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Laptops in class ? OH MY GOD!!!
When is all this nonsense going to end. As far as I can see it, the politicians are ruining the education system of our country. Rather than bringing improvements in this field, they always manage to come up another thoughtless and ill-conceived sche...
No place for sexism in modern education
The paucity of qualified teachers in our schools, the force of his argument is lost in the wake of chauvinistic remarks about female teachers. To begin with, there is his reactionary assertion that a woman’s primary role is that of a ‘homemak...
Implementing education revamp will be difficult
HRD minister Kapil Sibal’s 100-day agenda to revolutionise India’s decades-old and obsolete education system is bound to encounter many obstacles. It is not going to be easy to stem the rot that has set in due to decades of indifference a...
Update syllabus, remove redundance
I always found the examination system in our country absolute trash and needed to be revived to meet up with the world standards. But a common board for school education is not a good move. Replacing exams with grade system to reduce students’ ...
BJP must work out new approach
In a country like India, it is difficult to get a majority of the votes on any single issue. We have many political parties, close to 30 states, different regional issues and unequal development. A political party must therefore plan accordingly. It ...
How long has ‘=’ equalled ‘=’?
Ancient mathematicians were playing around with some fearfully complicated calculations thousands of years ago. Our numbers are pretty ancient too. So you might expect the sign for equals ‘=’ to be very old. That isn’t the case thou...
