Mastering wildlife

A non-governmental organisation starts a post-graduate course on conservation

Mother of all management

THE UNION minister for human resource development's election-eve decision to slash Indian Institute of Management (IIM) fees by a third has …

Theory of evolution under scanner

Another body blow for the myth of choice

Beacons for the blind

Associations lending a hand in preventing and curing blindness

The fundamentals of Vedic mathematics

Though Vedic maths evokes Hindutva connotations, the fact is that it's a system of simple arithmetic, which can be used for intricate calculations.

A school with an ecological curriculum

For 45 years, a school in Kausani has been inculcating ecological consciousness in hill women

Taking the magic out of miracles

Promoting a more rationalist attitude to life at a mass level, that's what the Jan Vigyan Jatha sets out to do

Value addition

A Pune teacher develops a calculator made out of cardboard for as little as Rs 15, which can even handle mindbending logarithms.

Crusaders of science

A conference for the common good the mainstream media ignored

Beyond its curricula

A school for the hearing impaired sets an example in using alternate energy

Green syllabus

Can the learning environment in India's schools and colleges cope?

Novel approach to primary education catches on

New instruction methods have resulted in efficient primary schools in rural Andhra Pradesh, posing a challenge to the approaches adopted by the …

Green blah

Is the desire for a cleaner environment a mere faddish concern? Some Dutch wisdom goes sour during a recent greenhouse debate

Educating the underprivileged

A review of our educational and training policy is desperately needed to educate tribals, the backward classes and the poor

Learning made easy

The Education Guarantee Scheme of the Madhya Pradesh government is a new approach to encouraging rural children to attend school. And the scheme …

Miseducation in Bastar

An ethnobotanist flags the problem with education in tribal areas

Children once again

A chat and books persuade parents in Shravasti to not marry off young girls

Building self-reliance in children of the street

Butterflies, a non-government organisation, is helping street children to organise themselves and operate a restaurant in the Capital's main bus …

Planter of Indore

A zoology professor motivates people to plant trees in memory of the deceased

Desperately seeking experts

The environmental situation in India is grave -- our natural resources are getting depleted at an alarming rate and there is an acute paucity of …

Mother's little helper

Blinded by figures

By 2010, the world's population will have gone up to 6 billion. But at the recent New York meeting on population and development, counting heads …

Who will help her learn?

Merely providing schools is not enough to educate the more than 197.34 million illiterate women in India. Far too often, girls have to drop out …

Treasure tapping

Greening young minds

A school near Kodaikanal nurtures children for an ecofriendly future