Education is the process of enculturation of the young to be meaningful to self and to the layers of community roles. Expectedly, education has countless dimensions and education is too omnipotent and omnipresent to be the sole responsibility of a single social institution. Education of children is shared among a number of social units and […]
More than 30 Google employees have joined a petition protesting the company’s plans to build a search engine that complies with China’s online censorship regime. An employee-led backlash against the project has been churning for months at the company, but Tuesday’s petition marks the first time workers at Google have used their names in a […]
A court in Japan’s capital has denied ousted Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn’s latest request for bail, made more than two months after his arrest. The decision by the Tokyo District Court on Tuesday came a day after the 64-year-old pledged – among others – to wear an electronic monitoring ankle bracelet, give up his passport […]
The following listing presents a broad appraisal of the current state of school education system: The cost of education has spiraled way beyond tuition fees. In fact, school fees are often only around 20-25% of the total cost of education to parents. Are schools reduced to being fringe players in the ‘business of schooling’? If […]
MUMBAI: Ten months after the board of ICICI Bank declared it reposed “full faith and confidence” + in Chanda Kochhar, MD and CEO at the time, and “there was no question of…nepotism, favouritism or quid pro quo”, it decided to terminate her services with retrospective effect. It asked her to repay over Rs 10 crore […]
The five key resources and processes in schools are – content (subject boundaries for a class), timetable, academic planning, communication in classrooms, and teachers as a resource. The following tabular representation charts out the comparative status of the five resources and processes in the years 1810s and 2010s. It is apparent from the comparison that […]
Systems and processes are critical building blocks of institutions. Their criticalness lies in setting the minimum default delivery standards; strong systems and processes in a school will translate into a higher minimum benchmark quality of education. Here is a brief appraisal of the state of systems and processes in schools: Schools as a system seem […]
The world was never flatter “Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.”– Niels Bohr We, humans, haven’t been able to explain, interpret and learn from the past; hence, predicting the future is a long shot. We hope that reflecting our opinions on directions where several industries seem to be heading for in the future, […]
The invention of schools as the social institution entrusted with mass education of children most amazingly supported the industrial revolution despite several inherent structural deficiencies. The five of the more troublesome structural deficiencies are: Schools could not skill students as self-learners. Schools could not adequately educate even the majority of enrolled students – schools could […]
A very important question, any discussion on it hinges on the definition of ‘quality education’. The schools as we see today, ‘the industrial society schools’, have a very simple definition of quality – maximise the fraction of total students who excel in the public examination that assesses the knowledge of the prescribed syllabus. In other […]
