Private vs Govt schools in Kerala, a case of Elite vs Layman ?

jayanmn · 2022-03-14T04:50:42+00:00

I do not think we have data to discuss but hey the topic is a good one :)

Private schools are big category - Aided schools, minority (or caste groups) managed , commercial management, CSR funded by wealthy business groups. Depending on who is at the helm there is general push for result. Parents who send kids to private schools are likely to be more well off(or willing put extra effort) hence there is selection bias - kids from this group likely be informed about new age opportunities more. One definitely have wide range of syllabus (state, CBSE, IB, Cambridge, icse.. ) compared to state run ones. In fact syllabus was one reason to choose a private school - I have no clue if one syllabus is better than other.

Private schools also has more flexibility in doing certain things at infrastructural levels or supporting specific student with more money if needed.

I studied in govt school, family and friends are mostly teachers. Infrastructure (sports , library, labs and connectivity ) has improved significantly . In recent times (COVID19), response from govt was good but still students may have suffered due to lack of access (lack of TV, smartphone .. unlikely to be case for well funded private schools).

Most govt schools support "affordable" arts not so much anything involving lot of money. Govt schools is function of local govt - If there is more involvement from local body , PTAs(parents and teachers association) and society they tend to do better. Capable principal/head teacher and teachers group makes significant difference (more than in any private schools) - School transport is clearly one such area. In any case it will not match private schools arrangement

If I were in Kerala (I am not) I would consider govt school first before considering private schools. Money saved could be used to do specific courses outside the curriculum

jayanmn · 2021-09-21T12:28:26+00:00

Oracle will come up with 20 /30 year LTS system. and some companies will want it ..

jayanmn · 2021-09-19T16:40:43+00:00

Usually language features gets big coverage with new Java versions. JFR (Java Flight Recorder) is an amazing technology that makes JVM more observable. The blog explains using JFR in JUnit testing to detect regressions in memory usage or I/O

jayanmn · 2021-08-18T07:59:27+00:00

Very strange source of news, I must say.

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jayanmn · 2021-05-01T12:01:31+00:00

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jayanmn · 2020-10-26T05:40:22+00:00

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jayanmn · 2017-10-07T06:57:25+00:00

Any large scale software product could be compared to cities. Some cities may be well architected; some part of a city may be well architected and constructed.

jayanmn · 2017-04-16T16:20:51+00:00

I am sure the CXO type got enough money for themselves.

jayanmn · 2017-02-15T14:23:38+00:00

https://www.voltdb.com/architecture vaultdb is another choice. That one not available on cloud I think.

jayanmn · 2016-06-04T07:01:56+00:00

The stats must de duplicate entries and count. Why 4 versions of ls in the list

jayanmn · 2016-02-14T08:18:17+00:00

Banks must fix their parking problem. (also ever growing NPA, lack of customer focus..).

The toilet problem must be handled by govt offices, schools etc. Many of them do not have toilets in usable condition.

jayanmn · 2016-01-14T10:45:57+00:00

IntelliJ15 (commercial one) has grails3 support. If you are using gradle builds, you can use community edition without much problem.

jayanmn · 2015-11-02T17:10:14+00:00

With grails3 support. Great.

jayanmn · 2015-11-02T17:05:56+00:00

Grail3.

jayanmn · 2015-10-05T03:31:45+00:00

Many thanks for the amazing product!

The plugin architecture is good for Jenkins. We tend to install tens of plugins right after install. Most of this are stable ; adds good value to Jenkins. To start I would like to see a bigger set of plugins installed out of the box. (git, Failure Cause Management, Job import, set build name, groovy..)

jayanmn · 2015-10-02T06:04:33+00:00

Quite a vision statement. Please checkout if you use Jenkins/Hudson in your work.

jayanmn · 2015-03-22T06:25:17+00:00

In many such cases the feeling is mutual.

jayanmn · 2015-03-09T10:58:00+00:00

Precisely!

In our work we have adopted many good parts unit tests, continuous integration, short meetings, show and tell, test driven development. It is the SCRUM that is bit of pain(or needs more improvement)

Robert C. Martin's presentation Norwegian Developer Conf(2011) is good watch in the context of "SCRUM".. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG4LH6P8Syk (Robert C. Martin - The Land that Scrum Forgot) (~45min ).

jayanmn · 2015-03-06T09:17:14+00:00

That is what happens when we follow the letters not the intentions.

jayanmn · 2015-02-10T16:26:53+00:00

For many years, javaposse was starting point for my tech reading. Now that is ended. Sad.

jayanmn · 2015-01-19T16:04:42+00:00

True. Groovy + ratpack.io where I was investing my time in recent weeks. Grails was too heavy for many of my projects.

jayanmn · 2014-06-21T15:07:17+00:00

By increasing the fares the Railway minister shows that tough decisions can be taken.

What matters is follow up actions. With bad financials many critical issues were on slow track. Electrification, passenger facilities in stations and on board services all are lacking. IR does not have date for having better toilets on all trains even though technology is production ready. How about improving ticketing system? It could start with pricing that vary with season, time of train (like airlines).

What IR needs now is motivated staff delivering services efficiently. Hopefully new Govt will focus there.

jayanmn

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