The low profile blue-chip Everonn Systems India Ltd is all set to launch a hugely ambitious national education development blueprint which could revolutionise and alter the character of Indian education

Although the year that was didn’t witness a great leap forward for education, there’s no disputing that new winds of change are gathering momentum in the country’s K-12 and tertiary institutions of education. EducationWorld highlights the education milestones of 2008

Sam Pitroda is chairman of the National Knowledge Commission

With ICT invading all spheres of human activity, there’s a premium on computer programmers both in the ICT and IT-enabled services industries

Yoginder Sikand reports on his recent journey to Laos — one of the world’s few remaining officially socialist countries. This former French colony, separated from consumerist Thailand by the river Mekong, is an unspoiled oasis of forested misty peaks, placid lakes, and acres of emerald rice fields interrupted by golden spires of Buddhist monasteries