August 2013 (Click to browse sections)    

Letter from the Editor Expert Comment Sports Education
Editorial Young Achievers Special Report
Mailbox Cover Story Books
Education News Career Focus Eduleader Bytes
Education Notes Teacher-to-Teacher Postscript
Education Briefs People Guest Column
Institution Profile International News

August 2013

Letter from the Editor
Editorial
Mailbox
Education News
Education Notes
Education Briefs
Institution Profile
Expert Comment
Young Achievers
Cover Story
Career Focus
Teacher-to-Teacher
People
International News
Sports Education
Special Report
Books
Eduleader Bytes
Postscript
Guest Column

Institution Profile

SSPM College of Engineering, Sindhudurg

Within a short span of 14 years, SSPMCOE has succeeded in impacting technical education and industry in the Konkan belt of Maharashtra in a big way

Expert Comment

Distance education constraints

Sadhan Mukherjee is a former journalist and chairman of the Delhi-based Media Features India Pvt. Ltd

Cover Story

Why English-medium school admissions are a nightmare

The start of the new academic year marks the culmination of a season when parents are obliged to pull every string and use their influence with politicians, bureaucrats, high court judges and even media personnel to put in a word for admission of their wards into the country’s top-ranked day, boarding and international schools

Career Focus

Urgent need for urban planners

A heavy and onerous responsibility of drawing up detailed blueprints for the construction of new towns and cities has devolved upon professionally qualified urban planners

Special Report

Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation Confusion

Four years after the Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation schema was adopted with surprising alacrity by the Central Board of Secondary Education and introduced in all 14,358 CBSE-affiliated schools, the CCE experiment is floundering in a sea of confusion with school principals and teachers struggling to switch from the traditional examination system

Guest Column

A profile in courage and defiance

Malala Yousufzai’s birthday (July 12) was declared Malala Day by the United Nations