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September 2005

Cover Story
Special Report
Institution Profile
Leisure & Travel
Letter from the Editor
Editorial
Mailbox
Education News
Education Briefs
Expert Comment
Young Achievers
Teacher-to-Teacher
People
Guest Column
International News
Natural Health
Books
Postscript

Cover Story

Cover Story

Quota cloud over private schools

A special committee chaired by Union minister of state Kapil Sibal to give teeth to the Free and Compulsory Education Bill 2004 has recommended that 25 percent of pre-primary and class I students in India’s globally respected private schools should be from disadvantaged groups

Special Report

Special Report

Curse of the university affiliation system

Notwithstanding the overwhelming weight of informed academic opinion having turned against the varsity affiliation system, university managements across the country continue to expand the ambit of their operations by recklessly affiliating common and garden varieties of colleges with dubious and suspect antecedents

Institution Profile

Institution Profile

Drake University, USA

Established in 1881 as a liberal arts college which has morphed into a composite university, this pioneer institution enjoys an excellent reputation for providing high value education

Leisure & Travel

Leisure & Travel

Punjabi diaspora transforms cheerful land of five rivers

Last year an estimated 130,200 foreign and 248,000 domestic tourists touched base with India’s most prosperous state measured by per capita income and motorcar ownership