March 31, 2015 marked the fifth anniversary of the Right to Education Act. It was the time to meet the final deadline set under the Act whereby all teachers were to have minimum qualifications. However, like the past two deadlines (on pupil teacher ratio (PTR) and infrastructure provision), the historic law missed this milestone as well. And the government yet …
That cortex Lobes are more functional and even grow with learning of music or performing must be a good enough reason to let music education bloom Delhi-based guitarist, Kapil Srivastava, an alumnus of Delhi University, has in several ways redefined the power of music education by adding customized and corporatizing educational programs and a very robust delivery mechanism both though …
Born and brought up in India, Amandeep Thind, who for the past eight years lives in United Kingdom is founder and lead trainer of UK-based Emerging Brilliance (esb 2009), a company that specializes in coaching for success (corporate training). A salesman by profession, he was educated at Bhartiya Shiksha Parishad, Lucknow and by his own admission spent his formative years …
The union budget proposals for the financial year beginning this April, which was presented in the Parliament on February 28 by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, contains some definite good news for education & skills sectors. When, how and to what extent these key announcements materialize, is something all of us have to look forward to in coming months after the …
The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) a deemed university, established in 1936 as the Sir Dorabji Tata Graduate School of Social Work is today India’s premier institution in social sciences with campuses in . Mumbai, Tuljapur, Hyderabad and Guwahati. Prof Lakshmi Lingam, Deputy Director of the Hyderabad campus , replied to a set of questions from Curriculum Magazine Briefly, …
Sugandha Shukla, a Class 12 student of The Scindia School, Gwalior, seeks to educate an overwhelming majority (including parents) of people, who pooh pooh liberal arts without knowing the vast and critical role of multi-disciplinary knowledge in shaping human civilization in past, now and future “What is this modern wish-wash of a liberal arts education?” “Studying all subjects? Bah! A …
