Category: Education

Now, India’s voice abroad, Will be heard with respect? I had read carefully the PM’s speeches at Oxford University in UK and later when he spoke before the Congress (US Parliament) in Washington. Yes, they have been carefully written and delivered, also, carefully in the typical Dr.Singh’s fashion, low profile, bureaucratic style, without offence to…

So,what hopes for our leaders to take India forward? E ven highly educated Indians, I mean those with foreign education qualifications and training don’t seem to know how the world is moving forward. Those Indians with foreign qualifications, with MBAs, are employed in corporate world. They are either owner entrepreneurs or employed by businessmen at…

[youtube]i7AY_ljG23Q[/youtube] India is a caste/class society and there are gross inequalities.This shows up in our present education scenario. More so when violence takes strange forms in our society. See the Maharashtra Dalit issue violence and the W.Bengal Mamata Banerjee anti-development violence! From W.Bengal to TN,from Assam to Maharashtra we see these new phenomena of OBC/creamy…

Is there anything called pure education? Education standards as such can’t do much to improve the standards of living or the quality of living. For the later virtues we have to search for salvation, not in education but in economics and culture. Here in a perceptive review of an education report just published in the…

Private schools vs. Govt schools Rich schools vs. poor schools English medium schools vs. mother tongue schools School education defines a country’s unique strengths and character! Teachers’ lives these days have become socially downgraded, poor pay, poor motivation and insecure future! Indian schools system must become internationally rated. Like the English and French schools. Towards…

Government-funded vs. private-funded education systems! All have become “exploitative”! Lost their value focus! Every time the education debate comes alive, there is this much-talked about promoting a common school system. The big names are all here: experts like Yash Pal, Krishna Kumar, Anil Sadgopal, social activists like Aruna Roy and others. What they say? Make…

Private Foreign Universities to enter India Higher Education in India set to expand? What about the OBC demands? To ensure international quality university education, we have to rank the higher education institutions, as they do in the West; identify the Ivy League tables etc. Indian higher education priorities are dictated by the fast growing demand…

Teach history of ideas, world history of religions! The recent Mumbai blasts that took such a heavy toll, 8 bombs in 30 minutes, killing 200  people and injuring 500 more, is only the latest reminder, if reminder is needed, for the need for the society at large to deeply introspect on so many ills that…