We have just celebrated India’s 63rd year of independence and with each passing year August 15 is turning out to be just a day for rituals and paying lip service to the nation. With Teachers’ Day round the corner let us set aside this sense of ritual and adopt one of enthusiasm, faith and trust.

Sometimes wisdom comes from the most casual and incidental of conversations. Discussing a vision statement made by an educational institution, …

As teachers we are responsible for several children and while we may consider that our only responsibility is to teach them lessons from the syllabus we don’t realize that there are several other lessons that we can teach them by being responsible adults.

Following the positive feedback we received for our special issue on mathematics teaching last summer (Teacher Plus, May-June 2009), we …

Geetha Iyer is a Consultant for Science and Environment Education
Why do we need a special issue on biology? What can one find in a special issue that could be of interest or importance?

Apart from online votes and SMS, are there any actual places where we can express ourselves, discuss and debate the issues that concern us?

There is consensus among all stakeholders that education in this country must improve.

Education becomes complete not just when children are taught the different subjects in school, but when they are given skills to deal with life situations.

Schools are one of the first victims of any disruption of routine life. When the cause of the disruption is civil unrest and schools are forced to shut down for several days, how do schools cope?

The first time I was confronted by anything resembling “high technology” in a classroom was more than a quarter century …