doing? Education for democracy must be our goal!Our education must build a robust democracy!Now we are ranked, not as a big democracy!But a flawed democracy, you know? Corona virus and our current education practices are a deadly combination! There is an undeclared lockdown whose timing and extent is…
In the name of education, what are we all doing? Where is India going?
As per the latest authoritative report in the London Financial Times newspaper (dated. 22, April, 2020), students from India, to be exact 2,11,015, migrated to the USA, UK, and other countries like Australia and Canada for higher education. This is not a one-off event but a trend that is going on for years. And because…