July 2010 (Click to browse sections)    

Letter from the Editor Young Achievers People
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Education Notes Career Focus Books
Education Briefs Sports Education Postscript

July 2010

Letter from the Editor
Editorial
Mailbox
Education News
Education Notes
Education Briefs
Young Achievers
Institution Profile
Expert Comment
Cover Story
Career Focus
Sports Education
People
Teacher-to-Teacher
International News
Special Report
Books
Postscript

Institution Profile

Madras School of Economics, Chennai

Within a relatively short time span, MSE, founded by highly- respected economist the late Raja J. Chelliah in 1993, has established a reputation which is almost on a par with the prestigious Delhi School of Economics

Expert Comment

RTE Act 2009 — illusory promises

Jandhyala B. G. Tilak is professor at the National University of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi

Cover Story

Lessons from The Singapore Way

Foreign Educational Institutions Bill, 2010

Against the backdrop of the imminent enactment of the Foreign Educational Institutions (Regulation of Entry and Operations) Bill, 2010, dilip thakore investigates the causative factors behind the transformation of the island Republic of Singapore into an Asian hub of world-class education

Career Focus

Software testing: high-potential career option

Rapid growth of the IT industry has created a demand surge for software testing professionals. It’s a fundamental component of quality assurance and a review of specifications, design and coding

Special Report

Emerging crisis in secondary education

With the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (Education for All) programme, initiated in 2001, having pushed the gross enrolment ratio in primary education to 98.4 percent, and retention and transition ratios gradually improving, there’s rising panic within the establishment that the secondary education system doesn’t have the capacity to enrol the increasing inflow of new entrants