Gifted education in India

The gifted: Identity construction through the practice of gifted education

Over the past two decades in Australia, the field of gifted education has expanded considerably. The term ‘giftedness’ has effectively entered mainstream discourse. The field of gifted education, which nowadays operates as a compensatory function of mass education, is comprised of groups of people who broadly share in the concept of giftedness but contest, through discourse, its meanings and pr...

Twelve myths of gifted education

The paper examines the research evidence for many of the issues that are perennially debated with respect to the education of gifted students. The first cluster of contentious topics focuses on how giftedness is recognized; the second on the social and emotional wellbeing of gifted children; and the third on educational provisions for gifted students. The preponderance of misconceptions on thes...

Giftedness and gifted education: the need for a paradigm change

Medical Education in India

The recent visit of Sir Norman Walker to India is an event of no ordinary importance. Sir Norman was sent out to examine the conditions under which undergraduate medica. education is conducted in this country with a special view to determining the future relations which will exist between the General Council ol Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom and the Universities of Ind...

Bioinformatics education in India

An account of bioinformatics education in India is presented along with future prospects. Establishment of BTIS network by Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India in the 1980s had been a systematic effort in the development of bioinformatics infrastructure in India to provide services to scientific community. Advances in the field of bioinformatics underpinned the need for well-t...