Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Words of Freedom”
It is a good first step to reduce corruption in the education department and remove a significant hurdle for private schools to perform to their best. Yesterday, the Delhi government passed three significant bills related to schooling in the state. The Delhi School Education (Amendment) Bill, 2015; Delhi School (Verification of Accounts and Refund of Excess Fee) Bill 2015; and the Right …
This article written by Ritu Bhandari was published by The News Minute on 18th May, 2015. On November 27, 1973, Aruna Shanbaug, a junior nurse at the King Edward Memorial Hospital in Mumbai was sodomised and brutally assaulted by a janitor working in the same hospital. The janitor choked Aruna with a dog chain as he carried out the sexual …
In his latest column on Mint, popular education columnist Anurag Behar has called for reforms in the teacher education system in the country. In doing so, and as one would expect, he has blamed ‘private investments’ for the poor standards of teacher education institutions in India. We don’t expect anything better from Anurag Behar than to blame ‘private investment’ for the …
In last Saturday Poll, we asked whether genetically modified (GM) crops are a solution to India’s food security problem and most of you who voted had opined that these crops are not such a solution. Of the 49 poll takers, only 27 % believed that genetically modified crops could address the issue of food security in India. A genetically modified …
