Category: Education

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…

Cry for corrective action – Frontline

S. VISWANATHAN in Chennai Frontline The police foil a suicide attempt by a student in protest against the Supreme Court…