Gaurang Shetty is the Chief Innovation Catalyst &CEO, RiiDL (research Innovation Incubation Design Laboratory) at Somaiya Vidyavihar campus in Mumbai. RiiDL is the Innovation centre and the Technology Business Incubator (TBI) of the Somaiya campus (38000 students and 1800 faculty). Curriculum magazine reached out to him in view of RiiDL being one of the 16 facilities which have been …
FICCI Higher Education Summit, which is a flagship annual higher education conference of Federation of Indian Industries and commerce (FICCI), one of the largest business chambers in India, began on October 29 on the theme of ‘Universities of the Future’. The conference is spread over three days and is being attended by delegates from more than 26 foreign countries in …
Climate Jamboree, a youth initiative against climate change initialed by TERI School of Advanced Studies (TERI SAS) in July this year, will be seeing coming together of about 10,000 youth (Senior secondary school students, Under graduates and post graduates, Researchers and Young entrepreneurs and professionals) for more than a dozen events planned over three days from November 1 to 3 …
Navi-Mumbai based SIES (Nerul) College of Arts, Science and Commerce invited a group of 60 mentally and physically challenged children to the college and filled their life with fun and happiness. The children had come from five different schools—Aashray, TEC NMMC, Brahmanand, Sunshine and Skills & Ability School. For this, a social event ‘Pursuit of happiness’ was organized in which …
In the wake of some terror related recent incidents involving Kashmiri students studying outside their state, there is a backlash against them across the county. In Punjab, where three students were arrested on terror links and a cache of weapons was ceased from their possession (from their hostel room at an engineering college on the outskirts of Jalandhar), was followed …
Policy brief on Rethinking schooling in context of SDG 4.7 released by MGIEP, New Delhi, Asks Asian nations to acknowledge the central importance of education in sustainable development and peace In a follow up to its SDG 4.7 review report, ‘rethinking schooling’ published in November 2017, Delhi situated UNESCO MGIEP (Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development) …
