Schooled in self-rule

What do tribal children living in Nagarhole National Park in Karnataka learn at school? Take pride in what they are, reports NITIN SETHI

Limited democracy

Panchayati raj institutions have not given much justice to Dalits

Focus of reservation lost in protests

Focus of reservation lost in protests

A headmaster and his students save a forest

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 …

Under the umbrella

A residential school in Chamtagora has relieved the anxieties of migrant workers native to the area, who spend most of the year away from their …

Dirty RIVER blues

Children of Delhi rediscover Yamuna. And see how everything is being done to reduce it to a drain

A silent worker

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