Market watchers like to follow trends because they are often a good indicator of what will happen next. The near future usually does look like the recent past, but not always. Sometimes we hit an inflection point and things veer sharply from the trend and that changes things in a way that can be truly […]
It makes better sense to discuss this question with parents. The discussion that follows could be shared with parents, without any need to edit. If career choices are made in Classes XI or XII, then Engineering is the only feasible option; engineering offers the easiest admission opportunities in India – there is always an engineering […]
1 Geopolitics: ‘Rivals will take greater risks against the US’ No balance of power lasts forever. Just a century ago, London was the centre of the world. Britain bestrode the world like a colossus and only those with strong nerves (or weak judgment) dared challenge the Pax Britannica. That, of course, is all history, but […]
Unfortunately, we do not really know our children. Sandeep discovered this reality the hard way as he and his wife started to ‘home educate’ their daughter. Expectedly, one of our research interests has been to uncover how much of the current state of entropy prevalent in school education (or education across the board for that […]
A recurring theme in the book is the medium to long term ill-effects of supplementary inputs (such as tuition) on children’s academic performance and overall development; too many masters are never a good idea. It must also be emphasised that schools are professionally best organised and resourced to offer ‘educationally appropriate’ inputs. More specifically, we […]
Education has become fairly expensive in absolute terms and calls for better planning of finances. There is an interesting twist, however, to the whole context, goals, and the process of higher education – the best quality higher education could increasingly be organised outside formal classrooms! And at the prices comparable to 1990s levels and lesser! […]
It makes better sense to discuss this question with parents. The discussion that follows could be shared with parents, without any need to edit. All new-born children do get weaned off mother’s milk sooner than later but a tuitioned-child may never get off the dependence on tuition. Indeed, children should not be expected to become […]
The winners in business have shifted markedly in the last decade. When the 2010s began, the world’s top 10 public companies by market capitalization were based in five countries; only two of them were in the tech sector, and none was worth more than $400 billion. Today, all of the top 10 are in the […]
It makes better sense to discuss this question with parents. The discussion that follows could be shared with parents, without any need to edit. Context It took men eternity to let women exercise their political choice. It is hard to believe that women suffrage is a 20th century change and the leading lights of the […]
The role of schools as the reinforcer of common shared values is no longer relevant or possible in our increasingly heterogeneous society. Values systems now vary at the level of family in a school because urbanisation has created very mixed communities. As such schools are increasingly in conflict with parents on what demeanours are socially […]
