THE VOICE OF THE YOUTH
The 56th meeting of the Central Advisory Board on Education (CABE) which ended on August 31 came up with an important decision of making the 10th board exams optional,…
The Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry is ready to grant Madrassa certificates, equivalence to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).This recommendation has been made by the Sachar Committee, which was appointed by the HRD Ministry to review the status of minorities…
Why is India still a developing country and what is stopping it from being a developed country? This particular question strikes me every time when I read something about India’s education system. I see India’s education system as a stumbling block towards its objectives of achieving inclusive growth…
“The backward classes have come to realize that after all education is the greatest material benefit for which they can fight. We may forego material benefits, we may forego material benefits of civilization, but we cannot forego our right and opportunities to reap the benefit of the highest education to the fullest extent. That the importance of this question from the point of view of the backward classes who have just realized that without education their existence is not safe.” —Dr. B.R.Ambedkar
India adopted a National Policy for Children in 1974, declaring children to be the nation’s most precious asset. The population of children in a country comprise its human resources of the future and the social, economic and cultural growth development of any society or community hinges upon the quality of its human resources…
India dreams of becoming a superpower by 2020, but quite ironical is the fact that the country whose population has crossed one billion mark, has literacy rates quite comparable with the underdeveloped countries (and in some cases even…
Over the past decade, India has gained the international reputation of producing quality engineers in astonishingly large numbers. For instance, in 2005 India produced 200,000 engineering graduates, about three times as many as…
With Development economics becoming a very important part of study, we have reasons to value many things other than wealth and income which relate to real opportunities to lead the kind of life we would value living. According…
The purpose of education is to empower the individual to succeed in the future. Success is how the individual interprets it- maybe monetary, maybe respect at work. The model of the education system in ancient civilizations…
