Prudence needed to turn colleges into degree-awarding institutions

March 26, 2022

Indian higher education is suffering from a number of systemic problems. Some of them are unique because of their historical background while others are on account of their arbitrary and haphazard growth. A problem of great importance that has been allowed to linger too long is the affiliation system which...

Need to attract philanthropic contribution in education

March 4, 2022

Philanthropy has been a worldwide phenomenon. It has played an outsized role in education since time immemorial. Higher education globally has remained largely dependent on philanthropy. It is evident from history that people from wholly different religions, backgrounds, and talents joined hands together to help make life better for others....

How RLD a major factor in Uttar Pradesh elections

February 9, 2022

The forthcoming assembly elections in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur are now significantly becoming more interesting and more complex in a variety of ways than one might think. Of them, Uttar Pradesh is the star attraction of the show because of its momentous contribution in...

Chaudhary Charan Singh was a true mass leader

December 23, 2021

Indian politics during its first decade of Independence was inspired by the noble ideals of freedom struggle. Notwithstanding the monumental challenges of eradicating illiteracy, inequalities and poverty, the leadership envisioned a new Bharat and planned to put it on the path to development and progress. The leadership put forward two...

Need to expedite the implementation of NEP 2020

September 29, 2021

The first National Policy on Education was not conceived as an independent task. In fact, it was adopted as a Policy Resolution by the government of India in 1968 in which major recommendations of the Education Commission (1964-66) were accepted. This policy was not backed by any Program of Action...

Deriving inspiration from intellectual giants

July 26, 2021

It is hard to make a distinction between talent and genius. Even then some differential psychologists and philosophers made occasional attempts but the exact measure of success attained remains somewhat doubtful. The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer made one such attempt. According to him, “Talent hits a target no one else...

Revisit policies pertaining to teachers’ education

July 19, 2021

The most famous American automobile executive, Lee Iacocca once said that “In a truly rational society, the best of us would be teachers, and the rest would have to settle for something less.” Mostof the developed economies recognized the value of teacher education and viewed it as an important avenue...

Subject-specific benchmarking is the need of the hour

July 12, 2021

Most of the institutions in the country record students’ progress in the form of letter grades. But some are still continuing with the age-old method of awarding numerical marks. Although these methods have been in practice for fairly a long period of time, neither of them reflects the real potential...

WHY CONTINUOUS FACULTY DEVELOPMENT IS A PRIORITY CONCERN

July 5, 2021

In the traditional Indian cultures, the teacher had been eulogised as ‘Guru Ideal’, which meant a person who was enlightened enough to enlighten the minds of others by sharing his knowledge, wisdom, and art of searching the truth. The guru ideal was not merely seen as the master of the...

Time to bridge the growing gulf between knowledge and wisdom

June 28, 2021

Education is a multi-dimensional process in the same way as a human is a multi-dimensional being. The dimensions of human development are divided into multiple but consecutive stages. Human development primarily depends upon the opportunity given to the people and the role they play in bringing their lives to improved...