Environmental scientists from the University of Birmingham have helped to create a hi-tech ‘heart’ for the Queen’s Baton as it carries a royal message through India and around the world ahead of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. The Queen’s Baton Relay begins on 7 October 2021 at Buckingham Palace, where Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will place her message to the Commonwealth …

To bridge the gap between values and actions, and ensure that constitutional ideals of equality, fraternity, and justice are practiced by children in their everyday lives, Delhi government chose the birth anniversary  of iconic freedom fighter and youth symbol, Bhagat Singh to launch Deshbhakti Curriculum’ for its 1045 schools on September 28. The subject to be introduced in all classes …

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee is collaborating with the Mehta Family Foundation (MFF), USA, to establish the Mehta Family School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. Under this collaboration, the new School will offer Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral Degree programs. The School will welcome its first cohort of Bachelor’s degree students in September 2022. The objective of this School is to …

India’s apex school academic body, National Council of Educational Research & Training (NCERT), Tech Avant-Garde (TAG) and Microsoft will collaborate to enhance Digital Transformation and Holistic Learning (DTHL) in education, as per Digital India Campaign and National Education Policy (NEP), 2020. Digital India campaign (2015) envisions creating basic IT/ ICT infrastructure, delivery of citizen services through portals, apps etc., and …

Pune-based FLAME University established in 2015 and one of India’s first liberal education universities in India has launched its alumni network portal, called ‘FLAME AlumNet’. The portal will serve as a professional and personal networking channel for FLAME University’s alumni. FLAME AlumNet is an online hangout meant exclusively for FLAME’s alumni, which will help enable them to stay in touch …

In a major announcement, the Union Ministry of Education on September 21 constituted the National Steering Committee for the development of National Curriculum Frameworks (NCF) for school education in the country. It will be after 16 years that India has begun the process of developing a new NCF that will be fourth such NCF in history of independent India and …