Category: Education
Learning for livelihood – Frontline
The community college movement, an innovative system of education aimed at empowering the disadvantaged sections of society, has today become…
The rural initiative – Frontline
MORE than 72 per cent of the rural population is unable to make a decent living mainly because of the…
A meaningful partnership
THE success of the community college depends on the active participation and collaboration of the industrial, rural, agricultural, commercial a…
Bitter lessons – Frontline
After five years of Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, government-run and aided schools in both rural and urban areas exhibit largely the…
Strong on slogans – Frontline
“WHERE is the SSA office?” I enquired of one of the attenders in the Directorate of Public Instruction office in…
World as a classroom – Frontline
An innovative method of teaching mathematics that encourages children to learn by doing produces suprising results. “The essential quality for…
Another retreat of reason – Frontline
The National Curriculum Framework 2005 glorifies “local knowledge traditions” and fails to provide adequate space for the voice of reason….
A response in an earlier era
LEGISLATION as a response and a corrective to a Supreme Court judgment – seen by the political class as a…
A judicial outburst – Frontline
Does the government really deserve the harsh rebuke that it got from the Chief Justice of India over its response…
Legalising exploitation – Frontline
The draft of a law on admissions to private institutions of professional education leaves private players free to function in…
