And the decline of education today! India’s education sector is still running an erratic education policies. There is a vacuum of education vision and it needs an urgent attention. Yes, you may be one of the luckiest not to be bothered about the education of your youngsters! They might have gone through the hell already!…
Category: Education
Lowest common denominator education
How many of us know that we live in an entirely new generation? In education there is literally an explosion, unseen in the past years. What sort of education India envisaged? Who are making you think about education in India? Politicians, bureaucrats or who else? A difficult question! Certainly, politicians are the last people who…
Education for migration is also changing!
New challenges in Indian education! Education’s impact on the wider aspects of Indian public life! Ideas for this generation’s education and culture! The 16th Lok Sabha ends its mandate and the General Elections for the 17th Lok Sabha is due. India is a fairly literate country by now by various parameters and as such it…
The current contradictions in our education!
The short-term and the long-term in education! What do we, the general public, think of education as parents and citizens? We are deeply moved to see that in Britain school children marched with placards to say: politicians! don’t spoil our future! By your narrow, short term agendas! Save the planet, save the future, save the…
Delhi’s Kafkaesque Schools
Let us liberalise the private sector in school education to create new types of secondary education that gives Indian school’s system to promote more quality schools! Yes, this is how the senior most and much-respected civil servant, Rahul Khullar describes the Schools scenario in New Delhi. He has in effect pleaded for allowing the high-fee…
Education growth in India
Quantity, commercialisation and sheer money drives growth,also greedy money-seekers! Education Policy making is in Limbo! Higher education or any other stage of education is highly profitable! There is a very short introduction to education,universities and colleges before me. Great names have been here for ages.Yes,even if we leave out the old names, honorary names, Plato’s…
Let our schools do sciences this way!
Let them read the autobiography of the Indian Nobel Prize winner Venkat Ramakrishnan! The book’s name: Gene Machine – The race to decipher the secrets of the ribosome. The book reads like a thriller. The recent autobiography of Venkat Ramakrishnan, Venki to his friends and admirers, the latest winner of the Nobel Prize (for discovering…
Education must have an integrated concept of education, health and environment
Our education eco-system is superficially constructed. Only the skimpy part, the cash-exchange surface is cared about. Yes, what do we care for when we talk of education? It is the money part, the immediate cash-exchange we seem to care about. Otherwise, who cares for the children in their early years? As per the Global Nutrition…