Yes, it is so from JNU to Anna University and beyond! JNU as a Central University is its own fashion. It makes news for politicians. Fine, but then it must also be a centre of top academic performance. Is JNU the number one University? No one has asked. As far as academic standards in India…
Category: Education
CBSE exams: Question papers leak
A new committee? Waste, waste, sheer waste! Of time and money and energies and our own imagination! Government sets up a committee to probe the leaks! Yes, this is done. It is in our view a big waste! Waste of precious time, energy and our own imagination! The very structure of the highly centralized CBSE…
Indian Languages and the Indian literature
As a journal of education and by extension we include culture and the arts. This also extends our responsibility of the very spectrum of the India’s many languages that are now reportedly facing extinction. The recent reports from expert bodies also names some of the reportedly 40 odd tribal languages, from the Nilgiris hills; we…
How to reduce the exam burden on the 10th and 12th Std students?
Prakash Javadekar’s invitation! The hon’ble HRD minister Mr.Prakash Javadekar has asked people and experts and parents for suggestions as to how to reduce the burden on the 10th and the 12th standard exams which have become a scandal in India. In no other country the bureaucratic hold on the administration of education had reached such…
Education is the mirror to society and politics? It seems to!
Seriously, what is education? It is Enlightenment! You can debate the subject however you want. However you debate the subject of education and the various strands that flow from it, the central question is that an education for any country has certain common features. American education, for instance, defines the way the American people and…
Can India dream big enough?
Can we create an MIT-like institution in our life-time? Prime Minister Mr.Narendra Modi spoke, not long ago, at the Centenary celebrations of the Patna University, about creating a competition from among the top 20 universities for reaching the Centres of Excellence by allotting Rs.1, 000 crores to each one of them. That was a brilliant…
Honorary Doctorate for Mamata Banerjee?
Why not? After all, the person is a State’s Chief Minister! Mamata Banerjee, affectionately and popularly called Didi, by any stretch of imagination, is a remarkable person. She is a woman leader of exceptional merit, a proven clean leader in a society and politics that is unfortunately a notoriously corrupt. We live at a time…
Since Independence, India hasn’t thought of education independently!
This thought flashed through my mind like a lightening rod yesterday when I saw the video of a BBC debate in the Westminster Hall in London The subject of the debate in which two heavyweights participated was Ancient Athens vs. Ancient Rome! Who were the participants? Mr. Boris Johnson, currently the British foreign minister in…