Category: Education

Wherefrom and Whither our Universities?

S. Callikan | March 5, 2018

Whatever happened to the Report from the EU consulting team? Are we to deduce that vested interests may have had a say in its discrete burial? — By S.

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Education: Better outcomes

S. Callikan | January 12, 2018

The Nine-Year Schooling reform is neither the panacea it was sold to be nor do the outcomes justify the upheaval it has engineered

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The Middle Class and State Secondary Education

Sada Reddi | December 1, 2017

Better standards of health and education are maintained in a state system when the middle class makes use of the system

Education

Should undergraduate education in our public universities be free?

Sada Reddi | November 17, 2017

We pride ourselves to be first in many sectors in Africa but in higher education we are lagging very far behind indeed — By Sada Reddi

Education

Teacher’s Day – C’est ma fête

Revathy Sooriamoorthy | October 6, 2017

Education starts at home but one cannot deny that it is the teacher who moulds the student into a proper adult and a good citizen

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Teaching: Reviving the guru-shishya parampara

Dr R Neerunjun Gopee | September 8, 2017

‘Happy Days’ to all the gurus and their shishyas, and may they together bring about the much-needed transformation that will take humanity to another level

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Nine Year Schooling & PSAC: Will they bear fruit?

S. Callikan | August 18, 2017

Education Reform End-of-year secondary school intake process, procedures and potential challenges will constitute the first real test of the NYS pudding

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Nine Year Schooling: A lost opportunity?

S. Callikan | July 28, 2017

The Nine-Year Schooling contraption is an opportunity lost for a real re-engineering of our education system. It will have to be revamped

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Investigating Lower Primary Education

Sada Reddi | July 21, 2017

For every decade, an average of 90,000 pupils leave schools without the basic reading, writing and counting skills

Education

Mauritius obtains its First Constitution

Mauritius Times | July 7, 2017

Mauritius Times – 3rd Year No 83 – Friday 9th March 1956 Mauritius obtains its First Constitution Pioneering work of A. d’Epinay and R. Ollier By D. Napal, BA (Hons)

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The Last Meeting of the Admission Campaign

Mauritius Times | June 30, 2017

Mr B. Ramlallah — Mauritius Times – 3rd Year No 83 – Friday 9th March 1956 * Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we

Education

Drogues: Une gangrène pour la société !

Shakuntala Boolell & Vina Ballgobin | June 23, 2017

La politique de « ferme-les-yeux », « ferme-les-oreilles » et « ferme-la-bouche » devient un moyen d’auto-protection. Mais pour combien de temps encore ? Entretemps, la drogue tue Beaucoup de jeunes de 17 à 25

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The Last meeting of the Admission Campaign

Mauritius Times | June 23, 2017

Mauritius Times 3rd year No 82 – Friday 2nd March 1956 — The ‘Admit Our Children Committee’ and Trade Union Council held their 21st and last meeting at Quatre

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Système éducatif : Que veulent les Mauriciens?

Shakuntala Boolell | June 2, 2017

Les médias sont couverts de points de vue sur ce qui se passe dans le monde de l’éducation. Anciens ministres, ministres en poste, associations, syndicats, élèves, tous se

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The Admission Campaign

Mauritius Times | April 21, 2017

By Somduth Bhuckory — MT 60 Years Ago 3rd Year No 78 – Friday 3rd February 1956 The admission campaign is going from strength to strength. As the