In the last 15 years entrance coaching institutions have flourished in Kerala. They specialise in teaching the tips and tricks to gain a better rank. But during the years they have grown very powerful and arrogant also. Now they are misleading the students and controling them in ways we never imagined....

One nice evening dad comes home after a busy day. His son who is in the 9th STD approaches him with his progress report from school. He has not done well for some the examinations and there is a special note from the class teacher that reads. “Your son is not studying well. You must come and meet...

Yesterday, just 2 days after the schools reopened, I had to see a very cruel incident. In a famous school in Trivandrum, outside the principals office 3 high school students were standing. From their looks I could say that they were awaiting something horrible. And then came the principal (A priest)...

I always had trouble handling numbers. It began with the multiplication table. We were forced to memorise the multiplication table. The teacher would ask us to stand up and recite the multiplication table as if it were a poem. How sick a concept. The next set of major troubles started with the decimal...

Recently my readers have become very active and are interacting through the blog very enthusiastically. I sometimes feel like the blog is owned by the readers rather than me because most of the comments are longer than the post itself. Also many readers are posting a lot more quality content also. So...

I am going to do a post-mortem on the syllabus that I studied under CUSAT. This is applicable to almost every university, not just CUSAT. Im calling this a post-mortem, because Im already through with this. Post-mortem is done only on dead bodies. The Word itself means, ‘after death’. Lets...

The recent hype in the education market is about finishing schools. Every Trust, every agency, every organization which is into education of some sort has or is planning to start a finishing school. The latest to join this is the IHRD. What are finishing schools ? A finishing school (in our context)...