Virtual Shiksha

Prof. Yashpal committee for higher education has given its report to the central cabinet, and Human resource development minister has vowed to implement it in his 100 days agenda. But the million dollar question is, would the government dare to implement this revolutionary report?

Recently, there has been a great amount of discussion on the introduction of sex education in India.

Naturally, this debate has been very heated. If anyone was thinking that sex education can be introduced in India without any resistance from society, he was living in a fools paradise.

Three states of India have already banned this education and CBSE had to differ its plans to introduce it from 2007-2008 session.

Now, the real question that arises is what is the real problem behind all this fuss? I think, the real problem is the word "SEX" itself.

A recent trend in the field of education is life skill education.

Life skills are certain skills, which are required to live a good and happy life. Following ten main life skills have been identified for Life Skill Education:

( 1 ) Self Awareness
( 2 ) Critical Thinking
( 3 ) Decision Making
( 4 ) Effective Communication
( 5 ) Coping with stress
( 6 ) Empathy
( 7 ) Creative Thinking
( 8 ) Problem Solving
( 9 ) Interpersonal Relationship
( 10 ) Coping with emotions

This section contains recent trends in the field of education.

The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) in partnership with the research resources of, Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), the international education and career development group) has recently published the Top 200 WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS for the year 2006.This is the third year that the THES – QS World University Rankings has been published by the Times Higher Education Supplement (THES).