Category: Education

Raises very disturbing questions! 300 academics and seven long months. And now we have a New Curriculum Framework of 125 pages dense text! Globalisation had accelerated the process of Westernisation, modernisation and also make us to face the knowledge acquisition an international type of using reason and science and the tools of knowledge like logic…

Can education give us happiness? Nature, the most respected high science research journal of some 200 odd years old is a delightful tool for knowledge. Our Central government has constituted a Knowledge Commission! We are not sure who conceived the idea! Whoever had conceived it,the Commission has a daunting task to provide India and the…

We should teach India’s place in the world! There seems to be utter confusion in education sector. Policy makers seem helpless! Even the initial noises seem to have died! Yes, the statistics and budgets are on paper. On the ground nothing is happening! Once a while it is nice to stand up and have a…

We should teach India’s place in the world! India is now an Independent country for over half a century. And yet what India we Indians all have as a country, as a people as an independent identity? What our children, from the children at the nursery stage, at the high school stage, at the college…

Prof.Krishna Kumar is a retired Delhi university professor of education. He is currently the Arjun Singh nominee as the Director of National Council for Education(NCERT). He along with Prof.Yashpal are charged with revamping the School Curriculum. Both are eminently suited to the job. Let us hope they succeed where others, other angels and devils failed!…

So, teach more foreign languages! The world is changing. More wealth is being created now than in any previous generations. More Indian families are migrating toforeign countries. So, be prepared. That is the message.A report in the American press brings home the latest need for more new language speaking persons. One car distribution firm in…

Chief Minister’s expeditious steps solve tricky problems No day passes in Karnataka without the engineering colleges hitting the front page news headlines!Such is the top priorityfor engineering education in the state.Bangalore is setting the agenda for top quality engineering graduates. The IT companies are now desparately in search of high quality talent.Infosys,as the news has…

Former Karnataka Chief Minister writes Ramayana poem Vishva Mohan Bhatt invents Mohana Veena Javed Akthar lives life on the fast lane! These are only just three examples. There are so many others in so many diverse fields! They are all creative people. They are creative artists. There are inventors, designers and builders of visions and…