| Keya Sarkar: The inglorious present | 07-NOV-09 |
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| As I write this, both the teaching and the non-teaching staff are on strike at Tagore’s Visva Bharati University. This not only extends the long Puja holidays that the teachers and students have already had, but makes it clear to those with any interest in academia that syllabi will not be completed in time for the November semester exams. |
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| Non-teaching IIT staff protest pay anomalies | 06-NOV-09 |
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| Over 12,000 non-teaching staff of the seven Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) went on a day-long dharna today to protest anomalies in pay and promotion structure. The employees — technical staff, laboratory staff and office assistants — however, did not boycott work. |
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| Teaching is not enough | 11-OCT-09 |
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| Now that the IIT teachers’ agitation has been put on hold, attention should turn to what needs doing to put this important educational brand on a long-term path of good health and growth. These institutes’ traditional weakness, when it comes to research, has been underlined, in the meantime, by the awarding of a Nobel to an Indian-born scientist working in Cambridge. The question arises, is it enough to produce good engineers, or should elite educational centres seek to achieve more by expanding the frontiers of human knowledge? There might be some conflict between the goals of teaching and research (faculty time is finite, after all), but the best institutions manage to do both very well. |
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| Paper maker goes into e-teaching | 29-SEP-09 |
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| Sundaram Multi Pap Ltd, a manufacturer of paper products for school students and office use, plans to launch software on virtual classes for students of standards 8th, 9th and 10th in English and Marathi for the Maharashtra state syllabus. |
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| Sibal bats for teaching Hindi in all schools | 24-AUG-09 |
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| Union Minister Kapil Sibal today strongly batted for teaching Hindi in all schools, saying fluency in the national language will help integrate students from across the country and it could become the lingua franca once India becomes "producer of knowledge". |
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| BMC schools equipped with modern teaching tools | 13-JUL-09 |
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| Technology has catalysed every aspect of modern life, and in its newest initiative, Landmark International Foundation for Empowerment (LIFE Trust), a registered charitable trust, has tapped technology to make education in BMC schools more interesting and informative. |
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| Sumita Kale: Research versus teaching | 12-JUN-09 |
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| Just like burgers and big cars, the American system of ‘publish or perish’ is slowly engulfing the world and, in the process, meeting with resistance from some quarters. |
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| IIT alumni fear decline in teaching quality | 21-JUL-08 |
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Concerned over the quality of teachings in IITs, a panel of alumni of Indian Institutes of Technology has suggested that the institution should work more cooperatively and each one need not have all the faculties. |
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| 'Non-teaching duties cut into teaching time' | 21-APR-08 |
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| The National Knowledge Commission (NKC) has criticised the imposition of non-teaching duties such as manning poll booths and collecting data for surveys on teachers, saying it cuts into the teaching |
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| Teaching them to fish | 08-APR-08 |
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| Bengal NGO teaches displaced people new ways to restart their lives . Shanti Mondol, 30, and her husband decided to run away when Nandigram was being evicted. They had to take refuge in a village 50 |
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| Lessons from the museum | 25-MAR-08 |
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| A unique experiment of teaching that started in three museums in Bhopal will now be replicated in three other metros.
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