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On a warm, balmy evening, I sat down with a favourite book of mine that thrills me whenever I turn the delectable pages, Big Panda and Tiny Dragon by James Norbury. But, today, a new thought provoked my senses. Could …

The first day of school is always a day when many hearts beat a little faster, the teachers’, the parents’, and the children’s alike. A classroom, to me, has always felt like a place where many worlds meet; flavours from …

ChatGPT has taken the world especially the education world by storm. It has left colleges and universities scrambling to stop students from submitting AI generated essays, while companies are racing to integrate the technology to their existing applications and tools. …

As a teacher, which I have been for the past four decades, but for that matter any teacher, spends more than one-half of her school time engaged in one or another type of assessment or evaluation activity. The omniscient red …

Recently, I bumped into a colleague at a restaurant and greeted her by saying, ‘How are you?’ She responded with a sigh, ‘Too busy, under a lot of stress.’ Her answer jolted me as similar responses from various friends, acquaintances …

Let me start with a rhetorical question: what do many people have in common? You may come up with lists of items but for me what most people have in common is the thought of what they DON’T HAVE. Some …

1. If we conduct a survey we will find that the surge in our student population moving to foreign shores for higher education comprises the average or the below average achievers. As the intake of students in our established universities and colleges …

If you had walked into my classroom a few years ago, you would have seen a very eager teacher who jumped in the second a child struggled.  A student stuck on a word? I’d say it for them. A puzzled …

My darling child, the day you were born was the most empowering day of my life. There were green trees, birds in the sky, a balmy autumn afternoon, and I instinctively stood alone by myself. There was a strange quietness …

December at Vedanya feels like someone has switched on a little bit of magic.