NEW DELHI: The fate of at least 1.5 crore school-leaving students hangs in balance as chaos over moderation of marks grows. Amid indications that CBSE may move the Supreme Court against the Delhi HC order asking it not to do away with the moderation policy+ this year, several other school boards are likely to delay […]

KOCHI: A student from Kozhikode, Shafil Maheen N, got 4th rank in the highly competitive IIT-JEE (Advanced) engineering test. This is the first time a student from the state has made it to the top five in the engineering test, the results of which were announced Sunday. As many as 1.74 lakh students registered for […]

BENGALURU: With a whopping 2,023 villages reportedly not having produced a single graduate so far, the state government has undertaken a three-day campaign to ascertain facts and bring dropouts back to colleges. A study commissioned by the directorate of collegiate education (DCE) had revealed that 2,023 villages, out of the total of 27,530 villages in […]

They are not really experts. They preside over an obsolete system, preaching politically correct truisms. When I was in the process of setting up The Levelfield School in Suri, a small town in West Bengal, I had to face many questions. Some questioned my “foolhardiness” in leaving a high-paying job to set up a school. […]

It’s important for people to tell you what side they are on and why, and whether they might be biased. A declaration of members’ interests, of a sort. So, I am going to be talking to you about reading. I’m going to tell you that libraries are important. I’m going to suggest that reading fiction, […]

The upcoming ban on the use of calculators in most maths exams for 11-year-olds in UK schools reminds me of a persistent concern in education: when do the tools we use to learn become crutches we can’t do without? When I was in school, we had to analyse the roots of novel words to make […]

When I started volunteering in my local primary school in 2002, one thing I missed almost immediately was a set of scientific calculators. Over the years, I have taken note of times when such calculators were on some sort of offer in local shops – and have bought a few at a time for the […]

I am a true believer in, and a full supporter of, public education. The trouble is that public education and public schooling have become synonymous. Schooling is one method of education; but it is certainly not the only one and, I argue, not the best one. Until we separate public education from public schooling–to truly […]

There are over 4,000 colleges and universities in the United States, but Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen says that half are bound for bankruptcy in the next few decades. Christensen is known for coining the theory of disruptive innovation in his 1997 book, “The Innovator’s Dilemma.” Since then, he has applied his theory of […]