Posts Tagged ‘Education’

Dear Government,
Good to know that you are off life support and on your own two feet. One hopes that you can move full steam ahead and deliver things that your earlier version couldn’t. Given that you are fighting fit, here are somethings that i would like from your current avtaar
a) Education – If you haven’t [...]

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Anonymous

Two stories on further education. 
One is about a 12th standard topper who quits formal education.
…Urvi Pithadia, 17, has been forced to discontinue her studies just a week after joining junior college. Nobody there volunteered to help the wheelchair-bound girl in and out of classrooms and elevators.
Urvi is suffering from muscular dystrophia, a genetic disorder which [...]

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Nita has an interesting post on tuitions/coaching classes and this actually began out as a response, but it grew so very long, I decided to post the long form here, the short version is on her site :
There are coaching classes for practically anything. There are kids who take coaching for maths and science, yet [...]

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…..Indians will take your job, warns Uncle Bush.
“It’s important to understand if children don’t have those skill sets (in maths and science) needed to compete with a child from India, or a child from China, the new jobs will be going there,”
This happened at almost at the same time that the education minister of [...]

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A few months ago AP began the trend of reserving jobs for Muslims on the grounds that the community was ‘backward’.
Now the RJD and the Congress in Bihar have made a similar promise.
There is something fundamentally wrong, if in a secular nation, we introduce reservations on the basis of religion.
If a community is backward – [...]

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