15 June 2010

Stakeholder Myths and Rethinking Education

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Past Sunday's edition of THE HINDU (Newspaper published from Chennai) carried two very down to earth and thought provoking articles: ...
25 May 2010

Public-private partnership in education

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I read an article “Public-private partnership in education” by Prof. Jandhyala B G Tilak of the National University of Educational Planning ...
04 May 2010

Role of language in children's magazines

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I remember reading Aunty Wendy’s column `Young Folks’ League’ (in the Illustrated Weekly of India) and stories in the then very popular Tami...
23 April 2010

Cost Effective Educational Technology For Wider Outreach

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On 18 April, there was an interesting report on how Microsoft India and a Bangalore based firm Education Innovative Concepts have come up wi...
21 January 2010

Ethics in academic advertising

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A few days back, I was taken aback to find my profile in http://www.linkua.com/panamalai-r-guruprasad-tutoring_11421C.htm when I was academi...
23 December 2009

Quality Accreditation in Schools

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I happened to read a newspaper report “Quality Council of India introduces accreditation standard for schools” in THE HINDU dated 22 Decembe...
03 December 2009

When can a Curriculum tick?

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What do we need to implement quality curriculum in a given school situation? This article attempts to answer the question to some extent.  ...
27 November 2009

School based curriculum development

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Traditionally, all over the world, schools rely on textbook publishers to achieve syllabus requirements. Hence, the greatest responsibility...
14 September 2009

Computers in the Classroom

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“In the year 5555 Your arms are hanging limp at your side, Your legs got nothing to do, Some machine’s doing that for you.” So sang Denny ...

Questioning Techniques in the Classroom

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A few months back, I read the following classroom joke on the web:  Middle school science teacher: What is germination? Pupil: It is the pro...