NEET: Cure The Disease Not The Symptoms

'The Indian private sector knows how to build and run educational organisations, what is needed is a large dose of removal of restrictions.''Government restrictions hold back universities in India......

Time To Shut Down Coaching Classes?

The coaching-tuition-profiteering model built on the back of a broken education system is a scandal and an abomination, and must go, asserts Shekhar Gupta. IMAGE: Rapid Action Force personnel......

India should spend $1 bn annually to train school teachers: Narayana Murthy

Software icon NR Narayana Murthy on Wednesday called for spending $1 billion a year to train school teachers by 10,000 retired highly accomplished teachers from the developed world and from India......

'What Bigger Award One Can Hope For?'

'I did not take up research for any award.''What is more important is the medicine that I have developed.''This helps the patient recover and the family is happy that their relative has survived......

2,148 Edtech Start-Ups Have Shut Down

'Many were caught in a burnout race, chasing unsustainable growth without innovating.' Kindly note the image has been published only for representational purposes.Photograph: Dado Ruvic/Reuters......

'Can We In Our Businesses Set An Example?'

'I think some of us, like Mukesh Ambani, myself and those of us who head industrial units, ought to really focus on what we can really do to make the world a safer place, maybe 50 or 100 years from......

'We Have An Indian Tiger That Needs To Be Uncaged'

'What's sad today is that there are so many people who cannot find work, not because the country is devoid of that opportunity, but because we are not doing enough in the country.' Interview with......

Capitalism only solution to poverty, says Murthy

Capitalism, grounded in the twin pillars of a free market and entrepreneurship, is the singular solution to addressing the issue of poverty in India and any country, N R Narayana Murthy, co-founder......

The Super Teachers of Bollywood

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach. Aristotle's words acquire a larger-than-life embodiment in Bollywood's brand of educationists. On the occasion of Teacher's Day, Sukanya Verma......

'I saw a video of a Russian tank passing by my school'

'We couldn't believe that in the 21st century world, a European country can be bombed, can be invaded.' IMAGE: A military truck and tank on a street of Kherson, Ukraine, March 1, 2022, in this......

Brazil's answer to cricket bat shortage? Make their own!

IMAGE: Luiz Roberto Francisco works on a bat at Royal Bats factory in Pocos de Caldas, Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Photograph: Amanda Perobelli/Reuters When Brazil's rapidly growing cricket......