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…
Category: Education
Indian higher education has a task to perform
To make India a global power It is time that Indian education has to get out of the colonial bondage. We have to reverse the mass migration of Indian students to the UK and USA and waste precious foreign exchange. Let us create many institutions of international specialised studies. Do you know how many Indian…
Let us teach culture and values in our schools and colleges
We need to recast our humanities education to revamp Indian attitudes and character. The British legacy seems to have had not a so positive an impact. We have not become a self confident nation! Not yet. Why this is relevant today? Education at present in India is stagnant. Why we say so? We see this…
Education in a non liberal society
Our education status today! Many of us, why, even the majority of us, as a society are not, or don’t make, an open society, right? By this, what do we mean? See the recent controversy that broke out over the making of an indigenous vaccine for e.g. Covid 19. Discovering an India made vaccine must…
PIEDMONTESE NOBILITY : PRESERVE OF GENTLEMEN’S CLUBS
By KAUSTAV BHATTACHARYYA “The House of Savoy which led the Unification movement of Italy became the ruling dynasty of Italy and ended up being the prime kingdom from 1861 until 1946. In 1946 the Monarchy was abolished in Italy. The affiliation with the House of Savoy bestowed upon the Piedmontese ‘Nobility’ a special prestige and…
How to shape our common future?
What education can do?Our school education needs a fresh vision and a new common initiative This School Journal was founded in a village school many decades ago. Thanks to two, why, three American volunteers, one from the Quakers, two from John Kennedy’s American Peace Corps. It was started as a newsletter, metamorphosed into several versions and shapes and…
Indian higher education in a big handicap
Indian youngsters pay heavily for our own inactionMass higher education has lowered standards!This has led to education as the “For Profit education industry growth” only! SAT-the great game! A blessing or a curse? Big money plays a bigger scam! Is this a great train robbery or a great training robbery? Education has become a great…
Why are students on protests and agitations?
Yes, it is a fact of great significance that the students, those who had left schools and joined colleges are easily taken to protests and agitations. It is a question no one asks, we mean educationists and thinkers and anyone who thinks he or she is of some mental caliber, should be themselves capable of…