The media blog of LSE has an interesting link to a post by Alex Halavais – how to cheat good. They quote Halavais – When you copy things from the web into Word… don’t just ‘Edit > Paste’ it into your document. When I am reading a document in black, Times New Roman, 12pt, and… Continue reading Cheating, inspiration and all the rest
Category: Children and youth
Education, child labour, youth trends and more…
The exam ‘system’
Earlier this week, our maid at home wanted to leave early. She was to go to her children’s school to pick up their mark sheets. The teacher had said that mark sheets would not be given out until the parents came with their kids to collect them. Bahut saara baccha loge ghar se bhaag jaata… Continue reading The exam ‘system’
Educate the girls…
I was recently going through a UNICEF report ‘The state of the world’s children‘ published in 2004 – the report focusses on the millenium develpoment goals, primarily universalisation of education and gender equality – to be achieved by 2015. From the foreword by Kofi Annan, Every boy and girl around the world has a right… Continue reading Educate the girls…
Are kids too wired?
This week’s cover story on Time certainly seems to say so. [Link through ‘Putting people first’ – the multitasking generation] The story focusses on the ability of today’s kids to multitask with respect to technology, and what’s all that digital juggling doing to their brains, family life… On the positive side, Gen M students tend… Continue reading Are kids too wired?
Dance baby, dance
Iam going through a blogger’s block and have not been posting regularly. Sometimes I stare at the screen and wonder whether there is anything at all to write about. This too shall pass. I hope. And then there are these incidents which make me want to write again… A couple of days ago I attended… Continue reading Dance baby, dance
AIDS, adoption and ipods
A few things that have been disturbing me over the last week or so… random, casual lines heard or read, images that make me shudder every time I think of them, attitudes that make me despair… they pop up at inconvenient times, little imps that dance in my mind, those morsels I have not been… Continue reading AIDS, adoption and ipods
Kids, crayons and Kala Ghoda
Some images from the Kala Ghoda festival… A hundred kids + two bright red tents + many boxes of waterpaints and crayons. Akanksha volunteers. A camera. A set of anxious and guiltily relieved parents. Two hours of rollicking fun. Theme for the day: dream city… Venue : the big red tent… The children’s section is… Continue reading Kids, crayons and Kala Ghoda
Pardada Pardadi Education
I had written about the saas bahu sammelan a while ago. Now read about the Pardada Pardadi Educational Society, an educational progam based in Anoopshahar in the Bulandshahar district of Uttar Pradesh. The PPES opted for a unique approach of education through academic, value-based, and skill-based education allows PPGVS to address the interrelated issues of… Continue reading Pardada Pardadi Education
Those who can, teach?
IBM to train staff as math, science teachers (for some strange reason filed under ‘money’ in rediff. er, why?) Concerned over the critical shortage of math and science faculty in the United States, global IT major IBM has announced a programme that encourages employees to take up the teaching profession. The world’s largest Information Technology… Continue reading Those who can, teach?
Bachelor of what degree?
Found this piece that Uma has linked to – Andre Beteille in the Telegraph about Intellectual Capital in India that needs to be rebuilt from a different perspective – and quickly – through good quality undergraduate education… Brought back many memories of my own undergraduate days. The time when I managed to disgrace my family… Continue reading Bachelor of what degree?