Difficult questions for our difficult times!This must be the stuff of our education!What are the short and long-term hopes and fears? There are not many happy thoughts when it comes to Indian education. There is this latest news our readers must have read. An estimated 1.11 lakh Indians have surrendered their passports to the American…
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The new sociology of education!
For Profit Education!And the Not so – profit Education! Yes,we seem to be living in a fast changing world! Very soon we have to learn to use the new planetary jargon of all sorts. From digital to Artificial Intelligence to Planetary changes whose fuller implications we are yet to learn and master the planetary realities!…
Universities enhance a country’s image and strength!
How are the universities in India functioning? The London university was established in the year 1836 and even today its reputation is undiminished. Just now it held a degree awarding ceremony and its chancellor,Princess Royal participated and one of the honorary degrees was conferred to an African dignitary, an elderly lady, a grand-daughter of an…
Disruptions in education and the fast changing socio-cultural and economic scenario in India and the world over
All over the world the threat of the deadly Corona virus hasn’t subsided. On the contrary, there is a new surge in Europe and the latest news is the total lock-down in Austria.May be Germany and other countries are in the line of fires to say, in the next round.The news from USA and why…
China’s President bans the big education tuition shops!
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….
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…