International Education


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Helpful Strategies For Students Planning To Studying Abroad

Many students dream of studying in a new country and change their lives to make a new start. While most keep dreaming some, more and more it seams, decide to make the move. But most of the students when enters into a new country, they couldn’t make out things appropriately, due to unawareness of the country’s customs, rules, culture, and many such other aspects. read more

International Education – Key to Success in the Era of Globalization

Many students today are willing to study abroad with an intension to work and migrate in the country. Every individual have their own reason for studying abroad. But commonly, overseas education is the hot favorite of every student today. The number of such aspirants is increasing day by day.

Apparently a question flashes in mind that why many students are desired for overseas education. There are valid reasons for this change in the thought. read more

Study in New Zealand

Study in New Zealand offers the best information and advices for International Students who wish to study abroad in New Zealand. read more

the swedish model

the economist carries a report on the 'swedish model' which is turning out to be very successful in sweden and is likely to get exported out soon to the UK.

the Kunskapsskolan (“Knowledge Schools”) are the new big idea on the education space. read more

SATs and language testing

Reading, listening, thinking in the target language, speaking fluently in it and writing well - it sounds very simple but increasingly in a multilingual community that is also bombarded by audio-visual stimulation with language undergoing a sea change into something rich and strange students just don't seem able to match the required international standards - will exams be the answer that can help them come up to scratch?

This article makes one think about the future of learning language/s well, especially where it concerns English. read more

Learning disabilities -2

The article talks of a standardized test which can detect learning diabilities more or less accurately developed by the University of Haifa - this will be a great help to all and sundry because we are seeing both a mushrooming of people with disabilies and of others with difficulties, along with, in many cases, ignorance about what all this really means - and the very rare case of parents over reacting to minor issues. If this news is true and the test can be standardized even further in terms of language and age level, level appropriateness etc. read more

The Philosophy of Education - 2 / The Classroom - 2

Tagore in Shantiniketan and Krishnamurti in Rishi Valley both recognised the importance of communion with nature. Macaulay and Raja Ram Mohan Roy understood the significance of English for India, albeit from different sides of the fence. Technology as an important facet of education has found its adherents in India primarily among the International schools, if one leaves alone the fact that engineering and medical colleges etc. naturally have to deal with technology to a large extent because of the scientific nature of the disciplines taught there . read more

The philosophy of education - 1

I want to write a series of elogs that deal more with the philopsohy of education than its nitty gritty becasue I feel that all over the world and in India education is undergoing such rapid changes in what can only be called a super-fast fast forward mode, that reflection on what is actually happening is becoming of prime importance.

What is education? This question fascinates me. read more