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Why it isn’t easy to set up high-quality institutions of higher education
Anurag Behar, CEO, Azim Premji Foundation, in Mint, describes what it takes to establish high-quality higher education institutions, based on his observations of the founding and development of many of them.
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Science Education: Why have colour as a separate interdisciplinary unit in the middle school
N S Sundaresan, in the i wonder… magazine, explains how students associate certain aspects with only physics or chemistry, without realising that the phenomenon is the same because it is brought in piecemeal at various stages in the school science curriculum.
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Engineers in the social sector
Engineers typically enjoy analysis, systems thinking and order, and strive to make the complex sounding ideas of science and maths interesting to the general populace, children included, writes Sudheesh Venkatesh, in Deccan Herald.
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ಶಿಕ್ಷಣದಲ್ಲಿ ಸಮತೆಯನ್ನು ಸಾಧಿಸುವಲ್ಲಿ ಅನುವಾದದ ಪ್ರಾಮುಖ್ಯತೆ
ಅಜೀಂ ಪ್ರೇಮ್ ಜಿ ವಿಶ್ವವಿದ್ಯಾಲಯದ ಅನುವಾದ ಉಪಕ್ರಮದ ಸಹ‑ನಿರ್ದೇಶಕರಾದ ಎಸ್.ವಿ.ಮಂಜುನಾಥ್, ಪ್ರಮುಖ ಅಧ್ಯಯನ ವಿಷಯಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲೇ ರಚಿಸಲಾದ ಪಠ್ಯಪುಸ್ತಕಗಳು, ಅಧ್ಯಯನ ಸಾಮಗ್ರಿಗಳ ಕೊರತೆಯನ್ನು ಗುರುತಿಸುತ್ತಾ, ವಿವಿಧ ಸಾಮಾಜಿಕ, ಸಾಂಸ್ಕೃತಿಕ ಹಿನ್ನೆಲೆಗಳ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಗಳು ಗುಣಮಟ್ಟದ ಉನ್ನತ ಶಿಕ್ಷಣವನ್ನು ಪಡೆಯುವಲ್ಲಿ ಇವುಗಳ ಅಗತ್ಯತೆಯನ್ನು ವಿಜಯವಾಣಿ ಪತ್ರಿಕೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಮುನ್ನೆಲೆಗೆ ತಂದಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
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COP27: Why Loss and Damage (L&D) should be the third pillar of climate action
Countries must initiate a formal process of creating an L&D fund that would assist the countries most vulnerable to climate change in relief and rehabilitation, write K C Adaina and Kedar Kulkarni, faculty members, Azim Premji University, in Deccan Herald.
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Social sector beckons
Nazrul Haque, in Deccan Herald, highlights how the social sector holds the magic combination of quality work, job satisfaction, and a sense of fulfillment. For many, this is an ideal mix of passion and profession.
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Riemann Hypothesis: What mathematician Yitang Zhang’s new paper means and why we should care
The Riemann hypothesis is often considered the most important unsolved problem in pure mathematics today. Mohan R, Faculty member, Azim Premji University, in The Wire Science, presents an exposition of the problem.
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കാലതാമസമരുത്, മനുഷ്യരാശിയുടെ ഭദ്രതയുടെ വിഷയമാണിത്
1,64,000 ഓളം ആദിവാസി കുടുംബങ്ങള്ഉണ്ട്. ജനസംഖ്യയില്ഒരു സൂക്ഷ്മ ന്യൂനപക്ഷവും വാസസ്ഥലം കൊണ്ട് ഒറ്റപ്പെട്ടു കഴിയുന്നതും സാമൂഹിക സാംസ്കാരിക തലങ്ങളില്അസാ ധാരണരുമായ ഈ ജനതയെ മുഖ്യധാരാ രാഷ്ട്രീയത്തിനു പോലും കണ്ടില്ലെന്നു നടിക്കാന് എളുപ്പമാണ്.
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Teacher Education: How teachers can work on improving students’ health in schools
Good health and nutrition can promote learning and ensure that the student is ‘present, ready, and able to learn’, a foundational requirement for achieving India’s goal of Education for All, writes Shreelata Rao Seshadri in the Learning Curve magazine.
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How narratives of river-human entanglement can open up new ways in the study of life, in river landscapes
Namrata Sharma, student intern, Azim Premji University, in Guwahati Times, highlights how people from the Miyah community, living in the flood-prone regions of Assam, have devised various ways to adapt to the instability of rivers — a lifestyle as fluid as the Brahmaputra.
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Rivers of Life: How villagers joined hands to save Rushikulya river, Odisha
A Lalitha and Rajama, student interns at Azim Premji University, share the story of their villages in Ganjam district, Odisha, with Sanika Athawale, in Times of India, to show how collective action saved the river system.
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Why we should not underestimate the value of language familiarity
Anurag Behar, CEO, Azim Premji Foundation, in Mint, describes the approach the National Curriculum Framework for Foundational Stage (NCF-FS) takes to the learning of reading and writing — often called basic or foundational literacy.
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Machines on the river bed: A case study of Teesta and Rongyong
Indiscriminate mining is choking parts of the Teesta and Rongyong in Sikkim, writes Pema Yangden, a student intern at Azim Premji University, in Sikkim Chronicle.
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Rivers of Life: An exhibition where children learn river conservation from personal stories
More than 300 persons worked for six months to create and curate the event, says Kunal Sharma, Faculty member, Azim Premji University, in conversation with Chiranjeevi Kulkarni, in Deccan Herald.
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Explore 70 rivers at Rivers of Life festival, an initiative by Azim Premji University
Apart from Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Cauvery rivers, the Rivers of Life festival has also captured details of lesser-known but equally important rivers such as Ayad (Udaipur, Rajasthan), Arpa (Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh) and Khad (Kangra, Himachal Pradesh).
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Book Review | Tata’s Leadership Experiment: The story of the Tata Administrative Service (TAS)
Even as the authors enjoy telling the story, they remain objective, calling out things that did not go well and the reasons why TAS, while being a great experiment, fell short of what might have been possible, writes S Giridhar in The Hindu Business Line.
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Why do we not see that our cities have come up around rivers?
There is severe stress on our rivers when we treat them like a resource that can be exploited instead of protecting them, reiterates Kunal Sharma, faculty member, Azim Premji University, in conversation with Jashvitha Dhagey, in Question of Cities.
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Careers in the education field
Rajashree S, in Deccan Herald, highlights how there is still a need to develop people to address the challenges that the education sector currently faces, even though there have been several reforms to revive various aspects of the sector.
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How teachers can help cultivate eco-consciousness in children
Nandini Shetty, in the Learning Curve magazine, shares activities that can help cultivate different scientific skills in children, thus allowing them to construct knowledge through self-experience.