CPI (M) leader Sitaram Yechury while initiating the short discussion on the New Education Policy draft inputs in the upper house of the Parliament, Rajya Sabha on August 11 evening criticized the draft inputs as unreflective of the education needs of the country and went to the extent of trashing the claims of the ministry that the draft is a …
Beas Dev Ralhan, co-founder and CEO of Hyderabad-based Next Education India Pvt Ltd (esb 2007) was recently awarded for company’s Early Childhood Education solution, Nextplay by a Noida-based publication at a conference in New Delhi. On the sidelines, in a conversation , Autar Nehru attempted to understand the success mantra of Next Education from him. If I may say so, …
Ever wonder why barring physicist Sir C V Raman, who won Nobel Prize in 1930, other Indian Nobel laureates in sciences won the prize from outside India? Even the Raman spectroscope was invented outside India. There is something amiss in the social ecosystem which includes education system, which is not encouraging sciences in general. According to Dr. Anil Kakodkar, nuclear scientist …
Sixteen K-12 schools were chosen as ET Best School Brands 2016 by Times Conferences Ltd recently and were felicitated at an event in Delhi on June 27th. It had time enough for a technology –teacher panel discussion. Some excerpts: t is no less shocking to hear a principal of an elite residential school saying that he is not sure if …
The jury is almost out. In a first of its kind research on impact of social media on children, the good, bad and the ugly have been ‘discovered’. Some values that are causalities include forgiveness, self-control, honesty, and humility. On rise is anger, arrogance, bad judgment, and hatred. While vanity has emerged as a choice among the selfie-generation, on a …
PRIME MINISTER Narendra Modi launched the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan in 2014 and kick started the plans to build toilets and provide sanitation facilities across the country. Under “Swachh Bharat Abhiyan”, the government has promised “total sanitation” by 2019, which means every household in India will have a toilet by the targeted deadline. So let us take a look at why …
