The Bangalore-based TISB Training Academy housed in the iconic The International School, Bangalore will be offering the University of Nottingham’s PGCEi in India, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Mauritius, Maldives and Nepal coming December this year. The diploma program, essentially an online course having 60 credits spread over eight months, has also a four-day of face to face training component which …

Stung by progressive losses starting from higher education publishing business to now low demand for its text books in K-12 segment following mandatory NCERT books for CBSE-affiliated schools, Pearson India Education, the Indian arm of the London-listed Pearson, is trying everything possible to make up for the slowed business through other means. It has now started making use of children …

Fashion and design education provider, Pearl Academy with 4600 students spread across four campuses in Delhi, Noida, Jaipur and Mumbai, will be launching online courses from next year. The academy which has added a school of Media and Journalism this year, is already catering to mid-career and fashion/design hobbyists through a weekend course program. The online programs to be announced …

Let’s wake up to mitigate it by institutionalizing school counseling services The ‘stupid’ reason to pull an examination off by murdering a little innocent boy allegedly by a teen as is emerging from the CBI investigations into the Ryan International School, Bhondsi, sensational murder case that took place in school on morning of September 8, must serve as a final …

Auburn University, a large comprehensive university specializing in STEM areas in the small city of Auburn in Alabama of the southeastern USA may well appeal to students from India both for its international student friendly culture, affordability and academic reputation. According to university’s Associate Provost Dr Emmett Winn  who recently toured south Asia and travelled to a couple of Indian …

This year’s Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report released on October 24 in Paris by UNESCO, among several key recommendations has called upon the governments to design accountability for schools and teachers that is supportive and avoid punitive mechanisms, especially those based on narrow performance measures, allow for democratic participation, respect media freedom to scrutinize education and set up independent institutions …