HRD ministry BLOGS
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Diving deeper into India’s education: Beyond enrollment data
November 16, 2023, 6:45 PM IST
The Economic Survey of 2022-23 brought forth a heartening development—a noticeable increase in school enrollments across diverse educational tiers in India. However, this upward trend in enrollments simultaneously uncovers a sobering reality—a substantial populace of…
November 16, 2023, 6:45 PM IST
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April 12, 2020, 10:51 AM IST
by Charu Malhotra Way back in 1939 J Abner Peddiwell used the metaphor of the ice age and stone age to comment on education in his famous satire Sabre Tooth Curriculum. Probably now it’s time…
April 12, 2020, 10:51 AM IST
Where Knowledge is not free…
March 18, 2019, 10:07 PM IST
I came across the following circular sent out by the Registrar of Central University of Kerala, dated March 13, 2019, addressed to various Deans, HODs, and others within the University. The text of the circular…
March 18, 2019, 10:07 PM IST
Help your kids bloom to the fullest
February 22, 2019, 12:02 PM IST
A grade six classroom. English hour. Myself and Steffy were way too excited about the roleplay that we were to have that day. We were silently hoping we get to read a part in it….
February 22, 2019, 12:02 PM IST
Open letter to MHRD to look at Council of Architecture functions
September 3, 2018, 5:34 PM IST
Dear MHRD, Though architects dress a bit weirdly and talk almost incomprehensibly, it is my firm belief that they are human, often extremely. Hence I request you to cognise them as part of human resource…
September 3, 2018, 5:34 PM IST
August 2, 2018, 10:40 PM IST
Improving quality and offerings of higher education institutes requires money. For the bulk of the country’s higher education institutions, augmenting revenues will mean, at least in the short run, increasing tuition fees. While established universities,…
August 2, 2018, 10:40 PM IST
July 26, 2018, 10:57 PM IST
By Arvind Panagariya & B Venkatesh Kumar As in school education, India has broadly won the battle of numbers in higher education. The Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER), which measures the number of students enrolled in higher…
July 26, 2018, 10:57 PM IST
March 29, 2018, 10:53 PM IST
The limited public spending on higher education must flow more to the infrastructure essential for research and towards equitable access, while universities and colleges raise resources to meet running expenses. This is the context to…
March 29, 2018, 10:53 PM IST
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Mind our language: Attempts to depose English subject our universities to dangerous social engineering
April 19, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
On the face of it, latest utterances by HRD minister Prakash Javadekar and by President Pranab Mukherjee sound good, in any language. Javadekar seems to have nudged the University Grants Commission (UGC) into making amends…
April 19, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Where higher education is headed in the 21st century: Unbundling the clock, curriculum and credential
May 12, 2016, 5:44 AM IST
When massive open online courses (MOOCs) first launched over four years ago, we had no idea what to expect. And even today – with dozens of global institutions and millions of learners participating – we,…
May 12, 2016, 5:44 AM IST
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Modigree mess
May 12, 2016, 12:16 AM IST
Unlike students, we can’t march out shouting ‘Out of syllabus!’ ‘A collegiate damsel named Breeze,/ Weighed down by MA’s and Litt.D’s,/ Collapsed from the strain./ Alas it was plain,/ She was killing herself – by…
May 12, 2016, 12:16 AM IST
January 21, 2016, 4:53 AM IST
The unfortunate series of incidents that finally resulted in a Dalit scholar of Hyderabad University committing suicide reflects multiple malaises in society, of which the involvement of BJP ministers at the Centre is a part….
January 21, 2016, 4:53 AM IST
‘Make in India’ class is in dire need of a makeover
November 30, 2014, 6:01 AM IST
In view of a common complaint that political slugfests have become needlessly trivial, it is reassuring that education has come to occupy a small corner of the battlefield. Although the articulation of concerns has been…
November 30, 2014, 6:01 AM IST
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Can one go back from the CCE to a single exam?
November 21, 2014, 6:49 PM IST
You cannot go back to the past. It is gone and we have to plan for a smarter future. Even in the class X assessment system, the students who met the minister may want to…
November 21, 2014, 6:49 PM IST
November 19, 2014, 6:15 AM IST
Before anything else, a few words on the virtues of Sanskrit. Not its ‘glory’, but its virtues. Apart from its popular function in Hindu religious ritual, Sanskrit’s appeal lies in the access it provides to…
November 19, 2014, 6:15 AM IST
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