In the second week of October, the union Ministry of Education wrote to chief secretaries of the states on a government plan for creating a new student ID on ‘Automated Permanent Academic Account Registry (APAAR)’ for all students with the objective is to create a digilocker or EduLocker for each student and link it to ABC for seamless integration and …
By Saranya Rengaraj, Founder-Director of Third Eye (a centre for autistic children) Neurodivergent learners constitute a sizeable number of children at any given time, and it is now felt that fostering an atmosphere of inclusion and acceptance, will address stigma and hardships faced by them besides making them productive citizens by aiding their education. In fact, ACCESSIBLE education is crucial …
The Department of School Education & Literacy (DoSEL) has launched a web portal ‘Apna Chandrayaan’ having activity-based support material such as quiz, puzzles, etc for school students on Mission Chandrayaan-3 developed by NCERT. Click here to see the link: https://bharatonthemoon.ncert.gov.in The web portal has a set of colouring books, online quizzes, jigsaw puzzles, picture builders, and inspiring stories in the form …
Sir J.J. School of Art, the oldest art institute in Mumbai set up in 1857, has been declared a de novo Deemed University. Union Education Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan, made this announcement while on a tour of this legacy institution on Oct 19. He also laid the foundation stone of the new university. The de novo category is awarded to institutions …
Team Horizon of IIM Bangalore has won the top honours of the National Champion in the first edition of SOAR (Spirit of Aviation Reimagined), Air India’s business challenge based annual nationwide B-school competition. Team JMH, representing IMT Ghaziabad, was the 1st Runners-Up, while the teams Republic of Restless, representing IIM Shillong, and Horizon, representing IIFT, emerged joint winners for the …
A team of 17 International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) students from Kanakia International School, Chembur, Mumbai, has been chosen to participate in NASA’s Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) 2024. In April 2024, a total of 72 teams from around the world will gather at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for this three-day competition. All the 17 students …
