Parents should enroll their children in coding classes only as a leisure time activity, that too with strict curbs on screen time.
'English must be taught extremely well to all children in all schools, and especially so in those schools where the medium of instruction until Grade 5/8 is in the mother tongue/local language/regional language.'
Ajit Balakrishnan on learning from past technology revolutions.
Here's the full text of address to the nation by President Ram Nath Kovind on the eve of the Republic Day 2022.
Ajit Balakrishnan on the surprising drivers of mathematical innovation.
Giving priority to one's ideology over national interest has harmed the democratic system of the country a lot, Modi said in his address to students after unveiling the statue through video conferencing.
'With English the most rapidly growing medium of instruction in India's schools and accounting now for more than one-sixth of the total (next only to Hindi, which accounts for a half), India is not about to turn its face away from a language that has global currency,' notes T N Ninan.<
Do India's laws governing the Internet need revolutionary change, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
'Tamil Nadu will never allow the Centre's three-language policy'
Are breakthroughs on this imminent, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Asserting that Uttar Pradesh has undergone a complete transformation under his government, chief minister Yogi Adityanath said on Sunday that there have been no riots since 2017, strict action has been taken against the mafia and the state is in the frontline of implementing welfare schemes, ensuring the ease of doing business and fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
'We do not oppose any parent admitting his child to any English school.' 'We are opposed to the government grants that are to be given to such institutions.' 'If local languages are to be kept alive, at least they have to be taught at the primary level.'
Does IAS officers' work go unappreciated, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
'When an individual becomes authoritarian, you can overthrow the individual easily. 'When the system becomes authoritarian, whoever challenges the system will be called a criminal or an anti-national.'
Continuing their protest against the controversial four-year undergraduate programme in Delhi University, members of various student bodies today held demonstrations outside the residence of the vice-chancellor, demanding immediate rollback of Four Year Undergraduate Programme.
...and getting GDP to measure India's data economy, recommends Ajit Balakrishnan.
...Is this a virus more dangerous than Covid-19, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Will it trigger a social and management revolution as well, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
'He spoke about 20 jawans in Ladakh, but he couldn't even name China.' 'He said the world had seen what had been achieved, even though we Indians don't know because Modi has himself said that nothing had happened and nobody had come,' points out Aakar Patel.
Will Covid-19 permanently change higher education, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday presented the Budget for 2021-22 in the Lok Sabha that is expected to provide relief to the pandemic-hit common man as well as focus more on driving economic recovery through higher spending on healthcare, infrastructure and defence amid rising tensions with neighbours, As India emerges from the COVID-19 crisis, the ninth Budget under the Modi government, including an interim one, is widely expected to focus on boosting spending on job creation and rural development, generous allocations for development schemes, putting more money in the hands of the average taxpayer and easing rules to attract foreign investments.
The politicisation of ethnic sentiments in the state has coincided with the ascent of the BJP and increased activities of far right Hindu outfits, which organised rallies and other events on religious occasions such as Ram Navami a festival not very popular in West Bengal- unlike states in north India.
Or a brief stop on the way to better times, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
'A mother, a farmer and cattle owner, all have valuable knowledge, but academia has failed to acknowledge their wisdom.'
In the last budget, then finance minister Arun Jaitley had allocated Rs 85,010 crore for the education sector which was later revised to Rs 83,625.86 crore.
The new National Education Policy will be tabled before the Union Cabinet by the end of this month.
It is time to shrug off the ideological shackles about the way we work, play and live, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
The former IAS officer was sworn-in as Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Tourism; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
Not just in the fight against COVID-19, but also in politics, economics and society, observes Ajit Balakrishnan.
Of the seven surveys presented under Modi govt, predictions of three were quite close to the actual GDP growth rate, one saw the base year change in between, but the last three were way off the mark.
Ajit Balakrishnan offers a thinking man's guide to the angst of the professions.
During the 90-minute programme, the HRD minister rejected the charge of saffronisation of education.
Many leaders from non-Hindi states, especially Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, had opposed the policy.
'I challenge BJP spokespersons that they have no idea what their party's ideology is because they believe it is only Modi's party now.'
Here's the full text of President Ram Nath Kovind's address to the nation on the eve of 72nd Republic Day.
Bangalore-based couple Sneha Sundaram and Bharath Bevinahally tell us how Kutuki, an early learning app, will change the way 200 mn kids in Indian will access education.
Revealing that at the time of her birth, she was cursed as a 'burden' by someone, Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani on Friday said that curbing the menace of female foeticide was a priority for the government.
Amid ongoing row over replacing German with Sanskrit as third language in Kendriya Vidyalayas, German Ambassador Michael Steiner on Wednesday reached out to Sanskrit teachers, including Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ideologue Dina Nath Batra and decided to resolve the issue through more cultural exchanges.
Here's the full text of President Ram Nath Kovind's customary address to the joining sitting of Parliament on the first day of the budget session.
Secretary general of CBCI Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas on what he doesn't like about the new education policy.
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