A few years ago, biotechnology was heralded as the new age career option with best prospects in a variety of industries ranging from pharma, food, agriculture to research & teaching, but so far this promising field hasn’t produced any big magic when it comes to creating lots of jobs. Curriculum magazine spoke with Dr. David Smith Course leader for MSc …
NIIT Ltd, a skills and talent development Indian MNC having over 300 training delivery centres across India, has after four years of persuasion and negotiations, finally succeeded in inking an alliance with globally acclaimed edX, the MOOCs education platform that offers online courses from world’s top 100 institutions free of cost across the globe. In a first, edX course programs …
National Institute of Technical Teachers’ Training & Research (NITTTR), Kolkata, is organizing `National Innovation Talent Contest for Polytechnics’ in three major conventional disciplines– Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. The key objective is to identify the levels of skill and innovation potentials of the students, teachers, and technical staff members of polytechnics and to develop cost effective technological support …
An amazing ‘Manufactured’ Pedagogy at a small school in Delhi holds hope for a model that can qualitatively transform school education en masse says Autar Nehru THE TRAVEL to Muni International School from its nearest Metro station of Dwarka to Mohan Garden area in Delhi is an ordeal of negotiating unruly, cramming and diverse traffic along with people of all …
An Indian delegation of 35 senior and middle-level academic and non-academic staff from 13 institutions besides ministry of HRD officials visited UK a couple of weeks back to learn more about how UK universities operate, and with the hope of exploring potential partnerships in the future. The visitors were in the UK as part of a leadership and management training …
By Dr Deependra Kumar Jha, Pro Vice chancellor, G.D. Goenka University, Gurgaon, Entrepreneurship creates new jobs and businesses and should be a part of any institute’s fabric but not many will actively support it for obvious reasons. There is an inherent risk involved so is cost. Expertise and enabling support ecosystem is another factor. But then, there are exceptions. Upcoming …
