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