The need for introducing more issues of social relevance in school and college education has been often emphasized, as also the need for improving the ethical content of education. At the same time, the need for making education more interesting and participative for students at all levels is increasingly realized. All of these on objectives can be advanced by making[Read More...]
Written by Bhumkia Rajdev, Abdul Basith and Suhail K New Education Policy 2020 has replaced thirty-four-year-old National Policy on Education (1986). The 66-page document talks about vision of government for ECCE (Early childhood care education), School Education, Higher Education and Professional education. It aims for universalisation of education from pre-school to secondary level with 100% GER (Gross Enrolment Ratio) in[Read More...]
With great frequency, promoters of privately-operated non-profit and for-profit charter schools like to claim that charter schools are so great that they have very long lists of students waiting to get into them. They use such claims and “data” to argue that more charter schools are needed and that more public money should be spent […]
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Alan Macleod uncovers the deep links between the British security state and the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, responsible for training a large number of British, American, and European agents and defense analysts.
“The higher education in India is poised for colossal changes with deleterious outcomes under the ‘surveillance capitalism,’” according to G. Arunima, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University and the Director of Kerala Council for Historical Research (KCHR). She was delivering the Third “Scholars of Eminence Web-Lecture” (SEW-L) organised by the Inter University Centre for Social Science Research and Extension (IUCSSRE), Mahatma Gandhi[Read More...]
Avec un potentiel économique énorme et une population de plus d'un milliard d'habitants, certains analystes prédisent à l'Inde un brillant avenir. L'exceptionnelle démographie du pays serait-elle une lame à double tranchant ? Dans ce segment tiré de l'épisode 10, Benjamin Tremblay expose les défis gigantesques qui se dressent devant le gouvernement indien.
Avec un potentiel économique énorme et une population de plus d'un milliard d'habitants, certains analystes prédisent à l'Inde un brillant avenir. L'exceptionnelle démographie du pays serait-elle une lame à double tranchant ? Dans ce segment tiré de l'épisode 10, Benjamin Tremblay expose les défis gigantesques qui se dressent devant le gouvernement indien.
Public money comes from the new value workers produce. It does not come from somewhere else. This value is presently controlled not by those who produce it but by the financial oligarchy and its state. When socially-produced wealth is not controlled by those who actually produce it, endless problems arise. There is no way for […]
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Who is a teacher? In a loose sense a teacher would be anybody including Mahatma Gandhi who was not a teacher in any school or college and Ambedkar who was a teacher in a college for some time. On the other hand, only the school teachers are called the teachers in a strict sense and not the university teachers who[Read More...]
Rosemary Frei, via her website Three days ago I posted this tweet: How do you know whether information from someone 'on our side' – whether me, or Tom Cowan, or Dolores Cahill – is actually true? You have to check our sources. But most people can't or won't do that. I think I know why. …
