Education in India

Incentives for reading work with kids but they have to be sized and timed right. Up until last year, it was the AR tests at J’s school – the bane of my life. The kids were reading a lot but not really expanding their horizons. Each book read and comprehended gave the child a certain [...]

Bhils of Alirajpur childrens love the games. But the situation childrens are doing the work for free time. So lack of speding the time for studies. Bhils of Alirajpur who were traditionally a very laid back set of people, these days have their calendars all tied up. They are either working on their own small [...]

More Faculty Shortages in Indian Universities.
I. On attracting and retaining good people in academia :
Four things that will attract and retain good people to academia are

Entry level qualification requirement,
Sufficient monetary compensation and career advancement prospects,
Meaningful work culture and
Prospect for academic growth.

1. Entry level qualification requirement :
Most of the universities, even those with significant undergraduate teaching [...]

These might deserve to be noted as being more along the lines of higher education, but are still worth noting. Academic Earth and a subsite of Youtube, www.youtube.com/edu are now featuring tons of academic lectures and entire courses. (Wonder if my school is blocking them yet?)
Both of these sites are featuring lectures from the likes [...]

Reality TV show for all school teachers in India, I stumbled on Design Kids, a very interesting reality TV show on PBS in the United States, to promote engineering concepts to school children in the age-group of 9-12 years. It would be great to have something like this in India to promote Science and Engineering [...]