Continuous and Comprehensive Excuse me what?

---

Editor’s note – The author is a NRI college student in Canada who questions the debatable initiative by the CBSE called the “Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation”

Author’s note – When I was in Class X, we had the board exams. There was less stress in studying for the exam, than in hearing everyone around you comment on how you should study, what marks you should get etc. As a result, numerous students often cribbed on how “stressed” out they were. Now the present students in Class X don’t have the board exams. C.B.S.E. believes it is enhancing the learning experience of students by getting rid of the class ten board examinations. But has the stress gone?

---

Secret of Successful Teaching: A journey With Innovation

---

Editor’s note – In this unique article, the author shares and discusses the positive events, innovations, experiences and challenges that he has had the opportunity to explore in rural West Bengal through his career as a social worker.

Author’s Note – This article includes some of the positive initiatives that I have witnessed during my work with schools (as a social worker, researcher and program coordinator). I hope that this will add to our knowledge base and will improve the delivery of quality education as a whole.

---

What should be blamed and what should be done

---

Editor’s note – A very inspiring article from a student who conveys his findings on what is wrong with the system and what needs to be done. A bunch of lively illustrations of his argument have been provided by the author as well.

Author’s note - What is it that plagues our education system? Politicians? Lawmakers? or simply us? What needs to be done to cure it of the virus? Make new laws? Change the syllabus? Or simply, CHANGE OURSELVES? Share your views with me...

---

The Economics of Education

---

Editor’s note – This erudite article comes from an economics student who talks about inequity in demographics and the challenges it raises for the future of the economy. It elucidates how the current economics of education is widening that inequity and how the government’s planning might be inadequate to sustain the development of the nation let alone buoy it and propel it further.

Author’s note – This article focuses on the need of the poor households that shall, in the future send forth the workforce of India 2020. If the vicious circle of illiteracy, low productivity, and poverty is not interrupted India’s development might crumble to dust in the future. It is also noteworthy that in spite of acknowledging the incidence of demographic transition and the resultant dividend that it can foster, the Government deplorably fails at providing the required breakthrough to the outreach of education in the nation.

---

Expediting Education: Why the problem is part of the solution

---

Editor’s note – This beautifully written article is a must read for every critic of the education system. With his wit and charm the author elaborates his analysis of what is wrong with the IES and what should be done by the critics.

Author’s note –While there are many critics about the Indian Education System, hardly a surprise considering its flaws, it is important to be objective with criticism, and use it to effect change rather than simply lash out against perceived injustice.

---

Who can stir a revolution in education system?

---

Editor’s note – The author is a Chennai based educationalist who wishes to make contributions to a revolution in education and in this article, argues that the only way a revolution would take place in education system anywhere is if students awake, arise and act.

Author’s note – I am an educator in an alternative school in South India, Near Chennai. By education I am an electronics engineer and a MBA in Communication Management. I am determined to bring about a serious positive dent in world education system as I think that is the only thing that can make world a better place full of love, happiness and creativity. In this article I talk about who really can stir a revolution in education.

---

Semesters – A Boon Or Bane To The Indian Education System

---

Editor’s note – The author draws from personal experience to discuss how the semester system can be either a boon or a bane depending on how it is executed.

Author’s note – I got my undergraduate degree from a reputed University in Kolkata. I have written this article since I feel I had had the worst experience in regard to the semester pattern followed in such a reputed university. It conducts an entrance exam of quite an appreciable standard and admits the crème, only to end up treating them so badly that they often resort to inviting guest lecturers of seriously inefficient capacity who come and read out notes from dirty yellow notebooks (that were probably written when they were students themselves) and get much annoyed when they are questioned by any of us. They do all of this to deal with the deadline of the semester! Also often when we had a paper on Greece and Rome we had been deprived of studying Rome entirely on grounds of time constraint. However when I had absolutely lost faith in the system and moved to a different university that is of international acclaim, I realized it was way more efficient. Both these institutions are government sponsored and have been dealing with the semester system for quite a good number of years. But the difference in their dealing made me realize that the fault lies not with the system but with its execution and in my article I have tried best in a concise manner to argue the same.

---