Education in India

Internet has gained wide spread adoption and people are using internet to find schools in specific cities, Bangalore being no exception.
Every day hundreds and thousands of parents and students are searching for good schools and colleges in Bangalore online on major search engines and sites. They research about the schools, read reviews and form opinions. [...]

The debate continues. The Schumpeter column of the Economist has some suggestions:

So what should business schools do to improve their performance? More history classes would help. Would-be business titans need to learn that economic history is punctuated with crises and disasters, that booms inevitably give way to busts, and that the business cycle, having survived [...]

Two essays on math. Two very different perspectives – one by PhD in literature, Mark Slouka and the other by a mathematician, Paul Lockhart. The former considers the consequences of math and science trumping frivolous subjects like literature in our education system. The later laments the way math is taught in schools. Both perspectives stand [...]

Did you ever imagine that your analysis of Shakespearean characters during graduation days could fetch you a job in the corporate world as a human resource expert? Or did you think that your graduation or Master’s qualification in sociology or psychology could help you secure a seat in an Indian Institute of Management (IIM) without [...]

Education is a methodical effort towards learning basic facts about humanity. Education is the most important of people. And the core idea behind value education is to cultivate essential values in the students so that the civilization that teaches us to manage complexities can be sustained and further developed. It begins at home and it [...]