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Undeterred by hefty fees, parents in India are choosing schools affiliated with foreign boards with the hope that their children will not only receive an "international standard" of education but also a better chance of getting into a university abroad. Data shows that in the last few years, the Switzerland-headquartered International Baccalaureate (IB) and the UK's Cambridge Assessment International Education (CAIE) have witnessed significant growth in popularity in India. The IB Board issued a statement, saying, "In India, we have been delighted to witness a steady growth of schools delivering one or more IB programmes to students; we currently have 204 IB World Schools and 338 authorised programmes in India. Our flagship programme, the Diploma Programme (DP), is the programme ...

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A Loss Of Privacy For Personal Information: An Insight Of Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019

Sayani ChakrabortyAugust 25, 20220

The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 was abandoned after years of development. A "full legal framework" to safeguard people's data lacks precise timetables and guiding principles. The federal government removed the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 (PDP Bill) from Parliament during the 2022 monsoon session. "Big tech" refers to US-based IT giants. The union government recently abandoned the third draught of the PDP Bill, which followed the 2018 Justice B N Srikrishna Committee suggestion. The union minister for electronics and information technology's statement in parliament that a thorough legal framework is being worked on is not convincing (JPC). Given the US government's backing for multinational digital technologies or "big tech," it's probable that pressure from outsid...

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Indian Women Get Less Access To Heart Transplant Surgeries Than Men: Data

Arpita SarkarAugust 23, 20220

Women in India are deprived of many things just because of their gender. One of them, it would appear, would be equitable access to data from some prominent hospitals on life-saving surgeries. Data have been collected from hospitals for three major surgical specialities that come with significantly high costs for operation/rehabilitation — cardiothoracic, organ transplant, and orthopaedic surgery. Data showed that there is a significant gender skew in favor of men in two specialties: cardiothoracic and transplant surgery. This is even when, doctors say, the chances of a man or a woman needing this surgery are comparable. However, the numbers seemed a little less skewed as one moves south, with doctors claiming that the gender gap in surgery is a reflection of social realities,...